From my pathology professor's study notes:

[wallmakerrelict]

"Exencephaly is another fun word you might want to become familiar with."

Me: Oooooh, no. I know enough Latin to know that that word is horrifying.
Classmate: Definitely.
Me: ...
Classmate: ...
Me: Wanna do a Google image search?
Classmate: Already typing it in.
Me and Classmate: *look at computer* AHHHHHHHHHHHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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[gryphon2k]

Back when I used to teach Anatomy & Physiology to medical assistant students right after lunch...

Part of what I covered about each body system was pathologies. When we got to the GI system, and we were going to cover parasitic infections, I used to warn them that they might want to think about either not having lunch that day, or at least, skipping anything with meat in it.

Hehehe... I love pathology.

[wallmakerrelict]

Oh man, parasitology was the only class that ever put me off food. And this is coming from the woman who, while walking out of a bird gross dissection lab, asked, "So, you guys wanna go for chicken strips?" And we did.

Best parasitology lecture ever: last term, a visiting professor told us a story about how he found a rare species of tapeworm while doing wildlife necropsies in the middle of nowhere. He was so sad that he had no way to preserve the specimens that he asked his advisor permission to eat the cysts so he could become infected. When he got home, he used the tapeworms living in his gut as research specimens. He finished his story, looked out at our horrified faces, and said innocently, "It's not like I didn't know what I was doing!"

I'm becoming convinced that all scientists are some kind of insane.