And finally, if I had to pick a winner of all those funny facially oriented words, it would have to be rhinotillexomania, which, according to the internet, is “the scientific term for compulsive ...

I have to be really careful how I say that. I have to say, ‘Stories of’, and not just, ‘Collecting body parts’, I get funny looks for that.

When the ancient Greeks were naming body parts, they were probably trying to give them names that were easy to remember, says Mary Fissell, a professor in the Department of the History of Medicine ...