Let's play: What's that word mean?

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I thought this would be fun.

Pick a medical word. Ask what it means. The responder answers and picks the next word.

This one always cracks me up because it sounds like a word we don't normally use in general conversation: My word is...

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sphenpalatineganglioneuralgia

Say: sfee-noh-pal-uh-teen-gan-glee-oh-new-ral-juh

This huge word means an ice cream headache. You know, the feeling you get when you eat something really cold and your head goes "Yow!" :smackingf

I just had one today, after drinking an Icee from Burger King.

Do we have any quinquagenarians on here?

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Specializes in Occupational Medicine, Orthopedics.
sphenpalatineganglioneuralgia

Do we have any quinquagenarians on here?

Give me 7 years, I'll be at the beginning.

Quinquagenarians - Persons in their 50's.

My word/term:

Krukenberg's chopsticks

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Specializes in LTC/SNF.

Krudenberg's chopsticks - A condition occurring after surgical separation of the remaining ulna and radius of a forearm stump after traumatic removal of a lower arm, allowing the ulna and radius to act as crude pincers.

My word is thoracoparacephalus

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Unequal conjoined twins in which a rudimentary parasitic head is attached to the thorax of the autosite.

My word is :

Zondek-Aschheim test

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Zondek-Aschheim test

A test used to detect whether a woman is pregnant by noting the effect on the ovaries of an immature mouse or rabbit injected with her urine.

Viscerotonia

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Specializes in medical assistant.
sphenpalatineganglioneuralgia

Say: sfee-noh-pal-uh-teen-gan-glee-oh-new-ral-juh

This huge word means an ice cream headache. You know, the feeling you get when you eat something really cold and your head goes "Yow!" :smackingf

I just had one today, after drinking an Icee from Burger King.

Do we have any quinquagenarians on here?

So that's the medical terminology for "brain freeze"?!

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