>...(and accidentally diarrhea, but not even our doctors use Latin for "the runs").
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>cos noone can spell the damn word without looking it up, and then there are 2 spellings. Yours has no "o" in it and mine I can't be sure if I spelt it correctly as I didn't look it up.

Spelling wouldn't be a problem for our doctors, they rarely write the stuff in actual Latin - they'd spell it phonetically, "dijareja", but somehow they still use the native word for that most of the time. Not that they are shy of Latin... they usually use a lot of it, so the patients can't understand them :). But then, since I'm a doctor's spouse, and had to retype dozens of texts for her over the years (it's handy to have a geek in the house, isn't it), I caught on a lot of these terms.