Home Health Dictionary

Medical Colloquialisms & Malapropisms

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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carnal tunnel

Translation: carpal tunnel [syn: carpal tunnel syndrome... Also see carpal thunnel, coppatone syndrome.
Sample Usage: "The carnal tunnel makes my hand numb sometimes."

carpal thunnel

Translation: carpal tunnel [syn: carpal tunnel syndrome... Also see carnal tunnel, coppatone syndrome.
Sample Usage: "The carpal thunnel makes my hand numb sometimes."

carpet monoxide poisoning

Translation: carbon monoxide poisoning
Sample Usage: "She left the car running in the garage and we found her on the carpet. The doctor said it was carpet monoxide poisoning." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.

charlie hawks

Translation: charlie horse
Sample Usage: "Sometimes I wake up with charlie hawks in my leg."

concrussion

Translation: concussion
Sample Usage: "I got hit in the head with a baseball and got a concrussion." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.

constication

Translation: constipation Also see hemrods.
Sample Usage: "I got those hemrods when I was pregnant from all the constication." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.

coppatone syndrome

Translation: carpal tunnel syndrome [syn: carpal tunnel] Also see carpal thunnel, carnal tunnel.
Sample Usage: "I've got the coppatone syndrome in my hand."

coppertone syndrome

Translation: carpal tunnel syndrome [syn: carpal tunnel] Also see carpal thunnel, carnal tunnel.
Sample Usage: "I've got the coppertone syndrome in my hand."

cry

Translation: try
Sample Usage: "I'm going to cry real hard to get better."

cruciating pain

Translation: excruciating pain
Sample Usage: "I have been in cruciating pain since my accident."

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