Occasionally in medical school we learn cool new vocab words for a condition or symptom. For example, the ever popular condition of coughing up blood as seen in every episode of House is called hemoptysis.
Todays cool word:
Trichobezoar - hairball Yes, these are occasionally found in the GI system, they are indigestible, and can cause problems.
Todays lesson: Don't swallow hair.
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glad to see you back!
bezoar is also a word from Harry Potter meaning "a strone from a goat's stomach." That is the lovely thing about writers, we steal words everywhere and make them fit our purposes. This makes me like J.K. Rowling even more.
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