Re: decubiti

Like I said, I haven't been arguing. I was truly curious who gets to decide
what's a word and what's not.

But I did do some more research and found that if you type the actual search
words "is decubiti a word" Bam would have liked her answers a lot more. LOL

I had never even heard the term before today, it's just when I looked it up
to see where Bam was heading and saw so many hits for decubitus ulcers that
I did the bad thing and ASS/U/ME D....I didn't mean to cause an argument or
even a debate really, or whatever you call this discussion.

Anyway, I'll go along with it not being a word and accept it, but I do not
accept that sensorimotor is not a word.

Dani

"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:kU0tf.44080$XJ5.2479@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm pretty sure I recall hearing just "decubitus" in days long before I
> was an MT and trying to get to bottom of these kinds of things. Just
> shorthand and if required to transcribe verbatim I guess one would just
> type it. Just like fem-pop or something is short for femoropopliteal (and
> I HOPE that's a legit combining form).
>
>
> jmorngstar@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> 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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