I recently received a report from a medical expert. While any of us will be familiar with the use of medical terms and Latin expressions that often litter such reports, I did, however, feel compelled to draw to your attention what possibly

may be new medical jargon, namely the word 'arachnoindecipherographia', which as you might suspect was used in relation to medical records that had also been supplied to the expert. I think this is translated as 'poor spidery handwriting'.


A useful word for those of us who come across such medical records with regularity and possibly a points-winning word for your next game of Scrabble.


Nigel Merrick, Hillyer McKeown, Chester, Cheshire