Medical Terminology

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  – Silicosis, a lung disease caused by inhalation silica dust. Not
  surprisingly, the longest word in the English dictionary is a
  medical term
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
  – the fear of long words. Pity the poor psychiatrist who has to
  not only pronounce this, but code it for reimbursement
• Witzelsucht – a set of rare
  neurological symptoms characterized by the patient’s uncontrollable
  tendency to pun, tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or
  irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. It is associated with
  small lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex.
• Rhinotillexomania – nose picking
• Mittelschmerz – pain that
  sometimes occurs with ovulation
• Formication – a feeling that
  insects or other small creatures are crawling on your skin.
• Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia –
  an ice-cream headache, or “brain-freeze” in the vernacular
• Morsicatio buccarum – the bump
  that forms after you bite the inside of your cheek
• Borborygmi – a growling stomach
• Onychocryptosis – the Greek term
  for an ingrown toenail
• Sternutate – to sneeze
• Horripilation – goose bumps
• Gustatory rhinitis – a runny
  nose caused by eating spicy food
• Veisalgia – a hangover

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