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68* ยท Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward

Contents

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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

Yevtuschenko's Field Guide to Clinical States

This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (sic) is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition Babi Yar, about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

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hypocapnia

reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation

emery board

a disposable nail file

Wellesley Hills

a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston

Newton-Wellesley Hospital

a real hospital

Parnate

A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

dysphoria

feeling badly

diurnal

during the day

w/w/o

with and without

CO

carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide

hemotoxicity

poisonous blood level

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Librium

brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal

Dretske

perhaps Fred Dretske (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind

Mydol

a misspelling of Midol]

trepidation

hesitancy caused by fear

facial affect

emotions expressed on the face

Lithonate

a brand name of lithium

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plestor

another name for a pleximeter

plangent

loud and resounding

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carpopedal

involving both the hands and feet

tetanic

pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually

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circumorals

muscles around the mouth

thigmotactic

having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus

dentate

having teeth

synclinal

sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /

Sinse

short for sin semilla, Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana

duBois

fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette

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uremic

smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood

Endnote 30

boric acid

also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects

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the T

local transit in the Boston metro area

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"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."

She's referring to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; "Nichols" is Jack Nicholson.


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