Definition

Medical jargon for anything related to your body's liquid waste management system, from kidneys to bladder to that awkward moment at the doctor's office with a plastic cup. It encompasses all the organs and plumbing involved in filtering blood and evicting unwanted substances via urine. Urinary issues are what happen when this drainage system goes rogue.

Example Usage

The urinary tract infection made her feel like she needed to pee every five minutes, even when there was nothing left to evacuate.

Source: Medical anatomy terminology

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Using a medication for something other than what it was originally approved for, which sounds reckless until you learn that doctors do it all the time and some of the best treatments were discovered this way. The pharmaceutical equivalent of using a butter knife as a screwdriver.

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Short for 'linear accelerator,' a machine that propels charged particles in a straight line at ridiculous speeds for medical treatments or physics experiments. Unlike its circular cousin the cyclotron, this one believes the shortest distance between two points actually matters. Commonly used in radiation therapy to target cancer cells with the precision of a very expensive, very scientific sniper rifle.

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Medical terminology for anything caused by or related to disease, as opposed to "normal" biological processes. It's the doctor's way of saying "yeah, this definitely shouldn't be happening" when looking at test results or tissue samples. Essentially, it's the difference between your body doing its thing and your body doing very wrong things.

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An irregular heartbeat, when your cardiac rhythm section decides to improvise instead of following the conductor. It ranges from harmless quirks to life-threatening emergencies.

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The art of delivering terrible news while somehow making the patient feel okay about it, a skill they apparently teach in medical school right between organic chemistry and learning to write illegibly. Some doctors have it, and some deliver diagnoses like they are reading a grocery list.

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aphasia

Impairment of language ability, when your brain knows what it wants to say but the words won't cooperate. It's like having the world's worst autocorrect installed in your speech center.

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