{"id":3015,"date":"2010-06-29T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:16:35","slug":"more-words-i-cant-leave-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"More words I can&#8217;t leave alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading medical journals is often a crap shoot.  Sometimes what you get is interesting and immediately engaging, sometimes it&#8217;s a bloody bore.<\/p>\n<p>Three words I picked up on a recent troll through a half stack of the<a href=\"http:\/\/avmajournals.avma.org\/\"> Journal of The American Veterinary Medical Association.<\/a><br \/>\n(Note, please, that, like a <em>stack<\/em>, a <em>half stack<\/em> is a metaphysical measurement of things that you know you gotta, but don&#8217;t necessarily wanna, read.  The actual number that comprises a stack or a half stack varies depending on how many of the item there actually are and how much, or little, you actually want to read them.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you the first because there is no way on earth that y&#8217;all will be able to work backwards through the etymology of it and come up with any sort of answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOSSYPIBOMA<\/strong><br \/>\nA gossypiboma is a sterile, benign, inflammatory mass that forms within an abdominal cavity around a retained surgical sponge.<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t that a great word though?  Isn&#8217;t it just like the medical establishment to have come up with an actual word for something like that?  I&#8217;m the first to admit that mistakes happen, but it sounds so much more official and so much less &#8220;Oops!  THAT wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen!&#8221; when you have a cool word for it.<\/p>\n<p>The next two are related and you are going to have to work through the etymology of them to come up with a definition.<br \/>\n<strong>OMPHALOCOELE<\/strong><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<strong>OMPHALOPHLEBITIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Major word nerd cred attaches to those who can come up with definitions without resorting to a dictionary, a thesaurus, or Wikipedia.  Parents might, and I emphasize the <em>might<\/em>, just have a little edge over those who aren&#8217;t parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading medical journals is often a crap shoot. Sometimes what you get is interesting and immediately engaging, sometimes it&#8217;s a bloody bore. Three words I picked up on a recent troll through a half stack of the Journal of The American Veterinary Medical Association. (Note, please, that, like a stack, a half stack is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}