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- bougie à boule (bulb-tipped bougie)
+ bougie á boule (bulb-tipped bougie) also á-boule bougie
- caliceal stone
+ caliceal stone sounds like cali-seal
- celiac sprue
cerclage/cerclage wire
+ celiac sprue
cerclage/cerclage wire sounds like circ-lahj
- Colles‘ fracture
+ Colles fracture
- Dix-Hallpike? <a class=”wiki” href=”or Hallpike-Dix” rel=”">or Hallpike-Dix</a> maneuver (for paroxysmal postional nystagmus)
+ Dix-Hallpike? <em>or Hallpike-Dix</em> maneuver (for paroxysmal postional nystagmus)
- foramen ovale <a class=”wiki” href=”s/l “foramen o’valley” or “foramenal valley”" rel=”">s/l “foramen o’valley” or “foramenal valley”</a>
+ foramen ovale <em>sounds like “foramen o’valley” or “foramenal valley”</em>
- Guillain-Barr&eacute; syndrome (GBS) – pronounced <i>ghee-lan bar-ray</i> or <i>ghee-yan bah-ray</i>
+ Guillain-Barré<a href=”tiki-editpage.php?page=Guillain-Barr%C3%A9″ title=”Create page: Guillain-Barr%C3%A9″ class=”wiki wikinew”>? syndrome (GBS) – pronounced ghee-lan bar-ray or ghee-yan bah-ray</em>
- Hallpike-Dix? <a class=”wiki” href=”or Dix-Hallpike” rel=”“>or Dix-Hallpike maneuver (for paroxysmal postional nystagmus)
+ Hallpike-Dix? or Dix-Hallpike<a href=”tiki-editpage.php?page=Dix-Hallpike” title=”Create page: Dix-Hallpike” class=”wiki wikinew”>? maneuver (for paroxysmal positional nystagmus)
- <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> <a class=”wiki” href=”<i>H. pylori</i>” rel=”"><i>H. pylori</i></a>
+ Helicobacter pylori</em> abb. <em>H. pylori</em>
- home O<sub>2</sub> (oxygen) <a class=”wiki” href=”s/l “homo 2,” “homo-2″” rel=”">s/l “homo 2,” “homo-2″</a>
+ home O<sub>2</sub> (oxygen) <em>sounds like “homo 2,” “homo-2″</em>
- hyphae
+ hyphae sounds like high fee
- intention tremor
international unit (IU) | micro-international unit (µIU, mcIU) | milli-international unit (mIU)
+ intention tremor
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K-wire (Kirschner wire) – 0.035, 0.045, 0.062 inches, outside diameter – (See <a href=”http://www.uam-intenn.com/equip.htm#wire” target=”new”>United American Medical</a>, for example)
+
K-wire (((Surgical wires, pins and screws|Kirschner wire)))
- Kerley(‘s) <a class=”wiki” href=”s/l “curly”" rel=”">s/l “curly”</a> A, B, or C lines. For P.J. Kerley, British radiologist; see Dorland’s, Stedman’s, Tabers, and/or CMT for additional information.
+ Kerley (sounds like “curly”</em>) A, B, or C lines.
- LAT (lidocaine, adrenaline epinephrine, tetracaine) – topical anesthesia
+ LAT (lidocaine, adrenaline *epinephrine*, tetracaine) – topical anesthesia
- L-dopa (clinical name for levodopa USP)
+ L-dopa (clinical name for levodopa)
- meralgia paresthetica (syn. Roth or Rot disease; Bernhardt disease; Roth-Bernhardt? <a class="wiki" href="or Rot-Bernhardt“ rel=”“>or Rot-Bernhardt disease/syndrome). See Stedman’s, Dorland’s, Taber‘s, and/or Pyle’s Current Medical Terminology for additional information<br /><br /><br />micro-international unit (µIU, mcIU)
+ meralgia paresthetica (syn. Roth or Rot disease; Bernhardt disease; Roth-Bernhardt? or Rot-Bernhardt<a href=”tiki-editpage.php?page=Rot-Bernhardt“ title=”Create page: Rot-Bernhardt“ class=”wiki wikinew”>?</a> disease/syndrome).
- milli-international unit (mIU)
- neutrophils – mature white blood cells (see polymorphonuclear neutrophils <a class=”wiki” href=”"polys,” PMNs” rel=”">”polys,” PMNs)
+ <a title=”Blood groups and types” href=”tiki-index.php?page=Blood+groups+and+types“ class=”wiki”>neutrophils - mature white blood cells
- Nylen-Barany? Nylen-Bárány maneuver/test
+ Nylen-Barany? maneuver/test
- ostial (pertains to ostium opening</a>)
+ ostial pertains to ostium (opening)</em>
- ostiomeatal complex (<u>not</u> osteomeatal; see ostial); <a href=”http://www.aaaai.org/patients/publicedmat/sinusitis/sinusterminology.stm” target=”new”>definition</a>
+ ostiomeatal complex (<strong>not</strong> <em>to be confused with </em>osteomeatal; see ostial)
- Pancof® (s/l “pancough”) – <a href=”http://www.panamericanlabs.com/products/pancofhc.html” target=”new”>Pancof® HC</a> and <a href=”http://www.panamericanlabs.com/products/pancofxp.html” target=”new”>Pancof® XR</a> <FONT SIZE=”-6″><FONT COLOR=”#CCCCCC”>search help: pan cough</FONT></FONT>
- perle <a class=”wiki” href=”s/l “pearl”" rel=”">s/l “pearl”</a> – a liquid-filled soft gelatin capsule; for example, <a href=”http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/TES1437.HTM” target=”new”>Tessalon®</a> perles (each perle contains 100 mg benzonatate) vitamin E perles
+ perle <em>sounds like</em><em> “pearl”</em> – a liquid-filled soft gelatin capsule; for example, vitamin E perles
- pheochromocytoma (s/l fetal or feto chromocytoma)
+ pheochromocytoma (sounds like fetal or feto chromocytoma)
- PMNs (polymorphonuclear neutrophils <a class="wiki" href=”"polys”" rel=”">“polys”)
+ PMNs (polymorphonuclear neutrophils or “polys”)
- pterygoid wing-shaped; related to region of the sphenoid bone
+ pterygoid (wing-shaped); related to region of the sphenoid bone
- Roth-Bernhardt? or Rot-Bernhardt disease/syndrome (syn. meralgia paresthetica)
+ Roth-Bernhardt? (or Rot-Bernhardt) disease/syndrome (syn. meralgia paresthetica)
- Rule of Nines (formula for determining percentage of body surface which has been burned)
+ Rule of Nines (formula for determining percentage of body surface which has been burned)
- sling and swathe – for shoulder immobilization (<a href=”http://www.alphamedical.com/sling_and_swathe.htm” target=”new”>photo</a>)
+ sling and swathe – for shoulder immobilization
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TAC (tetracaine, adrenaline <a class=”wiki” href=”epinephrine” rel=”">epinephrine</a>, cocaine) – topical anesthesia; prepared by pharmacist
+
TAC (tetracaine, adrenaline <em>epinephrine</em>, cocaine) – topical anesthesia; prepared by pharmacist
- Veress needle (not Verres) - See: <a class=”wiki” href=”http://www.ahdionline.com” target=’_blank’>AAMT BOS, p. 362. Named for its inventor <a class=”wiki” href=”1938″ rel=”">1938</a>, Dr. Janos Veress of Hungary
+ Veress needle (not Verres) <em>sounds like varies</em>
