top 6 words that i have learned in the last year, mostly in medical school

1. Marsupialize-- To create a pouch and then have something slip inside that pouch (apparently intestine can do this to themselves.)

2. Invaginate-- To fold in such a way that an outer surface becomes an inner one.

3. Pedunculated-- Having, growing on, or being attached by a peduncle.

4. Pendulous-- Suspended as to swing freely.

5. Tumescent-- To be swollen or engorged.

6. Evancalous-- Pleasant to embrace.

honorable mentions that are not words but made up of them nonetheless:

I. The Mongolian Epileptic Gerbil, which is incidentally an awesome band name.

II. The Throckmorton Sign, which a real live radiologist told me about.