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Medical Slang

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  • Cap gas

  • Capillary blood gas; spell it out

  • Catcher's mask

  • Device used for patients with bleeding varices in throat to stop bleeding

  • Cathed

  • Catheterized; spell it out

  • Champagne tap

  • Clear tap; no blood

  • Chandelier sign

  • Intense amount of physical response, including near levitation from the bed to the chandelier on the ceiling, induced by examining for cervical motion tenderness in cases of pelvic inflammatory disease

  • Chapter

  • Usually refers to a delusional or hallucinatory patient (from legalese Chapter 51, etc.)

  • Chicken spray

  • Nickname for ethyl chloride spray, liquid used for transiently numbing injection sites

  • Circling the drain

  • Patient's future prospects of life are dim; rapid deterioration

  • Coag

  • Coagulation (time)

  • Code black

  • Deceased patient

  • Code brown

  • Incontinent patient

  • Code call

  • Urgent medical emergency

  • Code green

  • Ambulatory injury; walking wounded

  • Code red

  • Critical patient

  • Code yellow

  • Urgent trauma

  • Coke

  • Street name for cocaine

  • Consented

  • Statement is often made "The patient was consented for surgery." What is actually meant, of course, is that the patient signed an Informed Consent form. However, the misused form of "consent" is becoming quite popular, and the meaning is not distorted by this phrase. See "bovied" and "double-doc'ed" for further discussion on such terms.

  • Crack

  • Street name for a particularly potent crystalline solid form of cocaine

  • Crank

  • Mixture of crack cocaine and another stimulant, such as amphetamine

  • Crasher

  • Someone who passes out in ER (usually family member)

  • Crispy critter

  • Severely burned patient

  • Crit

  • Hematocrit; spell it out

  • Crock

  • Patient whose physical complaints are without organic or discernible basis or frankly bogus


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