Catchword: booby Jacuzzi

Filed under: English, Medical, Slang

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: By gently warming her breast, her doctors unleashed the cell-killing compounds in the vicinity of the tumor without poisoning the rest of her body. All she had to do was lie face down on a padded table, her affected breast protruding through an opening into a tub of warm water. Then she blissed out to the music of Yanni while radio waves heated the breast to Jacuzzi temperature. “Most patients really enjoy the table,” says Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, the medical oncologist at Duke University who treated Link. Patients have even coined their own name for it—the “booby Jacuzzi.”

Article or document title:
“Fresh Weapons For an Old Battle” (URL)

Author:
Anne Underwood

Article, document, publication, web site:
Washington Post

Date of publication:
May 5, 2004

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