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

We also have "I'm red lava urea".
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anything with out "urea"?
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Jeos Thegimis wrote:anything with out "urea"?
Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate.
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Thanks for sharing that with us Spacey.

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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? :mrgreen:

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

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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? :mrgreen:

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

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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.

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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.
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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 :P
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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.

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

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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.
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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? :mrgreen:

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".

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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 :P
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. :oops: 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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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Bangladeshians are cool.
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vegfarandi wrote:Bangladeshians are cool.
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Random.
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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...

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Or not... I can't find my Human Biology book, bah...
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I ought to know what the male equivalent of a Fallopian tube is, yet I can’t remember it.

Vas deferens?
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con quesa wrote:Vas deferens?
That?s it! :o

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