DECODING PHRASES USED BY DOCTORS -------------------------------- Doctors are always reluctant to use diagnostic labels which sound too common place. it is difficult to justify an expensive training and a large fee if the patient realises that his mother was right after all. This short directory is designed to tell you what some medical phrases really mean: erythropoietic photoporphyria - queasy intersistinal pulmonary fibrosis - warts hypogammaglobulinaemina - bunions membraneous glomerulonephibrosis - under the weather anaphylactoidal purpurosis - a chill on the kidneys kyphoscoliosis - dicky ticker superficial veneous thrombosis - funny turn hepatomeglany - worms subacute bacterial bendromcartneysis - proper poorly polycellorduracelsis rubria hernia - wind