“Be positive!” I’m, oh, negative, actually, having given it further thought.
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Aaaaarrrggggghhhh!
Thanks, Randy. These are excellent!
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Years ago, when she was 10, my oldest child was in the ER, and the phlebotomist came in with arms completely tattooed. “You aren’t scared of needles, are you,” he asked.
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Is a such fun word to say.
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Yeah. Now I have to memorize the spelling. ; )
And then there’s “ophthalmologist”.
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If you are ever in a group of 3 or more biologists, ask the group for the correct pronunciation of “apoptosis”, step back, and watch the sparks fly.
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Especially if one is from the UK? (They say ‘shedule’ for ‘schedule’… why don’t they say ‘shule’ for ‘school’? And how about the correct spelling and pronunciation of the element Al? XD)
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Thanks! I just learned a new word i don’t know how to pronounce! And depending on who I ask, never will! Interesting concept, too. Wonder how apoptosis fits into a literalist understanding of Genesis… maybe a new thread topic. Don’t know if anyone else is interested.
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These words cause borborygmi. Another favorite medical word to say is intussusception.
For alternate pronunciations, duodenum was one that separated the Brits from the Yanks.
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I would love to hear all those!
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A medical dictionary would be pretty exhausting exhaustive. 
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I’ve started seeing this one bounce around again and it’s always amusing to me. I meet people who sincerely believe that things like the Simpsons told the future.
I guess though that in 1989 a second edition , or some revised edition, of the books mentions a lab created disease in Wuhun. For some reason it was changed from 1981 where the city is somewhere in Russia.
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