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Doctors, nurses, and other health-care professionals need to communicate with each other quickly and effectively. They also have a sense of humor, as you'll notice in the following list of slang terms used in hospitals.
15 Φεβ 2019 · Here are some of the most awesome medical slangs nurses use every day: 1. Frequent Flyer. Definition: A regular patient in the hospital who often seeks medical attention for every little health problem encountered. Frequent flyers are often drug-seekers hoping to get a taste of narcotics.
8 Φεβ 2024 · A list of common medical abbreviations and medical acronyms to help you understand entries in the medical notes.
1. slang A foolish, naïve, or gullible person. You're a bigger sap than I thought if you believe that, Phil. I can't believe I fell for that scam. I'm such a sap! 2. slang Someone who is easily taken in, won over, or entertained by something. Usually followed by "for (something)." A: "I know the film wasn't perfect, but I loved it."
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative.
16 Ιουν 2023 · In medicine they are often abbreviations of technical terms. “Parkinson’s,” “Dupuytren’s,” and “Tay–Sachs,” for instance, are jargon terms for the corresponding diseases. “A Caesar” is jargon for a caesarean section. The OED cites the earliest example from Richard Gordon’s novel Doctor in the House (1952).
1 Ιουλ 2002 · This is medical slang. Slang is defined as “the special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character.”2 Perhaps staff in emergency medicine departments, the epicentre of medical slang, would prefer the kinder definition of “language of a highly colloquial type.”
