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Workplace jargon
What are some of the words, phrases, and acronyms unique to your job/profession?

for me:

bibliographic record
stamper
date due slip
processing
slipping (obsolete)
reader's advisory
Dewey number
serials
CIP (cataloging in publication)
cutter
verso
spine label

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Old Mar 14, 2008, 01:31 PM   #2  
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Oh, so here we go huh WG? LOL

Oligohydramnios (my personal favorite word to say)
PIH (pregnancy induced hypertension)
Placenta abruptio
Placenta previa
Leopolds maneuver
jewelry
gravidity
parity
nulligravida
primigravida
viability
biophysical profile
FHR (fetal heart rate)
lechithin-sphingomyelin ratio


Shall I go on? LOL
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I'll add some more


Hepatospleomegaly
Hypokalemia
Menoxenia
Lordosis
Kyphosis


I especially like the ones very few people, including my instructors, can't pronounce.
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Lordosis is an easy one.

How fast can you say phenomonology?
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Ah, that's easy.....Come on gimme some credit here.....I'm not brainless. LOL
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Let's save that one for RickJ.
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Can you pronounce properly acetlysalicylic acid? Or Sphygmomanometer?
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The first one - say it like a cheer. Not the second one. I hate trying to pronounce the second one. I say BP thingy.
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You mean blood pressure cuff? LOL

Come on throw some more at me. giggle
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How about:

Guillain-Barre syndrome

Please pronounce and define. (Do NOT google.)
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