| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Here's a list of humorous definitions for familar scientific and
medical terms. By separating the descriptions from the terms, you can
use this as a party game.
ARTERY -- Study of fine painting
BARIUM -- What to do if CPR fails
CAESAREAN SECTION -- Upper class neighborhood in Rome
COLIC -- The way a sheep herding dog shows affection
COMA -- A moribund punctuation mark
DILATE -- Live longer
FESTER -- Quicker
G.I. SERIES -- Baseball games played between teams of soldiers
GRIPPE -- Carry-on baggage
HANG-NAIL -- Something you can put your coat on
MEDICAL STAFF -- A doctor's walking stick
MINOR OPERATION -- Coal digging
MORBID -- A higher offer
NITRATE -- Lower than the day rate
NODE -- Was aware of
ORGANIC -- Pertaining to a keyboard instrument
OUTPATIENT -- Victim of a fainting spell
POST-OPERATIVE -- Letter carrier
PROTEIN -- In favor of young people
SECRETION -- Hiding something
SEROLOGY -- Study of English knighthood
TABLET -- Small table
TUMOR -- An extra pair
URINE -- Opposite of "You're out."
VARICOSE VEINS -- Veins very near one another
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 503.1 | CPR? | NEARLY::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading UK | Thu Apr 14 1988 14:36 | 3 |
I can guess the "resuscitation" bit.
Jeff.
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| 503.2 | Second greatest life-saveing technique (1st is cold beer) | PSTJTT::TABER | Reach out and whack someone | Thu Apr 14 1988 14:55 | 5 |
> -< CPR? >-
>
> I can guess the "resuscitation" bit.
CP = "Cardio-Pulmanary" i.e, heart massage.
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| 503.3 | An' I thought it was Critical Path | NEARLY::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading UK | Fri Apr 15 1988 16:00 | 11 |
No wonder you abbreviate it - by the time you say it the patient
would most likely be dead :-). Of course, only the cardio- bit
is heart massage - the pulmonary bit refers to artificial ventilation.
We just use "resuscitation" - My first aid book says "If the heart
has stopped beating, start external chest compression whilst continuing
to give artificial ventilation. Together this is known as
Resuscitation". Come to think of it, that takes longer to say than
CPR :-)
Jeff.
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| 503.4 | I think you're right | VIA::RANDALL | back in the notes life again | Fri Apr 15 1988 17:20 | 4 |
The Cardio plus the Pulmonary do make the critical path in most
people!
--bonnie
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