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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 02:22 PM
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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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Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 02:31 PM
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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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Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:02 PM
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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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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:05 PM
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Lordosis is an easy one.
How fast can you say phenomonology?
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Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:07 PM
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Ah, that's easy... Come on gimme some credit here... I'm not brainless. LOL
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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:09 PM
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Let's save that one for RickJ.
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Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:15 PM
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Can you pronounce properly acetlysalicylic acid? Or Sphygmomanometer?
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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 03:20 PM
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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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Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 05:09 PM
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You mean blood pressure cuff? LOL
Come on throw some more at me. Giggle
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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 14, 2008, 05:57 PM
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How about:
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Please pronounce and define. (Do NOT Google.)
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Expert
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:03 AM
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Ah, this is an easy one too... Now the pronunciation depends on your particular locality. Here it is pronounced Jillian Barray... in other places I have lived it's pronounced Geeyan Barray
Clinical manifestations of Guillain-Barre syndrome usually appear 1 - 3 weeks after a mild episode of fever that may be associated with a viral infection or immunizations.
Symptoms can vary in intensity from very mild to extremely severe and usually involves symmetric pain and weakness that affects the upper and lower extremities. In extreme cases there may be paralysis.
I did not Google, FYI. Just had to do a case study on GBS a couple weeks ago for clinicals. I can tell you more if you like.
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Jobs & Parenting Expert
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by J_9
I did not google, FYI. Just had to do a case study on GBS a couple weeks ago for clinicals. I can tell you more if you like.
An old friend ended up on his back totally paralyzed for several months with this. I had never heard of it before. He pronounced it with a hard G. not the J-sound. He still (years later) has residual problems with muscles. He says some days he can chop wood just fine or wrestle a burglar if need be, but will pick up his coffee mug and drop it.
Will you be my nurse if I ever need one?
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:49 AM
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I'd love to be your nurse. LOL
I have heard it pronounced with a hard G also.
Many people, including the case study I did, end up on a ventilator. GBS can take anywhere from 1 - 3 years to recover from and a small percentage of people have permanent residual neurological and/or physiological deficits.
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