Home Health Dictionary is a medical translation resource / reference designed to assist home health and medical professionals recognize mispronounced, malaproped or colloquial medical terminology. A medical malapropism is typically created by the incorrect use of healthcare terminology by patients or the patients' family when they substitute a similar-sounding word with different meaning.
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Translation: Alzheimer's [syn: Alzheimer's disease... Also see old timers .
Sample Usage: "My grandma can't remember too good now that she has the all timers."
Translation: exacerbation
Sample Usage: "I'm having an asserbation of my COPD."
Translation: arthritis
Sample Usage: "Betty's been in bed with Arthur Ritis." Submitted by Debbie M.