Medical Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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widowmaker n. The left main coronary artery is often referred to as “the widowmaker.” Mangini’s left main artery was 100 percent blocked. [English Medical Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2006)

wildtype n. “Our laboratory testing of the vCT using the BD ProbeTec System revealed that the vCT was as easily detected as the ‘wildtype’ CT.” “Wildtype” is the term for the common circulating strain of an organism. [English Health Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 27, 2007)

womb room n. The spaces, called “womb rooms” by some researchers, are predicated on the obvious notion that the best place for a premature baby would be the exquisitely complex environment where, in the last three months of gestation, the neural connections in the baby’s brain grow exponentially as it curls up in amniotic fluid, listening to the mother’s heartbeat, breathing, intestinal gurgling and pitch of her voice. [English Medical] [full cite] (Jun. 19, 2007)

work up v. phr. One day, as Dr. Meador tells it, a doctor-in-training was asked by his professor to define a well person. The resident thought for a moment. A well person, he said, is “someone who has not been completely worked up.” [English Medical Jargon] [full cite] (May. 23, 2006)

WTC cough n. The term “WTC cough” was coined to describe ailments that could not be clearly characterized in this group, but the addition of end-expiratory CT revealed abnormalities beyond the mild changes that can be seen in smokers and the elderly. [New York City English United States Health Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 3, 2004)

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