American wordplay map with versification: E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N F-R-A-U-D, #2

 

DEFINING OPINIONS, third octet

previous poetic posts

(first octet):
academically

birdlife

crepuscular

cruddy

diaphoresis

envision

expertise

(second octet);

hamuli

haunch

heinous

hoarding

hod

holdout

hole#1

hole #2

CURRENT CONTENTS (third octet):

Holler

Hollow

Homogenized (milk)

Hone

Honey

Honorifics

Hooey

(For continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note:  Fawn, an aspiring limericist, had been advised to carefully hone one of her submitted verses.

Authors' Note:    The authors propose the above verse to define the neologism appiculture.

Authors' Note:  As pointed out by our comic interpreter and apocryphal city politician Dr. Al, titles and honorifics are often used in comic routines, such as those of the "Three Stooges" and "Monty Python", and in performers' pseudonyms like Dr. Demento and Dr. John.

For more "defining opinions", please proceed to the fourth octet by clicking HERE. 

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CURTAINED VERSE, follow-up

previously posted poems (original offerings, June 2020)

adultery

braless

business agenda

buoy and gull

the clench

come and go

complimentarily

florid

CURRENT CONTENTS (follow-up)

Foul-mouthed Phil

Ho- (Give it a go)

Medieval challenge

Octogenarian love-life

Orchestral pecking-order

Horny rhino

Robin red-breast

Strobilus

WARNING: The following verses may not be suitable for all ages. Those under 12 or over 82 are advised to read the following content only with the permission and supervision of an adult family member.  

Author's Note:  The authors have observed exuberant springtime spread of duckweed, an aqueous plant that superficially resembles an algal bloom, but is in fact beneficial in controlling pollutants.

The resultant marked increase in opacity of the pondwater's surface doesn't seem to bother dabbling fowl like ducks, whose omnivorous eating is targeted primarily at vegetable matter. Night herons, on the other hand, eat a diet of various small creatures, aquatic and terrestrial, ambushing them while standing near the edge of the water. I presume that a dense cover of duckweed would complicate attempts by Phil (as well as his colleagues, although he tends to hunt alone)  to grab a meal of small fish (fries or minnows), if he was so motivated.  

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Staving off neoplasia: ONCOLOGY VERSES

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Cancerophobia

Benign tumours

Image-guided biopsy
(Pat's) adenoma
Malignant tumours

Hem-oncologists

Frei's syndrome (facial nerve palsy)
Hybrid PET-CT imaging for cancer

Authors' Note: The above verse panders to the jargony use of the medical term biopsy,as a verb. The position mentioned in the verse would apply specifically to fine-needle biopsy of the prostate, a procedure discussed in a verse HERE.

Authors' Note:   Absorption of rays by body tissues complicates the interpretation of medical imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In equipment development since the year 2000, 'hybrid' scanners combine the nuclear camera with a CT x-ray unit that provides maps of attenuation; this technique for correction of attenuation (known to workers in the field as A.C.), makes PET more accurate in the detection of cancer. A potential limitation, the much lower energy of the photons used for x-ray CT, turns out to have little degrading effect in practical usage.

   Moreover, anatomic localization of the lesion can be obtained at the same session, enabling techniques such as superposition of the ‘hot’ focus on a 3D anatomic body-map. This technique has been given  the difficult and somewhat redundant term ‘PET-CT’.

Authors' Note: Absorption of rays by body tissues complicates theinterpretation of medical imaging with nuclear techniques. ‘Hybrid' scanners combine the nuclear camera with a CT x-ray unit that provides maps of attenuation; this technique for correction of attenuation (known to workers in the field as A.C.), makes the nuclear scan more accurate in the detection of various lesions, in particular, abnormalities in blood flow to the heart muscle, and studies of deeply-located tumors, e.g. somatostatin scans.

   The combination of the two scanners (nuclear and X-ray CT) has been given the puzzling name “SPECT-CT”. 

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 160 of these!) on medical/dental topics that can now be found on various posts. 

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