Words You Hate

[OyWithThePoodles]

Is there a medical word that you absolutely hate? Or one that you can never seem to pronounce correctly?

Hate:

• Meatus. (Eww)
• Gargle.

Mispronounce:

Prophylaxis. I ALWAYS say prophylaxicks.

I have a co-worker that says Cefazolin wrong and is convinced she is right. Drives me nuts.

[mrsjonesRN]

I don't like the words "getting lasix with no Foley," "full code and 100 years old," or "we are out of toilet paper."

[kalycat, BSN, RN]

I may have mentioned this one before: phenytoin 

"We need to start a sitter rotation in room 3456" closely followed by, "here's the patient fall paperwork". 

People, please stop trying to rip out your LDAs and just stay in bed. I promise they're there for a reason and it will hurt.

[nursling>]

How about serosangious? (sp) ?

[Chandlerrn]

That one drive me nuts!!!! I am not orientating you! If I were doing that I would be facing you North! I am orienting you!!

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

Oh I hate when I see things like "the liver is well appreciated in this exam"

Well that night I drank a fifth of pre-mixed (and cheap) Long Islands...I sure as heck appreciated my liver!!!

But I do remember the night, on a medsurg floor, that we called an RRT due to respiratory issues. The RRT nurse thought she was hot crap, listened to the patient's lungs and said, "I don't APPRECIATE any rales."

Really? Who says that? I didn't APPRECIATE her 'tude.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

I take it that you are not much of a racing fan.

Methinks she was doing it to get my goat.

[neth218]

Discharge and change. I always mispronounce this word. LOL.

[HDFXDWGRN]

Sonometer! Not even sure if that's how you spell it.

Preceptorship.

[amoLucia]

Somebody mentioned Massachusetts - what about Connecticut? Nobody says the middle letter C. And misspelling Wednesday. The letter N doesn't get pronounced in the 2nd syllable - is sounded in the first.

Enough of the non-medical.

Eructation. Everybody eructates. (Sounds real naughty!)

Congealed and gelatinous as when used describing a big globby blood clump with esophageal varices.

Pseudosquamous epithelial cells & Pseudomembraneous colitis. I guess if it's pseudo-fake, we ignore it.

I do like borborygmi. Hopefully we should all have it. Heretofore WAS my favorite-est word. But drum roll for the new winner -

SPEHENOPALATINE GANGLIONEURALGIA. This is by far the winner!

[Catzilla]

Mucoid

Gelatinous

*cringe*

[elizzyRN]

Exasperation - as in "she is here for COPD exasperation".

Also, "Zyprexia". There is no "i" in Zyprexa.

I hear these all the time and it drives me nuts!

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

I'm seeing an abdominal trend.

"acute abdomen" there is nothing CUTE about an abdomen!!!!!!!!!