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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;
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- 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.
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