What was the original 'ambulance'?

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  @WordsUnravelled · 8 months ago · pinned

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  @Panthror · 8 months ago

  I find the music of the band Placebo very pleasing, so that makes sense. But they&apos;ll never have the same effect as The Cure.

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  @Brandyalla · 8 months ago

  The cutesy phrase I&apos;ve heard to explain the difference between poison and venom is, &quot;If it bites you and you die it was venom. If you bite it and you die it was poison.&quot;

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  @kristinebjorklund982 · 8 months ago

  I was the kid who read the dictionary for fun--but only if it had word derivations. Your facts are interesting in and of themselves, but your presentation makes me laugh as much as the two of you do. With all the contention, pain, and sadness on the internet, you give joy. Thanks.

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  @lakelandbaptist · 8 months ago (edited)

  Jess: &quot;We also have chlamydia.&quot;<br>Rob:&quot;We do.&quot;<br>Me: 🤣 <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFMuOBPjNs&amp;t=2367">39:27</a>

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  @EumenesOCardia · 8 months ago

  Concerning Opioid; opioid refers to all drugs that interact with opioid receptors like opium does, whereas opiate refers specifically to the actual alkalies found in opium.

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  @GregorThomson1138 · 8 months ago

  A big difference between a Barber-Surgeon and a Physician is you would go to the Physician for an illness but would go to the Barber-Surgeon for an injury (a Physician will give you medicine, a Barber-Surgeon will treat your wounds).

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  @g8xft · 8 months ago

  Interesting way of preventing confusion: Guy’s hospital has the neurology and urology departments next to each other - prevents them being misheard. <br><br>Of course, we know that neurologists get on your nerves while urologists just piss you off.

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  @eeshtarr · 8 months ago (edited)

  I hadn&apos;t realized &apos;herpes&apos; is related to &apos;herpetology&apos; (the study of &nbsp;&quot;creeping animals&quot;)

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  @Lee-ot2uk · 8 months ago

  Scarifier is still used today. Lawns, for instance, are scarified to remove moss...

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  @andyhurley3852 · 8 months ago

  The way I heard the foreign accent syndrome explained is that it is not actually a foreign accent but a speech impediment that just sounds like a foreign accent so not actually the accent of any particular foreign language.

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  @boraxmacconachie7082 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFMuOBPjNs&amp;t=1800">30:00</a> How foreign accent syndrome works: I remember hearing about this years ago and having exactly the same questions about it as you guys, and a relative with a medical degree explained to me that people don&apos;t wake up with a real foreign accent from a real place: it&apos;s just that the speech centre of the brain is damaged and they have difficulty pronouncing certain sounds. The resulting changes to their speech sound superficially like an unidentified foreign accent

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