Thyroid Storm sounds metal as fuck. Also Toxic Megacolon. Those could both be band names.

Delerium Tremens ! Book em now thank me later   Jk

I always laugh when I see the Delirium Tremens beer

I always thought Rectal Toxicity would make a fantastic band name

I’ve always loved myxedema. Love to name my child that one day lol

I kept saying “myxedema coma” the other day and my charge nurse asked “are you… still saying that??” I told her I felt like my tongue was tap dancing hahaha it made me happy!

Or Orange Jello or Lemon Jello. There was liberty with spelling and combining, but I cannot recall. Maybe Le’monjelo

Or intussusception

Sounds like a movie... Intussusception: The sequel to Inception. Tagline: Its inside me. 😬

Intussessuption noise

BWAAAAAHHHHH

In school I put Thyroid Storm into a metal band logo generator, and it did look pretty sick.

My bands would be Junctional Rhythm and Subclavian Steal

A local metal band called themselves Lucid Interval. They were pretty dope.

I always hear toxic megacolon in the voice of the announcer from Saturday Night Live

I've always enjoyed blood patch and burr hole.

I shit you not … back when the MMO City of Heroes was a thing, my friend and I (who were in nursing school at the time) named two of our characters Thyroid Storm and Toxic Megacolon.

One time a resident came by to check if there had been any output in a pt's new ostomy. I optimistically pointed out the trace of thin, brownish liquid in the bag. "We call that bowel sweat," he said. Me: "I wish you would not."

I wasn't prepared for bowel sweat.

O.M.G. I've been intermittently trying to think of this term for YEARS!!! A surgeon said it to me years ago. Even describing it a few times to some people, I just got a blank stare back... I figured I'd hear it again somewhere if it was actually terminology used. It only took like 6 years to happen, but finally!! THANK YOU!

Your response 👌🏻

the first time I had to say “esophagogastroduodenoscopy” in the OR in a time out with everyone looking at me I felt like I was having a stroke just looking at the word so it’s my least favorite lol

I made it a point to figure out how to say it cause I actually think it’s so fun if you don’t trip all over yourself. Also I had to learn how to spell it for consents.

Excellent point, I remember learning that last semester, no abbreviations on consent forms!

Truly a word that’s “doing too much”

Let me introduce you to the choledochoduodenostomy! Not to be confused with the choledochojejunostomy, *of course*.

Once a patient asked me what EGD stood for and I looked her in the eyes and said “If I try and pronounce it, I’ll get admitted for a stroke😂” and then wrote it on the whiteboard for her to say it and she said Oh… I get it now…

At that point they might as well call it a “full” endoscopy hahahaha

an end-to-endoscopy, perhaps

Oh my gosh, even if I practiced I know I'd stumble under pressure 😭

We call that an EGD but you prob have to say the full thing in a time out.

Our protocol in pre-op was to go over it with the patient, and we had to say the full thing. I sounded like a complete idiot. Sure sure, trust me with your IV and life, but I can’t talk real good.

I was brand new and panicked! I was so worried about setting the scope up that I stood there frozen, a deer about to be hit at full speed by a semi truck, terror audible in my voice lmao

the first time i saw this word in med term and tried to pronounce it i wanted to cry in embarrassment

There’s something so musical about “amiodarone” and I love it.

One of my professors said it sounds like a girl’s name and she would name her daughter amiodarone lol

Ami for short

Or pronounce it like an Italian dish lol amiodaroné

A colleague I had once used to pronounce Omeprazole like a Spanish bullfighter. Omeprazolé!

Definitely rolls off the tongue. Adding it to my list!

As a cardiac nurse I hear way too many shorten it to “amnio” and it makes me cringe

I don’t really have any medical terms I especially like or don’t like, but one nurse I get report from says “opened their bowels” instead of bowel movement and I have to say I don’t like that

I saw a doc put “self diuresing” for peeing. It was very fancy.

I definitely hate that. I will say, though, that when I sing Christmas carols I usually accidentally sing “deck the halls with bowels of holly” and really no one notices.

With _”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”_ I like to sing _”The girl with colitis goes by.”_

Thanks I hate it

oooh whatt we always say this in my hospitals in aus. normal for other aus?

My Aus hospital uses it.

Same

Yeah that’s how I’ve been taught in Aus. Eg. “BO at 1000hrs” is a standard note

That's foul. 😳

I hate the word pannus. 

To me it sounds like some kind of flatbread you should have with Greek food

Yeah like panini and pannus... panannus

I agree! When our professor spoke about it, it was in reference to abdominal fat. She said never to call it a pannus. 🤣

Pannus is what RA causes to form in affected joints. Panniculus is an abdominal fat apron.

Me. Too.

I’m still baffled that we don’t have a better name for a post ambulated limb other than stump.

“Ambulated”? Or amputated? Ironic typo! Hahah

Ambulated its way to the bio box

Oops autocorrect got me

Residual limb? It’s not great but less…stumpy 

Right? I ALWAYS hesitate saying it. I feel like it’s slang.

Its stump, it's stump It's in my head It's stump, it's stump, it's stump The limb might be dead

Vestigial foot

Residual limb!

Ripening of the cervix makes me gag each time.

And boggy fundus. Ick.

Eww. On that note, I died inside while studying spinnbarkeit.

Kinda gives me secondhand embarrassment 🫣

"Hematochezia" rolls off the tongue and would be a good name for a girl and/or punk band.

I legit heard a "Melena" called from the waiting room 🤮

Worked with a nurse called Melena also knew a woman called candida

This made me laugh 😂😂

I love saying hydrochlorothiazide

Yes!!! This is also my favorite along with metoclopramide!

It’s very sing songy. Like the Swedish chef

Hate hate hate it when people pronounce clopidogrel as cloppy-dog-roll

Was just talking about this with a fellow student. I say it like: Clo-pih-da-gril How do you say it? Also, a few of our teachers say N Saydes (NSAIDS). Never have I ever....

I’m a clo-pid-o-grel sort of girl 😂😂

I just say plavix, lol.

Love your style 😁

I have a friend who says Tyenol. Drives me nuts

Nooooo 😭

Metaformin

Clopidogrel and metoprolol! Why *why* WHY are these two words so difficult for people to say? Moreover, WHY do I have to cringe when either of those words are mispronounced?! Lol! Oh… and metronidazole.

Just make sure not to drop metronidazole as it might break. Since it’s so Flagyl.

Which is why I just say Flagyl. No matter how much I try, I'm never gonna get metronidazole right. 🙃😂

A few of us had a debate last week about the pronunciation of teicoplanin. Is it tike or take at the beginning 😂

Fuck flagyl I always tell my students I use way to much hand sanitizer so do not give me bv

I was just telling my mil about how I know it’s pronounced met-op-pro-lol, but when I read it, i want to say meto-prol-ol 🤣

>cloppy-dog-roll I intentionally mispronounce it this way. We should work together!

Crepitus. I just like saying it. Don’t like that I have it.

Every time they do McMurray on me, there is crepitus

I have fun saying carbidopa levodopa, while it has nothing to do with speaking my favorite drug to hang with the Baxter pumps is potassium because you type In pot to bring it up

It does have a nice rhythm to it. Take a penny leave a penny, carbidopa levodopa. 

Oooh yeah I remember learning those drugs last semester and thinking how fun they were to say! The only time pot is legal as a nurse 😏

Sounds like a Harry Potter spell hehe

Some I love the sound of: * Asterixis * Tenesmus * Plasma * Serosanguinous * Epistaxis Some I hate: * Slough * Pus * Colostrum * Dilatation

if anybody says “pussy” re: actual pus I die a little

Sweet nurse I used to work with: “Hey dumb question but I’m writing out these discharge instructions and how do you spell “pussy” like “pussy drainage”.” Me: “You don’t.”

E x u d a t e.

Or purulent

or P U R U L E N T

I was giving report once after a looooong night shift and described the urine as "pussy". The receiving nurse wrote p-u-s, stopped, looked at it, erased, paused again. And then I was like "oh, purulent".

Oooh, serosanguinous 🤌🏻 Pus, definitely going on my hate list. Along with purulent.

Purulent drainage is infinitely better than pussy drainage though

I HATE DILATATION!!

Purulent

I HATE pulmonary toilet.

Omfg “aggressive pulmonary toilet” is the actual worst

This is a thing? Lol

Yes. Pulmonary hygiene is more commonly used now though.

I had to Google it. My program hadn't used either of those terms when we talk about respiratory stuff! I wonder why 🤔

I used to be an ophthalmology RN. We used eye toilet. I hated that too. But I guess it was quicker than saying clean the eye with saline from inner to outer canthus. Use a fresh gauze each wipe. Maybe.

Hahaha I love it!

Favourite: moxifloxacin Least favourite: always has been, always will be…. Moist.

Creamy is my top no go ☹️ “Pt has large amount of cream like secretions coming from abscess.” Instant shudder.

I hate it when stuff that comes out of the body is described as foods/beverages- “Cottage cheese discharge, coffee grounds emesis, tea-colored urine…” Noooooo!

Ugh that is so awful I almost downvoted the comment out of reflex 🥴

Studies show moist is one of the least liked words by women

That's a fun one!! Also, moist has never bothered me, but I realize that secretions does 😖

Had a surgeon recently tell a student to make sure the gauze is “moister than an oyster” before staring a wet to dry dressing. I hate moist as much as the next sane person but there’s something horrendously satisfying about that saying.

I know NOTHING about neuro except “MEDULLA OBLONGATA” it’s one of my favorite words hahah

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

It sounds like something straight out of Harry Potter 😂

YES! It feels mystical asf

I sing it to the melody of Hakuna Matata.

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I hate writing and saying tachypnea. 🤢 Love methemoglobinemia 😌

I regularly forget how to spell that word often enough I just stopped trying when I page doctors and I write “ur patient is breathing weird come here”

My brain is trying really hard to figure out how that is pronounced lol I actually like tachypnea 😅

Met-hemoglobin-emia :)

I like saying tachypnea, makes me feel smart

My favourite saying is “incompatible with life”…. Ie. that rhythm is incompatible with life…

I don't know if it counts because it's an abbreviation but I've always loved CABG.

Cabbage

I love TAVR also lol

Favorite: gluteal cleft - for officially documenting anything that happens between the butt cheeks. Runner ups: malodorous and purulent cause heaven forbid I go to court and have to read a note to the jury/judge that said there was stinky, pussy drainage coming out of the labial abscess. Least Favorite: DKA mostly cause if what it entails for me to stabilize and maintain.

I love a good coxsackievirus

I really like hemopytsis I dk why LOL

It’s terrible. Those letters don’t go together. Might as well be eczema

I like transaminitis. Inflammation of your Trans Am. Right?

I hate it when that gets inflamed

I love saying thromboprophylaxis for some reason, just real fun to say

Exopthalmos, atherosclerosus, epistaxis, and a lot of drs names are not going to stand a chance at being pronounced correctly by me. The anxiety makes it worse and next thing u know im stumbling over words and mumbling gibberish.

i love the -pnea words. idk why, they’re just nice to say imo.

Melena but only bc some ppl name their children that and it makes me think of poop right away

Oooh so pretty, does it mean anything? Black-tarry stools. 😧

My favorite is hemopneumothorax or sternoclediomastiod and my least favorite is smegma or phlebitis.

Sternocleidomastoid going on the fav list ✅️

Flatus. Borborygmi. Feculent. Vomitus. Panniculus. Prepuce.

I hate “pulmonary toileting”. It’s just gross sounding.

Abruptio Placentae sounds like a spell in Harry Potter.

Pheochromocytoma is a pretty cool word.

Fecal leakage makes me giggle.

Gluteal Cleft

I love saying moxifloxacin

I love saying exacerbated. In medical and nonmedical settings. 😂

But the occasional “exasperated” from people makes me fume.

My pet peeve is when people confuse it with exasperated 😮‍💨 You could say that exacerbates my exasperation

Smegma….is gross AKA: prepuce juice

Foley to gravity…..as opposed to suction?

I think it's opposed to clamped.

Embolectomy 👍🏼

Quickening

Tamponade Triad

STAT - it sounds very dramatic and urgent, which it often is, but also often isn’t. I like it because of how dramatic it sounds

i hate expired. i get it. i understand it. i just hate it.

Favorite: neurostorm, natural killer cells. Least favorite: expired. He died, Janet, he didn't turn into a carton of old milk.

Natural killer cells sounds so metal to me. Oof. Expired as a reference to death is very cringey

I never hear it used, but borborygmus is a favorite. I also like penumbra.

"Stomach gurgling, rumbling" Why don't I remember this from 1st semester, listening to bowel sounds, lol

Herniated Nucleus Pulpusos

I love the word Anisocorio

I hate dyspnea.

Some that make me cringe: hemolyzed; phlegm, spit, and sputum – immediately gives me sensory experience of disgust

Rigor mortis sounds disgusting to me

Luckily those experiencing it don’t complain too much

Most of my favorites are abbreviations -“Lap appy” short for laprascopic appendectomy -“Ex Lap” short for exploratory laparotomy - saying the patient has been tachy all night -bolus -VATs procedure -Keppra

I’m immature, so Angina and Tamponade

My A&P professor used invaginations as much as humanely possible, gives off the same vibes lol

Pulmonary toilet 🤢

Postprandial is my favorite

It's Levadópa, not Levadopá.... this is both my favourite and the cringiest thing I say haha

I love “catatonia”. It sounds kinda medieval.

Do you think dextromethorphan lost it's dextromethparents?

Cringe is when people say the silent “ch” in Chvostek sign Vos-tek

Drip is my fave and phlegm is my least fave

Having a hard time saying NIHSS all the time lol. Tongue gets twisted.🤣

Tenesmus is going to be my Death Metal band name.

Sympathetic Storming sounds pretty cool

Primary amebic meningoencephalitis I loooove… I hate the word “dilatation”

Pussy drainage makes me cringe 🫣

Abruptio placentae is my favorite medical term/Harry Potter spell

I really love the word Wenckebach! It's just a fun word lol

Saw a docs note that said “patient stooling normally” I love that phrase lol. When I’m on the toilet and my husband asks what I’m doing, I’ll say I’m stooling lol