I'm reading a paper called Statistical Spin: Linguistic Obfuscation—The Art of Overselling the CBT Evidence Base where the author reviews an oft-cited paper about a particular variant of CBT called mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). A weird thing about this therapy -- it's slightly iatrogenic.
- adjective: iatrogenic
of or relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment.
Didn't know that we had a word for that. What other words have you recently had to look up the definition for?
Scrocone - the Italian word for a scab, which is a English slang word (at least in Ireland and Australia) word for a stingy person always asking for cigarettes or money.
I wrote that at first, and couldn't tell if it sounded douchey. And I don't want to be douchey.I know this word. It's what we did to mold in basements. I had to wear a mask to do this word.
Discomfit - to make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed.
Haematopoiesis: (from Greek αἷμα, "blood" and ποιεῖν "to make"; also hematopoiesis in American English; sometimes also haemopoiesis or hemopoiesis) is the formation of blood cellular components. All cellular blood components are derived from haematopoietic stem cells.