>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:25:49 +0000
>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv
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>Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, January 13, 2025
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>Klingon word: re'chIv
>Part of speech: noun
>Definition: internal organ
>Source: qep'a' 29 [2022]
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>AFAIK not used in a sentence.
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>(qepHom 2023): {remloS}, in its singular sense, would refer to any individual internal organ. It could, of course, also be used as a plural >(equivalent to {remloSDu'}).
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> The Klingon body incorporates multiple redundancies for nearly all vital bodily functions which gives Klingon warriors enormous ?>resiliency in battle, since almost every function in their body is duplicated in case any primary organ or system fails. From various >episodes we know that Klingons have two livers, three lungs, twenty-three ribs, a redundant stomach, an eight-chambered heart, a >backup for their synaptic functions, redundant neural functions, and at least two QiVons (whatever that is).
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>remloS gut, guts, bowels, entrails (n)
>porghQeD the scientific study of bodily functions (n)
>bIraqlul *brak'lul* (redundancy in body parts) (n)
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>ro trunk (of body), torso (n)
>chor belly/midsection (n)
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>burgh stomach
>luH intestine (n)
>rajma' kidney (n)
>tIq heart (n)
>etc.
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> "If you were not an ambassador I would disembowel you right now!" (Worf to Iyaaran Amb. Byleth, who had accused Worf of lying >during a poker game [TNG "Liaisons"])