Medical Term Quotes

#1. At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

Nick Harkaway

#2. There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.

Trevor Baxendale

#3. Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.
But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces.
I can't swallow because I have that kind.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#4. There's no medical term for what I've got.

Charles Barkley

#5. That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers.
'That a medical term?' asked Jack.
'It is when I use it.

Trevor Baxendale

#6. Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Whatever the Garden had once been, now it was seething with corruption. Abundant life. It makes me laugh, in retrospect. Mr. Faust, did you know that there's a medical term for abundant life? For cellular life bursting out of control and running wild.

Craig Schaefer

#8. The medical term for that is dead. Gee, Magnus, what did it feel like? It hurt. A lot. Thanks for asking.

Rick Riordan

#9. Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings,

Ellen Glasgow

#10. Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

#11. The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.

Li Keqiang

#12. I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

Judy LaMarsh

#13. We only have to dance to the rhythm of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

Eric Topol

#15. Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when.

Matthew Norman

#16. The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#17. We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Lionel Shriver

#18. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind.

Sarah Ockler

#19. Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Brian Tracy

#20. I want to enrich medical science with a new term: Arbeitskur.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

Richard Paul Evans

#22. Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

Elbert Hubbard

#24. You can't get a friend more loyal than your dog.

Dale Jarrett

#25. The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

#26. Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments.

Stephen R. Bown

#27. The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

Stacy Schiff

#28. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Dorothy Day

#29. I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Stross