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: a swelling
Sample Usage: "I fell down my steps and got a pone on my knee." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.
Translation: sciatic nerve Also see sanotic nerve
Sample Usage: "My doctor told me that my back pain was from a flare of my psychiatic nerve." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.