• Question: what is the longest scientist word you know???

    Asked by sabburg1 to Tom, Matt, Hugh, Douglas, Antonia on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Matthew Hurley answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      The longest medical term I know is pseudo-pseudo hypoparathyroidism. It’s a hormonal condition. The parathyroid glands are either side of your thyroid gland (in your neck). In hypoparathyroidism the production of the parathyroid hormone goes wrong (hypo = low). In pseudohypoparathyroidism it goes low in a different way (pseudo = false) and bizarrely in pseudo-pseudo-hypoparathyroidism the parathyroid gland works normally but patients have physical features of hypoparathyroidism! More info than you needed? Yep – sorry.

    • Photo: Antonia Hamilton

      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I’m not sure, but magnetoencelphalography is quite a good one.

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