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Medicine

Placebo, triage, Stockholm syndrome — clinical vocabulary that left the hospital and now describes brands, politics, and people you've been dating two weeks.

10 entries

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Common

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phrase

Medicine

Bedside Manner

The way someone delivers difficult information — with warmth or without.

word

Medicine

Biohacking

DIY self-experimentation aimed at upgrading the body — diet, supplements, devices, and sleep tweaks, usually evidence-light.

concept

Medicine

Dopamine Detox

A self-imposed break from quick-hit pleasures — phones, sugar, porn, games — meant to 'reset' the brain's reward system.

word

Medicine

Looksmaxxing

Aggressively optimizing one's appearance — from skincare and gym work to fringe surgery — as a project pursued mostly by young men on the internet.

word

Medicine

Mewing

The internet-popular practice of pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth, supposedly to sharpen the jawline over time.

concept

Medicine

Placebo Effect

A real change in a person caused by belief alone, without any active treatment.

word

Medicine

Quarantine

To isolate something thought to be harmful or contagious.

character

Medicine

Sigmund Freud

The Austrian neurologist who invented psychoanalysis and made the unconscious mainstream — even though most of his clinical claims have not aged well.

concept

Medicine

Stockholm Syndrome

A captive's emotional bond with their captor.

word

Medicine

Triage

Sorting cases by urgency when you can't help everyone — and choosing where to put scarce effort.