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Space Dracula · Post by **Space Dracula** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:12 pm

An anagram of "Almea Verduria" is "a viral urea med".

We also have "I'm red lava urea".

Jeos Thegimis · Post by **Jeos Thegimis** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:17 am

anything with out "urea"?

Space Dracula · Post by **Space Dracula** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:20 am

Jeos Thegimis wrote:anything with out "urea"?

Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate.

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:34 am

Thanks for sharing that with us Spacey.

Ghost

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:21 am

Space Dracula wrote: Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate.

Care to tell us about the experience? Was the colour yellow, or pale? Was the duration long or short? Did it foam up or just stay there? Did you make a noisy burble-splash into the water, or a dull hiss onto the toilet bowl rim? Did you catch the urine in a glass beaker so you could swish it around and make a medical diagnosis from it like the doctors of medieval and Elizabethan times?

Oh, that makes me wonder if Almean medicine still, or ever, makes use of examining urine.

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:35 am

Shm Jay wrote:
Space Dracula wrote: Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate.
Care to tell us about the experience? Was the colour yellow, or pale? Was the duration long or short? Did it foam up or just stay there? Did you make a noisy burble-splash into the water, or a dull hiss onto the toilet bowl rim? Did you catch the urine in a glass beaker so you could swish it around and make a medical diagnosis from it like the doctors of medieval and Elizabethan times?

Oh, that makes me wonder if Almean medicine still, or ever, makes use of examining urine.

Don't they still (on earth)? I had my urine examined before a blood test, IIRC

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:09 pm

Jaaaaaa wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:Oh, that makes me wonder if Almean medicine still, or ever, makes use of examining urine.
Don't they still (on earth)? I had my urine examined before a blood test, IIRC

Well, today they analyze urine specimens for the presence of different chemical compounds, infectious organisms, etc., but as Jay noted, in medieval and Renaissance times some doctors analyzed urine by looking at it--the color, consistency, whether and how it settled into layers if placed in a clear flask--and attempting to deduce all sorts of things about their patient's health from this.

In the fantasy novel The Lions of Al-Rassam by Guy Gavriel Kay, which is inspired by eleventh-century Moorish Spain, one of the main female charaters is a physician (as is her father, who taught her the art), and analyzes urine in this fashion; one of her prized possessions is the glass urine flask that she inherited from her father.

p@,
Glenn

Twpsyn Pentref · Post by **Twpsyn Pentref** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:10 pm

And what are the anagrams that don't have the word "urea" in them? I'm dying to know.

Speaking of urine, the ancient Romans washed their clothes in it.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:11 am

Glenn Kempf wrote:Well, today they analyze urine specimens for the presence of different chemical compounds, infectious organisms, etc., but as Jay noted, in medieval and Renaissance times some doctors analyzed urine by looking at it--the color, consistency, whether and how it settled into layers if placed in a clear flask--and attempting to deduce all sorts of things about their patient's health from this.

And by tasting it.

Jay, you forgot to ask Spacey how strongly it smelled, if at all. And any details of splash-back or missing the target

Neon Fox · Post by **Neon Fox** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:52 am

Twpsyn Pentref wrote: Speaking of urine, the ancient Romans washed their clothes in it.

Well, not quite. They used it as bleach for white togas.

--Neon Fox

Twpsyn Pentref · Post by **Twpsyn Pentref** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:21 am

Neon Fox wrote:
Twpsyn Pentref wrote: Speaking of urine, the ancient Romans washed their clothes in it.
Well, not quite. They used it as bleach for white togas.

Whatever. Same difference.

Jeos Thegimis · Post by **Jeos Thegimis** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:40 am

didn't the Mongols wash in their horse's urine though? They washed something in it.

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:16 am

Jeos Thegimis wrote:didn't the Mongols wash in their horse's urine though? They washed something in it.

They did everything in or with their horses' fliuds.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:18 am

I've heard some tribes in the poorer, drier parts of the world still do use cow urine to wash themselves. Menopausal women in America today eat concentrated horse-urine pills (Premarin, Prempro) to buffet their levels of estrogen, but I'm sure it's a heavily processed form.

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:26 pm

Jaaaaaa wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:
Space Dracula wrote: Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate.
Care to tell us about the experience? Was the colour yellow, or pale? Was the duration long or short? Did it foam up or just stay there? Did you make a noisy burble-splash into the water, or a dull hiss onto the toilet bowl rim? Did you catch the urine in a glass beaker so you could swish it around and make a medical diagnosis from it like the doctors of medieval and Elizabethan times?

Oh, that makes me wonder if Almean medicine still, or ever, makes use of examining urine.
Don't they still (on earth)? I had my urine examined before a blood test, IIRC

Well, that's between you and your "doctor".

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:25 pm

Rory wrote:Jay, you forgot to ask Spacey how strongly it smelled, if at all. And any details of splash-back or missing the target

Oh, yes, you?re right. Well, Spacey?

By the way, I wish some philosopher, whether Almean or otherwise, would explain why urine is sometimes foamy and sometimes not. I would even accept a Xurnese dance explanation. I read somewhere that it has to do with the prostate.

Now that I?ve said the word, it?s kind of embarrassing to talk about it in mixed company. Urine is universal, but certain body parts are not. To provide balance, I will now say the word uterus. Actually it?s a word I seldom get to use, whether in English, Esperanto (utero) or Verdurian (soa auva). There?s no word for prostate in Verdurian, by the way.

con quesa · Post by **con quesa** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:04 pm

You know, I don't think that I've said the word "uterus" in over six months.

Vagina, I've said. Clitoris, I've said. But not uterus. Wierd.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 pm

con quesa wrote:You know, I don't think that I've said the word "uterus" in over six months.

I can?t remember the last time I said ?ovary? out loud, let alone ?Fallopian tubes?. I ought to know what the male equivalent of a Fallopian tube is, yet I can?t remember it. Apparently they?re not words in Mark?s usual vocabulary either, for although you can say soa gamerka you can?t say the other words I mentioned, but you can say soa shagati, soa odhi, soa baslevi.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:23 pm

My languages have a lot of words for women's insides (and men's, to a lesser extent). Womb, Fallopian tubes, Ovaries, Pregnant, Fetus, Embryo, Placenta, Umbilical Cord, Breast, Nipple, and Breast Milk are all basic, non-compound roots in Andanese and most other conlangs I have, and a lot of them even have more than one noncompound root. Generally, in Andanese, body parts that come in pairs are referred to in pairs by default.

Space Dracula · Post by **Space Dracula** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:35 pm

Mercator wrote:My languages have a lot of words for women's insides (and men's, to a lesser extent). Womb, Fallopian tubes, Ovaries, Pregnant, Fetus, Embryo, Placenta, Umbilical Cord, Breast, Nipple, and Breast Milk are all basic, non-compound roots in Andanese and most other conlangs I have, and a lot of them even have more than one noncompound root. Generally, in Andanese, body parts that come in pairs are referred to in pairs by default.

I wouldn't call a breast an inside part. At least, not in an ideal world.

vec · Post by **vec** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:33 am

Bangladeshians are cool.

Twpsyn Pentref · Post by **Twpsyn Pentref** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:05 am

vegfarandi wrote:Bangladeshians are cool.

?

Random.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:14 am

Shm Jay wrote:There’s no word for prostate in Verdurian, by the way.

Zompist is a sexist!!!

Shm Jay wrote:I ought to know what the male equivalent of a Fallopian tube is, yet I can’t remember it.

The urethra? Or just simply the "sperm ducts"? I don't think "Fallopian tube" is the proper medical term, strangely enough...

*consults notes*

Or not... I can't find my Human Biology book, bah...

con quesa · Post by **con quesa** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:27 pm

I ought to know what the male equivalent of a Fallopian tube is, yet I can’t remember it.

Vas deferens?

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:06 pm

con quesa wrote:Vas deferens?

That?s it!