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: bannister
Sample Usage: "...Need usage sample here..."
Translation: between
Sample Usage: "The pain starts bequeen my shoulders."
Translation: ...Translation needed...
Sample Usage: "...Need usage sample here..."
Translation: blood clot
Sample Usage: "I got a blood clock in my leg while I was stove up in bed with my back hurting." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.