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: vacuuming
Sample Usage: "I get a shark pain in my back when I'm vacgrooming."
Translation: vomiting
Sample Usage: "I had a frequent flyer ER visitor during residency who would say she had been a vomiken and vomiken." Submitted by Dr. Anonymous.