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minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up99·22 hours agoScience jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy. for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
minus-squareNeatoBuilds@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·21 hours agoIs it jargon or just a different language
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·20 hours agoScientists use one to pretend the other
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoYou gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound cool.
minus-squareleisesprecher@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·21 hours agoI recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
minus-squaredingus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 hours agoGet this. You have a structure in your brain called the “mammillary bodies”. It’s because it looks like a pair of tits.
Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
Is it jargon or just a different language
Scientists use one to pretend the other
You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound
cool.I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the “mammillary bodies”. It’s because it looks like a pair of tits.