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#62909
03/29/2002 2:10 PM
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"a pea in the ear" "iatric mystique" "ear wig" Years ago quacks kept a defunct earwig in vest poocket, to be produced to impress neurotics when allegedly removed from ear canal.
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#62910
04/15/2002 12:10 PM
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You can't really use "iatric" as a word, can you, Bill?
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#62911
04/15/2002 2:50 PM
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"iatric" is in my dictionary.
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#62912
04/15/2002 3:27 PM
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Well, iatric isn't in my AHD as a word, per se, and I just looked it up in MW Collegiate online, and iatric is only listed as a suffix. Another medical reference online did show iatric as a word unto itself referring to anything medicinal or having to do with the medical profession in general.
I expect it's a rare as heck word--but maybe one of the terms of art for your profession.
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#62913
04/15/2002 4:52 PM
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From my Webster's New World CD, a marvelous ten bucks worth that I have running minimized all the time.
iatric
adj.
5Gr iatrikos < iatros, physician < iasthai, to cure, heal6 of medicine or medical doctors; medical or medicinal Also iatrical
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#62914
05/06/2002 8:17 PM
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Dubdub:
I'm a compulsive crossword puzzle solver. I don't know what the phenomenon is, but filler words seem to be in vogue for a while, then disappear from the puzzlemakers' lexicons. Currently "iatric" with a definition "of or relating to medicine" is much in vogue.
I wonder what causes this phenomenon. And someone I know is a former puzzlemaker. I must track him down and ask.
TEd (who makes hay while the sun shines)
TEd
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