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Most of the definitions on the following lexicon of medical slang appeared a few years ago in the National Lampoon. Some of the definitions are funny. Most are sick. All are used in respected hospitals.

BOBBING FOR  APPLES: Using  the  finger to  unclog a  severely  constipated
  patient.
F.L.K.:  "Funny-looking Kid."  Usually a mongoloid.
F.L.P.:  Parents of an F.L.K.
CRUMP, GORK,  VEDGY:  A  patient requiring  intensive  care,  incapable  of
  movement, and  
CROCK: Hypochondriac.
MARRIAGEABLE MONSTER: A young female patient who has successfully undergone
  major plastic surgery.
GOMER:  A senile, messy, or highly unpleasant patient. 
FASCINOMA: A "fascinating" tumor; any interesting or amusing malignancy.
DROOLER:  A catatonic patient.
CUT AND PASTE:  To open  a patient,  discover that  there is  no hope,  and
  immediately  sew  him up.   Well,  almost immediately.   Sometimes  young
  surgeons practice surgical techniques for a while first.
FOUR F-ER: A gallbladder patient.  "Fat, forty-ish, flatulent female."
PINKY CHEATER: Latex finger cover  used in gynecological and  proctological
  examinations.
ROAD MAP: Injuries incurred by going through a car windshield face first.
A HOLE-IN-ONE:  A gunshot wound through the mouth or rectum.
THE "O" SIGN: The letter O as formed by a patient's gaping mouth.
THE "Q" SIGN: A patient giving the O sign with his tongue hanging out.
THE DOTTED Q:  The "Q" sign, with a fly on the tongue.
SIDEWALK SOUFFLE:  A patient who has fallen from a building.
LOOSE CHANGE:  A dangling limb in need of amputation.
BULL IN THE RING:  A blocked large intestine.
GONE CAMPING:  Reference to a patient in an oxygen tent.
EATING IN:  Intravenous feeding.
BORDEAUX:  Urine with blood in it.
SCRATCH AND SNIFF:  A gynecological examination.
ANGEL LUST:  A male cadaver with an erection.
HIT AND RUN: The act of operating quickly so as not to be late for  another
  engagement.
CAPTAIN KANGAROO:  Chairman of a pediatrics department.
ROOTERS: Indigents and hangers-on who gather in big-city emergency rooms in
  order to be entertained by legitimate cases.
SHORT-ORDER-CHEFS:  Morgue workers.
LOOP THE LOOP: Flamboyant surgical rearrangement of the intestines.
BUGS IN THE RUG:  Pubic lice.
HEY DOCS: Alcoholics  handcuffed to wheelchairs  in big-city medical  wards
  who, at the sight of a white coat, bleat out in chorus, "Hey, Doc!"
BLOWN MIND:  Gunshot wound to the head.
BOOGIE, GOOBER:  A tumor.
THE DEEP FRY:  Cobalt therapy.
ROASTED GOOBER:  A tumor after intensive cobalt treatment.
HEALTHY GOOBER:  A dead patient.
BURY THE  HATCHET:  Accidently  leaving  a  surgical  instrument  inside  a
  patient.
BOTTLE RETURN: Removal of a bottle that is vacuum-jammed in the anal canal,
  usually of a homosexual.
SILVER GOOSE, SILVER STALLION:  Proctoscope.
SQUASH:  Brain.
GAS PASSER:  Anesthesiologist.
CRISPY CRITTUR:  A patient with severe burns.



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