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There's also biopsy Larry Send a noteboard - 05/12/2012 10:28:54 PM
That's being dissected while alive. Not quite the same thing, but it is a good word.


But it's been years since I've read the books and I have little desire to thumb through them now to see which one might (or might not) be correct.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Obscure word from Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf - 04/12/2012 07:07:32 PM 1506 Views
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That's all I can think of. *NM* - 05/12/2012 09:57:48 PM 402 Views
There's also biopsy - 05/12/2012 10:28:54 PM 864 Views
I can't believe either of those words qualify as "obscure", though. - 05/12/2012 11:20:20 PM 956 Views
Considering "average" vocabulary... - 05/12/2012 11:25:13 PM 810 Views
Ultrasound is what you call something that sounds super cool, right? - 06/12/2012 12:51:40 AM 804 Views
No, you were thinking of swag-tacular. *shudder* - 06/12/2012 02:48:24 AM 921 Views

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