P
- pone
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Translation: a swelling
Sample Usage: "I fell down my steps and got a pone on my knee."
- prostrate
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Translation: prostate
Sample Usage: "I have to pee all the time because I have a prostrate condition."
Submitted by Emily E.
- psychiatic nerve
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Translation: sciatic nerve Also see sanotic nerve
Sample Usage: "My doctor told me that my back pain was from a flare of my psychiatic nerve."
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