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. ;)

Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.
In South Africa, "hooter" is your car horn.

Honk your hooter!!! :lol2:

That is too funny!

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Pt referred to scrotum as "Onion"

Different pt refers to member as "ubu" (as in, sit ubu sit...)

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I wonder what it is about those words -- member, lady parts, testicles -- that makes us want to come up with so many different things other than what they really are....

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Specializes in disability.

well this takes on new meaning on cultural diversity when assessing our pts. It is a interesting read tho

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Specializes in Peds, Neonatal, Case Manag. Peds GI.

Ever heard of a "tally wacker?" A mother on the Peds floor told me her son was hospitalized once before because he hurt his.---i.e. his member.

Welcome to Tennessee, my home town! LOL!

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Specializes in CCU MICU Rapid Response.

How about a Va-J-J? My first grader called them petises and vagitas until she was corrected. Hard not to laugh..

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I have heard three people call it a coochie in the last week. I don't know why lady parts is a scary word for people... I have also heard memberes called "Wee willy winkies" twice.

LMAO!!!!!!

I don't get all the silly names. I have always used the term member when talking to my son. Maybe it's the nurse in me? I sure get a laugh reading some of these!

Forgot to add: My friend's son calls it a Cheeto!

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Specializes in Diabetes ED, (CDE), CCU, Pulmonary/HIV.
My patient complained her "monkey" hurt. I SWEAR I did not know what that meant til then....but being in OB, I was able to figure it out PDQ......

the things people say....

That was my grandmother's word too! Haven't thought about that in a long time.

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Specializes in Diabetes ED, (CDE), CCU, Pulmonary/HIV.

What you all are calling "lady parts" is the vulva, labia majora & labia minora. The lady parts is the muscular tube inside. Sometimes female external genitalia is referred to as the pudenda or pudendum. (I don't know many patients who would hold still for a hospital employee to wash her lady parts!)

The most ridiculous euphemism I've heard lately is calling global warming "climate change," I know---not nursing

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That's true, but the area you wash is the part that protects the lady parts, so it's basically the same thing. It may not be technically correct, but I think people know what you are referring to.

I prefer to say, lady partsl area.

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Specializes in MedSurg/Ped Vent/Geriatrics/Rehab.

I've heard many of the same expressions posted herein. But I've only once had a man refer to his privates as "my cats!" We had about six nurses holding him down as he was going through violent DTs. We, of course, inserted a catheter at this time too ... and he kept screaming at the top of his lungs..."What are you doing to MY CATS!! Let go of MY CATS!!"

OMG...Waaaayyy to funny!!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Some of my Puerto Rican friends call their daughters' vulva/labia their "pu-pu."

One of my nurse friends taught her boys to call their memberes worms.

Another uses "doopie" for butt. We had a breech baby (born lady partslly!! yay!) and she looked at him and goes, "Oh, you decided to come doopie first!"

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