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: Guillain-Barre syndrome
Sample Usage: "My friend is in the hospital, she has that Gideon-Beret disease." Submittet by Nancy D.
Translation: groin
Sample Usage: "Doc, I got this terrible pain in my grinds." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.
Translation: groin
Sample Usage: "I stretched my grow-in when I tried to do the splits." Submitted by Carol S.