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As I'm recently returning to college for nursing, I had to take the dreaded Anatomy and Physiology, which I actually enjoyed, but that's a whole 'nother story. Anyway. I noticed a plethora of amusing words in the field.
One of my favorites is epididymis. It's one of those words that you certainly don't get to use often, but it just sounds cool.
What are some more words that others enjoy?
One of my favorites is epididymis. It's one of those words that you certainly don't get to use often, but it just sounds cool.
What are some more words that others enjoy?
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Sun, December 31, 2006 - 5:33 AMWhen I took anatomy and physiology in grad school for speech pathology, I always loved "arcuate fasciculus"...the pathway in the brain that is thought to connect Broca's area to Wernicke's area. I slipped it into conversation whenever i could LOL I'm such a geek! -
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Sun, December 31, 2006 - 9:00 AMYa know, that stupid career interest test in high school said I should be a speech pathologist. Of course, I wound up with a degree in political science and working as a travel agent, go figure. I now realize I would probably enjoy speech pathology, but it's just so much time and money to enter the field. I'm going for my RN now. But I've always been fascinated by all aspects of language, how we speak, how we use words, how the brain processes all of it. If I had all the time and money in the world, I would probably study neurolinguistics. I didn't even realize that was a field of study until recently and I wonder if it even existed when I was entering college the first time around. My new hero is Steven Pinker after reading one of his books on linguistics and a few articles. So, yeah, I'm a geek, too.
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Sun, December 31, 2006 - 12:50 PM<<My new hero is Steven Pinker after reading one of his books on linguistics and a few articles.>>
Thanks for this, Heather. I'm going to look him up.
Uvula.
Meatus.
Acute angina. --Oh, wait.
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Sun, December 31, 2006 - 3:59 PMin the same general region:
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 1:10 AMAlthough not strictly an A&P word, it's a medical procedure and has always been my all-time favorite medical word - Salpingo-oopherectomy. There aren't too many words out there that string 3 'o's in a row. :) -
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 6:47 AMJust out of curiosity what sort of operation is a 'Salpingo-oopherectomy'? -
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 6:55 AMi was curious too..."Salpingo-Oophorectomy" (yes the computer spit it out with yet another o in the word) is the surgical removal of a fallopian tube and an ovary. Usually due to cancer.
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 3:21 PMI like pudenda (amongst other words)…
axilla: armpit (axilla just disguises what it actually means).
patella: the bone that is esentially your knee cap.
canal of Schlemm: Love the name, it's the part of the eye ('a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins', to be exact).
epiglottis: A leaflike structure positioned above the larynx. It covers the glottis during swallowing.
fibula: a leg bone, I think and of course…
areola: nipple. (actually, nipple is a great word for comic value. -
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 5:16 PMI have always thought the humerus was kinda funny...
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Mon, January 1, 2007 - 7:48 PMAnd tits doesn't even belong on the list. Sorry for a bad joke, but you reminded me of George Carlin and the 7 words you can't say on television or radio. Heehee.
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Tue, January 2, 2007 - 11:43 AMthis thread has got my hippocampus all abuzz.
Among other things.
I'll have to check out the Steven Pinker book too cuz I think geeky intellectuals using big words are sexy. And I think it's rather odd that we're traveling around in these bodies full of these organs that so many of us don't know the names of... it's all just "me." "Ann." I know all the street names to get me from here to there, but where is last night's tamale now? -
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Tue, January 2, 2007 - 2:38 PMChances are that tamale is just around the corner from your duodenum by now. :) -
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Tue, January 2, 2007 - 4:14 PMthanks, Doc! Good thing my food doesn't have to stop and ask for directions.
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Wed, January 3, 2007 - 7:30 AMI think it's amusing that the entire digestive system is technically considered external to the body. You've got a long, hollow tube running all the way through the center, but it's open at both ends. There is very little internal control of the environment. Stuff gets added and taken out, the unusable stuff keeps on going until it comes out the other side.
Goblet cells are also interesting. I always imagine a tiny, fancy, chrystal goblet embedded in the cells of the stomach, serving up a lovely mixture of digestive juices, yum!
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Wed, January 3, 2007 - 7:52 AMsternocleidomastoid has always been a favorite of mine...but then, i didn't realize there were goblets in my cells until just now.
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Wed, January 3, 2007 - 3:14 PMOne of my A&P teachers pointed out that when you kiss someone, what you're actually kissing is a tube approximately 22 feet long that's usually half full of shit. Put me quite off kissing for a good long while. hehehe -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 1:07 AMcallipygian....I would not consider it a medical term...however it is a fabulous anatomy word......gotta love those wacky Greeks -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 3:49 AMAh, callipygian: love beautiful buttocks. Are buttocks a medical term or would we use the term gluteus maximus (and minimus)? Gluteus Maximus is prettty funny, too. I'm reminded of the scene in Life of Brian where Michael Palin's character is talking about his very good friend, Biggus Dickus. -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 1:03 PM...he has a wife you know,.....her name is ..Incontinentia,....Incontinentia Buttocks
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 4:25 PMI think "buttocks" refers to the general area but the gluteus maximus/minimus is specficially a muscle. -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 5:16 PMPhiltrim - the snot channel of your upper lip... -
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Fri, January 5, 2007 - 5:17 AM"Philtrim - the snot channel of your upper lip... "
I thought this was 'philtum'. See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philtrum
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplu...es/9012.htm
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Fri, January 5, 2007 - 5:19 AMI thought this was 'philtum'. Oops I mised out the 'r'! -
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Fri, January 5, 2007 - 8:48 AMIt's the place where Phil has to trim carefully, so he doesn't cut his nose off, eh? -
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Sat, January 6, 2007 - 5:07 AMI've always enjoyed so many of my speech words: epiglottis, larynx, pharynx, uvula, trachea, and alveloar ridge. :O) -
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Sat, January 6, 2007 - 7:56 AMvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllllllllllllllvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa -
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Sat, January 6, 2007 - 9:27 AMDon't forget the clitoris! -
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Sat, January 6, 2007 - 1:33 PMWhen I was little I broke my clavicle ... I'll never play one again
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Sat, January 6, 2007 - 2:08 PMcllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeetooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss
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Mon, January 8, 2007 - 5:02 AM"alveolar"
The sounds of d, n, s, t and z are all alveolar.
So 'stands' has all its consonents alveolar.
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Tue, January 9, 2007 - 4:11 AM"medulla oblongata" Just rrrrrollls off the toungue. Say it again:
"medulla oblongata"
Ahhhh.
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Tue, January 9, 2007 - 9:54 AMcorpus callosum - the bridge connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain
corpus callostomy - procedure where the callosum is cut, used to treat severe epilepsy
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Fri, April 20, 2012 - 10:30 AM>>>tits doesn't even belong on the list.<<<
And shouldn't belong on any list. "Tits" is merely a corrupted spelling of a perfectly correct Anglo-Saxon word, "teats" or "teat" in the singular form. True it's pronounced as though it were spelled "tit" but that's only because modern English spelling is often different from Old English, aka Anglo-Saxon.
To recap, the word is spelled "teat" and pronounced as "tit", most people these days are completely unaware. And, I might add, it's the only correct word for the female milk-delivery structures in all mammals. All other words are either slang: "jugs", "boobs", etc. Or they are medical jargon "mammaries" from "mammary glands" which are the milk-producing structures inside the teats. Often words describing the general anatomical area are used as substitutes "breast", for example, a word that many consider to be the correct term actually refers to the entire front of the chest both in males and in females, as does "bosom" identical in meaning with "breast."
So much confusion and variant nomenclature over an anatomical structure must reflect the fact that most people feel uneasy or ashamed of teats, probably because they remind us that we used to be very small, ignorant and greedy for mama's milk. Many of us still are, but that's a matter for Freud, Jung and Adler to argue over.
I hope this has been helpful and informative, on the English language if not on human anatomy.
With love under will,
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Mon, April 23, 2012 - 12:13 PM<So much confusion and variant nomenclature over an anatomical structure must reflect the fact that most people feel uneasy or ashamed of teats, probably because they remind us that we used to be very small, ignorant and greedy for mama's milk>
Actually, I think it's more of a "don't remind me what they're ACTUALLY for" kind of thing.
People who are attracted to them aren't necessarily looking for children (and milk) to result from the encounter.
"That's not what I use 'em for," I heard said quite often.
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Thu, January 11, 2007 - 5:04 AMI've always loved clavicle, but supernumerary kidney made me laugh when the docs told me I had one - say it three times fast with me now, SUPERNUMERARY KIDNEY! Hee!
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Tue, January 16, 2007 - 8:00 AMvas deferens
Interosseous Membrane
cartilage
phalanges
rectum - damn near killed em' (bad joke)
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Tue, January 16, 2007 - 10:01 AMThe far flung islets of Langerhans; the hormone-producing cells of the pancreas. -
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Fri, April 20, 2012 - 10:33 AMI've always been partial to "larynx" myself. Though "sphincter" always brings a smile. There are so many and they are all so useful. And I bet the only one that comes to mind for most is the anal sphincter. It's only one of many, folks and folkesses.
With love under will,
Bob, Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville
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