neoplasty
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In the 2010 novel "The Sickness," by the Venezuelan writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka, a physician whose father is dying of lung cancer "finds the clinical terms unbearable," forming "part of a pretentious, useless dictionary": neoplasty, exeresis staphylococcal empyemapleural empyema anastomosis iliocolostomybiopsy haemostasis prothesis laparotomyischemia lithiasis.
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