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

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cancer refugee n. The phrase “cancer refugees” has been coined to describe desperate patients who visit hospital after hospital searching for advice and care. [English Health New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 9, 2006)

cardiodiabesity n. Smith says a deadly troika of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity—or cardiodiabesity—as he calls it, is killing one Australian every few minutes. [English Health New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 5, 2007)

care leaver n. Wards of the state are officially referred to as Care Leavers but the people who have been brought up this way don’t like that title. They would argue that no care was given to them at all [English Australia Health Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2004)

care leaver n. Leaving care arrangements must be evolutionary over a period often of many years and links should remain for as long as a young care leaver needs them. [English United Kingdom Health Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2004)

care leaver n. The list of young people, like care leavers and abuse victims, who can claim benefit because they live away from home is being extended to include young people who are—in the words of the DSS—“genuinely estranged from their parents.“ [English United Kingdom Health Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2004)

chemical cosh n. Treatments of mental and physical illnesses were spiritual tasks, not merely matters for medical repair, the prince said. Psychiatrists should resort less often to the “chemical cosh” of drugs. [English United Kingdom Drugs Health Medical] [full cite] (Aug. 30, 2006)

chemical cosh n. These drugs can make people more manageable and less demanding. They have been implicated in the torture of prisoners in Soviet psychiatric prisons. Allegations concerning their use as the “chemical cosh” continues to emerge from British prisons. Most worrying of all, perhaps, is their routine use for the management and control of people with mental handicaps. [English United Kingdom Drugs Health Medical] [full cite] (Aug. 30, 2006)

chemo brain n. Years after chemotherapy, some breast cancer patients have subtle memory and concentration problems often dubbed “chemo brain,” a new study shows. [English Body Health Medical] [full cite] (Oct. 9, 2006)

chewing gum fit n. One type of seizure that affects the head, and is unique to distemper, is sometimes referred to as a “chewing gum fit” because the dog appears to be chewing gum. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Health] [full cite] (Dec. 12, 2006)

chubb n. Chubb—fat around the kneecaps. [English Body Health Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 5, 2007)

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