Thursday, April 3, 2014

cirrhosis, sorosis

Cirrhosis or cirrhosis is a disease of the liver--
He drank for decades, and eventually died of cirrhosis.
The scandal magazone says he has cirrhosis, but he claims he's overtired.

Sorosis or sorosis means a fruit with many flowers and seeds combined--
The garden-variety pineapple is an example of sorosis. 
Sorosis is also an old-fashioned term for a women's society or sorority--
The weekly meetings quickly turned into a sorosis, with no men present.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He was sure that a sorosis--a pineapple or mulberry--would cure his cirrhosis."

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