Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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It is intended that this hardly comprehensive, nor accurate collection of acronyms, phrases and astute observations will assist those not of medically sound mind to gain a pseudo-scientific insight into the inner sanctum of the glorified hallows of medical parlance.
A shout out for Whonamedit.com: a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms that aims to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person.
Pathology must be really boring sometimes…all that purple and pink and cold laboratory environment. So who can blame them for being excited when they chance upon a pareidolic experience, a Wolkenkuckucksheim if you like where the pathologist finally has the chance to say ‘Bad news: you have a tumor. Good news: it’s really cute!’
Should a word with pus- and -sy be used in medicine?
Austrian vernacular or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter Z
Austrian vernacular or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter Y
Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter X
Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter W
Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter V
Verandah [over the toy shop]
A man’s beer belly
‘Toy shop’ is a joking term for the male genitals
Austrian vernacular in the Aussie Medical Dictionary or Ausenclature for the medical professional visiting Australia – the letter U
