Re: decubiti

Dani,

I suppose anyone can make up a word, but the condition, doctors are
referring is an ulcer. Decubitus means reclining. How can you look at
a sore on a buttock and say the patient has a reclining. It makes no
sense.

Doctors started dictating decubitus ulcer, but then either they or MT
who couldn't hear, started transcribing decubiti. So why would you
name something that has a very good, perfect name, something else just
because you want to.

Now, if the ulcer had pus and blood in it and that particular condition
didn't have a name, I guess it could call it Dani decubiti if you were
the first person to document it in literature.

All of these questions come up because a medical student sitting in the
back of a classroom didn't hear the instructor properly and started
calling things (i.e. neuroforamina because that is what they heard
instead of neural foramina) or an MT didn't document what they were
hearing and just spelled it any old way.

Janice

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