I read from decide to decimal.
In America, a "decillion" is a 1 with 33 zeroes behind it but in other areas, it's a 1 with 60 zeroes behind it! Wha?!?!
It turns out they use words with the suffix "-ard" between each of our "-ions" so our "Billion" is their "Milliard", then they have "Billion" (our "Trillion"), then "Billiard" (our "Quadrillion"), then "Trillion" (our "Quintillion"), etc.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decillion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
The word of the episode is "decidua".
When I read the definition I didn't make the connection that it's in both pregnancy and menstruation. Which really does make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidua
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