Ever need to call in sick, simply because you don’t want to go into work. Try saying that you’ve come down with a terrible case of Enchephalalgia. Unless you work in a hospital, they’ll think you’re on death’s door, when in truth you only need an aspirin. The root encephalo comes from the Greek enképhalos that mean brain (literally inside the head). Basically Encephalalgia is a ten-dollar word for headache. (Source: Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary)
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