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What does
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BA S
— Balloon angioplasty plus stenting
JANITOR'S FRACTURE
— a fracture so obvious that a janitor (cleaner) could diagnose it
S I
— Strains Were Inhibited
S 100
— specific enolase, S-100 protein
S DP
— Stuttering and Disordered Phonology
H→S
— heel-to-shin test
CHANDELIER'S SIGN
— The result of any test or probing after which the patient must be removed from the chandelier
OC'S
— Optical centres
3P’S
— Pill, Permissiveness and Promiscuity (relates to female patients with sexually transmitted disease)
S
— without (usually written with a bar on top of the 's')
WOOLWORTH'S TEST
— (UK anaesthesia) if you can imagine patient shopping in Woolies, it's safe to give a general anaesthetic
GOD'S WAITING ROOM
— intensive care unit and/or geriatric unit
S
— second (do NOT use 'sec' for 'second;' use 'sec' for 'secant')
TURTLE'S HEAD
— in severe constipation where the anus is dilated and a faecal mass is visible (aka 'shy turd') - the problem is, it starts to come out and then, like a turtle's head, it goes back in again!
JOHN THOMAS SIGN (UK), JOHNSON'S SIGN (US)
— according to tradition, the side that the penis (John Thomas, Johnson) points to (if visible on x-ray) will have an abnormality (see also Throckmorton sign).
S
— Short
S
— Sulfur
S
— Serine
S
— Student
BRONZE JOHN'S LAW
— (paediatrics) if the weight of the records exceeds the weight of the child, the prognosis is grim
THROCKMORTON'S SIGN
— in the unconscious male, the penis points to the injury
OLD MAN'S FRIEND
— (US) pneumonia, an illness which often carried off the elderly
GOWN'S SIGN, POSITIVE
— a patient who leaves (self-discharge ) without official discharge orders
WILKINSON'S SYNDROME
— a patient who has slashed their wrists with a razor blade (after a popular brand of razor)
SWEET MILK/ MOTHER'S MILK
— Propofol; a reference to its milky appearance and pain-relieving use
S
— Switch
RV/LV S
— Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle plus Septum
C & S
— Culture and Sensitivity
S
— Displacement
ROTHMAN'S SIGN
— tobacco staining of fingers
S
— Source
S
— Super
S
— Entropy
S P
— Supine and Prone
S
— Sphere
S
— Satellite
S
— Sin
S
— Stokes
S
— Streptococcus
S
— Spectacles
S
— Satisfactory
S
— Soldering
S
— Sinister
S
— US DoT tire speed rating
S P
— Salbutamol Plus Placebo
JOPO S
— Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
LV S
— Left Ventricle Septum
S
— Sacral Vertebra
S
— Streptomycin
S
— Systolic
S
— Silicaceous
S
— Sleep
S
— Subthreshold Swing
MICHELIN'S DISEASE/DISORDER
— multiple spare tyres (obese)
S
— Fresnel Sine Integral
S
— Onde Seconde
S
— S Sub-Shell
S
— Scholarly
S
— Scrubber
S
— Salinity
S
— Step
S
— Area of a geometric figure
S
— Sand
S
— Specialist
SSC'S
— Sudden Storm Commencements
S
— Continuous-time complex variable
S
— Superior
S
— Secondary Body Waves
S
— Spiral
S
— Fourth Heartbeat Wave
S
— Specimen
S
— sensation, sensitive, serum
S
— Suspension
S
— Sum
S
— Snail
S
— Spiral (for Galaxies)
S
— Stable
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