Ken ... emm, it's hard to follow a joke in a language which it's not
one's own :-)
Thanks Ace :-)
Fernando.
2009/10/11 siddiq@xxxxxxx <siddiq@xxxxxxx>:
> thrombosis....
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>
>> clotting ... clotting _ LOL :-)
>>
>> unbelievable ... where does that word come from. Trombosis does not
>> come from trombone, but you gave me a good laugh Ken. Trombosis, comes
>> from the Latin, from Hipocrates and Galeno (shall not translate their
>> names ... ).
>>
>> Same with 'swelling' - I had to study the origin of that word and its
>> associations. In medicine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edema> never
>> posed me a problem, but not long ago I understood the meaning of a
>> poem by Peter Gabriel "Here Comes The Flood". He sings "Still waiting
>> for the swollen Eastern tide" - then I understood. A patient of mine
>> is British, I had read my Oxford dictionary - and a whole different
>> associative logic of 'hinchazón' became clear to me.
>>
>> Fernando
>>
>> 2009/10/11 Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> thinning should prevent trombosis (sp?)
>>>
>>>
>>> Good. I played the French Horn and the trombone players used to
>>> sit behind
>>> us and poke us in the back.
>>>
>>> AG
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