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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

What is your favourite medical word

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What is your favourite medical word

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

Mine is ‘pearly penile papules’ as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.

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Idk if it’s medical or more psychological but the term for when your hear a word so many times it loses meaning is one of my favorite phrases in the English language.

Semantic satiation

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