Food for Thoughts – IDEAS in WORDS, IMAGES, and MEDICINE

FARM PHARMACY PHARMACOLOGY

Chemist Charm

Pill Pellet Pillar Pillow Pilose Pile Pillage Pilfer Pelf Pelfer Pest Pestle

Mortar Mortify Remedy Medication Mediate Medicine

This overview is mostly about pill and pharmacology which are associated with ideas in peel, pelf, pilfer, pelt, pillage, pillory, pillow, depilate, remedy, medication, and medicine. The PILosity of the famous ...

BLIND BLUNT BLUNDERING CECUM APPENDICITIS TOPIC TORTURE

Caecus Caech Lusculus Topo Hallucinations

The challenge here is to link the ideas in common of these complex words

Blindness can be visual or mental as denoted when it is said that "Love, Hate, Fortune and Justice" are blind. Emotions, we know, can "blunt" our senses and induce the ...

EPILEPSY CONVULSION SEIZURE STROKE

Apocalyptic Apoplexy

Complex Cataplexy

Perplex

A good start to explore EPILEPSY and APOPLEXY or STROKE is to focus on the APOcalyptic nature of APO plectic STRokes. An apoPLEXy is a comPLEX event and implies that ...

MINERVA MIND MADNESS MANIA MANIAC MANACLE

Reason Mentality Rationality

Dementia Frenzy Phrenology

Psyche Psychology Psychosis Craze Insanity Alienation Locura

RATIOnal minds RATIOn reasons (Athena) and emotions (Psyche). This illustrated overview is focused on MIND and inherently touches upon a large spectrum of ideas found in MANIC, MATHEMATICS, MEMORY, MONEY, MAD, ...

AMNESIA ANAMNESIS MNEMOSINE

Memorials are Remembrances

Mnemonics can remedy Amnesia

Anamnesis are symptoms remembered

In the United States, MEMORIAL DAY is celebrated on May 30th. This MEMorial promotes the reMEMBrance of former MEMBers of the Armed Forces of their tribulations of wartimes. After decades ...

PSYCHE PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHIATRY

Idiom Idea Idiot

Anima Animal

Soul Spirit Alma

Cupid and Psyche. An overview of PSYCHE, PSYCHOLOGY and PSYCHIATRY is inherently linked with ideas in MIND, MANIA, MADNESS and other ideas concerned with CONSCIOUSNESS and EMOTION. Male evasiveness. Feminine curiosity. The focus ...

PULSE

Push Force Blow Bulge Swell

Beat Baton Battle Batter

Strike Stroke Apoplexy

To explore "the pulse" of ideas in PULSE, the imPULSE is to link Pulse with Push (Latin pallere) and for those who know Spanish, with PULSERA or wrist bracelet. Those who ...

WITCH WICKED WIT WISDOM

WICCA WIZARD VICTIM

CHARM CHARISMA ENCHANTING

CIRCE CALYPSO LADY EMMA HAMILTON

WITCHES and BLACK CATS are emblems of Halloween. Implications in WITCH points to WICCA, WICKED, WHIT, WIT and WISDOM which are relevant to better understand why Holloween has such a ...

IN THE SPHERE OF A AB AD AN AND VALGUS VARUS

Agenesis Abdomen Adnexa Anencephaly

Agnositc Abnornal Addendum Anarchist

Genu Varus or Valgus - Talipes Equinovarus

The sphere of the prefixes shown above is vast and may be confusing. These "ad"denda to words populate medical, legal and other professional parlance as well as classic literature. The words shown ...

THIGH HIP CLINIC

Clinic Clinoid Clinodactyly Decline Incline

Climax Climb

Kyphosis Scoliosis Scolex Clinodactyly Camptomelic Camptodactyly Compotactyly

In another overview exploring ideas inherent in HIP and THIGH, the point was made to the difficulty to succinctly convey  the essence of such "simple" words. The fact that HIP points ...