BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words

Subject: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:34 AM

OK, the strange pseudopodous thingie growing on my eyeballs is called a penguiculum, which I gather is either a little penguin or a penguin's butt - what is the most interesting word the medical community has ever assigned you?

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:36 AM

Oops - PINguiculum.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:40 AM

Hypomagnesiac.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:43 AM

Sounds like a junkie with an upset stomach!

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:00 PM

It's a worm?

A Penguin's worm?

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 07:05 PM

I have proctalgia fugax. It's a pain in the arse.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 08:13 PM

coccidioidomycosis, or San Jauquin Valley fever. If memory serves it is a fungial infection, the spores of which are found in the dust in certain parts of the SJV. Many people have it and never have a symptom and other become quite ill, as I did at age 7. Missed a half year of school. The cure then was just plenty of bedrest and high vitamin "C" intake.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 08:50 PM

Do they have eyedrops for that?

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 09:30 PM

No need Alice - proctalgia fugax makes your eye water anyway...

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 09:58 PM

Schistosomiasis.
But it ain't funny to those who have it.

Pruritus ani

Orchalgia

Monorchism

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 01:43 PM

If it's a 'white head' (like a black head=sebaceous deposit with dirty stopper) then maybe the origin is the same as that often posited for penguin, i.e. White head (from the Welsh, pen gwyn)

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Escapee
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 03:57 PM

I once had an arthroscopic plantar fasciotomy. It's more impressive than saying you had a heel spur fixed. Fixed my heel pain, AND kept me out of the plant for two of the hottest weeks of the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 04:18 PM

is the humerus the funny bone?

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 04:28 PM

Pectus Carinatum
Spherocytosis
Adenocarcinoma

We spread these out on three different people.

Whew.

Subject: RE: BS: Penguiculum and other neat Dx words
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 07:50 PM

I missed both schistosomiasis and billharzia, sounds like a couple nowadays, eh?

Apparently the (deeper) root of penguin is fat, so I guess from growing up in the tropics the fat bubbled out of my eyeball(s) and made cornea-freckles, only they're yellow and pseudopodic...

Kinda makes my toes curl, actually!