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"We don't like to use the word 'cure' because it is such a loaded word, but it's about as good as you can get."
"It's called Wernicke's or particularly Corsicoff syndrome."
"China has renamed COVID from 'new coronavirus pneumonia' to 'new coronavirus infection'."
"Yesterday's medical terminology is today's hate speech and today's hate speech is tomorrow's colloquialism."
"In the half-kayfabe, half-shoot weekly injury report, NXT then announced Lumis had suffered an osteochondral lesion of the talus - which is the ancient Elvish way of saying 'ankle injury'."
"The central portion of the disc is called the nucleus pulposus..."
"The first heart sound is the first sound heard at the onset of ventricular systole."
"Yesterday's medical term is today's hate speech."
"Celeste is an indie masterpiece, and just about as close to a perfect game as you're likely to find."
"Nobody outside of medicine says sonometer. Sonometer like you say I have 25 saunts in my pocket."
"The exposome is the term for the sum total of all the toxic exposures that we get in our environment."
"A positive test for coronavirus equals a case is a complete abomination of medical terminology."
"Spontaneous suicide is not an actual term that's used in clinical situations."
"The overwhelming majority of SVTs are one of three rhythms: avnrt, avrt, or atrial tachycardia."
"Insulin resistance in the brain is what we call type 3 diabetes."
"Elf ear: officially called Stahl's ear, present in some babies at birth."
"That is called our net QRS vector."
"Ehlers-Danlos syndrome should really be more like the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes."
"A water hammer pulse is one of the common features of the wide pulse pressure findings."
"Bleeding and Hemorrhage, we are getting these patients throughout dialysis, anticoagulants, right, so they have potential to bleed."
"No one in a medical class uses the term [__] unless they were to preface it by saying 'we used to use the word [__] right.'"
"You can see once you know the meaning of these common word elements, you'll be able to put them together and figure out what the medical term means."
"Primordial means fundamental, existing at or from the beginning. Primordial dwarfs are so rare that most doctors have never seen one in their lifetime."
"Tons of these myeloblasts, there'll be just a plethora of these puppies."
"We got the diagnosis and it's it's subcutaneous colitis, T cell lymphoma."
"So annoying, like when you go in and they're like, 'Considerately call it,' like, I think it's different, maybe it's like, 'Mature pregnancy,' but like, when I went in, it was called 'Geriatric pregnancy.'"
"One of the questions that I saw on the chat box was about microperforation and what is the pathophysiology there."
"Cellular leiomyoma is a relative term."
"Approximately 10 to 20 percent of women with ASCUS prove to have an underlying high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on biopsy."
"There's a higher degree of excitation contraction coupling failure."
"CML only has splenomegaly there's no hepatosplenomegaly at all and AML but if we wanted to find hepatosplenomegaly we could do an ultrasound of the spleen or the liver or the you know the right upper quadrant or we could do a CT of the abdomen to find that."
"It's systolic because it's not in Miss PRS died."
"Intracellular edema means excessive fluid inside the cells."
"That norepinephrine and epinephrine can bind onto these small subcutaneous vessels and squeeze the living heck out of these subcutaneous vessels."
"I learned the person who takes blood is called a phlebotomist."
"Asystole means without contraction."
"So asystole is a non-shockable rhythm."
"Last but not least let's talk buddy normal sinus."
"The next category is systemic diseases with back manifestations."
"Make sure that when you're talking about these data with any kind of rep or anyone else, you're talking about the shock wave treatments, not the pulsed wave radiation or the pulse wave pressure waves which are slightly different."
"...if you have two Reds that's a patient that does not need treatment, that's called an inactive carrier."
"Restitution of architectural distortion once you abrogate the injury may occur. It is a dynamic process."
"Lobulated or irregular margins are given two points because they are concerning for malignancy."
"...and then there's two branches coming off the ventral ramus called the rami communicantes."
"There is a disease known as agranulocytosis. What does agranulocytes mean? Neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils."
"Pulmonary fibrosis, which literally means lung scarring."
"I realized that rare is a label that means something in the medical community but doesn't mean never."
"...that might be the classic case of primary non-response..."
"Open wounds involve visible disruption of the skin, while closed wounds have intact epidermis but underlying tissue damage."
"Whenever there is neovascularization, the diabetic retinopathy is now called as proliferative diabetic retinopathy."
"Like all the other [__], like holds your leg together, your ACL, MCL, PCL, like holds it, and the meniscus is just like the bushing in between your bones, right?"
"Spreading of viruses in the blood is called hematogenous spread."
"Public health would dramatically improve if we can ever get to the point where we change the name of Gleason 6 prostate cancer."
"Axial spondyloarthritis is probably the best umbrella term because it includes both the radiographic and the non-radiographic."
"Dementia is kind of an umbrella term, so there are many different types of dementia or causes of dementia."
"A sequela is the residual effect or the condition that was produced after the acute phase of an illness or injury is over."
"Hyperalgesia is an increased pain to a painful stimulus, and allodynia is a painful response to an otherwise non-painful stimulus."
"COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease."
"Chronic pelvic pain syndrome is used to emphasize that the prostate may not be to blame."
"Penumbra is whenever a patient has a stroke symptom onset, not all the neurons causing the symptoms are dead yet."
"Positive end expiratory pressure is going to be referred to as PEEP."
"Lymphoma means a tumor derived from lymphocytes."
"The term acute decompensation has been used to characterize ascites, GI bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, and infections."
"Hyperkalemia means high blood potassium; hypokalemia means low blood potassium."
"The first second volume expelled is called FEV1, forced expiratory volume in the first second."
"Encephalitis lethargica, roughly translating to an inflammation that caused lethargy."
"Malignant glaucoma is not a malignancy, of course, it's just a funny term for glaucoma that's bad."
"The authors propose that a new name for this and they coined a new term and decided to call these abnormal clots fibrinoloids."
"Limitless replicative potential is also referred to as the immortality of cancer cells."
"This is called surface antigen or S antigen or it is also called hepatitis B surface antigen."
"The empty space that's within the alveolus is an air space."
"What is an air space? An air space is an empty space within the alveolus."
"A sequela is the residual effect of a condition produced after the acute phase of the illness or injury has terminated."
"Propofol is called the milk of amnesia because of its white milky color and because it induces amnesia."
"Tremor means to shake in Greek, pretty straightforward."
"The advantage is to use a standardized nomenclature."
"Insulin sensitivity is the inverse, the opposite of insulin resistance."
"The end diastolic velocity or EDV is the speed at which the blood cells are flowing during ventricular relaxation."
"The word dissection means to separate as these two tissue layers start to separate."
"Medical terminology is very important, we have our own language every profession, every hobby even has its own language that everybody pretty much within that hobby or profession speaks."
"The term caesarean is actually derived from the Latin word 'caes', meaning to cut."
"The frontal plane divides the body into front and back halves."
"The sagittal plane divides the body into left and right halves."
"Dorsiflexion is moving the top of the foot towards the shin; plantar flexion is moving the sole of the foot down towards the ground."
"Adduction is movement toward the midline; abduction is movement away from the midline of the body."
"Rotation is a movement in the transverse plane."
"Histology is the medical term for tissue."
"We believe it's better to call this the anti-synthetase syndrome with or without a rash."
"Scoliosis is originally a Greek word and it means turning and twisting."
"It's called foramen magnum, magnum means huge."
"Zebra is the term used to identify people with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome."
"At the end of every day, go and research those terms and you'll eventually build your own medical terminology foundation."
"The sinoatrial node is commonly known as the pacemaker of the heart."
"If you are using healthcare terminology, make sure you explain it to the patient or check that they are familiar with it and use lay language wherever possible."
"And rostral means towards the front, and caudal means towards the back."
"The word benign means good; it's not great that you've got the tumor, but at least it's easy to remove."
"That time delay is called the pulse wave transit time, PWTT."