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Mine is 'pearly penile papules' as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Toxic megacolon. Sounds like a metal band.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Oooh, good call! It totally does. I bet a Toxic Megacolon show would have a wild and kickass mosh pit.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is Omentum.

I went to med school for a grand total of one semester before I realized it wasn't for me. But during that semester I went through Gross Anatomy in which you dissect a cadaver bit by bit over the course of (IIRC) 8 weeks. Anyway in the abdominal cavity lies the greater omentum, a yellow net-like contraption that basically spans the stomach & intestines. It's super cool looking, probably my favorite structure I encountered in gross anatomy.

My least favorite thing about gross anatomy - other than that one really stinky cadaver - was Netter. Oh my god I felt like that text became an extension of my body, I was never not buried in it, along with so many lists of mnemonics. I still remember the mnemonic Roman Togas Don't Cover Balls to name the parts of the brachial plexus (Roots, Trunks, Divisions, Cords, and Branches).

[–] mrbean343@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Synesthesia. That or prosopagnosia.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My words are taken so imma do a phrase

β€œFECAL VOMITING”

Like many others, could be a band name. Grindcore, probably. I imagine one of the worst experiences to go though. Vomiting is already terrible… butt now there’s shit.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Worm rot 😍

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hypopotomonstrososqepideliophobia. The phobia of long words

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Priapism. Gotta check for it in trauma patients.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this. My kind of band!

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fistula.

Sounds sexual, but very much isn't.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Well, not with that attitude!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Free. As in free healthcare.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Any of the big compound medical words are fun to say and construct IMO. Adrenocorticotropic, deoxyribonucleic, those kinda words. They seem big and scary but they’re quite descriptive and once you know the β€œformula” behind them it’s not too bad. Maybe not the most fun words but I feel good every time I can use one and deploy it like it’s no big deal (ie my mouth doesn’t fuck it up). It’s like executing a big combo with your mouth.

[–] Dhrystone 4 points 1 year ago

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis - a rare disease that a friend has.

purulent leakage, also known as pussy leakage (i.e., leakage involving pus)

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Echolalia

Or vagina. I really like vagina, and the word vagina.

But echolalia is more fun to say. It's like tintinnabulation or brobdingnagian in that regard, despite being shorter. But the sound of the word works so neatly with the meaning of the word.

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eptifabatide. My favorite drug name and people have a hard time with that p to t transition apparently, but it rolls off the tongue for me. Abciximab is another good one, but I'm pretty sure someone just wanted a name to start with ABC.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like ondansetron ... I just picture a dancing robot

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always just pictured Santa Clause.

"On, Comet! Ondansetron! On, Donner and Blitzen!"

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh I love this!

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Spastic colon

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Amenorrhea and hyponatremia. I do also like orchidectomy, but I am less comfortable repeating it over and over than the others - it feels like it’ll be taken as a threat

Pericardium.

[–] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I've always thought "hemoglobin," "ankylosing spondylitis," "rectocele," and "postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome" were fun to say. There's definitely more medical words I like, but I've got mad brain fog, so I'm not able to come up with much at the moment. Which is a major bummer!

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Lol as a medical person myself, reading all the comments her is so hilarious and refreshing. Gives me different perspective.

[–] limitsomething@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hypochondria

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it's appeared in dictionaries.

This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it's been even close to relevant in a conversation.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was a kid it was all about antidisestablishmentarianism and that's also still quite relevant

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[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Laparoscopic Appendectomy. Or as the doctors like to call it, a Lappy-Appy.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sacroiliac and coccyx.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Agalmatophilia

It's the paraphilia of being sexually attracted to statues. Like stone marble statues.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

suppuration

[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Amyloidosis

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Methylphenidadhydrochlorid :)

[–] Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

borborygmi. The gurgling sounds from your intestines when fluid is moving.

Also, pneumocephalus. Air in the cranium or an "air head".

[–] fool@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (brain freeze)

it's just too long for something so mundane lol. who are you fooling, palatine??

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