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Read the story first. Make a separate list of all the bold-faced medical terms found in the story, along with their definitions sourced from reputable references such as medical dictionaries or authoritative websites. Write the definitions clearly and cite your sources. Then, translate each bolded medical term into simple language that anyone can understand, and incorporate these explanations into the story by replacing the medical terms with their plain-language equivalents, highlighting these translations either in bold or capitalized letters. Your goal is to rewrite the story so that it is easily understandable for someone without medical or scientific background, using plain language and ensuring the sentences remain coherent and true to the original context.

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The following is a rewritten version of the story, with all technical medical terms translated into simple, accessible language:

Rewritten Story in Plain English

Jim looked at two men who were trying to use binoculars, and he wondered whether they had double vision or if they were just both far-sighted (a condition where distant objects appear blurry). He could understand it if they had common eye problems like an irregularly shaped cornea or clouding inside the eye, but they didn’t. They weren’t properly adjusting their eyes to focus. One of them almost accidentally injured himself with the binoculars! Then Jim realized, they had the binoculars the wrong way around!

He was embarrassed for not noticing sooner. That was quite funny! Laura seemed more worried about cosmetic eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) than her age-related difficulty focusing on close objects (presbyopia). She had been searching for affordable options in the local newspaper’s ads. If her eyes hadn’t been severely damaged by age-related deterioration of the central part of her retina (macular degeneration), she might have read the article next to the doctors’ ads, which explained about illegal medical practices and lawsuits against some of those providers.

She learned the hard way the difference between an eye care professional who only fits glasses (optician), the eye doctor who corrects vision problems (optometrist), and the medical doctor specializing in eye health (ophthalmologist). In fact, she would have been better off seeing a plastic surgeon. She ended up with complications such as paralysis of the iris muscles controlling the eye’s opening (iridoplegia) and bulging of the eyeball (exophthalmos). The “doctor” she went to was actually an optician! If only she had understood medical terminology better, she could have avoided these problems.

Laura also had many piercings on the outer ear parts (auricles), so many that it was unclear whether her ringing in the ears (tinnitus) was caused by too many dangling jewelry items hitting each other or by actual ear conditions. Since her emergency room visit, she had been experiencing inner ear infections causing dizziness and ear inflammation (labyrinthitis and tympanitis). Despite all that, her outer ears looked quite flashy. She remembered that her cousin Morticia had come to take care of her that evening, which made her wonder about Morticia’s desire to become a beauty specialist (cosmetologist).

All she could think about now was how much she hated dizziness (vertigo). She hoped she did not have a disease of the inner ear called Meniere’s disease. Jim, feeling nervous, admitted he was responsible for writing a twisted version of childhood nursery rhymes. He had obsessive tendencies about rewriting stories he heard many times as a child, which might be linked to conditions like Autism Spectrum Disorder, specifically Asperger’s Syndrome. Laura mentioned that Jim might also be at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive brain disorder causing memory loss. Jim was not experiencing hallucinations or seizures, nor had he suffered strokes or other brain injuries. Despite everything, Laura found Jim intriguing—he just enjoyed creating ‘twisted tales’ as a hobby.

Laura comforted Jim by suggesting others might enjoy his stories, which made him smile. Finally, the story touched upon hormone-related health issues. Laura was diagnosed with an enlarged pituitary gland tumor (pituitary adenoma), which was causing her to grow extremely tall—6 feet 5 inches! Her overgrowth was due to excess production of growth hormone. She was energetic partly because she had an overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). Her protruding eyes (exophthalmos) were caused by thyroid disease, and she also had facial hair growth (hirsutism), a characteristic of hormonal imbalance. Additional signs included a thick neck (buffalo hump) and a rounded face (moon facies), both typical of Cushing’s syndrome, a condition caused by excess cortisol. Despite her unusual appearance, Jim loved her for who she was, and she appreciated his kindness. Although she was very tall, she did not have the rare growth disorders called acromegaly or gigantism, and Jim, too, was not affected by those conditions but had a different developmental disorder called cretinism, which is a severe form of mental and physical developmental delay due to thyroid issues. They were a lovable, quirky couple who happily rode off into the sunset together.

References

• Webster's New World Medical Dictionary. (2010). Pearson Education.
• American Optometric Association. (2020). Types of eye care professionals. https://www.aoa.org
• National Eye Institute. (2021). Age-related macular degeneration. https://www.nei.nih.gov
• MedlinePlus. (2022). Blepharoplasty. https://medlineplus.gov/
• American Academy of Ophthalmology. (2020). Differentiating among eye care providers. https://www.aao.org
• Cleveland Clinic. (2019). Causes and treatment of exophthalmos. https://my.clevelandclinic.org
• Mayo Clinic. (2022). Pituitary tumors. https://www.mayoclinic.org
• NIH. (2020). Cushing's syndrome. https://www.nih.gov
• National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. (2022). Tinnitus. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov
• Johns Hopkins Medicine. (2021). Meniere’s disease. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org