Palpation versus palpitation...
Started by TooMuchResearch
Honestly, I didn't actually know they were different words...
I think most people in med school who switch the two just do it for the humors.
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Palpate = you (the doctor) feel something with your fingers.
Palpitate = the patient notes something on the inside, such as an irregular heart beat.
Palpitate = the patient notes something on the inside, such as an irregular heart beat.
no way, you give them too much credit.
I didn't even know people mixed up the two terms- I've never heard someone say palpitate instead of palpate (and I would have heard it by now- just finished learning how to do abdominal exams).
You know what drives me crazy though? People here keep saying "phar-nyx" instead of "phar-ynx". Is that accepted as a correct pronunciation or something? I hear it from medical students and even heard a physician say it. Maybe it's a Texas thing?
You know what drives me crazy though? People here keep saying "phar-nyx" instead of "phar-ynx". Is that accepted as a correct pronunciation or something? I hear it from medical students and even heard a physician say it. Maybe it's a Texas thing?
that's 100% wrong. OED and Dorland's agree.
i've never heard that one before, maybe it is regional.
i've never heard that one before, maybe it is regional.
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All of the professors at my school say "A-B-ducts"
Femoral pulse!
Same here. I get it though. You can only take miscommunication so many times...
And every time it happened I would turn to my neighbor and ask, did he say "A-B..." or "A-D-duct", because pausing like that only made it more unclear!
Yup I do that. Also with larynx .
Do it as well.
It's not like I don't know what it means when I say it. I'm pretty terrible at pronunciations in general. I usually read the dissector so that my tank mates can have a good laugh as I read. I suck at "anastomoses" as well.
Describing an abdomen as tympanic (incorrect) vs tympanitic (correct) annoys me, too.
That, and all of the senior residents I know who STILL describe a patient's dosing "regiment." Regiment!! 🙄
That, and all of the senior residents I know who STILL describe a patient's dosing "regiment." Regiment!! 🙄
All those are pretty good examples. The one that annoys me the most, without a doubt, are the older surgeons who pronounce centimeter as "sonometer" as opposed to "cent-ameter" It's not "sonometer" dummy. Are you measuring something on a sonogram? Where the hell did that come from?
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There are physicians that pronounce centimeter as sonometer? Never heard it, now I know not to laugh when I hear it in the clinic... I'll just get all the laughter out now: bahahahahahaa
There are physicians that pronounce centimeter as sonometer? Never heard it, now I know not to laugh when I hear it in the clinic... I'll just get all the laughter out now: bahahahahahaa
You're not the first to take issue with this pronunciation:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=283637
There are physicians that pronounce centimeter as sonometer? Never heard it, now I know not to laugh when I hear it in the clinic... I'll just get all the laughter out now: bahahahahahaa
Definitely
I've heard it a bunch of times..."the tumor was 2.5 sontometers" It's always coming from some old guy with a pocket protector.
Yeah that one gets me going too. Is dilatation a correct version?
I heard e-nervate (aka innervate) today. Loved it.
I can't stand it when people say:
"Track" instead of Tract
"Pneumonic" instead of mnemonic
"Track" instead of Tract
"Pneumonic" instead of mnemonic
Track vs. Tract drives me nuts as well
-Axe vs Ask (Even amongst medical professionals)
-Burl vs Boil (down in the dirty dirt...means the south)
-ED-uh-muh vs ed-EE-mah (though now I say it to make fun of how idiotic it sounds)
-Abdomen vs Ab-DOH-men
-Sahntimeter vs Centimeter
-Tympanic vs Tympanitic (i learned the difference in my 4th year, oops)
-Track vs Tract (but lets be honest who really knows which to use)
-Orientated vs Oriented
-RENnin (digests milk) and REE-nin (renin is the RAS hormone)
-I definitely wrote Pnemonic for my pulmonary mnemonics, though I thought i was being funny
-Burl vs Boil (down in the dirty dirt...means the south)
-ED-uh-muh vs ed-EE-mah (though now I say it to make fun of how idiotic it sounds)
-Abdomen vs Ab-DOH-men
-Sahntimeter vs Centimeter
-Tympanic vs Tympanitic (i learned the difference in my 4th year, oops)
-Track vs Tract (but lets be honest who really knows which to use)
-Orientated vs Oriented
-RENnin (digests milk) and REE-nin (renin is the RAS hormone)
-I definitely wrote Pnemonic for my pulmonary mnemonics, though I thought i was being funny
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I always say dilation, but I was under the impression that they were synonymous. Do they have separate meanings?
Ahhh Pneumonic! Yeah, that's a total classic.
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Just thought of another one, since it is RAMPANT here on sdn.
Advise - the verb, the action of advising or giving advice
Advice - the noun, the thing that is given as a result of advising
Advise - the verb, the action of advising or giving advice
Advice - the noun, the thing that is given as a result of advising
Tin-it-us vs. Tin-eye-tus
Um-bill-eye-cus vs. Um-bill-ic-us
Um-bill-eye-cus vs. Um-bill-ic-us
pathopneumonic vs pathognomonic
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