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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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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
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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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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Payshunt
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: paaaee shunt
Sentence: the payshunt continued to suffer on shunnint treatment as he didn't want to pay the doctor
Etymology: patient, shun , pay
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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).
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
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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Antidisfollowdoctor
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: aw-dee-sfowll-teer
Sentence: youre a antidisfollowdoctor
Etymology: look at the word you will see
Hypocontradictria
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: hypo/contra/dic/treea
Sentence: Someone suffering from hypocontradictria disagrees with all medical diagnoses.
Etymology: hypochondria + contradict
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.)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James