Thursday, August 16, 2007

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS

LABOR PAIN - Getting hurt at work.
FIBULA - A small lie.
BACTERIA - Back door to the cafeteria.
EPIDERMIS - Cousin Epi didn't get that deer.
IMPOTENT - Distinguished, well known.
MEDICAL STAFF - A doctors' cane.
BARIUM - What to do when a patient dies.
CAUTERIZE - Made eye contact with her.
SEIZURE - Roman emperor.
BENIGN - What you be after eight.
ARTERY - The study of paintings.
TUMOR - More than one.
COLIC - A sheep dog.
HANGNAIL - What you hang your coat on.
NITRATES - Cheaper than day rates.
FESTER - Quicker than the other guy.
COMA - A punctuation mark.
CAT SCAN - Kitty hunting.
URINE - Opposite of your out.
TERMINAL ILLNESS - Getting sick at the airport.
VARICOSE - Nearby or close by.
OUTPATIENT - A person who has fainted.
ENEMA - Not a friend.
DILATE - To live too long.
MORBID - An offer higher than I bid.
RECTUM - DANG NEAR KILLED EM!

(Actual homework for Anatomy and Physiology)

4 comments:

jAMiE said...

Cool...saw it before but still fun to read again.

KSHIPPYCHIC said...

Jamie - my daughter actually brought this home as homework!! Too funny. They had to play the matching game with the words and definitions, but I thought it was hysterical! LOL!

bundle-o-contradictions said...

:) I hadn't seen a couple of those before.

g-man said...

Just back to school, What else are they expected to do for homework, they haven't learnt nuthin yet.