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DEFINITION: v. To have a medical condition or illness and yet continually deny it, even after your doctor has diagnosed it. n. A person who steadfastly refuses to accept a medical diagnosis or to follow the prescribed treatment.
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Payshunt
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: paaaee shunt
Sentence: the payshunt continued to suffer on shunnint treatment as he didn't want to pay the doctor
Etymology: patient, shun , pay
Disagsease
Created by: dennisrussis
Pronunciation: diz eg ziz
Sentence: Obseesed with belief of absolute health Mike disageased all sickly signs he felt with increasing frequency in his stomach.
Etymology: Disagree (deny something) + disease (illness)
Notme
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nätmē
Sentence: Despite what the doctor told him Jason returned with a diagnosis of allswell. He had already self-prescribed a generous dose of notme.
Etymology: not (used to express the negative of other words) + me (pronoun, first person singular)
Repudiitis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-pyoo-dee-itis
Sentence: Magdalene had gone from the sublime to the ridicuous. Once a confirmed hypochondriac, she was now afflicted with repudiitis and ignored the suppurating wounds erupting on her arms, the death-at-three-paces halitosis and the hanks of hair falling out
Etymology: repudiate (refuse) + -itis (suffix indicating disease)
Reflutiate
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: re-flu-tea-ate
Sentence: "'Tis only a fleshwound," Sir Bledalot reflutiated as another limb was lopped off.
Etymology: refute: disprove + flu: illness
Maladenial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: malədēnīəl
Sentence: Despite a cough that rattles windows and a diagnosis of pneumonia by his doctor, Rudy insists he only has a minor cold. His maladenial could be profitable if there was a market for the lung pearls he is producing.
Etymology: malady (a disease or ailment) + denial (the action of declaring something to be untrue)
Deniaphile
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: dee-nie-al-file
Sentence: Here rests Bill, He'll be here a while It was a heart attack You dumb deniaphile.
Etymology: denial + phile
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COMMENTS:
Love that epitaph! Nice work. - Jamagra, 2008-04-09: 09:31:00
Sad tale of poor Bill. Nice work! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-09: 20:54:00
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Denyagnosis
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dee nye yag no sis
Sentence: Dr. Pepper (wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?) wondered why Phyllis came to see him at all. No matter what her test results revealed, it was always a denyagnosis with her. She refused to believe him and always said, emphatically, "That's not what's gonna kill me!" When he told her she had hypertension, high cholesterol, out of whack blood sugar, lung cancer from the 4 packs a day she smoked, cataracts, an ailing liver, arthritis, incontinence, a dodgy hip and a dicky ticker, she refused medicines and treatments that would extend her life. She always said, "That's not what's gonna kill me!" She was definitely a denyagnosister. As it turned out, Phyllis was right. Although 89 years of age and less than spry, she got herself involved in a steamy affair with a hearing aid salesman named Norman, who was 20 years her junior. He could not get her to buy a hearing aid, because, of course, she did not have a hearing problem (What? What hearing problem?). No, instead her best friend, Mabel, became irately jealous. She found out her toy boy, Norman, was flogging his wares at Phyllis' condo in the Rio de NoHairo Tower of their senior's home, Samuel de Complain Chateau. Mabel stormed over to Phyllis' swinging bachelorette pad one dark evening and opened the door to find Norman and Phyllis locked in a passionate embrace, wearing only their Depends. Mabel pulled out her Smith & Wesson and dispatched them both to that big Bingo Hall in the sky. A week later, Dr.Pepper attended Phyllis' lavish funeral and she had the last laugh when he read her tombstone: "I told you...That's not what killed me!"
Etymology: deny (refuse to accept or believe) & diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon) & No ( no means no; not in any degree or manner; not at all, never in a million years, no way Jose, fuhgettaboutit)
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COMMENTS:
the gunnerRio got her in the end. Brilliant! - galwaywegian, 2008-04-09: 07:19:00
Great word (first one that popped into my head this AM). Love the story as well! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-09: 16:18:00
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Denyagnosis
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dee nye ag no sis
Sentence: Mary came to work no matter how sick she was believing that she was indispensible and a martyr to the cause. Her boss and colleagues resented it because inevitably they'd catch whatever germs she brought into work. Under protest she went to see her doctor one day and returned to work that afternoon, saying everything was fine. But she was in denyagnosis, because the bright red spots proved that she had the chicken pox and now everyone could look forward to getting them.
Etymology: Deny (refuse to accept or believe) & Diagnosis (determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-06-15: 05:15:00
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Procrastinfector
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: pro-crass-tin-fek-tour
Sentence: Three-fifths of the Varsity Footballers in our high school are procratinfectors, having convinced themselves that the itch "down there" is just dry skin. It sure is strange that Marla has the same itch.
Etymology: procrastinator+infected
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COMMENTS:
i love the look on the dude's face in the cartoon! - queenjane75, 2008-04-09: 19:35:00
Yes, he looks like a fungi... - Nosila, 2008-04-09: 19:53:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James