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General medicine: clinical terms, eponyms and abbreviations
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medical-general- Version
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- Terms
- 59
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- English (en)
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- curated by hand from English clinical vocabulary (diagnoses, signs, eponyms, procedures, labs, chart abbreviations); aka spellings are real stt (whisper large-v3-turbo) mis-transcriptions of macOS say voices Samantha and Daniel reading each term in a sentence, reviewed by hand
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Terms 59
Top to bottom is priority: stt feeds the first terms to the decoder as a hint. Misheard spellings are replaced as facts; anything else close to a term is only flagged.
| Term | Misheard as | Note |
|---|---|---|
| pyelonephritis | pilonephritis | kidney infection |
| leukocytosis | glucocytosis | raised white blood cell count |
| eGFR | egg fur | estimated glomerular filtration rate |
| sphygmomanometer | sphigmo manometersphigma manometer | blood pressure cuff |
| hematochezia | hematochisiahematocasia | fresh blood in stool |
| hematemesis | he metemesis | vomiting blood |
| tenesmus | Tonesmustenesimus | constant urge to pass stool |
| choledocholithiasis | coletocholithiasis | gallstone in the common bile duct |
| hemochromatosis | hemachromatosis | iron overload disorder |
| hemodialysis | hemidialysis | blood filtration for kidney failure |
| orthopnea | Orthoni | breathlessness when lying flat |
| urticaria | a ticaria | hives |
| pharyngitis | tharyngitis | sore throat inflammation |
| polyuria | poliuria | excessive urination |
| petechiae | patechi | pinpoint skin hemorrhages |
| fasciculations | For siculations | visible muscle twitches |
| myasthenia gravis | myosthenia gravis | autoimmune neuromuscular disease |
| cor pulmonale | corpulmonal | right heart failure from lung disease |
| Sjögren's syndrome | Juggren's syndrome | autoimmune dry eyes and dry mouth |
| Wolff-Parkinson-White | Wolf-Parkinson white | pre-excitation syndrome of the heart |
| Kussmaul | kusmaulcustomal | Kussmaul breathing: deep labored breathing in acidosis |
| Cheyne-Stokes | chainstokesCheyne Stokes | Cheyne-Stokes respiration: cyclic breathing pattern |
| Chvostek | VostekJvostek | Chvostek sign of low calcium |
| Kernig | Kernigh | Kernig sign of meningeal irritation |
| Kawasaki disease | Kouasaki disease | childhood vasculitis |
| Klebsiella | Klebsila | gram-negative bacterium |
| Group A Streptococcus | Group Ostreptococcus | bacterium causing strep throat |
| BiPAP | Bipop | bilevel positive airway pressure |
| PET-CT | PETCTPET CT | positron emission tomography with CT |
| D-dimer | D dimer | clot breakdown blood test |
| biopsy | bioseebiosey | tissue sample for examination |
| Brudzinski | Brudzinski sign of meningeal irritation | |
| Guillain-Barré syndrome | acute autoimmune polyneuropathy | |
| Takotsubo cardiomyopathy | stress-induced cardiomyopathy | |
| rhonchi | coarse rattling lung sounds | |
| stridor | high-pitched breathing sound from airway obstruction | |
| melena | black tarry stool | |
| STEMI | ST-elevation myocardial infarction | |
| NSTEMI | non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction | |
| ARDS | acute respiratory distress syndrome | |
| TIA | transient ischemic attack | |
| NPO | nothing by mouth | |
| PRN | as needed | |
| CABG | coronary artery bypass graft | |
| ERCP | endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography | |
| dyspnea | shortness of breath | |
| erythema | skin redness | |
| troponin | cardiac injury blood marker | |
| creatinine | kidney function blood marker | |
| procalcitonin | bacterial infection blood marker | |
| thoracentesis | pleural fluid drainage | |
| paracentesis | abdominal fluid drainage | |
| pheochromocytoma | adrenal tumor | |
| thrombocytopenia | low platelet count | |
| lymphadenopathy | enlarged lymph nodes | |
| hemoptysis | coughing up blood | |
| ascites | fluid in the abdomen | |
| diaphoresis | heavy sweating | |
| cholecystitis | gallbladder inflammation |