Round 3263 ISLAND OF REIL time to vote

[Shani Naylor]

Hi all

Here are 10 definitions for our word ISLAND OF REIL. Please vote for 2 by the deadline, which is about 36 hours from now. Let me know if you are DQ. New players welcome.

 

1.       A measure of aqua-vitae or beer.

2.       An isolated area of the human brain responsible for the sense of humour.

3.       A phantom island in the North Atlantic that appeared in medieval maps for close to 300 years.

4.       A pyramid-shaped area of the brain within each cerebral hemisphere beneath parts of the frontal and temporal lobes.

5.       Reaching a simultaneous range of emotions from, for example, rage to terror to sorrow, enacted in relational psychotherapy treatment.

6.       A grouping of non-insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, near the insulin-producing islets of Langerhans. (After its discoverer, Johann Reil (1853-1929).)

7.       A small round or oval patch on the surface of a human kidney when viewed on a CT scan; it is often a precursor of cancer. Discovered by Robert Reil in 2007.

8.       A mythical island where heroes mortally wounded in battle are transported to be healed, mentioned in some pre-Galfridian Welsh tales that foreshadow the Arthurian legends.

9.       A noncancerous lesion that rarely causes symptoms. It's a tiny, dense piece of bone that grew within another section of bone — specifically, a piece of compact (cortical) bone within cancellous bone (a network of spongy bone tissue). 

10.   A subgenre of garage music popular in Holland, called after a band of the same name, itself derived by acronym from the original name, Friesian Doll (abandoned due to alleged trademark infringement), with a word play on zoals het reilt en zeilt 'as is'.

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[Judy Madnick]

I'll reward the authors of the following definitions with a point each (but I've narrowed down my choices to three and will undoubtedly eliminate the real definition):

2.       An isolated area of the human brain responsible for the sense of humour.

4.       A pyramid-shaped area of the brain within each cerebral hemisphere beneath parts of the frontal and temporal lobes.

 

Judy Madnick

[Daniel B Widdis]

I find the medical etymologies most believable, voting for the eponymous 6 and 7.

[John Barrs]

#2 and #4 please - well, something has to be responsible for a sense of humour

JohnnyB

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[Chowie]

I'm going with the mythological: 3 and 8

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 1 and 10 as the least likely.

[Efrem Mallach]

I think it's anatomical, but I'll vote for 8 and 10 because the people who came up with those deserve a point.

Efrem

On Jul 2, 2022, at 5:29 PM, Shani Naylor <shani....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

Here are 10 definitions for our word ISLAND OF REIL. Please vote for 2 by the deadline, which is about 36 hours from now. Let me know if you are DQ. New players welcome.

8.       A mythical island where heroes mortally wounded in battle are transported to be healed, mentioned in some pre-Galfridian Welsh tales that foreshadow the Arthurian legends.

[Tony Abell]

I'll try 4 and 8:

> 4. A pyramid-shaped area of the brain within each cerebral hemisphere
> beneath parts of the frontal and temporal lobes.

[Tim Lodge]

9 and 10, please.

9.       A noncancerous lesion that rarely causes symptoms. It's a tiny, dense piece of bone that grew within another section of bone — specifically, a piece of compact (cortical) bone within cancellous bone (a network of spongy bone tissue). 

10.   A subgenre of garage music popular in Holland, called after a band of the same name, itself derived by acronym from the original name, Friesian Doll (abandoned due to alleged trademark infringement), with a word play on zoals het reilt en zeilt 'as is'.  

-- Tim L