Medicine related Hellenic terms in songs

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1) Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)

Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

2) Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)

Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

3) Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)

Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

4) Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)

Lyrics: like a nympho (maniac)

5) Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)

Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

6) Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)

Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley

7) Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)

Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens

8) Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)

Lyrics: I got a bad migraine

9) Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)

Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania

10) Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)

Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

11) Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill (symptoms)

12) Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy

13) Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)

Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein

14) Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)

15) Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!

16) What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)

Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner

17) Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)

Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics

18) The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)

Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows

19) Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

20) Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)

Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends

21) I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)

Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

22) One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

23) Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah

24) Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything

25) Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political

26) Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma

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Terms of Hellenic origin & etymology in Medicine in general


ACNE

Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!

ALLERGY

Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: What kind of man is he To create this allergy?

ANALGESIC

Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)

ANATOMY

Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy

ANEMIA, ANEMIC

Pennyroyal Tea - NIRVANA (LP In Utero, 1993)
Lyrics: I'm anemic royalty


ANESTHESIA

Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill
Also: symptoms

ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Pride - ROBERT PALMER (LP Pride, 1982)
Lyrics:  Please tell Ms Fonda  to reduce her price Anorexia Nervosa mannequin all this physicality will wear you thin

ANTIBIOTICS

Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)
Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics

ANTIDOTE

The Real Slim Shady - EMINEM (LP The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000)
Lyrics: but if you feel like I feel I got the antidote

ANXIETY,  ANGST

I Turn To You - MEL C (LP Northern Star, 1999)
Lyrics: When my insides are wracked with anxiety

Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)
Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein

ASTHMA

I Got 5 On It - LUNIZ (LP Operation Stakola, 1995)
Lyrics: Stop hittin' 'cause you know ya got Asthma

Legalize It - PETER TOSH (LP Legalize It, 1976)
Lyrics: It's good for the flu Good for Asthma, Good for tuberculosis, Even numara thrombosis


CANCER

Leave In Silence - DEPECHE MODE (LP A Broken Frame, 1982)
Lyrics: I would stop this thing from spreading like a cancer

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)
Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows

CLINIC, CLINICAL

What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)
Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner


The Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: and they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.

COMA, COMATOSE

Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS (LP Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987)

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political

DIAGNOSE, DIAGNOSIS

Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1989)
Lyrics: Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis


DYSENTERY

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: From New Delhi to Darjeeling I have done my share of healing And I've never yet been beaten or outboxed I remember that with one jab Of my needle in the Punjab How I cleared up beriberi And the dreaded dysentery But your complaint has got me really foxed

EPIDEMIC

Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything

EPILEPSY

Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)
Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley

GLAUKOMA

Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma

HEPATITIS

Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens

HYSTERIA

Hysteria - DEF LEPPARD (LP Hysteria, 1987)

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)

Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria

LEPER

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)

Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria

One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah

MANIA, MANIAC, NYMPHOMANIA, PYROMANIA

Maniac - MICHAEL SEMBELLO (OST Flashdance, 1983)

Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)
Lyrics: like a nympho

Kleptomanie - EXTRABREIT (1983)

Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)
Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania

MELANCHOLIA

Far Gone Now - VAYA CON DIOS (LP Night Owls, 1990)
Lyrics: Humming melancholic lines


MIGRAINE

Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)
Lyrics: I got a bad migraine

MORPHINE

1979 - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (LP Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Lyrics: Morphine city slippin dues down to see

Just Like A Pill - PINK (LP M!ssundaztood, 2002)
Lyrics: I can't stay on your morphine, cuz it's making me itch, I said I tried to call the nurse again but she's being a little bitch

Sister Morphine - MARIANNE FAITHFULL (1969)

Sword Of Damocles - LOU REED (LP Magic & Loss, 1992)
Lyrics:  That mix of morphine and dexedrine


NEUROTIC

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)

Lyrics: Neurotic to the bone

OVERDOSE

Mothers Little Helper - THE ROLLING STONES (LP Aftermath, 1966)
Lyrics: if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

PARALYSIS

I Need Love - LL COOL J (1987)
Lyrics: we're so in love when we hug we become paralyzed

Livin' In A World Without You - THE RASMUS (LP Black Roses, 2008)
Lyrics:  You paralysed my body with a poison kiss

Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON (LP Thriller, 1982)
Lyrics: You're paralysed

PARANOIA

Paranoid - BLACK SABBATH (LP Paranoid, 1970)

Paranoid Android - RADIOHEAD (LP OK Computer, 1997)

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)
Lyrics:  Am I just paranoid?

PHARMACY, PHARMACOPOEIA

Boom (There She Was) - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Provision, 1988)
Lyrics: Pharmacopoeia, I gotta a way to be good (all right), I want to understand how I'm misunderstood (and I like it), Pharmacopoeia, I got a way with the world (all right) I got an alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)

PHYSICIAN

Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)
Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends

PNEUMONIA 

I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)
Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flew - HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH & THE CLOWNS (1957)

PSYCHOSIS

Go Let It Out - OASIS (LP Standing In The Shoulder Of Giants, 2000)
Lyrics: Sister psychosis don't got a lot to say

SCHIZOPHRENIC

Double Life - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here, 1983)
Lyrics: Nowhere to hide, though we both might try I'm schizophrenic, and so am I

Gimme Some Truth - JOHN LENNON (LP Imagine, 1971)
Lyrics: I've had enough of watching scenes of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
Also: neurotic, psychotic (hypocrites, politicians)


SPASM, SPASTIC

Babylon Sisters - STEELY DAN (LP Gaucho, 1980)
Lyrics: San Francisco Show and Tell,well I should know by now that it's just a spasm

Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

Goodnight Saigon - BILLY JOEL (LP The Nylon Curtain, 1982)
Lyrics:  We came in spastic like tameless horses


STETHOSCOPE

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

SURGERY

The Miracle - QUEEN (LP The Miracle, 1989)
Lyrics: Open hearts and surgery

Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)
Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

Through The Wire - KANYE WEST  (LP The College Dropout, 2004)
Lyrics: I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw


SYMPTOM

Sick & Tired - THE CARDIGANS (LP Emmerdale, 1994)

Lyrics: symptoms are so deep

SYNDROME

Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)
Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

Other known syndroms: Down's, Gulf War, Stockholm

THERAPY

Bleed Like Me - GARBAGE (LP Bleed Like Me, 2005)
Lyrics: Therapy is speedie's brand new drug

First Six Months Of Love - MICHELLE GUREVICH (LP New Decadence, 2016)

Lyrics: Before begin the dissections Before the therapy sessions

also see: Serotonin

King For A Day - GREEN DAY (LP Nimrod, 1997)
Lyrics: My daddy threw me in therapy

Laid - JAMES (LP Laid, 1993)

Lyrics: My therapist said not to see you no more She said you're like a disease without any cure

Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: She says all she needs is therapy, yeah all you need is, love is all you need


THROMBOSIS

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis

TRAUMA

Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)
Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma


ALSO:

Bipolar Disorder (Sear Of A Blank Planet - PORCUPINE TREE, 2007)
Cardiac Arrest (Cardiac Arrest - MADNESS, 1981)


Biology related terms:

Adrenaline (Crush - JENNIFER PAIGE, 1998)
Biology (She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY, 1983)
Genetic (Genetic Engineering - OMD, 1983)

Génétique, Chromosomes (Le Vent Nous Portera -NOIR DESIR, 2001)
Phlegm (From Under The Covers - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, 1989)
Stigma (Xavier - DEAD CAN DANCE, 1987)