{"id":1062,"date":"2010-11-02T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:00:13","slug":"hippocalyptic-please-keep-your-tongue-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Hippocalyptic: Please keep your tongue to the left!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To feel a sense of discomfort and unease while a medical professional does their job, poking and prodding at the weak points in your body. <em>n.<\/em> The feelings apprehension, worry and embarrassment which occur while one is undergoing a medical examination. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/hygienist.gif\" alt=\"Please keep your tongue to the left!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hippocalyptic<\/strong>:  \/<em>hip pok a lip tik<\/em>\/ It was with a hippocalyptic feeling that Henry went to the only doctor in town.  Being a newcomer, Henry was unaware that most locals did not see old Doc Sawyer Bones. They went to the City Hospital instead. Henry&#8217;s pain and discomfort at going to a new doctor was only overshadowed by the extreme abdominal pains which had attacked him for the past few hours. It was only when he was counting backwards from 100 that he spied the certificate on the wall&#8230;Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine.  He just hoped that he&#8217;d not wake up and find himself neutered! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Hippocratic (an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates&#8230;first do no harm!) &amp; Apocalypic (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom;dread) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paprehension<\/strong>:  \/<em>paprihensh\u00c9\u2122n<\/em>\/ Joyce is very good about keeping up on all her preventive medical procedures but admits to paprehension. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  pap test (a test to detect cancer of the cervix or uterus) + apprehension (anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medicangst<\/strong>:  \/<em>med-ick-ang-st<\/em>\/ Her medicangst heightened when she witnessed out of the corner of her eye, her dental surgeon taking a long haul of an inhale of laughing gas just prior to her wisdom teeth extraction. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  medical + angst <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hygienist\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hygienist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To feel a sense of discomfort and unease while a medical professional does their job, poking and prodding at the weak points in your body. n. The feelings apprehension, worry and embarrassment which occur while one is undergoing a medical examination. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Hippocalyptic: \/hip pok a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hippocalyptic: Please keep your tongue to the left!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}