It’s pretty common to get your medical records and just stare at them, right? Like, what even *is* ‘SOB’ or ‘Hx’? Doctors use ...

AI, particularly through Natural Language Processing (NLP), can help translate these common medical abbreviations into plain ...

Ever met someone who speaks medicalese? You know, the person in your life who describes what happens in the bathroom as a "bowel movement." When people aren't doctors or health practitioners and they ...

Nearly all occupations have a specialized jargon. Medicine is no exception with its own unique language that provides a unifying, consistent terminology for physicians and scientists to communicate ...

Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...

What in the World Does That Word Mean? Over many centuries, health professionals have developed a unique vocabulary, often derived from Greek or Latin words. Because many of these original medical ...

A Janus word or phrase has two meanings, each the opposite of the other. Janus words are named after the two-faced Roman god of archways and doors, Janus. There are many such words in English, the ...

Epistaxis, choledocholithiasis, sphygmomanometer. They’re a medical mouthful. Medical terminology is notoriously challenging to laypeople and medical students alike. On March 19, Yale students put ...