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• A pleonasm in medicine is an excess in the number of parts or in the size of a growth. Pleonasm comes from a Greek word (pleonasmos) meaning exaggeration or redundancy.

• A pleonasm in language is also a redundancy. It is the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense as, for example, in "a false lie." How many pleonasms can you spot in the following text?:

The pair of twins arrived at the doctor's office in succession, one after another. They checked in and said "weren't we just here. It's like déjà vu all over again. We want to prepay in advance today with cash money." 

The receptionist said "repeat that again for me." This was an unexpected surprise from the twins, but she heard it with her own ears. The combined total bill was $67.

Next, the bleary-eyed doctor entered the exam room and said to the pair of twins that he'd been working twenty-four hours a day and based on past experience his future prospects for a new beginning and a fresh start this year had been completely destroyed. He reiterated again that the honest truth was he was not making future plans and there would be no novel innovations at the office.

In actual fact, and in his opinion, he thought the twins were each unique individuals making positive improvements in their regular routines. But he warned them in advance that he never made predictions about the future. In true fact, the basic fundamentals of good health on a daily basis to  improve health were for the twins to stay in close proximity to each other. 

"But what about this annoying pesty pain in the nape of my neck," one of the twins said. The doctor said that future prospects for the sharp pains were absolutely perfect. "Just stop gnashing your teeth. It may be possible that if it doesn't get better I'll refer you to a fellow colleague and I'll send them a brief summary without over exaggeration  .

"Now I'm going outside for a tuna fish lunch. As an added plus and an extra bonus for today's visit we have a free gift for you." That was the sum total of the totally complete visit!

Alliteration is defined by Oxford Languages as "the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words."

A

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Acute abdomen
• Adam's apple
• Alcohol abuse
• Allergists always attribute asthma attacks as an anomalous and accidental anatomical alveolar assault.
• Alopecia areata
• Alpha-adrenergic agonist
• Amino acid
• An attentive anesthesiologist always allows adequate airway access as an assurance against aeration accidents. 
• Anesthetic agent
• Antinuclear antibody
• Aortic arch
• Ascending aorta
• Ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
• Atrial arrhythmia

B

• Belly button (umbilicus)
• Beta blocker
• Blood bank
• Blood blister
• Blood brain barrier
• Breakthrough bleeding
• Breast bone (sternum)
• Breech birth
• Brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta)
• Bundle branch block

C

• Care coordinator
• Cautious, complete coronary care clarifies conscientious cardiologists customary cardiac concerns.
• Celiac sprue
• Cell cycle
• Cesarean section
• Chief complaint
• Chronic care clinic
• Circulatory system
• Common cold
• Coronary critical care
• Cradle cap
• Critical care
• Crohn's colitis
• Cubic centimeter

D

• Degenerative disc disease
• Delivery date
• Developmental delay
• Differential diagnosis
• Discerning dermatologists doctor dermal diseases doing due diligence.
• Doctors direct diabetics to decrease dietary dalliances.

E

• Eastern equine encephalitis
• Emotional eating
• Erosive esophagitis
• Eventually endocrinologists emphasize each exocrine excretory emission establishing excellent extreme elevations.

F

• Flat feet
• Force fluids
• Friendly family physicians fix foul, frightening physical feelings for fair fees.
• Fully formula fed

G

• Gamma globulin
• Gastroenterologists grab guts and glory
• Greatly gifted gastroenterologists go great guns getting growling guts gone. 

H

• Hematocrit & hemoglobin
• Hiatal hernia
• Hopefully, humanistic hematologists help hemophiliacs have happier, healthier homelives.

I

• I insist inquisitive internists include idealists instead of impertinent impossible iconoclasts.
• Intellectual impairment
• Irresistible impulse

L

• Left lower lung lobe

M

• Mucous membrane
• Multiple myeloma

N

• Neurologists need needles when diagnosing enigmatic neuropathy.
• Neat, natty nephrologists need never neglect nightly nocturia.
• Nice neurologists necessarily note neuropathy numbness needs no nostrums.

O

• Our obsessed ophthalmologist only operates on ocular outpatients.
• One orthopedist offers optional outpatient osseous operations only on occasion.

P

• Paternalistic pulmonary practitioners proudly prevent possible patient perfusion problems postoperatively.
• Pediatricians prefer pleasant parents of pint-sized patients.
• Perhaps primary practitioners proceed probing people posing purely perfect perpetual possibilities plus particularly poignant providential premonitions.
• Physicians feel favorably finishing full physicals finding few faulty facts for physiques in fine fettle and fantastic form.
• Pins & plaster
• Placenta previa
• Podiatrists plainly prefer performing procedures on plantar problem patients.
• Postpartum
• Precise, persuasive pathologist's post-mortem postulations perceive pertinent possibilities, plainly pinpointing proposed pathology.
• Psychiatric syndrome
• Psychiatrists simply sit somewhat silently circumspect. Some say such superiorly sparse, circumlocutory speech sometimes seems superciliously stodgy.  
• Put prevention into practice

R

• Really reasonable rheumatologists readily regard reliable replacements as a rare resort.
• Revered radiologists read x-rays right as rain.
• Recovery room
• Relative risk
• Regular rate and rhythm
• Respiratory rate

S

• Safe serious surgeons slice skin safely squeezing shiny sterile stainless steel scalpels.
• Sebaceous cyst
• Sick sinus syndrome
• Signs & symptoms
• Sjogren's syndrome
• Synovial cyst

T

• Tetanus toxoid
• Tietze syndrome

U

• Ultimately urologists usually urge your undertaking urethral operations.

V

• Veracious vascularists vilify every variety of very vain varicose vein victims.-