Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...
Credit: Getty Images This patient case demonstrates the challenge of remotely communicating when a patient’s family confuses the medical meaning with the social meaning of the words used to explain ...
The term dystopia, as everyone knows, means bad place. In the 19th century, however, dystopia had a medical meaning. These days, that medical meaning is generally conveyed by the word ectopia. From ex ...
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