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[Dixonary] Round 3263 ISLAND OF REIL time to vote
Hi all
Here are 10 definitions for our word ISLAND OF REIL. Please vote for 2 by the deadline, which is about 36 hours from now. Let me know if you are DQ. New players welcome. 1. A measure of aqua-vitae or beer. 2. An isolated area of the human brain responsible for the sense of humour. 3. A phantom island in the North Atlantic that appeared in medieval maps for close to 300 years. 4. A pyramid-shaped area of the brain within each cerebral hemisphere beneath parts of the frontal and temporal lobes. 5. Reaching a simultaneous range of emotions from, for example, rage to terror to sorrow, enacted in relational psychotherapy treatment. 6. A grouping of non-insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, near the insulin-producing islets of Langerhans. (After its discoverer, Johann Reil (1853-1929).) 7. A small round or oval patch on the surface of a human kidney when viewed on a CT scan; it is often a precursor of cancer. Discovered by Robert Reil in 2007. 8. A mythical island where heroes mortally wounded in battle are transported to be healed, mentioned in some pre-Galfridian Welsh tales that foreshadow the Arthurian legends. 9. A noncancerous lesion that rarely causes symptoms. It's a tiny, dense piece of bone that grew within another section of bone — specifically, a piece of compact (cortical) bone within cancellous bone (a network of spongy bone tissue). 10. A subgenre of garage music popular in Holland, called after a band of the same name, itself derived by acronym from the original name, Friesian Doll (abandoned due to alleged trademark infringement), with a word play on *zoals het reilt en zeilt* 'as is'. Deadline: [image: image.png] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...mail.gmail.com. |