Did you perchance mean Gossypium?
Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin gossypium, "cotton", and Swahili boma, "concealment". (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gossypiboma’.
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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Disturbing Medical Words
Medical words of the disturbing kind.
meteorism, autoamputation, edema, deglove, gossypiboma, sillyhow, fistula, ague-cake
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Encountered while reading
snatiation, urodynamics, cadaverine, putrescine, ferret emesis, dracula fish, psychedelic frogfish, mangkorn chomphoo, sengi, blonde-ginger bat, symplectic camel, zeolite and 312 more...
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Because I like Them: G --- H
gossypiboma, gymnophoria, ginglyform, goobermensch, gomeril, gump, grinagog, gorbelly, gound, hamesucken, hypobulic, humicubate and 93 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Christina's list
Words I come across that i haven't heard before and words I thought I knew but obviously didn't.
sardonic, ubiquity, sashay, give over, dystopic, obsequious, unctuous, gossypiboma, preantepenultimate, consonant, esoteric, disphoria and 7 more...
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MTSI Word of the Day
Word of the Day by Kevin, fREW, and Wes
bezoar, epiphenomenon, quine, conurbation, anoesis, bildungsroman, copacetic, nosocomial, a priori, petrichor, gnosticgnomial, meme and 76 more...
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Words with highly specific meanings
Every word has a specific meaning, but some words take it a little too far.
levirate, palimpsest, solfege, sororate, apophasis, mallemaroking, tmesis, petrichor, callipygian, illeism, scrumping, sycophant and 9 more...
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Meesh's list
psithurism, pejorative, apricity, tittle, glabella, obdormition, harp, sussurus, sussuration, suspirate, suspiration, eructation and 65 more...
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Medicine
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Words That One Would Never Expect Exi...
words that one would never excpect existed
mallemaroking, mytacism, gossypiboma, dentiloquent, borborygmus, misodoctakleidist, preantepenultimate, vigesimation, zenzizenzizenzic
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gossypiboma.
ruzuzu The tags are funny, though. Nov 9, 2011
sionnach The "examples" for this word seem to have gone a bit off the rails. Eh, Tiger? Nov 9, 2011
Xina54 A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery. Feb 18, 2011
qroqqa I'm with Quinion on this one. It's less likely that someone (Williams, Bragg & Nelson 1978?) created it with a specific Swahili word in mind, than that it's suffixed with a semi-arbitrary -b- (an error or echo of -bi(o)-?) and ordinary Greek -oma, then they (or someone) fortuitously noticed boma in an English dictionary. Jun 18, 2009
rolig The unreferenced Wikipedia page for this word says that it combines 'the Latin "gossypium" (cotton) and the Swahili "boma" (place of concealment)'. Now that is truly a bizarre hybrid. Jun 18, 2009
dimã©lion very scary! Jun 18, 2009
reesetee You may be right on the mark, Pro! Nov 3, 2008
Prolagus It sounds to me like a very good way to hide the truth when people read the patient's file.
(Why do I have a feeling of déjà vu about my comment?) Nov 3, 2008
sionnach Just stopping by to admire the remarkable specificity of this word. Nov 3, 2008
uselessness Maybe that's why I'm always thirsty! Jan 14, 2008
sionnach A surgical sponge accidentally left inside a patient's body. Jan 14, 2008