More Medical Words & Phrases

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a portmanteau as a large suitcase or a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (such as smog from smoke and fog)

Examples:

Abzyme combines antibody and enzyme
Biomarker combines biological and marker
Botox combines botulism and toxin
Caplet combines capsule and tablet
Diabesity combines diabetic and obesity
Endorphin combines endogenous and morphine
Flush combines flash and gush
Genome combines gene and chromosome
Hermaphrodite combines Hermes and Aphrodite
Medicare combines medicine and care
Melatonin combines melanin and serotonin
Nutraceutical combines nutrition and pharmaceutical
Outpatient combines outside and patient
Pang combines pain and sting
Proteome combines proteins and genome
Surfactant combines surface active agent
Urinalysis combines urine and analysis
Vitamins combines vita and amines
Warfarin combines WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) and coumarin 

In linguistics, redundancy refers to information that is expressed more than once.  Redundant terms are generally considered unnecessary and incorrect.

Examples:

Absolutely certain
Adequate enough
Advance warning
At the present time
Basic fundamentals
Brief duration
Close proximity
Collaborated together
Completely eliminate
Definite decision
Difficult dilemma
During the course of
Each and every
End result
Epileptic seizure
Estimate at about
Extremely high
Filled to capacity
Future plan
HIV virus
Hopefully optimistic
In my opinion (use I think or believe)
New innovation
Old aged
One and the same
180 degree turn around
Past experience
Past history
Plan ahead
Prepare ahead
Postpone until later
Reason why
Red color
Repeat again (if this is the second time)
Revert back
Rough texture
Severe migraine
Skin rash
Summarize briefly
Therapeutic treatment
Time period
Usual and customary 

• “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Charlie Chaplin

• “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ― Mark Twain

• “As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” ― Buddy Hackett

• “Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.” ― Oliver Goldsmith

• “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ― Bernard Baruch

• "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ― Abraham Lincoln 

• “Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.” ― Martha Scott

• Growing up is amazing, until you get old!

• "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. " ― Albert Schweitzer

• "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." ― Ingrid Bergman

• “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” ― Redd Foxx

• “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.”  ― Rodney Dangerfield

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” ― Abraham Lincoln

• “If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” ― Billy Wilder

• If you are what you eat than I’m fast cheap and easy.

• Ignore your health and it will go away.

• "I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens." ― Woody Allen

• Learn from others mistakes; don’t have others learn from you.

• Life is short, smile while you still have teeth   ― Mallory Hopkins 

• “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” ― Albert Einstein

• “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.” ― Rodney Dangerfield

• "No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow." ― Irish Proverb

• “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ― Albert Camus

• "Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most." ― Mark Twain

• "Prevention is better than cure." ― Desiderius Erasmus

• “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ― Dale Carnegie

• Smoking helps you relax in the graveyard.

•  “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.” ― Gearge Washington Carver

• “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”  Mark Twain

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• Those who Indulge, bulge.

• “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” ― Will Rogers

• “When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.” ― Clarence Darrow

• “Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?” ― John Barrymore

• "You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100." ― Woody Allen

• “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” ― George Burns