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Aug 29, 2005 This week's theme Words related to medicine This week's words rhinorrhea alexiteric atretic fomites styptic Spread the joy of words Send a gift subscription Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg Prevention is better than cure, the saying goes. But sometimes no amount of prevention helps, and we are forced to visit those trained in the healing arts. Like any profession, the world of medicine has its own jargon. If you have come down with a bad case of medical jargonitis, help is near. Here is our prescription: take the five words in this week's dose and email us next week. rhinorrhea rhinorrhea (ry-nuh-REE-uh) noun A runny nose. [From Neo-Latin, from Greek rhino- (nose), -rrhea (flow).] Another word with the same prefix: rhinoceros. Another word with the same suffix: logorrhea (excessive flow of words: talkativeness). So what happens when you combine these two words? You redefine rhinorrhea: a rhinoceros who talks too much. Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Once the volunteers began sniffling, they rated the severity of their symptoms of sneezing, rhinorrhea, stuffy noses, sore throat, cough, headache, fatigue and chills." A.J. Hostetler; Study: Herb (echinacea) Can't Curb Cold; Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia); Aug 4, 2005. X-Bonus We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bones. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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