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Carpal Tunnel
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people who only hear when they want, and are deaf otherwise
My mother always said I have "selective hearing". Now, my
mother-in-law says the same thing. Can't imagine why.
Wsieber, I like your thermopneumacephalics! I know a couple of thermonuclearcephalics, too! (Dang, Alex and Doug, look what you started!)
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old hand
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Alex, thanks for an outstanding thread.
I love abiognostic and ambignostic.
I thrill to pneumacephalic, its regional (?) variant pneumocephalic, and the lovely extended thermopneumacephalic. I think faececephalic (and the rv fececeph.) rocks, though I haven't a clue as to how I'd go about prnouncing it.
For pithy expressiveness, however, Nichola's contribution must take the palm - proctalgic.
Perhaps, though, given that all the roots are from ancient tongues, the word neologism is inappropriate? Palaeologisms or pseudopalaeologisms anyone?
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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related to proctalgia (anus) are rectalgia (rectum) and the more general pygalgia (butt). 
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