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: ligaments and/or tendons
Sample Usage: "I can't do my stretchin' cuz my leeders are all stove up."
Translation: lymph node
Sample Usage: "I noticed a lump in my neck and my doctor said it was a limp noid." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.
Translation: Lyrica (the medicine)
Sample Usage: "My doctor just started me on lycra." Submitted by Mike D.