Health Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Wii elbow n. As players spend more time with the Wii, some are noticing that hours waving the game’s controller around can add up to fairly intense exertion—resulting in aches and pains common in more familiar forms of exercise. They’re reporting aching backs, sore shoulders—even something some have dubbed “Wii elbow.” [English Entertainment Health Technology] [full cite] (Nov. 27, 2006)

wiinjury n. Videos on YouTube show players suffering mishaps with the controllers—or “wiinjuries,” as they have become known by some. [English Health Technology Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 18, 2006)

wildtype n. “Our laboratory testing of the vCT using the BD ProbeTec System revealed that the vCT was as easily detected as the ‘wildtype’ CT.” “Wildtype” is the term for the common circulating strain of an organism. [English Health Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 27, 2007)

wing n. Wings—the bulges of fat that protrude over the fastening strap of the bra. [English Body Health Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 5, 2007)

wreckserciser n. As minds turn to valiant New Year resolutions like getting in shape after an overindulgent Christmas, Halifax Home Insurance warns dedicated workout fans to beware the risks of vigorous exercise in the home. It seems a quarter of a million Britons each year damage their properties and possessions while exercising at home, leading Halifax to dub them “wrecksercisers.” [English Health Factitious New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jan. 3, 2007)

WTC cough n. The term “WTC cough” was coined to describe ailments that could not be clearly characterized in this group, but the addition of end-expiratory CT revealed abnormalities beyond the mild changes that can be seen in smokers and the elderly. [New York City English United States Health Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 3, 2004)

Yentl syndrome n. Although a series of high profile publications in the early 1990’s documenting less invasive investigation and treatment in women generated intense interest in the arena of gender bias, some more recent reports assert that there is “No evidence for the Yentl Syndrome.” The Yentl syndrome being the term coined to describe the practice of treating women equally only when they were identified as being the same as men. [English Health] [full cite] (Sep. 14, 2005)

yoga ibérico n. Después de comer, mejor dicho, después de haberme echado lo que los patriotas decimos el yoga ibérico y los pro yanquis siesta, me voy a una tertulia. [Spanish Spain Health] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2007)

zinger n. I’ve experienced what is known as ‘zingers’ which is the nerves reconnecting which have often been quite painful but i’ve always remembered these are signs that everything is healing. [English Body Health Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 11, 2008)

zooprophilactic adj. He’s also interested in birds that are what’s called “zooprophilactic.” They may dilute the spread of disease, he said. Doves, pigeons and herons seem to be dead ends for West Nile, he said. Florida has large numbers of them. “If an animal does not transmit it, it’s actually protecting us,” Komar said. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Health Science] [full cite] (Jul. 27, 2006)

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