Southern Medical Terminology
Abbominable pain = abdominal pain
Acid in the blood = a summer rash due to eating too many tomatoes.
Actin' drunk = vertigo
Arthuritis = meanest of those "itis" brothers.
Athletic seizure = epileptic seizure
Augres = violent, shaking chills
Bad = tendency. ("I'm bad to eat sweets.")
Bad blood = positive syphilis serology.
Bate = abate. "The pain bates down."
Bealed = gather matter, come to a head (often in reference to ear infections)
Bottom = perineum
Cadillacs = cataracts
Cascade = vomit; also referred to as: Technicolor yawn, Yelling at the concrete, Hollerin' for Ralph, Wantin' a Buick, Drivin' the porcelain bus
Chicken breath = "she can't breathe"
Chicken Pops = chicken pox
Clabber = What happens to milk in the stomach. Felt to be significant when seen in vomitus.
Clogs = clots ("Dem blood clogs is comin' down")
Clutter Headache = cluster headache
Cold = any unexplained inflammation above the waist ("I got a cold in my shoulder")
Courage = potency (also see "nature")
Deathly sick = nauseated
Down there = delicate reference to the genitals
Drawin' Spell = hyperventilation with carpopedal spasm.
Dropsy = heart failure
Evicted = addicted
Fester = to become infected
Fireballs of the Eucharist = fibroids of the uterus
Flustrated = Flustered and frustrated all in one.
Gape = Gasp ("He had to gape for his breath")
Gaulded = Scalded appearance (usually refers to a groin rash)
Give out = completely exhausted
Goober = penis (often used with prefix "little")
Goozle = throat
Goin' Down = Getting weaker
Hard attack = heart attack ("He had a couple of hard attacks, but he'll be OK")
Hark = cough or clear throat
Hawk = cough or clear throat, often used with the terms: Loogie, Lung Oysters
High blood = hypertension
High hernia = hiatal hernia
Hope = help ("That medicine didn't hope me")
Hunker = squat
Hurt = steady discomfort
Ill = angry, not sick
Infantigo = impetigo
Itch = scabies
Intestinal flu = gastroenteritis
Kernals = lymph nodes
Leaders = tendons
Light heart attack = angina
Light stroke = transient ischemic attack
Locked bowels = constipation
Low blood = anemia ("I got high blood and low blood too!")
Matter = accumulated thick secretions
Mess = a lot
Mighty Internal Fart = myocardial infarction
Monthly = menses ("Damn that man, my monthly is late again.")
Nature = potency
Nerves = any psychiatric disorder
Nervous bust-up = nervous breakdown
Node = was aware of
Null = diminish ("My pain nulled down")
Numbin' medicine = local anesthetic
Octagen = oxygen
Old Timers Disease = Alzheimer's disease
Old timey flu = true influenza
Pain = sharp pain ("There ain't no pain, just a dead hurt")
Pass wind = flatulence
Perireptile risin' = perirectal abscess
Peanut butter balls = phenobarbital
Prostrate = prostate
Perish to death = waste away
Piles = hemorrhoids
Pity party = feeling bad for self
Plumb = completely or truly
Poke = sack containing medication (also intercourse)
Pone = Smooth, rounded subcutaneous nodule
Privacies = genitalia
Proud = glad ("I'm proud I don't have cancer")
Regulate my bowels = give something for constipation or diarrhea
Rift = belch
Right = very ("I am right tired")
Risin' = small, inflammatory nodule
Roaches on my liver = cirrhosis of the liver
Root Drop = impotence
Seeds = testicles
Shy kidneys = can't urinate while watched
Sick as hell anemia = sickle cell anemia
Sick rag = wet cloth to forehead
Skim = haziness ("There is a skim over my eyes")
Smilin' Mighty Jesus = spinal meningitis
Sprangles = paresthesias
Straddle = crotch
Stubborn = constipated
Swimmin' = vertigo
Technical shot = tetanus shot
Terrify = annoy greatly
Thick blood = imaginary condition whereby the doctor gives blood thinners
Throwing up his toenails = impressive vomiting
Trots = diarrhea
Tylon = Tylenol
Vomick = vomit
Weak kidneys = incontinent
Weasles = measles
Wen = sebaceous cyst (usually on head)
Whelps = hives
Workin' medicine = laxative
Worry = to bother
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