That's How It Happened

When I started medical school I had to attend a lot of rather pompous lectures, impressing upon us the great privilege and responsibility that they were bestowing on us. In among all that guff, repeated professors pointed out that as a doctor your vocabulary more than doubles. That process of word acquisition mostly occurs as you try and cram for finals. Once in a while I still learn a really great new word:
Today's word of the day is: MEGARECTUM.