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WELCOME TO EVEN MORE EXPERT ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND GENERAL BRILLIANCE FROM YOUR
RESIDENT EXPERTS IN MOST SUBJECTS YOU CARE TO MENTION. OUR SINCERE THANKS GO
TO JOHN, G0GCL @ GB7WIR FOR PROVIDING THIS ARTICLE. A GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF
MEDICAL TERMS IS INVALUABLE FOR THAT ERUDITE DISCUSSION IN THE PUB OR CLUB,
IT ALSO MAKES THE DOCTOR THINK TWICE BEFORE FEEDING YOU A LOAD OF RUBBISH AT
A CONSULTATION. HERE ARE A FEW TERMS THAT YOU SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH;
ABULOMANIA Imperfect or lost will power.
ACCUBATION The art of lying in bed with another person.
AILINOPHOBIA An excessive fondness for cats.
APHLEXIA Absence of mind.
GAMOMANIA Insane desire of marriage.
CALEFACIENT Exciting warmth.
CALLOMANIA Delusions of personal beauty.
CARNEOUS Fleshy.
CRASEOLOGY The patient conceives himself to have great powers.
DECALVANT Removing or destroying hair.
DOROMANIA Morbid desire to give presents.
DYSLOGIA Difficulty in expressing oneself by speech.
DYSGRAMMATISM Inability to make correct use of words.
EFFLAURAGE Stroking movement in massage.
EISOPTROPHOBIA Fear of mirrors.
ENDENTULOUS Lacking/without teeth.
ENVACULATION Removing ones spot/freckle from the face.
GEPHROPHOBIA Fear of crossing a bridge.
HELIOPATHIA Pathological disturbance brought on by sunlight.
HYLEPHOBIA Morbid dread of materialism.
HYPHEDOMIA Morbid love of the feeling of pleasure in acts that
normally give pleasure.
HYPERGYLOBIA Dread of assuming responsibility.
HYPERNOIA Excessive mental activity.
HYPERNOMIC Above the law, unrestrained, excessive.
HYPERPHRODISIA Decreased sexual drive.
HYPERTRICHOPHYDIA Excessive growth of the eyebrows.
HYGEIOLATRY Excessive attention to ones health.
HAPHEPHOBIA Morbid dread of being touched.
KYMOTRICHOUS Having wavy hair.
MISANDRIA Hatred of men.
MISOGAMY Morbid aversion to marriage.
MISOGANY Hatred of women.
MISOLOGIA Aversion to intellectual or literary matters.
MISONEISM Fear or horror of novelty.
MISOPEDIA Hatred of children.
MOGRIGRAPHIA Writers cramp.
MONOMANIA Insanity on a single subject.
MORIA A morbid tendency to joke.
NESTOMANIA Insane nostalgia (common complaint in class A's)
NYCTOPHILIA Abnormal preference for night over day.
NYCTOPHOMIA Loss of voice during the day, not night.
OIKIOMANIA Domestic perversity.
ONEIROGMUS Emission of a certain fluid during ones sleep.
PHILONEISM Abnormal love of novelty.
PIGMITIS Sluggishness of spirit due to alcoholism.
PLANOMANIA Insane desire to wander.
PROGENERATE One endowed with superior faculties.
PERSONEER One who projects, creates, controls, directs and
perfects personal character of surpassing superiority.
PNANEROMANIA A neurotic condition in which the person pays undue
attention to some external growth or part ie. Hangnail,
pimple or hair.
RHYPUS Dirt.
RHYSEMA Wrinkle.
TRAGOMASCHALIA Odious perspiration from the axilla
TRAGOPHOBIA Knock kneed
TRANSAUDIENT Permitting the passage of sound waves.
BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF JUSTIN EIDLEBURGER AND SPINEY,
MIKE AND MIKE HUMOUR INDUSTRIES * BEWARE OF IMPOSTERS! *
ALIAS G1ERT AND G8AMG @ GB7AAA (ANY FAN MAIL TO JOHN PLEASE)
*** LONG LIVE HUMOUR ON PACKET!!! ***
*** EOF