# I need a medical sounding term **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652 "2011-12-18T18:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/1 "2011-12-18T18:17:58Z")
I bashed the top of my foot (on a steel bar left lying six inches off the ground by my father-in-law after my step-mother-in-law broke a toe on the same bar just weeks ago, but that’s off the topic) yesterday and have an impressive puncture wound as a result. I want to tell people that I have “early onset stigmata” because that’s what it looks like, but need a word to explain why it’s only on the one foot and not on both feet and hands… Something to do with leap years perhaps? Preferably in Latin or Greek… Grim ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Violaceous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/2 "2011-12-18T18:24:08Z")
Unilateral? Unipedal? ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/3 "2011-12-18T18:28:23Z")
Unipedal might work. Unilateral has interesting complicating alternative meanings but would strictly apply to right side only or both feet/hands only… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/4 "2011-12-19T01:35:12Z")
How on earth can you leave a steel bar six inches _off_ the ground? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/5 "2011-12-19T01:46:28Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > How on earth can you leave a steel bar six inches _off_ the ground? > mmm Magnets? -D/a ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/6 "2011-12-19T03:17:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > How on earth can you leave a steel bar six inches _off_ the ground? > mmm The power of christ compels it! **grimpixie** , call it a partial thickness stigmata ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/7 "2011-12-19T11:04:57Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > How on earth can you leave a steel bar six inches _off_ the ground? The steel bar was lying between two piles of something and supporting one end of a trailer. Unfortunately it was several inches longer than necessary and sticking out into the walking space. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/8 "2011-12-19T12:08:09Z")
Stig[mono](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mono-) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/9 "2011-12-19T12:27:46Z")
I have to argue with “early-onset” here. That would imply more that everybody who gets stigmata gets them around age sixty, and here you are only **mumbles** years old and you’ve got one. What you want is more along the lines of “early stage stigmata apparition with unipedal involvement.” Or perhaps “Prelusive stigmatal involvement between the 2nd and 3rd pedal phalanges with incomplete medial penetration.” ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/10 "2011-12-19T13:49:29Z")
Corpus Interruptus? ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/11 "2011-12-19T14:30:56Z")
Early-onset unipedal _Foramen Gloriam_ (lit. “hole of glory”) ---
**Author:** ![mctc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@mctc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mctc)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/12 "2011-12-19T21:57:28Z")
You could use levo or dextro as prefix to determine side then pedal as suggested above. also consider ostomy to refer to the connection between the plantar and dorsal aspects of foot\> Maybe “pedalplantodorsalotomy” ---
**Author:** ![mctc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@mctc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mctc)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/13 "2011-12-19T22:00:23Z")
of course that implies the hole goes all the way through ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-medical-sounding-term/606652/14 "2011-12-19T22:21:50Z")
Quone. To quone someone. You know, like what Kramer does