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Medical misnomer | definition of medical …

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/medical+misnomer

A generic term for any of the medical conditions whose names do not reflect their pathological reality. Medical misnomers. Aneurysmal bone cyst—Not an aneurysm, nor a cyst. Desquamative interstiatial pneumonia—Neither desquamative nor interstitial. Eosinophilic granuloma Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis—May lack eosinophils; may not form granulomas.

Medical Error: A Misnomer? | SpringerLink

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-39755-5_8

The optimal strategy would be for patients to make small errors initially, so for example, when reaching for an object it would be acceptable for the patient to …

How Racism Creeps Into Medicine - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/how-racism-creeps-into-medicine/378618/

How Racism Creeps Into Medicine. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. By Hamza Shaban. August 29, 2014. …

Misnomer Definition & Meaning - Merriam …

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1 : the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument 2 a : a use of a wrong or inappropriate name Nowadays it is a misnomer to call a farmer a peasant. b : a wrong name or inappropriate designation …

Opinion | Covid Measures and Misnomers - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/opinion/letters/covid-measures-and-misnomers.html

It was devastating to see the correlation between the size and location of a student’s home and the student’s performance in school. Covid has only exacerbated …

Misnomers in Medicine | Student Doctor Network

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For what it's worth, the patellar "tendon" is named that way because it is part of the larger extensor mechanism, I.E. the quad tendon. The patella is a giant …

Misnomers in Pathology #misnomersinpathology

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Misnomer in Pathology is basically an error in naming a lesion or a pathological finding. Some of these misnomers are due to inaccurate or vague translation from the origin of the words. Few …

Bovine Aortic Arch Variant in Humans: …

http://www.ajnr.org/content/27/7/1541

We describe the most common human aortic arch branching patterns and compare these with the bovine aortic arch. One of the most widely used misnomers in the medical literature is that of the “bovine …

Lupus and lupoid misnomer: issues and challenges

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27605369/

Misnomers are terms for any of medical conditions whose name does not reflect the pathophysiological reality. In the field of dermatology, it is interesting to note that there …