#wordoftheday — Public Fediverse posts
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#WordOfTheDay: Incudes. Plural of Incus. A small bone in the inner ear, also called the anvil.
Relevant to your life as a #Language #Professional because if you accidentally misspell "includes," spellcheck won't save your ass.
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#WordyWednesday: Bleb
(used in a mortuary context)
A blister on a dead body, filled with stinky liquid, which usually turns into an area of skin slip (moist peeling skin) after it's been drained. Not fun at all.
#HisAndHearsePress #Embalming #Embalmer #DeadBody #MortuaryScience #Bleb #Blister #Gross #Ew #Stinky #Vocabulary #WordOfTheDay
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#WordyWednesday: Ossilegium ☠️
A noun meaning the act of collecting bones for placement in an ossuary after the rest of the body has decomposed. FYI, an ossuary is a building or structure to house bones or cremated remains. (I’ll do one of these on ossuaries later!)
The collected bones may be stored in individual boxes, small niches, or arranged into magnificent displays with many other skeletons.
Many cultures performed this as a means of conserving burial space. Ancient Greeks even collected bones from funeral pyres and washed them with wine and oil before placing them in urns.
Pronounced oss-ih-LEE-gee-um.
Not to be confused with the metal band by the same name 🤘🏻
#HisAndHearsePress #Ossilegium #Ossuary #Skeleton #Bones #Crypt #Cemetery #Decomposition #MortuaryScience #Vocab #Vocabulary #WordOfTheDay
