Verboticism: Denysician
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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Deniailment
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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Whynochondriac
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: wy-no-kon-dre-ack
Sentence: Martin's propensity to downplay his illnesses really makes him quite the whynochondriac; just today when asked if he came down with poison ivy after falling asleep in the patch of it, he responded, "why, no!" although his eyes swollen shut and the rash on his body suggests otherwise.
Etymology: why no + hypochondriac
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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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.)
Deniaphile
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: dee-nie-al-file
Sentence: Here rests Bill, He'll be here a while It was a heart attack You dumb deniaphile.
Etymology: denial + phile
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COMMENTS:
Love that epitaph! Nice work. - Jamagra, 2008-04-09: 09:31:00
Sad tale of poor Bill. Nice work! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-09: 20:54:00
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Medicenial
Created by: ordep
Pronunciation: medi si nay yal
Sentence:
Etymology: medical + denial
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
Contradoctory
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: con - trah - dok - tur - ee
Sentence: Roger was always contradoctory... No matter the diagnosis, he always knew better and did not accept test findings or expert opinions. One wondered why he bothered to seek medical care at all.
Etymology: contradictory, doctor
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COMMENTS:
Because he can only get prescriptions from his doctor...same reason many people go to their doctor! Good Word! - Nosila, 2009-05-28: 10:44:00
Great word! - artr, 2009-05-28: 11:50:00
Mystery solved, Nosila.....the prescriptions of course!! Thanks... - mweinmann, 2009-05-28: 11:56:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-05-28: 18:42:00
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Medicashun
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: med/i/kay/shun
Sentence: Because of a severe overdose of an incorrect prescription ten years ago, John goes into a medicashun mode refusing to take any drugs his doctor prescribes for his ailments.
Etymology: medicine + shun
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)
