Words You Hate

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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.

Aahahhaaaaa! Dogen and I had a convo about this last summer.

It's ee-Shell

Well, Hades. I was all kinds of wrong.

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Hipster

Artisan

Craft (as in "craft" beer)

Try living in Austin, land of the "keep it weird"... those 3 words are on every menu, sign, etc. arrrgh!

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whizbabang

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Specializes in OB/GYN, Home Health, ECF.

Canigraduate, RN. What is a Mayo enema ?

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Specializes in Hospice.
Canigraduate, RN. What is a Mayo enema ?

Use of the quote feature will help determine why you asked cani an apparently random question. Ain't nobody got time to go back through 26 pages of posts!!

In the meantime, Google is your friend. While you're looking up the ingredients of a Mayo enema, you might also check out the "M&M" enema. And no, it does not involve small round candy coated chocolates.

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Thanks for the info. I've probably had 30 more years of nursing than you ! What's a HHH enema ? And have you ever given a Terpentine enema ??

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- and I ♡♡♡ Fraggle Rock as a kid.

Kid nothing! I just started Medicare and I still love Fraggle Rock (Mokie is my favorite)

Started watching it with my youngest sister (lot younger than me).

Back to words - MASTICATE. Another word that sounds naughty also

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Thanks for the info. I've probably had 30 more years of nursing than you ! What's a HHH enema ? And have you ever given a Terpentine enema ??

Been doing this for almost 37 years now.

HHH enema-High, Hot and a Hell of a lot. Ah, those were the days...

As for turpentine enema, heard of it, never gave one. Don't think they're much in vogue anymore lol.

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Jensmom7 said:

HHH enema-High, Hot and a Hell of a lot. Ah, those were the days...

We still give those sometimes. 

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perineum, perineal

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I can never pronounce tachynpea correctly. I'll practice it a hundred times and call the doc with rapid breathing instead. And many of the meds...my tongue wraps up around them.

I also dislike O2 Stats or "He destatted when walking"

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YahallaWheeler:

I can still remember the 1st time I heard someone, my 1st semester LVN instructor, pronounce "tachypnea".

Until that moment, I'd only read it. [emoji23]

I thought it was "tachy-puh-knee-uh". [emoji23][emoji23]

I literally stopped her and said, wait, wait, that's how you say it?! (We were in a lab at school)

That was approx 4 yrs ago, so please excuse my ignorance!

Now, I think "tachypneic" sounds super cool!

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