Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

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Ever searched in a patients' room for what you thought she said she needed to "watch her pocketbook" , she staring at you and you staring at her. Then finally saying, mam what color is your pocketbook because I don't see a pocket book here. Only to have her say, no get my washtub out of the drawer, my washcloth and soap. I always like to wash my pocketbook before I go anywhere. Especially down for tests. And close that curtain, too. Then you say, Oh. ;)

I don't know if this really applies...but last week I had to put oxygen on a guy and he said "oh that must be because of my sleep acne" ...he obviously meant sleep apnea......It was really cute and kind of funny at the time..lol

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Had a lady complete a health questionnaire and stated she had had "a hysterical rectum". Imagine my relief when I learned she actually had had a hysterectomy.

:chuckle Too funny!

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Then there's my now 13-year-old son, who used to call breasts "listens". When he was little, he had severe asthma and at the first sign of trouble, I'd whip out the steth and check his breath sounds.......guess he made a connection between the chest area and what I was doing ("I need to listen to your lungs, Ben"). :)

That is just too cute!!!:rotfl:

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I had a wife of a pt who had coded call her son and tell him that "dad had an Big Internal fart and he died":angryfire . I about busted out laughing the doc had told her he had a Massive Myocarido Infarction. Well in the emotion of the moment you might say she didn't understand what an MI was.

that has me LMAO!!!!:rotfl:

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Ok have to include this one I learned from a 5yr old little girl..She calls her lady parts her "front bumm" and her Butt her "back bumm" very cute....

I have also heard a young boy ...refer to his member as a Glinger....rhymes with clinger off of MASH...

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Heard this from someone who likes deer hunting and the great outdoors: "Wood" for male equipment

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Oh, Jeez, nicknames for male genitalia:uhoh21:

Never heard any:chuckle:rotfl:

wood, woody, love stick, bat and balls, tackle, purple helmet warrior, heat seeking moisture missle, old man, one eyed trouser trout, trouser mouse, John Thomas, John Henry, Richard, Dick and the boys, wee willie winkie, fishing rod, bang stick, third leg, short arm, short leg, little man, big boy, da boss, stiffy, little head, the brains, 'nads, crotch rocket, love rocket, love missle, the snake, one eyed ranger, pee-pee, schlong, tool, hose, fireman's hose, Mr. T and tete. Last two are slang from the Visayas, an area in the middle part of the Philippines.

40 some odd years of hearing every slang word possible, I think I have heard the term member the least. The most colorful terms were the ones I heard in the Army and from the nursing home where I used to work.

I got an admit on the floor where I work now, an elderly fellow who kept pulling up his gown to flash everyone. I was giving report off to a co worker when I went to lunch (first lunch that week:o) and told her he likes to show off his tackle (meant to say genitals). She laughed for about 5 minutes! Said that was one she hadn't heard yet.

Oh, yes, several years ago, early 1992, there was a parody song featured on Dr. Demento entitled "Pet names for Genitalia" sung to the tune of "We Didn't Start the Fire". I was sitting in an armored personell carrier poised on the Iraqi border when I heard that the first time. Has it really been 14 years?

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We taught our son the proper names for everything and tried not to be embarrassed when he used these words publicly and LOUDLY, Like the time I was expecting his brother and he announced at church,"Mommy has a baby in her ludacris and it is gonna come out of her pajama" i wanted to die.

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Pronounced "Who who" aka member. :) Also tallywacker.

steph

I love the things pts say it can really turn around a really bad day.

Who-Who is from the movie "Boys on the Side" with Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore & MaryLouise Parker. Watch it the who-who part makes me laugh no matter how many times I see it.

I have one on documentation, an LPN actually wrote "patient looks crappy" :rotfl: how would you like to take that one to court!!!

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Ok, the butter-hole & tin plate are killing me, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying, my husband keeps asking "what are you laughing at" but I can't stop long enough to tell him. Just remembered had a man refer to his member & scrotum as "The Sheriff & the Deputies"

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Female pt. c/o the catheter making "my rethra hurt." ...Well, we kept saying urethera, so what else was she to think?

Then there was the one who wanted to name her child Urethera, as she thought it a lovely, and unusual name. Don't know if she did.

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I had a lady w/ a foley in who complained of her 'Arethea' hurting. Had another lady tell me that she'd never been to a urine-ologist before. We also have a lot of elderly patients come in who will refer to their lady partss as 'down there'. "I'm having some pain you know, down there." Some ladies don't even know where their lady partss are at all, becuase it was considered so 'dirty' back in the day to pay attention to their own anatomy, I guess.

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