#87636
11/23/2002 9:34 PM
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A spelling bee word. I had a very lovable kitten that died of a trichobezoar.
Bezoar
Definition:
A ball of swallowed foreign material (usually hair or fiber) that collects in the stomach and
fails to pass through the intestines.
Alternative Names:
Trichobezoar; Hairball
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#87637
11/23/2002 10:05 PM
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What did the "tricho" have to do with the "bezoar"?
I've heard of trichonosis, but that's something altogether different, isn't it?
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#87638
11/23/2002 11:19 PM
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Tut,tut,meine liebe Wortkennerin, remember trichotillomania, trichiasis,trichotomists,
Remember anal trichiasis, having a hair across.....its a hairy topic.
A trichobezoar is a hairball. Longhaired kittens grooming themselves swallow enough hairs which
will not digest, don't even leave stomach, until there is a golfball sized mass obstructing the
pylorus. I had never seen it before, and could not imagine what was wrong. I found it on PM,
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#87639
11/24/2002 12:24 AM
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Well, if a bezoar is a hairball, and tricho = hair, then it seems a trichobezoar is a hairy hairball.
I've heard of hairy eyeballs, but this is the first I've heard of hairy hairballs.
It would have made a great Hogwash word. You should have sent it to tsuwm!
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#87640
11/24/2002 12:37 AM
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bezoar
n.
5Fr b=zoard < Sp bezoar < Ar bazahr < Pers padzahr < pad, protecting (against) + zahr, poison6 a concretion found in the stomach or intestines of some animals, esp. ruminants, and sometimes humans, formerly thought to be an antidote for poisons
Dear WW: as above, note that the hairy ones were not in original mentions.
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