Yet More Medical Terms!

[Dave]

Alan, I have a bad feeling about these suggestions, but I tried both calor and corda today, only to feel embittered and rejected yet again!

Both these turn up online in one of the Houghton-Mifflin medical dictionaries.  The first one really did disappoint me a bit because it has been around for quite a while as a description of bodily heat in a fever.  The second one was, I guess, obscure even by my standards  .

Cheers,

Dave

[Binkie]

I wonder how many others tried "calor" too, Dave. I was so sure it would be accepted, especially after I looked it up and found this neat little summary.....
"Calor, dolor, rubor, and tumor: Heat, pain, redness, and swelling. The four classical signs of inflammation, originally recorded by the Roman encyclopedist Celsus in the 1st century A.D."

Still, at least I can rattle that off when next afflicted by a mozzie bite!

[greenone]

Hi

You're worried about obscure medical words!  I can't even find the 9 letter one today.  There was a bit of red wine consumed in the vicinity of my place last night, so perhaps that is the problem

[technomc]

Hi Geo,
Linda and myself tried an experiment, just the other week in fact, to see if a vast consumption of the plonk helped or hindered in the wordy quest.

i think the conclusions were obvious......
Not only did our fingers become inordinately dyslexic and extremely wayward [they would just press any old key willy nilly]..but also, the mind turned to mush...
NELMND is not a word, rare or common..nor was
MIUEN or DRIKO or WHIPSO... in fact most of those letters didn't appear in the puzzle!!!!!

In conclusion....
Stay off the plonk if you want to stand any chance at all....[SORRY]

[I think WHIPSO should be a word..it sounds such fun.....]

[Binkie]

Hello again Geo..........don't fall for that "experiment" line, will you?  It's just T's way of excusing her reprehensibly drunk behaviour. I can't begin to tell you how many truly shocking escapades she's had. Please, please don't go down that road, whatever you do......it's really not worth it, you know....not even for the sake of the 9-letter word.
Excuse me while I go and make another cup of tea.

[technomc]

Binks...i do believe that is a slanderous statement.....it wasn't reprehensibly drunken behaviour.
I knew exactly what i was doing at all times......
I did suffer a bit the next day, admittedly...

I had dreadful blisters and callouses on my hands, and a nasty bump on my head.....i really should chalk them when i'm pole dancing and make sure there is a cushion on the floor....

I went home with ALL my clothes....why i was wearing my knickers[ or should that be knicker..i am still confused on this issue!!] on my head i don't know [maybe it was to protect the bruise a bit].

...and i was able to spend a great deal of time making a very close examination of the inside of my toilet bowl...

SO BLOODY THERE !!!!

[Binkie]

T dear, I am so sorry that I had to make your failings so public, but I felt that Geo was entitled to know the truth. I know from experience what happens when new people join the forum. They read your posts, and see what a clever, witty and inspiring person you are. They follow you slavishly, and only when they are irrevocably entangled in your web do they discover your dark side.
Forgive me, but I cannot let these innocents stumble blindly towards their fate.

[technomc]

Clever....          Witty.....         Inspiring.....   

Those i will go along with.....

BUT
Failings.....        dark side.....     

You really know how to build up a girl and then knock her straight back down....
So now you have only got yourself to blame that i am going to leave the girls locked in the shed all day...without so much as a crumb...dig up several trees.....chop the heads off all the roses in the florists, and tighten the thumb screws on the old lady down the road and saw through 2 of the legs on her zimmer frame...

I hope you feel suitable guilty...
 

[Binkie]

That's my T....a one-woman crime wave!

[technomc]

That's me on a good day... 
You don't want to know what i'm like if i'm feeling particularly peed off.....

[biggerbirdbrain]

Am replying using T's model on slamming posts:

--Yes, Dave, I tried calor longlonglonglong ago!!!

--you encyclopedia, you, Binks!!

--got halfway thru the puzzle before I ever got the 9-letter one, too, GEO!

--didn't need any plonk to feel plonkered (is that a word), T -- but my CAR BROKE DOWN, so that did it!

--the brutal truth about T -- but she really IS a little angel in disguise, as are the rest of us little devils!

--the ogre must've been taken this morning from my mirror -- Were you there, T?

OK -- that should do it!!!

[technomc]

That's what happens when you use LL's beauty regime...

[Linda]

Ha ha ha ha hag!   

[biggerbirdbrain]

Actually, does anyone remember this one?? It's the twin sister from across the pond! (Can't resist!!) 

[technomc]

I thought LL looked particularly gorgeous in that one threeb...if she donned her new purple eyeshadow she would look even better....