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30 May 2006

Word of the day: Orchidectomy.→[More:]
What a flowery word for such a painful subject.

post by: me3dia at: 13:47 | 5 comments

In onomatopoetic news, removal of the ovaries may be referred to as an oopherectomy.

Isn't language fun!?

posted by me3dia 30 May | 13:49

In fact, hysterectomy for removing all female inside parts (womb). Which is linked to hysteria. And to hysteric.

Isn't medical language (hysterically) chauvinistic?

posted by carmina 30 May | 14:05

I have performed way too many unintentional orchidectomies on dendrobiums and phalaenopses in my day -- so many that I no longer even buy them.

posted by mudpuppie 30 May | 14:17

That's exactly why I don't try to propagate. As soon as I learned that I might inadvertently strangulate a glandula or stifle a staminode, I gave up on the idea. I could never take the stigma.

posted by taz 30 May | 14:26

(Whoops, that should have been oophorectomy.)

posted by me3dia 30 May | 14:30

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