Verboticism: Contradoctory
DEFINITION: v. To have a medical condition or illness and yet continually deny it, even after your doctor has diagnosed it. n. A person who steadfastly refuses to accept a medical diagnosis or to follow the prescribed treatment.
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Repudiitis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-pyoo-dee-itis
Sentence: Magdalene had gone from the sublime to the ridicuous. Once a confirmed hypochondriac, she was now afflicted with repudiitis and ignored the suppurating wounds erupting on her arms, the death-at-three-paces halitosis and the hanks of hair falling out
Etymology: repudiate (refuse) + -itis (suffix indicating disease)
Diagnoresis
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: di/egg/nor'/sis
Sentence: "You have diabetes," Dr. Marcus Wellknee told his patient. "Nonsense," replied Fred. "I'm irritable and tired because I don't get enough sleep at night. I'm always thirsty and hungry because I do a lot of heavy physical labor at work. I go to the bathroom lots because I drink so much water when I am thirsty. There's no way I have diabetes, Doc! I'm only 38!" Under "prognosis" on Fred's chart, Dr. Wellknee wrote "diagnoresis".
Etymology: diagnosis + ignore
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COMMENTS:
Good Blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-09: 20:55:00
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Denysician
Created by: SethelMerman
Pronunciation: Dee-ni-zi-shun
Sentence: Flo urged him to go see a doctor, but there was no use arguing with a denysician.
Etymology: deny (to declare untrue or to disclaim a connection to) + physician (a doctor of medicine.)
Denialvirus
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dee nyal vy rus
Sentence: When Roger was bitten by a huge mosquito and had to be hospitalized, he still claimed that he just had a bug bite. He was suffering from denialvirus, which he absolutely refused to believe because he had never even been to Egypt.
Etymology: Denial (the act of asserting that something alleged is not true) & Nile Virus (West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord).
Illstrich
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: il-strich
Sentence: I've known friends to illstrich on occasion, but Todd is a world-class illstricher. There are sores all over his lips, but he swears he's not the 1-in-4 who's got herpes! How can he keep illstriching like he's totally healthy?
Etymology: From "ill" and a contraction of "ostrich" (a large, flightless bird fabled to hide its head in the sand at the first sign of danger)
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2010-06-15: 05:14:00
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Denyill
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dinīil
Sentence: To the day he died, Dan was in denyill. He told anybody who was willing to listen and many who weren’t that his doctor was a quack who was just out to get his money by prescribing various treatments and medicines. Who knew that you could die from an untreated hangnail?
Etymology: deny (refuse to admit the truth or existence of something) + ill (not in full health; sick)
Diagnore
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: Dye-hag-nor
Sentence: He must know he has it, but he diagnores it all the time.
Etymology: diagnose+ignore
Scougher
Created by: shoeshineboy
Pronunciation: SKOF-fer
Sentence: I can't stand when all the scoughers come to work and get everyone else sick when they KNOW they are contagious.
Etymology: scoff + cougher
Negaffliction
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: něg'ə-flĭk'shən
Sentence: "Garth, go get that thing taken care of!" Tanya cajoled. "It's no big deal," Garth negafflicted. "The doctor said it's completely malignant."
Etymology: 'ne,' from Python, of the Knights who say so; 'gaf,'var. of 'gaff,' a metal spur for a gamecock; 'flic,' action taken with one's BIC; 'tion,' take pains to avoid.
