trouble pronoucing some medical words

WendyMDarling · May 18, 2011

This is an older post, but I can't say medication names for the life of me. I have Skyscape on my Ipod and the Davis Drug Guide application says medication names on speaker so you can hear them and learn how to say them better. Just one resource out of many out there I bet.

honeylately · Jun 14, 2011

Dictionary.com Most words there you can hear pronounced. Just turn on your volume and click on the megaphone icon... I use it all the time!

honeylately · Jun 14, 2011

You know, I really used to hate that word too. But once I learned how to spell it, its acually kinda fun. diarrhea. there are lots of other medical terms also that end in "rrhea" Just try to remember rrhea then put dia in front of it.

honeylately · Jun 14, 2011

I Love Quizlet. Also one I found that I really like is LearningNurse.com Lots of self-quizes there on body systems and such. I tend to learn really well when doing interactive learning on my computer. Hope it works as well for you too!

GAgirlinMA · Jul 23, 2011

Too ironic and funny for this thread - the words are actually correctly spelled "pronunciation", "cerebral" and "cerebrospinal". Correct spelling will help with correct pronunciation. :)

THANK you, BigTuna! This thread was driving me crazy!! :uhoh3:

DPSGraduateNurse · Aug 5, 2011

I've always found this website to be the best, by far!

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=GEN504

Hope it helps!

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Aug 5, 2011

"i'm only a first year student. but i'm already getting busted in school because my handwriting is hard to read and my spelling is atrocious. some instructors will dock a grade for that, which i myself think is dumb."

when you are legally responsible to communicate your assessment, plan, and care of patients and no one can understand what you wrote, you will be opening up yourself (and your employer) to legal problems beyond your imagination. not to mention the fact that your patients will suffer-- actually, that will be the cause of the aforementioned legal problems. :eek:

:twocents: work on your handwriting and spelling and try to get a glimpse of the big picture if you really want to be a working professional. your instructor already has.

and if someone can't write the difference between "infraction" and "infarction," well.... this is a big problem. as to the rest of spelling and pronunciation, it's very helpful to get a medical transcription text that gives you the derivation of the words-- roots and suffixes. once you learn that "cerebro..." refers to the brain, "cerebrospinal" won't be so hard to remember.

nicpkfloyd · Aug 25, 2011

I have to agree with GrnTea. Even if it's not the matter of life/death when someone can't read your handwriting it takes up their time when they have to track down the person who wrote it and ask them what they meant. It's even worse when they can't read their own writing. I find this most often to be true with physicians, but I've followed behind some nurses where I had no idea what they had written.

nursingstudent85 · Sep 3, 2011

I use this site (http://www.howjsay.com/) whenever I need a reference for/to know how to correctly pronounced any words... medical terms or common (vernacular) terms. It's fabulous and it's FREE!

You type in the word you want to hear, click submit and it annunciates it for you. I love it!

nhensleyLPN · Sep 12, 2011

One would think that is handled like any other language course, and there would be a CD available or better yet, try YOU TUBE! There is just about everything on that site!!

mustlovemars · Sep 21, 2011

I bought a taber's medical dictionary for my school and it came with a cd rom.. I think it has the words in it that will pronounce them for you. or go to dictionary.com type in the word and if it comes up there will be a speaker button next to the word. hit that button and listen as it says the word for you.

BrigidG · Oct 18, 2011

Freedictionary.com is really good,

but I STILL can't say anticholinergic.