I can't stand the word, "facies". Anyone else?

[Knicks]

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[MilkmanAl]

I thought it was a typo for the longest time, and then I started seeing it repeatedly. It's definitely not my favorite term.

 

[Jolie South]

I hate it too. I mean can't we just say "moon-like faces"? Is it really necessary to create a new term?

 

[hrandani]

What? It's not a typo?

 

[PSUtoMD]

I don't know why, but I absolutely hate "caries." As in dental cavities. I know I know, it saves us a whole syllable's worth of time, but seriously? I had never heard "dental caries" until I started medical school. It sounds stupid.

 

[Jolie South]

What? It's not a typo?

Definitely not.

 

[Knicks]

I don't know why, but I absolutely hate "caries." As in dental cavities. I know I know, it saves us a whole syllable's worth of time, but seriously? I had never heard "dental caries" until I started medical school. It sounds stupid.

Yeah, that one's pretty annoying as well.


So far we've got:

-facies
-caries.


Feel free to add more, people.

 

[J ROD]

 

[45408]

which is worse, masked facies or moon facies? I think Potter's facies is the worst.

 

[alphaholic06]

I hate it when people say sontimeter instead of centimeter.

 

[Ashers]

I hate it when people say sontimeter instead of centimeter.

I was going to say that too, but I hadn't since it's not a specific word, but pronunciation.

What's weird is my dad, an orthopod, says "sontimeter" when talking about medical stuff, but "centimeter" when talking about everything else that requires the metric system.

 

[corbis11]

i read it as feces

 

[engineeredout]

Duod-enum or duo-denum?

 

[tideleonheart]

So far we've got:

-facies
-caries.

Feel free to add more, people.

ascites does it for me... *gag*

 

[MilkmanAl]

I hate it when people say sontimeter instead of centimeter.

I haven't really run into that yet, but it sounds ridiculous. Where's the "o?" You're a freakin' doctor. Shouldn't you be able to read?

 

[alphaholic06]

I was going to say that too, but I hadn't since it's not a specific word, but pronunciation.

What's weird is my dad, an orthopod, says "sontimeter" when talking about medical stuff, but "centimeter" when talking about everything else that requires the metric system.

That's interesting. Have you ever asked him about the different pronunciations?

 

[weightyheart]

parietal, meaning pertaining to the paries, which means nothing to me
[anything]-atidyl, like phosphatidyl, meaning pertaining to teradactyls
chole-[anything] or cheno-[anything], like cholecystokinin
kynurenine

I could go on. When I have a headache, I am hypersensitive to these loud words.

 

[student1799]

What's weird is my dad, an orthopod, says "sontimeter" when talking about medical stuff, but "centimeter" when talking about everything else that requires the metric system.

Does he say "sontennial," too?

This seems to be a surgeon thing, because I've never heard anyone else talk that way. I wonder why surgeons favor this pronunciation, since there's no logical basis behind it. The prefixes that are used in the metric system, like centi-, milli-, nano-, and kilo-, are all derived from Greek or Latin, not French. (Yes, the metric system was invented in France, but in that case they should be saying "centimètre," not "sontimeter." Not to mention that they would be "chirurgiens" instead of surgeons ...)

If you're going to be pretentious, you should at least take the trouble to be correct.

 

[Jumpin JAK STAT]

I do not like "facies"

Other "medical" words I don't like include: sequelae and meningitidis, because I have no idea how to say them. Oesophagus and oestrogen are ridiculous. I also hate it when pediatricians say "kiddo".

Words that I DO like include:

1. Umbilicus (umbil-EYE-cus)
2. Conjunctiva (conjunct-EYE-va)
3. Duodenum (say it however you feel like!)
4. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
5. Orthopod. It makes it sound like they're from War of the Worlds or something!

 

[Jolie South]

I do not like "facies"

Other "medical" words I don't like include: sequelae and meningitidis, because I have no idea how to say them. Oesophagus and oestrogen are ridiculous. I also hate it when pediatricians say "kiddo".

Words that I DO like include:

1. Umbilicus (umbil-EYE-cus)
2. Conjunctiva (conjunct-EYE-va)
3. Duodenum (say it however you feel like!)
4. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
5. Orthopod. It makes it sound like they're from War of the Worlds or something!

What?! Sequelae and meninigitidis are two of the best words in medicine. Maybe that's because I'm a dork that actually likes ID.

 

[Knicks]

Gonna have to agree with "Oestrogen" and "Oesophagus"..... completely unnecessary.

 

[Noirukiddingme]

Dilitation vs. dilation

Is there a difference? I don think so.

 

[Ableton]

I like the word priapism.

 

[Deferoxamine]

Love: Gustatory
Like: Decubitus, Insipidus
Meh: Pathognomonic
Hate: Nodosum, Fascial
SEETHING HATRED: Dilatation

 

[geogil]

Dilitation vs. dilation

Is there a difference? I don think so.

I asked a pathologist, and according to him, dilation is a physiologic (i.e.'normal') process, wheras dilatation is a pathologic process. The aorta is dilated during systole, but dilatated with say, syphillis.

 

[Knicks]

......
SEETHING HATRED: Dilatation

Co-signed!


But so far, in this thread, nothing has topped "facies" in my opinion. What a ridiculous word! 🙄

 

[kryptik]

cant stand dilatation either

 

[Pinner Doc]

One that amuses me is "nares," instead of "nostrils." I HATE the word nostril, so naris is much preferable. And yes, the singular of nares is naris, not NARE!😛

 

[Random Anesthesiologist]

One of my housemates pronounces systole

sys-tole (sis-toll) not sys-to-le

drives me nuts.

 

[Knicks]

One that amuses me is "nares," instead of "nostrils." I HATE the word nostril, so naris is much preferable. And yes, the singular of nares is naris, not NARE!😛

This just made my blood boil.

😀

 

[Dirt]

I love any plural "itis". Hepatidities for example. Makes me think of boobs.

 

[xanthomondo]

I like psammoma. I feel like you could name your dog that and it would be badass.

Asterixis is a cool word too.

 

[st0w]

Hydatidiform. Unnecessarily tongue-bouncy word. 👎

Gubernaculum. Totally fun to say. 👍

 

[Ashers]

I like incidentaloma and dysdiadochokinesis.

 

[student1799]

I hate the adjective "innominate" (i.e. innominate bone, artery, vein).

"Innominate" means "nameless"--but said structure CAN'T be innominate, because you just gave it a name! At the same time, why bother naming a structure if you're just going to call it "nameless"?

 

[Knicks]

Hydatidiform. Unnecessarily tongue-bouncy word. 👎

Gubernaculum. Totally fun to say. 👍

Whole-heartedly agree with this one!

 

[TinkerbellMBBS]

We spell them with the "O" but dont pronounce it... why... well thats anyones guess... kinda like epinephine vs adrenaline

Oh and a lecturer who pronounces retina as Ret-Y-na

Gonna have to agree with "Oestrogen" and "Oesophagus"..... completely unnecessary.

 

[Jolie South]

We spell them with the "O" but dont pronounce it... why... well thats anyones guess... kinda like epinephine vs adrenaline

Our pharmacology professor said that we no longer use "adrenaline" to describe endogenous epinephrine because it was trademarked as a drug.

 

[Doctorverardoll]

I like peduncular.

 

[lapelirroja]

Best bug ever: Haemophilus aphrophilus

 

[username456789]

This whole thread is homunculus.

 

[SB100]

My med school faculty convinced the whole class that apoptosis is pronounced "a-pop-tosis" when it should be "apow-tosis". Looks like lots of people forget their Greek 😛

 

[Nikki2002]

there's another facies something like "leonie (sp?) facies" means "lion faces" from leprosy (I think?? what day is it? where am i??

 

[agranulocytosis]

We spell them with the "O" but dont pronounce it... why... well thats anyones guess... kinda like epinephine vs adrenaline

Oh and a lecturer who pronounces retina as Ret-Y-na

Ret-eye-na or ret-why-na?

The latter would seem incredibly ridiculous to hear spoken aloud and the former, while still ridiculous, wouldn't seem so bad in comparison.

 

[PSUtoMD]

there's another facies something like "leonie (sp?) facies" means "lion faces" from leprosy (I think?? what day is it? where am i??

Leonine facies, supposed to be indicative of lepromatous leprosy.

 

[ooglygoo]

Best medical word ever (granted, it's an older word): Dropsy.

As in, abdominal dropsy (AKA ascites).

 

[dnslay]

transaminitis 😡👎

Wtf? Your transaminases are inflamed? C'mon just say what they are.

 

[geogil]

My med school faculty convinced the whole class that apoptosis is pronounced "a-pop-tosis" when it should be "apow-tosis". Looks like lots of people forget their Greek 😛

I think it's amusing that almost everytime that we hear the word 'apoptsosis', it's almost always followed by 'programmed cell death', as in " the gut canalizes by apoptosis, or programmed cell death". Don't we all know what apoptosis is?

Oddly enough, apoptosis is not an authentic greek word, so in my opinion, it can be correctly pronounced a-pop-tosis.

 

[Jumpin JAK STAT]

Probably the worst word in medical school is "pearls", as in "pearls of wisdom". I just can't stand it!

 

[SocialistMD]

Does he say "sontennial," too?

This seems to be a surgeon thing, because I've never heard anyone else talk that way. I wonder why surgeons favor this pronunciation, since there's no logical basis behind it.

It isn't a surgeon thing, it's a northeast thing. I've only really heard it from people who trained in New York or Boston (be they radiologists [the first time I ever heard it], internists, pediatricians or surgeons).