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: treadmill
Sample Usage: "I got to walk on the threadmill for my therapy every day."
Translation: Tylenol
Sample Usage: "My doctor told me to take three time in all for the pain."
Translation: tracheotomy
Sample Usage: "They couldn't get him off the breathing machine and had to do a trachenometry." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.