Friday, April 21, 2006

Mouth-numbing

List of Absurdly Stupid and Annoying/Occasionally Hilarious Words Learnt Courtesy of Medicine:
  • Alpha-Ketogluterate Dehydrogenase
  • Phosphoenolpyruvate
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Glycogen, Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogenolysis, Glucagon
  • Sustentacular
  • Squamous
  • Lumen
  • Gonadotroph
  • NA/K-ATPase

12 comments:

Anner said...

Yes they are absurd but they are suprisingly hard to remember because they are so absurd you remember what they relate to eg: ATPase: the enzyme used during the re-cocking of the myosin heads during muscle conraction.

Joe said...

Good work Anna! You've been studying.

Sodium-Potassium ATPase is a transport protein involved in active transport of sodium out of a cell, and potassium into the cell, moving both of them against their concentration gradient. This also sets up a large concentration gradient for Sodium to flow back into the cell, which other transporters may utilise as energy to drive their functions

Joel said...

Yeah... well... A creditor is someone who owes you money.

Ah damn now my brain hurts. Damn commerce.

Anonymous said...

Ha, we have easy words like "vector" and "moment".

Anner said...

pffft, thats what I say

Anonymous said...

eh. do arts. then you have words that mean whatever you want them to mean, which is very post-modern. Even "post-modern" can mean any one of a billion things.

Damian said...

Joel help me out here. What's a debtor again? Argh! These accounting terms are worse than the medical ones! But now to publicly embarress Joel, a creditor is someone who *you* owe money. I remember it from the song 'All for the best" from Godspell when it says "and creditors weighing your purse".

In closing, medical terms=hard and joel=silly (everyone's favourite mathematically proven equation)

Anonymous said...

Don't forget the equation Tyson=q

Anonymous said...

Yeah I know it is damian, I was just saying that to prove how hard accounting terms are...

Joe said...

How exactly can something be POST modern?

Anner said...

peek-a-boo

Anonymous said...

I believe that in art 'modern' is actually a time period, like 'baroque' or 'deco', hence the period is 'post-modern', then came '20th century'. We could almost be in '21st century' (very creative, that one.)