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Irish Medical Terms
Topic Started: Jul 3 2007, 10:07 PM (90 Views)
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In an attempt to standardise medical terms across the EU, Brussels asked all member states to submit lists and definitions of common everyday words or phrases in use in their country that others member states may not be familiar with. Below is the list from Ireland.

Irish Medical Terms

Artery...............The study of paintings
Bacteria..............Back door of a café
Barium..............What you do with people when they die
Benign...............What you'll be after you've been eight
Caesarean section........Part of downtown Rome
Catscan..............Searching for Kitty
Cauterise.............Making eye contact with her
Colic.................A sheep dog
Coma................. A punctuation mark
Dilate................Not dying on time
Enema...............Not your friend
Eyeball...............American cocktail
Fester................Quicker than others
Fibula...............A little lie
Impotent.............Very distinguished, well known
Labour pain............Accident at work
Marrow...............Mate from Newcastle
Medical staff...........Doctors walking stick
Morbid..............Higher offer
Nitrates.............What it costs at night
Node...............Something you knew
Outpatient...........Someone who's fainted
Pelvis.................Elvis's cousin
Post operative..........Postman
Recovery room.........Upholsterers workshop
Rectum...............To totally destroyed something
Secretion..............Hiding something
Seizure...............Roman Emperor
Small pox.............Tiny teacups
Tablet..............A small table
Terminal illness........Being sick in an airport
Tumour...............What you add to 1 to make 3
Urine................Opposite of you're out
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