Thursday, February 29, 2024

LOEVA 27 MEDICAL WORDS not so friendly as they look and sound

 Delivery: is when a pregnant woman is giving birth

Miscarriage

Angina is not sore throat: angina pectoris is to describe a pain in the chest related to a difficult heart condition

Stroke is for french AVC

Heart attack is for myocardial infarction

Theatre is for the operating room

Body is for the living body

Corpse is for the dead one

Delay  is not a time interval

Face is not a figure

Marrow: bone marrow

Spinal cord is the cord in the spine: tumour of the spinal cord,  spinal cord wounded etc

Os is not bone of course it comes from latin os -mouth!

Piles is not for pace-maker but for haemorrhoids

Condom is not preservative '(or food)

Rate is the number of beats per mn

Heartburn is not a heart desease

Sensible means it makes sense, does not mean sensitive

Murmur is a kind of noise made by the heart; 


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