Voted For: Diagnosuch

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dis-mis-noh-sis

Sentence: The doctor may have his opinion about what is wrong with Jerry but he has own dismissnosis. In his world denial trumps knowledge any day.

Etymology: dismiss (to discharge or remove) + diagnosis (the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition)

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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

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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).

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Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: suhb-jehkt-ihv-ay-tihs

Sentence: Her subjectivitis was acting up again and was harder to treat than the fungus on her feet.

Etymology: subjective (proceeding from or taking place within a person's mind such as to be unaffected by the external world) + itis (inflammation)

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COMMENTS:

better then conjuctivitis.....good one. - mweinmann, 2009-05-28: 12:13:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: il-LOS-uh-fahyz

Sentence: From Ablepsia to Boneshave; from Scrivener's Cramp to Septicemia, Roxie always illosophized in the same, unrealistic way, responding to questions about her health with, "An aspro, a cup of tea, and a lie down and I'll be as "good as gold" in a half hour."

Etymology: Blend of ILL: of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick. COGNATES: ILLOSOPHIZE, ILLOSOPHISER, ILLOSOPHICAL

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COMMENTS:

nice word - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-09: 16:00:00

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Created by: scarletzinc

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Created by: ordep

Pronunciation: medi si nay yal

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Etymology: medical + denial

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: deny/ailment

Sentence: Even though his eyelids were stuck together when he woke up and his eyes were red and full of pus, he refused to consider that he might have pink eye and insisted he just had morning allergies.

Etymology: denial + ailment

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COMMENTS:

Good word containing both denail & illness(ailment). - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-09: 20:48:00

Best of the day. Good one! - Mustang, 2008-04-10: 03:35:00

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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)

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: Dye-hag-nor

Sentence: He must know he has it, but he diagnores it all the time.

Etymology: diagnose+ignore

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