Nursing vocabulary
Quarter three of nursing school is officially over and I've got a new vocabulary. It appears that half of medicine (or nursing) is really about using the $10 words in place of the ones everyone actually understands. For example:
I appear to have porcine diaphoresis: I'm sweating like a pig.
I urgently need to micturate: I really need to pee.
My sacrum is pruritic: my back itches.
I have an ecchymotic subcubitis: there's a bruise on my arm.
My nocturia is likely due to excess hs fluid intake: I had too much water before bed and had to pee in the middle of the night.
I am dysarthric when intoxicated: when I'm drunk my speech is slurred.
My ineffective sleeping pattern caused ocular rubor: my eyes are red because I got to bed too late.
That will be $140 please.
I appear to have porcine diaphoresis: I'm sweating like a pig.
I urgently need to micturate: I really need to pee.
My sacrum is pruritic: my back itches.
I have an ecchymotic subcubitis: there's a bruise on my arm.
My nocturia is likely due to excess hs fluid intake: I had too much water before bed and had to pee in the middle of the night.
I am dysarthric when intoxicated: when I'm drunk my speech is slurred.
My ineffective sleeping pattern caused ocular rubor: my eyes are red because I got to bed too late.
That will be $140 please.
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