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OmphalologyJust as in economics textbooks the word widget refers to a product whose nature is irrelevant to the present point and therefore unspecified, so in writing about a medical career, a physician whose specialty need not be identified has been facetiously called an omphalologist. Omphalos is Greek for navel, and omphalology would be the medical specialty that treats thereof, if such a thing existed.The original spelling of the Greek word is: |
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