Palpation versus palpitation...

[TooMuchResearch]

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Anyone else get annoyed at how often people use palpitate in place of palpate? It kind of reminds me of conversate and orientate (...Firefox apparently accepts orientate as a word but rejects conversate), except palpitate actually means something else.

 

[LossForWords]

Honestly, I didn't actually know they were different words...

 

[xanthomondo]

Anyone else get annoyed at how often people use palpitate in place of palpate? It kind of reminds me of conversate and orientate (...Firefox apparently accepts orientate as a word but rejects conversate), except palpitate actually means something else.

I think most people in med school who switch the two just do it for the humors.

 

[MSUSpartan642]

honestly, i didn't actually know they were different words...

+2

 

[deuist]

Palpate = you (the doctor) feel something with your fingers.
Palpitate = the patient notes something on the inside, such as an irregular heart beat.

 

[gravitywave]

I think most people in med school who switch the two just do it for the humors.

no way, you give them too much credit.

 

[LRAccord624]

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?

 

[gravitywave]

that's 100% wrong. OED and Dorland's agree.

i've never heard that one before, maybe it is regional.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

Wow there's some silly arse med students out there.

One I discovered recently is that rales is not pronounced "rails" like "nails," it's "ralls" like "balls." Maybe I'm a dum-dum too 😛

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

oh yeah, for some reason I hate it when people pronounce the "A-B-" in abduction. Like, "yeah this muscle adducts and the other ay-bee-ducts." STFU. But professors do it too. Is it really that hard to hear the difference?

 

[BigRedder]

Sometimes palpation leads to palpitation.

 

[jm192]

oh yeah, for some reason I hate it when people pronounce the "A-B-" in abduction. Like, "yeah this muscle adducts and the other ay-bee-ducts." STFU. But professors do it too. Is it really that hard to hear the difference?

All of the professors at my school say "A-B-ducts"

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Sometimes palpation leads to palpitation.

Femoral pulse!

 

[BBender716]

All of the professors at my school say "A-B-ducts"

Same here. I get it though. You can only take miscommunication so many times...

 

[JC Denton]

What we need is a systemic method of organizing our words so people stop using the wrong ones.
It gets so frustrating sometimes that I can feel my intercranial blood vassals dilatate.

 

[BigRedder]

What we need is a systemic method of organizing our words so people stop using the wrong ones.
It gets so frustrating sometimes that I can feel my intercranial blood vassals dilatate.

 

[hurdlepup]

All of the professors at my school say "A-B-ducts"

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!

 

[Dr McSexy]

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?

Yup I do that. Also with larynx .

Anyone else get annoyed at how often people use palpitate in place of palpate? It kind of reminds me of conversate and orientate (...Firefox apparently accepts orientate as a word but rejects conversate), except palpitate actually means something else.

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.

 

[Pinner Doc]

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!! 🙄

 

[Jeff Smoker]

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?

 

[cheasus]

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?

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

 

[TooMuchResearch]

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

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

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.

 

[JDatHeart]

dilation vs. dilitation... discuss 🙄 I'm just awful.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

dilation vs. dilitation... discuss 🙄 I'm just awful.

Yeah that one gets me going too. Is dilatation a correct version?

I heard e-nervate (aka innervate) today. Loved it.

 

[michigator04]

I can't stand it when people say:
"Track" instead of Tract
"Pneumonic" instead of mnemonic

 

[JDatHeart]

I can't stand it when people say:
"Track" instead of Tract
"Pneumonic" instead of mnemonic

Track vs. Tract drives me nuts as well

 

[OveractiveBrain]

-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

 

[Green Penguin]

dilation vs. dilitation... discuss 🙄 I'm just awful.

I always say dilation, but I was under the impression that they were synonymous. Do they have separate meanings?

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

I can't stand it when people say:
"Track" instead of Tract
"Pneumonic" instead of mnemonic

Ahhh Pneumonic! Yeah, that's a total classic.

 

[OveractiveBrain]

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

 

[mac_kin]

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[Droopy Snoopy]

Tin-it-us vs. Tin-eye-tus
Um-bill-eye-cus vs. Um-bill-ic-us

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Tin-it-us vs. Tin-eye-tus
Um-bill-eye-cus vs. Um-bill-ic-us

Both are accepted uses of each other. Much like dilatation and dilation, both uses are interchangeable. - Sapira's Art of Bedside Diagnosis

 

[VenusinFurs]

pathopneumonic vs pathognomonic