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==Page 27 (cont'd) ==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''caries'''<br />
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

==Page 28==

'''continentally ranked'''<br />
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

==Page 29==

'''moniker'''<br />
nickname

'''apprised'''<br />
informed

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==Page 32==

'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."'''<br />
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."'''<br />
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt'''<br />
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922). 

==Page 33==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''legation'''<br />
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue'''<br />
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite'''<br />
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali'''<br />
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial'''<br />
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans'''''<br />
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial'''<br />
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey'''<br />
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem'''''<br />
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous'''<br />
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale'''<br />
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism'''<br />
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat'''<br />
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif'''<br />
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal'''''<br />
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton'''<br />
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin'''<br />
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics'''<br />
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis'''<br />
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych'''<br />
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.'''<br />
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics'''<br />
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ'''<br />
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass'''''<br />
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch'''<br />
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects'''<br />
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread'''<br />
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike'''<br />
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter'''<br />
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous'''<br />
full of twists and turns

==Page 39==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 40==

'''petulant'''<br />
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca'''''<br />
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic'''<br />
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis'''<br />
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April'''<br />
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

==Page 42==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 43==

'''Ambush'''<br />
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team'''<br />
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus'''''<br />
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods'''<br />
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette'''<br />
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers'''<br />
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza'''<br />
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish'''<br />
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur'''<br />
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography'''<br />
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons'''<br />
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang'''<br />
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine'''<br />
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms'''<br />
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

==Page 49==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''one-hitter'''<br />
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS'''<br />
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis'''<br />
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard'''<br />
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope'''<br />
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian'''<br />
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular'''<br />
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith'''<br />
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza'''<br />
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane'''<br />
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters'''<br />
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated'''<br />
having no windows

'''two meter'''<br />
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee'''<br />
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange'''<br />
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency'''<br />
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X'''<br />
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)


==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions'''<br />
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors'''<br />
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show'''<br />
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak'''<br />
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail'''<br />
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==

'''0020h'''<br />
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

==Page 54==

'''filmic'''<br />
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''élan'''<br />
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding'''<br />
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.'''<br />
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum'''<br />
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead'''<br />
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

==Page 57==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs'''''<br />
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier'''<br />
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires'''<br />
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke'''<br />
a goatee

'''apocopes'''<br />
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait'''<br />
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight'''<br />
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

==Page 58==

'''grippe'''<br />
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois'''<br />
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles'''<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

==Page 59==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal'''<br />
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest'''<br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis'''<br />
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east'''<br />
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity'''<br />
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut'''<br />
French: As is necessary

==Page 60==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''932/1864'''<br />
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.'''<br />
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar'''<br />
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.'''<br />
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free'''<br />
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud'''<br />
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture'''''<br />
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors'''<br />
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography'''<br />
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia'''<br />
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine'''<br />
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity'''<br />
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae'''<br />
back stress

==Page 60==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Jim Troeltsch'''<br />
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history. 

'''Narberth PA'''<br />
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus'''<br />
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC'''<br />
over the counter

'''expectorants'''<br />
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives'''<br />
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules'''<br />
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators'''<br />
drugs that dry up phlegm

==Page 60 (cont'd)==

'''Rader'''<br />
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer'''<br />
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state'''<br />
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix'''<br />
extended to a great, unneedy length

==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri'''<br />
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa'''<br />
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte'''<br />
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white'''<br />
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets'''<br />
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats'''<br />
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank'''<br />
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

==Page 63==

'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]'''<br />
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor'''<br />
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal'''<br />
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Endnote 23]]

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