Favorite vet terms

[LyraGardenia]

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Last night I discovered "galactorrhea" (excessive or inappropriate milk production).

 

[Frozenshades]

Borborygmus ... and "cat burrito" (you know ... wrapping the cat in a towel).

We don't have cat burritos in human medicine even though it's a super-cute term!

*Purrito

A close cousin of clipnosis.

 

[CoffeeQuestionMark]

Last night I discovered "galactorrhea" (excessive or inappropriate milk production).

Ooh. That reminds me that I used to appreciate the word rhinorrhea as well.

 

[cdo96]

Borborygmus ... and "cat burrito" (you know ... wrapping the cat in a towel).

We don't have cat burritos in human medicine even though it's a super-cute term!

Actually, I think cat burritos are called straightjackets in human medicine...

Fundamentally the same function

 

[PippyPony]

My favorite muscle will always be the omotransversarius.

Hands down best muscle

 

[LyraGardenia]

Bumping this because we learned about bougienage in medicine and it's my new favorite.

 

[jaboo]

Learned a new one: splanchnopluere.

 

[jaboo]

Also I’ve had Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious stuck in my head all day because my anatomy professor sang it with “celioacomesenteric ganglion and plexus” instead yesterday. I will never forget the structure!

 

[WildZoo]

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...

Pfft. Margo plicatus is still the best. It's so latin-y.

 

[pp9]

celioacomesenteric ganglion and plexus

This is one of those times where I feel like I was probably taught what/where this is and should know it, but I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever



I experience these times quite frequently

 

[Glammyre]

Parasite names are fun!

"Parelaphostrongylus" and "Cheyletiella" are some of my favorites to say.

"Ctenocephalides" I've heard at least three different ways. I say "TEN-o-sef-AL-ih-dees", but I've heard "TEEN-oh-sef-AL-ih-dees" and "TEN-oh-SEF-al-EYE-dees". I think my class decided any way is OK as long as you say it consistently in front of clients.

Finally, my path professor threatened the class with having to write out "Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus" 100 times if we exceeded the allotted space on essay questions.

 

[twelvetigers]

I think my class decided any way is OK as long as you say it consistently in front of clients.

You ain’t never say that in front of clients... you be like, “Your cat got the fleas, yo” and then they be like, “But he doesn’t go outside! I’ve never seen a single flea! You must have put that on him.”

Ctenocephalides... they’d look at you like you done grown an extra head, that’s what.

 

[cdo96]

You ain’t never say that in front of clients... you be like, “Your cat got the fleas, yo” and then they be like, “But he doesn’t go outside! I’ve never seen a single flea! You must have put that on him.”

well duh, it’s because it’s from your clinic’s lobby, obviously.

I once had a client with really bad flea allergy dermatitis, flea anemia, and Dipylidium caninum, and the owner was convinced we “transplanted her dog with fleas to sell more flea products.”

 

[Glammyre]

You ain’t never say that in front of clients... you be like, “Your cat got the fleas, yo” and then they be like, “But he doesn’t go outside! I’ve never seen a single flea! You must have put that on him.”

Ctenocephalides... they’d look at you like you done grown an extra head, that’s what.

Whoops 🤣. And here is where it's obvious that I never intended to be a clinician

 

[LyraGardenia]

Finally, my path professor threatened the class with having to write out "Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus" 100 times if we exceeded the allotted space on essay questions.

I'm still bitter over having to attempt to spell Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae on a bacT test last year. 🙄

 

[that redhead]

On the flip side, I do not like the word “lymphoid”...it’s like the medicine version of “moist”

 

[WildZoo]

On the flip side, I do not like the word “lymphoid”...it’s like the medicine version of “moist”

Really?? I've never had that reaction to it before. Interesting.

 

[CoffeeQuestionMark]

On the flip side, I do not like the word “lymphoid”...it’s like the medicine version of “moist”

Caseous would be more alikened to that for me.

 

[WildZoo]

Caseous would be more alikened to that for me.

Caseous lymphadenitis!

 

[CoffeeQuestionMark]

Stranguria is one I just learned 😀

 

[officialood]

Discospondylitis is one of my favourites 🙂