[Fictionary] CAGASTRIC - Results (or should that be "catastrophic" :-)

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First, general comments:

Ranjit Bhatnagar: Out of cagastrism, I eliminated all the ones about
digestion or metabolism, leaving two.
J-J Cote: Since all of these look suspicious, I'll vote for the ones that
look the least likely. Two points for the releasing of latches, and one for
the Polish trainer.
Linda F Owens: Did I even get a chance to make up a def? Can't remember
back that far. One point for the auroxes and two for the ear wax--hope they
aren't mine. Oh, I get rid of ear wax with ear coning--but I have to get my
husband to cone my ears and he always seems to be too busy lately. He likes
having his coned however. Very relaxing. Alternate method is H2O2--a little
dripped in and later swabbed out gently. Linda

And a special treat:

    When the last aurochs died
    Under an evil star
    The trainer of them sighed
    And so he traveled far.
    His cerumen flows now
    For never more he'd drink
    The milk of ancient cow
    He could not bear to think.
    The doc dripped in his ear
    The drug till it was full
    That again he could hear
    The lowing of the bull.
    - Pierre Abbat -

And now the detailed results:

cagastric - adj. - a remark that makes one cringe. His cagastric remark
about my hair made me want to run into the shower and wash out all that
lime green glitter gel.
Linda F Owens : 0

cagastric - adj. - releasing two latches at the same time to fling down a
rope. Axaractes pulled the cagastric trigger, and Phidippides and the other
runners started racing.
Pierre Abbat : 4
    Ranjit Bhatnagar : 1
    Fran Poodry : 1
    J-J Cote : 2
    [Ed. Note: I must say that I never did figure this one out.]

cagastric - adj. - relating to or caused by the body's digestive processes
but not of them. The patient was suffering a cagastric soreness after three
days of diarrhea, and was prescribed a healing cream to apply after
subsequent episodes.
Fran Poodry : 0

cagastric - n. - [fr. Polish] a trainer of war aurochses. The cagastric
walked forlornly along the streets of Vilna, sighing for the steppes of his
youth.
David Randall : 8 (votes) + 2 (correct guess) = 10
    Ranjit Bhatnagar : 2
    Fran Poodry : 2
    J-J Cote : 1
    Pierre Abbat : 2 [Aurochsen (the second part is cognate to "ox", and
the German plural ends in "en"). Two points] [Ed. Note: I would have
thought "auroxen" myself, similar to the plural for computer cases (and
computers in general) "boxen" (from "Vaxen", the plural for Vax miniframes)
:-D ]
    Linda F Owens : 1

cagastric - adj. - of diseases, originating under an ill star. We no longer
believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity.
Real definition - 4
    David Randall : 2 [But scrofula comes from Aldebaran in the summer sky]
    Melissa Shaner : 2

cagastric - n. - a medication that inhibits the production of earwax. This
study investigated the antifungal properties of ripesterone, which is
normally prescribed as a diaphoretic and a cagastric.
Jean-Joseph Cote : 5
    David Randall : 1 ["The Joshua Randall Award for Earwaxical Vocabulary"
-- my son Joshua has been fascinated with earwax over the years.]
    Pierre Abbat : 1 [This is obviously the real one, from Greek κακο
αστρο.] [Ed. Note: I hope Pierre's Greek comes through: "kako astro" or
have I misread it?]
    Linda F Owens : 2
    Melissa Shaner : 1 [The cerumen makes me suspicious but 1]
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