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I can't be the only one out there that really super appreciates some of the words used in the veterinary world.

I love it when a cell blebs
I feel a little dark when I laugh at AGASACA
and don't even get me started on poikilocytosis

What are your favorites?
 
Pseudocoprostasis is one of my favorite 'diagnoses'.

Also
Acetabulum.
Gubernaculum.
Enthesiophyte.
 
PrincessButterCup said:
emphysema
avulsion
edema
icterus
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Edema is one of my favorites because 90% of the time our students either didn't notice it or didn't know what it was. I got to feel all smart when I pointed it out. 😀 Same for emphysema. Plus they're just fun to say.
 
Alot of the terms for stuff wrong with eyes like blepharospasms
 
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Atelectasis is really fun to say

I second genny's comment about margo plicatus. Plus, the fundus sounds fun to me.

A lot of horse/large animal terms are pretty goofy, like windpuffs, scratches, hunter's bump... and a bunch more that I'm weirdly blanking on right now.

I chuckle a little bit every time someone mentions doing a CT on a cat, because cat scan lol

(Pet scan also falls into the same category, but is slightly less funny to me because there is less cat involved)

I also enjoy literally anything that is said by our British and Australian professors.
 
Purkinje.



But also biased because that's what I named my dog 😛

I also like anything that ends in '-itis' for some reason. Probably because you always understand what's going on with the patient clinically if someone says the animal has an '-itis' of sorts.
 
PippyPony said:
I also enjoy literally anything that is said by our British and Australian professors.
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Our Irish renal physiology professor used to say "ca-PILL-a-ries" instead of "CAP-il-air-ees". Adorable and hilarious at the same time. And our Indian anatomy prof (who taught in the UK for years) used to say "develop" in such a way that it sounded like "double up".
 
CoffeeQuestionMark said:
It bothers me when ileum is spelled as ilium. Two very different things.
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Funny story, one day I was writing up a sample that was described as 'ileum mass'. I don't know why I had a brain fart but I was 100% convinced it was a bony mass...reassured my faculty it was bone even though it was an epithelial tumor on the slide which is super rare for a bone lesion. It was actually an intestinal mass in the ileum. Oops.
 
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Trilt said:
Subspectacular abscesses 😍
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Ugh, I remember the two snakes I saw in vet school on primary care. One of them had this, the other had necroti, mummified, dead snake babies. Since they both needed surgery, another student had to pick up one of them, so he took the subspectacular abscess and was in/out and done fast. I got stuck with the most awful, disgusting, insanely long 3 hour surgery of removing dead baby mummified, infected snake baby from the snake, uterus had ruptured. The smell had apparently permeated through the surgery suite to the point that the surgeons (on the complete other side of the surgery suite. Surgery suite was set up with non-sterile endoscope procedure rooms on one side, in the middle a large open room for set-up, induction, etc and then another hall with surgery rooms for sterile procedures. We were on non-sterile side and they were using the sterile side) talked about cancelling some of their more elective procedures because they couldn't handle the smell any longer.

Will never again, never, ever, ever, ever again, see another snake. Nope, no thank you, I had my experience, I am done.
 
DVMDream said:
Ugh, I remember the two snakes I saw in vet school on primary care. One of them had this, the other had necroti, mummified, dead snake babies. Since they both needed surgery, another student had to pick up one of them, so he took the subspectacular abscess and was in/out and done fast. I got stuck with the most awful, disgusting, insanely long 3 hour surgery of removing dead baby mummified, infected snake baby from the snake, uterus had ruptured. The smell had apparently permeated through the surgery suite to the point that the surgeons (on the complete other side of the surgery suite. Surgery suite was set up with non-sterile endoscope procedure rooms on one side, in the middle a large open room for set-up, induction, etc and then another hall with surgery rooms for sterile procedures. We were on non-sterile side and they were using the sterile side) talked about cancelling some of their more elective procedures because they couldn't handle the smell any longer.

Will never again, never, ever, ever, ever again, see another snake. Nope, no thank you, I had my experience, I am done.
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More for me 😀

I like "eosinophilia" and "subaortic stenosis" - they just have a nice flow to them.

Veterinary words I can never say right: silver sulfadiazine. "Silver...sulfur..diazepam? You know, that cream."
 
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genny said:
No, I think that Americans just pronounce capillary differently than other English-speaking countries do.
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Yeah, that's my point, other countries don't pronounce cocci and bacilli the way we do. I never knew this was a thing until I worked under a vet who was really annoying about correcting everyone who said it wrong 🙄 Then I started hearing it from people who trained outside of American and I can't not notice it now :arghh:
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Yeah, that's my point, other countries don't pronounce cocci and bacilli the way we do. I never knew this was a thing until I worked under a vet who was really annoying about correcting everyone who said it wrong 🙄 Then I started hearing it from people who trained outside of American and I can't not notice it now :arghh:
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But it isn't wrong, just different. Like how the island or the water "La Croix" is pronounced La Croy but would usually be said La Kwa. It bothers me... But is technically not wrong
 
Someone in my class says “carpometacarpal joint” really fast and it makes me laugh every time. I’ll never forget that joint either!
 
not really a "favorite" vet term, but I work in wildlife rehab and I always enjoy the work around that comes along with describing nasty wounds filled with pus, e.g. "wound is very juicy and p*ssy... er... pus-y .....ehhhhh imma go with pus-filled"
 
grebes4lyfe said:
not really a "favorite" vet term, but I work in wildlife rehab and I always enjoy the work around that comes along with describing nasty wounds filled with pus, e.g. "wound is very juicy and p*ssy... er... pus-y .....ehhhhh imma go with pus-filled"
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The word for that is purulent.

That wound has purulent discharge.
 
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DVMDream said:
The word for that is purulent.

That wound has purulent discharge.
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I will share this with the entire staff. It's gonna be a great day.
Not quite sure why our vet hasn't corrected any of us yet... but some of the super obvious work-arounds are pretty funny to read, so maybe that's why :laugh:
 
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I used to like Margo plicatus until I found out that it’s where Gasterophilus like to hang out and I saw them in my cadaver in comparative anatomy... :barf:
 
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