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claudication

clean-catch urine

CLOtest

CO2 insufflation

cogwheel rigidity (seen in Parkinson disease patients)

Colles' fracture

COX-2 inhibitor

CRAB diet (carrots, rice, apples and bananas)

cushingoid

D&C = dilatation and curettage

de Quervain disease/tenosynovitis/thyroiditis/fracture

dehiscence  (bursting/splitting along natural/sutured lines)

diff        (as in differential - relating to CBC) Eg. CBC with diff

dig     = digoxin

DOT physical (DOT = Department of Transportation)

Dupuytren contracture/amputation/canal/fracture/fascia/sign/suture/tourniquet

ehrlichiosis

en bloc     (sounds "on bloc")

Ensure shakes (nutritional supplem't)

epileptiform discharges (dictated in EEG reports mostly)

ER/PR positive (relating to breast cancer)

EtOH (ethanol or ethyl alcohol)

facet joint

factor V Leiden mutation

fat pad

FES (functional electronic stimulation)

fifth disease

FLAIR sequence (dict'd in MRIs)

follicular small cleaved lymphoma

foramen ovale

frog pelvis x-ray

gent   = gentamicin

Gleason score (tumor grading)

global period of surgery

glycosylated hemoglobin or hemoglobin A1c HbA1c

Ginkgo biloba

Glasgow coma scale (GCS)

glove-stocking anesthesia

gnathic (relating to jaw)

G-tube

Guillain-Barré syndrome (sounds "gee yan bah ray")

gurney (eg. the patient transferred from gurney)

H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori)

halo vest (type of neck brace)

hammer toe

Harrington rod (ortho files) (instrumentation for spine)

HCTZ  - short for hydrochlorothiazide

heart healthy diet

Heberden nodes

hep = hepatitis

hep lock

heparinized

HER-2/neu negative

Hibiclens (antibacterial surgic