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

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teach-back n. There’s a technique called teach-back, not assuming that patients know what to do, but understanding that health care is very complex, and the terms used in health care are equally complex and not universally understood by patients. [ Language English Subject Health] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2005)

theranostics n. A new term has entered the pharmaceutical developer’s glossary: theranostics. This word, created by the diagnostics company PharmaNetics, defines the development of diagnostic tests that can identify which patients are most suited for a drug and provide feedback on how well the drug is working. [English Drugs Health Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 24, 2004)

theranostics n. While you can read it for yourself, Sen. Obama’s bill actually mandates technology convergence between pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Whether or not this bill passes, technology convergence between pharmaceuticals and diagnostics (also termed “theranostics”) is here to stay. [English Health Medical] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2007)

therapism n. Once we saw ourselves as serving God, then science, then the state: now we turn inwards and serve ourselves, worship our individuality. This is what I mean by Therapism. It is a religion which began a hundred years ago in the consulting rooms of psychotherapists, and which now, in its wider social and political context, sweeps all before it. [English Health] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

therapism n. The first step that women took in their emancipation was to adopt traditional male roles: to insist on their right to wear trousers, not to placate, not to smile, not to be decorative. The first step men have taken in their self-defense is to adopt the language of Therapism: a profoundly female notion this-that all things can be cured by talk. [English Health] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

therapism n. Therapism is an overvaulation of feeling. In a real sense, it is a tyranny of feelings where women have come to believe that what realy counts in their life is their “psychology."…We might say that therapism promotes a psychological hypochondria with women as the major seekers of emotional health. [English Health] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

therapism n. Some are put off by the New Age rhetoric of crystals, spiritualism, and therapism. [English Health] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

thermage n. Another technology called thermage may help. “We’re pulsing at multi-layers of collagen, from the top all the way down, and then into the fat,” dermatologist Dr. Christine Glavey said. It uses radiofrequency to heat up cellulite. Glavey said it reduces the size of the fat cells by tightening tissue. [English Health] [full cite] (Sep. 27, 2006)

TILT n. Among subjects to be discussed will be “TILT,” a new disease mechanism also referred to as “toxicant-induced loss of tolerance.” That mechanism appears related to respiratory illnesses such as asthma, neurological conditions including depression and migraine headaches and autoimmune conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, Overstreet said. It also has been linked to addictions to drugs, alcohol and food and how people differ in their reactions to various environmental substances such as pollutants. [English Health Acronym] [full cite] (Sep. 13, 2005)

tokophobia n. Women, obstetricians suggest, are afraid of labor. Block reports that there’s even a new word for it: tokophobia, the fear of giving birth. [English Health Medical] [full cite] (Jun. 29, 2007)

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