Of course, a mirror image of this thread:
I’ve always thought ‘Melanoma’ sounded like a beautiful tropical island nation where one would love to vacation.
You can sail to the neighboring islands of Granuloma and Pheochromocytoma if you like. Also the Islets of Langerhans.
“Arrhythmia” sounds to me like a dance style, not a heart condition.
Or a former First Lady.
Bubo/buboes sounds like something you’d call a baby grandchild. Not a swollen lymph nodes that is one of the most recognizable signs of the black plague.
I still think Angina would make a good girl’s name.
These are my twin girls, Regina and Angina
A “Valetudinarian” sounds scholarly, not “a weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her own health”.
You haven’t seen me dance.
French is guilty of this a lot: “la poubelle” sounds like it should be some type of substantial yet good-looking skin cream, but it really means “garbage can”.
“Buck Melanoma.”
Well, as a student health services pamphlet informed me in the mid-90s, “Chlamydia is not a flower.”
Not only is Chlamydia not a flower, you can’t get it without having been deflowered at some point.
Frequently found blooming at the same time as Trichomonas and the perennial papilloma.
