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He's just using slang. "Bug ID" meaning identifying the particular bacteria. (nm)

Posted By: Misha on 2006-09-09
In Reply to: Bug ID? - LinK

Subject: He's just using slang. "Bug ID" meaning identifying the particular bacteria. (nm)

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Subject: type of bacteria

Stool results came back negative for Rotavirus, C-dif, *s/l ur-syn-ia, Salmonella, and Shigella.


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Subject: 10-15 bacteria (no *to) - hyphenate


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Subject: Bacteria website???

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Subject: another bacteria site

http://www.gideononline.com/content/taxa.htm


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bacteria web site
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Subject: Could it be Yersinia? It's a type of bacteria. nm

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Subject: no, don't think its slang

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It get's used enough, that I think most of us type it, and it will end up in the dictionaries before long. But it is still slang. Somebody has taken the Latin ending and just slapped it onto an English slang word. Doesn't it sound better than "increased numbers of immature, unsegmented neutrophils"?


Slang
Subject: Slang

He does nto say the trichomonas just trich is that a slang medical word?
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The account specifics for my hospital are that you must type what the doc says. I don't like it sometimes, but I do it - alk phos, A-fib, bicarb, crit . . .
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regurgitation, but you may be under verbatim rules, in which case it would regurge. I think it is slang, but that's just me.
slang
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Dr. says "Penrose s/l dc'ed today."


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Ask your QA. When I get that slang I use "endoclipped." nm
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Dictator says:  I recommended to her to hook up with a gastroenterologist.  (Sounds like a date!)


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Sounds like slang to me.
Subject: Sounds like slang to me.