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#210064 - 03/19/13 07:46 PM
Re: Tuesday: PERUSE
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wofahulicodoc
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PERUSS (peh-RUSH): to read with great care in Cyrillic, and rather quickly. Not to be confused with its near-homonym PERUSH, (pee-rush), meaning "Ooh! Ooh! Teacher! I really have to go to the bathroom!"
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#210066 - 03/19/13 08:28 PM
Re: Tuesday: PERUSE
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I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are inoculated. You want me to get an infection in my eye? Sorry Doc, I don't speak MDese. I hope you have had what ever shot you need so you don't get the disease you mentioned.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#210069 - 03/20/13 01:51 AM
School of Useless Knowledge
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"Ocular" means related to the eye, as in oculist who makes lenses, and binoculars (two lenses, one for each eye - and they also make monocles for one eye.)
Actually, "inoculate" really does mean "stick it in your eye." That's the way the first smallpox immunizations were administered. Serum was made from victims of vaccinia (a related viral disease, cowpox. As one might suspect, since ''vaca" is cow. Smallpox is "variola.") and it was instilled into the eye of the protectee after the doctor pulled the lower lid down to make a sac to drip a drop or two into. So it was literally an "in-ocul-ation," and then the word got generalized to mean any immunization against you-name-it disease, no matter where it was given.
And "pertussis" is whooping cough. ("Tussive" is coughing. RobiTussin is A H Robins' brand of cough syrup. Tussionex is somebody else's.) Pertussis is the P of the DPT shot your kids got when they were infants: Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus. Never heard of 'em? It's because the shots became almost universal, and the diseases almost unheard of. Except that whooping cough is coming back, because...but that's another story.
(Apologies for droning on. Occasionally this does somehow turn into a word Board, all our intentions to the contrary notwithstanding...)
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#210077 - 03/21/13 03:02 PM
Re: Darned if I'm gonna be the first one to show up
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A.Thursday.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
discursive
PRONUNCIATION:(dis-KUHR-siv)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Jumping from topic to topic; rambling.
2. Proceeding logically, using reason or argument rather than emotion.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin discurrere (to run about), from dis- (apart) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which is also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, succor, and caricature. Earliest documented use: 1599.
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discursitive- a meaning that can mean either extreme of diametrical opposite meanings. EX: discursive.
Last edited by jenny jenny; 03/21/13 05:22 PM. Reason: spelling error
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Very Interesting medical wordings, Wofa, thanks. [Re: wofahulicodoc]