[Dixonary] Round 3263 ISLAND OF REIL time to vote

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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