Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Eight Syllable Words

Nine Syllable Words
  1. corticopontocerebellar - neuroanatomy
  2. dysdiadochokinesia - neuroanatomy (a posterior cerebellar syndrome) - difficult to perform rapidly alternating opposite movements)

Eight Syllable Words
  1. electronystaymography - neuro, a test which may detect characteristic nystagmus.

Seven Syllable Words
  1. cytomegalovirus - microbiology
  2. photophosphorylation - multiple classes
  3. hemianesthesia - neuro
  4. geniculocalcarine - neuro

Six Syllable Words
  1. flocculonodular - Neuroanatomy - lobe on the cerebellum
  2. pontomedullary - Neuroanatomy
  3. posterolateral - multiple classes
  4. vestibulospinal - Neuroanatomy
  5. encephalopathy - microbiology
  6. teratogenesis - microbiology (the induction of defects during embryonic development)
  7. supratentorial - neuro
  8. opacification - neuro

Five Syllable Words
  1. corticopontine - neuroanatomy
  2. dorsolateral - neuroanatomy
  3. juxtarestiform - neuroanatomy
  4. pleomorphism - microbiology
  5. phylogenetic - microbiology
  6. peptidoglycan - microbiology
  7. eutrophication - microbiology
  8. magnocellular - neuro
  9. parvicellular - neuro

Four Syllable Words
  1. emboliform - Neuroanatomy
  2. fasciculus - Neuroanatomy
  3. fastigial - Neuroanatomy
  4. diaphragma - neuro
Three Syllable Words
  1. palpebrae - neuro, gross, physio - eyelids

Acronyms
  1. MLF - medial longitudinal fasciculus - Neuroanatomy
  2. CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - microbiology
  3. EBV - Epstein-Barr virus - microbiology (a human cancer virus)
  4. RSV - Rous sarcoma virus - microbiology
  5. PAGE - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis - microbiology


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