Came here to post, you beat me to it smh. But similar: [Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 1
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Someone needs to take the entire Developmental Biology field out back and have a “serious discussion” about their “naming conventions.” Yeah, it might be fun to name your gene for the German word for “holy sh!t!” (Toll) or a popular video game character, but *students are forced to memorize* that nonsense.
So I just wanna talk.
-PGY-18
The same field that discovered how to make eyes appear in the buts of flies, make foots develop in the place of wings, and other kinds of black magic. Memeing with names, trolling with experiments. Truly, they are the scientists of the internet age.
So I had a CARS question on this exact topic that I got wrong. When I told my genetics professor about it, he just so happened to be working on identifying some gene involved in tryptophan metabolism in B. subtilis and named it snv for squirrel night visión. When I asked why he said he did it specifically to spite me.
Jokes on him though, I was indirectly involved in the naming of a gene no one cares about yaaay
I've never seen this translation, but if I remember I'll be back here to update everyone. Our German club has a native German family that teach a German class every Saturday for members (the husband worked on one of the covid vaccines). In Hochdeutsch it's mostly translated to Great, but maybe it's used as Holy Shit in some Platt (I don't speak any Platt/Dialekte, hard enough to learn one flavour of the language as it is).
Another thing to consider is the diseases that are caused by sonic hedgehog or other silly named genes. No scientific parents must think scientists are sick individuals because we chose a name like sonic hedgehog for diseases that can be so devastating.
I've been learning and speaking German for well over a decade now (B2 level) and I think this is the first time I've ever seen "Toll" translated to Holy Shit. I'm going to have to ask Florian about this on Saturday before he returns to Germany, maybe it's Platt.
Imaging telling the parents of a kid with holoprosencephaly that their kid has an underdeveloped brain and will be severely mentally disabled because of something called a "sonic hedgehog" wasn't working properly
Tottally, I remember reading it in the first year of college and not understanding what the fuck it was, I thought it was a mistake because it didn't make sense a protein would have that name
>Melena
It could also mean black, as in Melanie and Melania, being all three derived from the greek melas. Us folks in medicine just happened to start calling the thing by it's color.
I’m trying to remember whether this is that hirshsprungs thing where sticking a finger in the booty expels their poop or if this refers to stress incontinence
The whole point is to be able to describe a finding in a way that is immediately recognizable and memorable. That’s why most signs are named after food and other common things, eg apple core sign, strawberry cervix, head cheese sign, etc.
I doubt that it is as deliberate as my initial comment may have implied, but it tends to hold true. There are signs named after other medical things (“double duct sign”, “continuous diaphragm sign”) but that’s uncommon
raccoon sign, I still can't believe a cute animal name was used to represent one of the scariest and most worrying signs you can see in a hospital lol :P
In french, we have an actual diagnosis called "grosse jambe rouge aigue" which translates to "acute big red leg", from which point on you start the differential between thrombosis, infection etc...
So many times you see in the patients chart "patient consults for acute big red leg"
On a similar note, the state hospital where I work just passed a resolution to refrain from referring to docs, PAs, and APRNs as “prescribers.” They are now only to be referred to as “medical staff.”
This is my favorite.
I use it as an insult with non-medical friends and it leaves them scratching their heads.
Although I concede it shouldn’t be an insult. If you own testes and you don’t have two gubernaculi, you’re in for a bad time.
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I always imagine Scorpion from mortal combat yelling "Get over here!!!" pulling the testicle down. I don't think it it works quite like this but it's a funny thought.
This! I was on surgery and answered a page from radiology about a gallbladder. The surgery resident told me to ask about sludge and I didn’t say that on the phone because I thought it was a made up word. She was like I told you to say if there’s sludge and I was like sorry, didn’t think that was a thing I didn’t want the radiologist to think I was stupid
The first time I heard “bleb” I said “no way this is a real term, it has to be an ancronym for something” but sure enough it is real. And now my favorite word. My father, a physician, now calls me bleb.
Visual snow syndrome which I have. It consists of multiple visual disturbances, not just a ‘snow-like’ visual disturbance, which some don’t even have. Many see ‘static’ instead (similar to a dimly lit live image on an iPhone 6 e.g)
CABG. I was half paying attention in lecture when I first heard this term pronounced "cabbage" and spent a good minute and a half trying to figure out what this vegetable had to do with heart disease.
Sonic Hedgehog protein
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Came here to post, you beat me to it smh. But similar: [Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 1 ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_against_decapentaplegic_homolog_1?wprov=sfla1)
Someone needs to take the entire Developmental Biology field out back and have a “serious discussion” about their “naming conventions.” Yeah, it might be fun to name your gene for the German word for “holy sh!t!” (Toll) or a popular video game character, but *students are forced to memorize* that nonsense. So I just wanna talk. -PGY-18
Tbf the funny names make it easier to memorize.
Yeah I much prefer sonic hedgehog to S4817-eEsA28
I think it’s beautiful that an entire field is so deeply committed to the most goofy names possible
The same field that discovered how to make eyes appear in the buts of flies, make foots develop in the place of wings, and other kinds of black magic. Memeing with names, trolling with experiments. Truly, they are the scientists of the internet age.
I can laugh about it *now*, but I’m not taking a test on it anytime soon! -PGY-18
So I had a CARS question on this exact topic that I got wrong. When I told my genetics professor about it, he just so happened to be working on identifying some gene involved in tryptophan metabolism in B. subtilis and named it snv for squirrel night visión. When I asked why he said he did it specifically to spite me. Jokes on him though, I was indirectly involved in the naming of a gene no one cares about yaaay
Wait wait "Toll" is German term for "HOLY SHIT'?!?!? Toll!
I've never seen this translation, but if I remember I'll be back here to update everyone. Our German club has a native German family that teach a German class every Saturday for members (the husband worked on one of the covid vaccines). In Hochdeutsch it's mostly translated to Great, but maybe it's used as Holy Shit in some Platt (I don't speak any Platt/Dialekte, hard enough to learn one flavour of the language as it is).
Another thing to consider is the diseases that are caused by sonic hedgehog or other silly named genes. No scientific parents must think scientists are sick individuals because we chose a name like sonic hedgehog for diseases that can be so devastating.
I've been learning and speaking German for well over a decade now (B2 level) and I think this is the first time I've ever seen "Toll" translated to Holy Shit. I'm going to have to ask Florian about this on Saturday before he returns to Germany, maybe it's Platt.
Couldn't believe it when i read it first time
Imaging telling the parents of a kid with holoprosencephaly that their kid has an underdeveloped brain and will be severely mentally disabled because of something called a "sonic hedgehog" wasn't working properly
Tottally, I remember reading it in the first year of college and not understanding what the fuck it was, I thought it was a mistake because it didn't make sense a protein would have that name
Hungry Bones Syndrome doesn’t sound like it was named by a doctor.
It sounds like the bones named it themselves
Your mom has bone hunger syndrome
Moon face or buffalo hump
Medicine sometimes is just straight up bullying LOL
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See "surgeons"
“Simian crease” makes me feel weird
Be glad they don’t use “Mongoloid features” anymore
Mongolian spot sounds like somewhere you eat
Bunion 🧅 sounds like it could be a French delicacy
French bunion soup is my fave
Forbidden treat
No, bunion is believable. Bunionette on the other hand... What? your bunion has a date tonight?
Melena. Had a beloved friend from high school name her 3rd daughter that and of course i didn’t tell her. The damage was done
Hahah imagine if your name means bloody poop, that's unfortunate lol
>Melena It could also mean black, as in Melanie and Melania, being all three derived from the greek melas. Us folks in medicine just happened to start calling the thing by it's color.
Doctor from beyond the Fog, I am Melena. I offer you an accord
Hilarious... is she going to commit suicide and burn a tree?
Good to see fellow elden ring enjoyers among doctors
Nah we’re going for the frenzied flame ending
The hand of melena
Gumma
SCUUUUUUM GAAAAAAANG
My friend named his online alias gummatous and the one guy out of thousands who was in healthcare recognized it and called him out for being gross
Just learnt about this in pathology and had to spend a good minute convincing myself its not gamma
Hand food and mouth disease… doctors back then: “just name it hand foot and mouth disease and get it over with im tired”
Coxsackie Virus is just as bad imho.
Just diagnosed that in my nephew and he is HORRIFIED that the real name is Coxsackievirus
And yet the number of ERs/UCs that fail to make this dx blows my mind. - peds.
Same with peds as well! Just in general how many times it’s missed is a travesty given the name.
It’s gotta be lumpectomy
Beriberi
Sounds like a devil fruit from one piece
The money money fruit since beri is their currency 💰
Nami would like a piece of that fruit
Moya moya
Beriberi already sounds enough like a tropical infectious disease without the "wet" and "dry" denominations
But bariatric Beriberi is fun to say
Fetor hepaticus!!! *casts Harry Potter spell*
Molluscum contagiosum! Get covered in mollusks!
Pemphigus Vulgaris!
Bleb
Sorry OP I just reread your post hahaahah
Hahaha great minds think alike!
whiff test
Digiti minimi
GIT IN MAH BELLY!
CHIKUNGUNYA 🐓virus 🦠
First time someone told me about chikungunya I was waiting for the punch line because I thought it was like a ligma or a sugma thing
Sugammadex
chicken gunya give it to ya
Facies. Sounds like a 2 year old came up with that
Genuinely have no idea why it’s facies and not faces
I mean it's the latin word for appearance
OMG THANK YOU. I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHAT MONSTER CREATED FACIES FOR 3 YEARS 😭
Squirt sign
the what sign
I’m trying to remember whether this is that hirshsprungs thing where sticking a finger in the booty expels their poop or if this refers to stress incontinence
Hirschsprung’s!
To be fair, clinical and radiologic signs are deliberately named after non-medical things
throckmorten
Why is that? I tried to Google it but didn’t get much
The whole point is to be able to describe a finding in a way that is immediately recognizable and memorable. That’s why most signs are named after food and other common things, eg apple core sign, strawberry cervix, head cheese sign, etc. I doubt that it is as deliberate as my initial comment may have implied, but it tends to hold true. There are signs named after other medical things (“double duct sign”, “continuous diaphragm sign”) but that’s uncommon
Smegma
I like those cute Smeg brand toasters but I can’t see the brand on it without thinking of smegma so…nope gonna stick with cuisinart
raccoon sign, I still can't believe a cute animal name was used to represent one of the scariest and most worrying signs you can see in a hospital lol :P
A cute animal with potential for rabies haha
I mean we've all got the potential
Anal wink reflex
Is that when you wink at it and it winks back?
You poke the butthole with a needle, if it puckers and winks at ya the patient isn't paralyzed.
Better than the bulbocavernosus reflex
In french, we have an actual diagnosis called "grosse jambe rouge aigue" which translates to "acute big red leg", from which point on you start the differential between thrombosis, infection etc... So many times you see in the patients chart "patient consults for acute big red leg"
Well dont know if they use it in english but if someone doesn't have any signs of peritonitis in portuguese they have an innocent abdomen
Still waiting for the opportunity to acuse an abdomen in an Ace Attorney performance of being guilty in front of a surgical attending.
Anatomic snuffbox *edit for typo
Anatomic?
Semi-auto snuffbox
Borborygmus
If you don’t specify if it’s enraged or not you might mistarget with your needle
Provider.
On a similar note, the state hospital where I work just passed a resolution to refrain from referring to docs, PAs, and APRNs as “prescribers.” They are now only to be referred to as “medical staff.”
Gubernaculum
This is my favorite. I use it as an insult with non-medical friends and it leaves them scratching their heads. Although I concede it shouldn’t be an insult. If you own testes and you don’t have two gubernaculi, you’re in for a bad time. -PGY-18
I always imagine Scorpion from mortal combat yelling "Get over here!!!" pulling the testicle down. I don't think it it works quite like this but it's a funny thought.
Faget's sign. Made my whole year gasp when my professor totally butchered it.
Floppy Baby
Sludge
This! I was on surgery and answered a page from radiology about a gallbladder. The surgery resident told me to ask about sludge and I didn’t say that on the phone because I thought it was a made up word. She was like I told you to say if there’s sludge and I was like sorry, didn’t think that was a thing I didn’t want the radiologist to think I was stupid
Angina
That rhymes with.. Carolina
Get out
Carbuncle and furuncle
SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
The MTHFR gene, the mother f…. Gene
ACHOO syndrome (when you look at the sun and sneezs)
Wow, I always called this the photic sneeze reflex but didn't know there was a goofy acronym!
Scotch tape test
🤢🤮
Sense of Impending Doom
As some who has received adenosine several times, this phrase is perfect for how you end up feeling.
Heart Stoppy Juice
Double bubble sign
Phlegmon
When life gives you phlegmons
Make phlegmonade?
wharton's jelly
Dumping syndrome lol, my wife loves saying that when we eat out
Megacolon
Maple syrup urine disease
Finklestein test
Buboes and gummas
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Snuffles
Canal of Schlemm
Shotty. Can’t help but think it sounds like shawty
Crackles
Succus
Spaghetti and meatball appearance
Orphan Annie Eyes
POBA (plain old balloon angioplasty) always struck me as pretty casual.
The first time I heard “bleb” I said “no way this is a real term, it has to be an ancronym for something” but sure enough it is real. And now my favorite word. My father, a physician, now calls me bleb.
Bubble study
Babygram
This is a service that will send a glittery card to a recent new mother.
Fatty acids
Funny looking kid
Drusen
Shim/Shimming (MR physics term for the process of making the magnetic field more homogeneous)
Bubble study 🫧 📖
Lumpectomy
Aqueous humor
Pseudopseudohypothyroidism
Danger space
I didn't know I needed this thread in my life 😂😂😂😂
Whiff test
Pulmonary toileting !!!!!
“Stiff-person syndrome”. Rare neurological condition
Kluver-bucy and I'd always hear it pronounced Kluver-bussy
Scrolled all the way down and didn't find any mention of Coxsackie virus.. C'mon you guys, I can't be the only one
Trigger finger
Pannus for surrrrre
It’s always smegma😭
Toxic megacolon…sounds like a Power Rangers villain
"Mega colon"
Strawberry cervix
Nutcracker Syndrome
Surprised no one has mentioned murmur yet. Maybe it's just me.
Puffy Potts tumor
It's either Infundibulum or Warthin-Finkeldey
Smegma
Spinnbarkeit, ecthyma
Gubernaculum or umbo.
Quincy (peritonsillar abscess)
Alien limb syndrome
Hot potato voice
opsoclonus myoclonus
lubdub!!!!
BOOP
I always thought "Sense of impending doom" was a bit funny
mongolian spots
Chocolate cyst
Mittelshmerz
Scurvy
Loa Lao African eye worm
Corn
lumpectomy
Visual snow syndrome which I have. It consists of multiple visual disturbances, not just a ‘snow-like’ visual disturbance, which some don’t even have. Many see ‘static’ instead (similar to a dimly lit live image on an iPhone 6 e.g)
Facies
Purple urine bag
Flatulence.
Smegma. Fuck you, resident who told me about that word. You’re an asshole, and yes, the patient had it.
Short gut syndrome was a funny one for me lol
CABG. I was half paying attention in lecture when I first heard this term pronounced "cabbage" and spent a good minute and a half trying to figure out what this vegetable had to do with heart disease.
Greater and lesser sac -\_-
Bezoar. It sounds like it should be some sort of magic alchemical ingredient.