Medical Terms from a Different Perspective

(how some terms might be interpreted by those who lack professional vocabulary knowledge in the field of medicine)

Education is not only concerned with collecting information but also with the best ways of using information that has been collected.”

—Edward de Bono

Some countries want peace so badly that they will go to war to get it.

—Anonymous
artery
The study of paintings.
barium
Arrangements made by doctors when patients die.
Beauty Parlor
A place where women curl up and dye.
benign
What you'll be after you're eight.
bowel
A letter like a, e, i, o, or u.
caesarean section
A neighborhood in Rome.
cat scan
Searching for a lost cat or a kitty.
cauterize
Making eye-contact with a girl.
colic
A sheep dog.
coma
A punctuation mark.
dilate
To live a long time.
enema
Not a friend.
euthanasia
Chinese, Japanese, or other oriental adolescents.
fester
Quicker than another person.
fibula
A minor or small lie.

Go to the Definitions in Deviant and Comical Format index to see more unusual lists of words.

Go to the Fun with Words index to see even more unusual lists of words.