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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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Hypocontradictria
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: hypo/contra/dic/treea
Sentence: Someone suffering from hypocontradictria disagrees with all medical diagnoses.
Etymology: hypochondria + contradict
Procrastinfector
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: pro-crass-tin-fek-tour
Sentence: Three-fifths of the Varsity Footballers in our high school are procratinfectors, having convinced themselves that the itch "down there" is just dry skin. It sure is strange that Marla has the same itch.
Etymology: procrastinator+infected
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COMMENTS:
i love the look on the dude's face in the cartoon! - queenjane75, 2008-04-09: 19:35:00
Yes, he looks like a fungi... - Nosila, 2008-04-09: 19:53:00
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Notme
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nätmē
Sentence: Despite what the doctor told him Jason returned with a diagnosis of allswell. He had already self-prescribed a generous dose of notme.
Etymology: not (used to express the negative of other words) + me (pronoun, first person singular)
Diagnosiree
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dy - ag - no - suhr - ee
Sentence: Delbert refused to accept any sort of determination of an existing ailment, choosing instead to be a diagnosiree, thereby avoiding having to deal with any sort of therapy.
Etymology: blend of diagnosis and the slang, 'nosiree'.
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-09: 16:03:00
Yep, very creative! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-09: 16:19:00
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Spurngeon
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: spurn-jun
Sentence: Despite having an appendix the size of a cantaloupe, Jen remained a spurngeon, claiming it was just a case of bad gas.
Etymology: spurn, surgeon
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COMMENTS:
Like a spurngeon, denying for the very first time.... - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-09: 16:17:00
(like a spuuuuuruuuuruuurrrgeon, when your 'script' ain't, what I had in mind...) Oh well, better than having the theme from Grease stuck in my head (which reminds me about the whole cholesterol issue). - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-09: 19:26:00
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Medicontradiction
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: med-i-con-tra-dic-shon
Sentence: Lois' medicontradiction worried her family. Not only did she continue to deny her condition, but it was grossing everyone out. When they made her eat on the patio, she finally accepted the fact that she needed medication.
Etymology: medication + medical condition + contradiction (to deny or refute)
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COMMENTS:
Yes....time to get a prescription!! Good word. - mweinmann, 2009-05-28: 12:12:00
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Medicenial
Created by: ordep
Pronunciation: medi si nay yal
Sentence:
Etymology: medical + denial
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)
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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Illosophize
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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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James