Definition:

A surgeon.

Usage:

The slasher operated on him yesterday and he's still in recovery.

Created Sep 11, 2009

Definition:

To accidentally leave a surgical instrument inside a patient after a surgery.

Usage:

Where's that retractor? Don't tell me we buried the hatchet.

Created Nov 07, 2009

Definition:

When a doctor or nurse discovers a potential problem with a patient and decides to pretend it's not there and hope it goes away.

Usage:

We opened him up and found a strange abscess. Given all the other complications we were dealing with, we decided that the ostrich treatment would be the best course of action.

Synonyms:

peek and shriek

Created Dec 12, 2009

Definition:

When viewing an X-ray, it's the visible surgical metalwork from a prior operation.

Usage:

You see the steel sign there on the hip?

Created Feb 09, 2010

Definition:

The process of removing adhesive sutures and staples.

Usage:

Alright, let's clip and strip this guy.

Created Feb 11, 2010

Definition:

When a surgeons opens up a patient, realizes that there is little hope, and quickly sews him up.

Usage:

Dr. 1: I though you had a case this morning?
Dr. 2: It was just a cut and paste job: pancreatic cancer.

Synonyms:

peek and shriek

Created Feb 11, 2010

Definition:

When surgeons perform an operation very quickly so as not to be late for another engagement, usually non-medically related.

Usage:

This case is going to have to be a hit and run if I'm going to catch the second half of the Raiders' game.

Created Feb 12, 2010

Definition:

A medical procedure that takes an eternity to finish.

Usage:

I don't think I'm going to be able to make the Clapton concert tonight--we've got a foreverectomy in progress. I feel like pulling a baby Clapton and jumping out of a window.

Created Mar 06, 2010

Definition:

A painfully horrible surgery that likely has a poor outcome. For example tough, 10-hour operation with a BMI of 50.

Usage:

I just finished my first horrendoplasty of the year: 12-hour leaking AAA on a 500 pound guy.

Created Apr 29, 2010