Send me a PM with your daffynition of "rhytiscopia."

You've got mine...

...and mine.

AND MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post your choice. (One need not have submitted an entry in order to play. The more, the merrier!)

Rhytiscopia

1.) Uneven muscular movements in the eyelids
2.) Picturing in the mind's eye; imagination
3.) A neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles
4.) A condition in which tree replenishment
has exceeded biological balance; overplanting
5.) A narrowing of the visual field
6.) The tendency to belittle others by looking down your nose at them
7.) Color-blindness specific for the colors purple and yellow

Mirror, mirror,
What do I see?
Lots of wrinkles on little ole me.

I'll take #3.

jo and arnie should always be made to guess last because now I'm tempted to say 3.

I shall resist though and go for 5

I think you guys have misinterpreted this word. It's from the Latin "copia," plenty. So it means lots of rhryts - whatevertheheck they are! I'll guess #1 just for fun.

My cornu runneth over... copiously.

I'll reject everything to do with eyes, leaving 3, 4, and 6.

An excess of trees fits right - that'd be #4, methinks.

Wow, a lot of "eye" definitions. I will select #4.

3. for me please.

Is that it?

Caterwauller???

Anybody???

Last call.

Never mind posting the answers, Saranita. We all know it must be 3.

Yes, well, it is most likely 3, but I'm going to guess 2 anyway cuz it sounds goodly.

Good point, Kalleh, but I am bound by duty. ;-)

1.) Uneven muscular movements in the eyelids
X Kalleh winked and seduced Asa.
p.s. Asa, I thought “rhyts” was the last
thing some people get before dying? ;-)
2.) Picturing in the mind's eye; imagination
X Arnie pictured in his mind’s eye that
someone would imagine his definition to
be the correct one, but, alas, as
sometimes happens to those with visionary
minds, his vision was not shared.
EDIT: ...except by Caterwauller, who
posted her guess at the same time I posted
the results.
3.) A neurotic preoccupation with facial
wrinkles
* Jo’s personal experience (though you sure
can’t see it in the photo) and whatever
arnie may be hiding behind that beard led
them to victory.
4.) A condition in which tree replenishment has
exceeded biological balance; overplanting
X Did you know that suckers are young
plants that sprout from the horizontal
roots of a parent plant? I sowed the
seeds and suckered in haberdasher and
Kalleh. (And hab, you might want to see a
doctor about your cornu.)
5.) A narrowing of the visual field
X Bob’s admirable restraint saw him
deceived by Asa. (See, Bob? Leo Durocher
was right: nice guys finish last.)
6.) The tendency to belittle others by looking
down your nose at them
X Caterwauller’s fine social conscience
didn’t fool anyone but her point is well
taken (said saranita, while looking down
her nose).
7.) Color-blindness specific for the colors
purple and yellow
X Bob didn’t have any lookers on this one,
but, Bob, you piqued my curiosity. I
found “tritanopia,” [I’m betting you were
familiar with that] defined as “complete
blue-yellow colorblindness.” Is there
a specific term for purple-yellow
colorblindness?

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I happened to know from somewhere or other that rhytidectomy is a medical term for a face-lift, so I guessed that rhytiscopia must have something to do with wrinkles.

quote:

I happened to know from somewhere or other....

Your plastic surgeon's office????

I can assure you that I am too algophobic ever to venture near a plastic surgeon!

BTW, In the UK we would never speak of a doctor's "office"; we'd always say "surgery", even if the doctor were not a surgeon.

When you go to the doctor, what do you call it then? Not his/her office?

I am surprised I hadn't heard that term over the years. I have worked with cosmetic surgical patients. Geez!

I knew the word from my stint as a medical transcriber.

Kalleh, since rhytiscopia is a neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles, hopefully those people were not accepted for surgery and were instead treated for psychological issues.

Somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of memory, I recall that the British say "surgery" instead of "doctor's office," but I cannot recall whether or not they say "the" beforehand. Is it "I've an appointment at the surgery"?

Is there a thread here for words such as those in the paragraph above -- differences between English-speaking countries for common things such as elevator / lift, bathroom / loo?

quote:

Originally posted by arnie:


I can assure you that I am too algophobic ever to venture near a plastic surgeon!

How about a rigid surgeon?

. . . or a metal surgeon . . . or a cement surgeon?

quote:

I recall that the British say "surgery" instead of "doctor's office," but I cannot recall whether or not they say "the" beforehand. Is it "I've an appointment at the surgery"?

We would normally speak of the doctor's surgery, as I said. We wouldn't use "I've an appointment at the surgery" any more than I suspect Americans would use "I've an appointment at the office", without mentioning the word "doctor". Most usually, we'd say "I've an appointment at the doctor's", with "surgery" left implied.

quote:

Is there a thread here for words such as those in the paragraph above -- differences between English-speaking countries

There's a long thread in "Potpourri" - British vs. American English.

Did you hear about the tree surgeon who slipped and fell out of his patient?

Can we make something with, say,
the modernist/topiary designer who couldn't wait?
I.M.Pei-tient