slang starting with 't'
tail
- Definition:
- The fiber optic cord between the illuminator and the headlamp worn by the surgeon in the operating room. The light is transmitted from the illuminator unit through a fiber optic cable and into the headlamp. The surgeon is tethered to the unit and and the cord hangs out of their gown like a tail.
- Usage:
- Careful not to step on my tail.
TEETH
- Definition:
- Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy. Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, that treats patients with heavily diluted preparations which are thought to cause effects similar to the symptoms presented. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term "succussion," after each dilution under the assumption that this increases the effect of the treatment. Homeopaths call this process "potentization". Dilution often continues until none of the original substance remains.
- Usage:
- Boy, nothing's working. Perhaps we should employ the TEETH philosophy.
tele
- Definition:
- Telemetry. A telemetry unit is one in which specialized machines are used by the hospital staff to monitor various vitals of a patient, e.g. blood pressure, temperature, rate of breathing, heart rhythms, etc. Patients often go to a tele floor, often called a step-down ICU, after leaving the ICU to be further monitored until they are stable.
- Usage:
- Geoff, the really hairy new nurse on the tele floor, keeps trying to ask me out. He's nice and all, but he looks like the lovechild of Gigantopithecus and Alf.
the big G
- Definition:
- Geodon. It's an atypical antipsychotic drug approved for the treatment of schizophrenia. It's also been prescribed for acute treatment of mania and mixed states associated with bipolar disorder.
- Usage:
- Dave just told me that he believes that he's Bumblee Man from The Simpsons. It's time for the big G.
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A motorcycle. The term......
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