STAT means now. Everything else means consult a specialist.
Healthcare's buzzword for getting patients to actually show up to appointments and take their medication. It's dressed up in digital health jargon, but really just means trying to get people to give a damn about their health between social media scrolls.
A medical instrument designed to explore wounds, cavities, or organs with the delicacy of a detective inspecting a crime scene. Also metaphorically: any instrument or investigation designed to uncover uncomfortable truths.
Medical procedures performed by puncturing or otherwise accessing the body through the skin, bypassing the need for major surgery. It's the medical equivalent of taking a shortcut through someone's fence instead of using the gate.
An abnormal hole in an organ (like your stomach deciding it's tired of being contained)—basically when your internal architecture develops an unauthorized skylight.
A ceremonial woolen vestment draped over an archbishop's shoulders like a fancy scarf, bestowed by the Pope as a symbol of authority. Also, the mollusc's equivalent of a body wall—nature's way of saying 'wear this, you're official now.'
The observable characteristics of a patient that result from their genetics and environment, as opposed to their genotype (the actual genetic code).
The approximately nine-month period when a person is literally growing another human inside their body—nature's most demanding renovation project. The condition that changes everything.
The origin story of disease—how a pathogen or condition goes from zero to hero (or villain, more accurately) in your body. It's the 'why your body betrayed you' explanation for medical mysteries.