Medical Slang Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Medical Slang Acronyms

• DKA — Don’t/Doesn’t Know Anything (but Is Explained To Relatives As Diabetic Ketoacidosis If Challenged)
• DMFNFL — Dumb Mother F*cker, Not Fit To Live
• DOD — Donut of Death – CT Scanner
• DOTS — Dead On The Spot (of An Accident), Also FDOTS (F*cking Dead On The Spot)
• DPS — Dumb Parent Syndrome
• DPS — (General Practice) Droopy Penis Syndrome: A Patient Wanting Viagra Prescription
• DPS — (Hospitals) Disappearing Penis Syndrome: The Usual Reaction of The Male Organ In Response To Insertion of Catheter Or Endoscope
• DQ — Drama Queen
• DRT — Dead Right There (patient Dead At Scene of Accident)
• DRTTTT — Dead Right There, There, There And There (patient Dead And In Multiple Parts At Scene of Accident)
• DSB — Drug-Seeking Behaviour (faking Illness To Fuel Narcotic Addiction)
• DSP — Dumb Sh*t Profile
• DTMA — Don’t Transfer To Me Again.
• DTS — Danger To Shipping (in Reference To Particularly Large Patients)
• DUB — Damn Ugly Baby
• DWPA — Death / Dying With Paramedic Assistance
• EBU — Ego Boost Units – Med Students/junior Doctors That Follow A Doctor
• EC — Eternal Care – Intensive Care (for A Patient Who Won’t Come Out Again)
• ECU — “Eternal Care Unit: Heaven (“”gone To The ECU”” = Dead)”
• EDDU — Eating Drinking Defecating Urinating (but Not Much Else)
• EDGATWTTTF — Elevator Doesn’t Go All The Way To The Top Floor (questionable IQ)
• EI — Eating In – Intravenous Feeding
• ELFS — Evil Little F*ckers (irritating Children)
• EMS — Earn Money Sleeping (joke At Expense of Emergency Medical Service)
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• ERCP — Emergency Retrograde Clerking of Patient, An Emergency Procedure Before The Consultant Rounds
• ERNOBW — Engine Running, No One Behind The Wheel (questionable IQ)
• ES — “Eiffel Syndrome – From “”I Fell On It”” Excuse By Patient With A Foreign Object In The Rectum”
• ESBAM — “Eat Shit And Bark At The Moon (or “”not Bloody Likely”” In UK English)”
• ETOH — “Extremely Trashed Or Hammered (2 Derivations Given: Corruption of “”Etho”” [ethanol Addict] Or From “”EtOH”” [chemistry Abbreviation For Ethanol])”
• FABIANS — Felt Awful But I’m Alright Now Syndrome
• FAC — F*cking Awkward Client
• FCBP — Fellow of The College of Bystander Physicians I.e. Doctor Having A Look-see
• FD — F*cking Drunk
• FDGM — Fall Down, Go Boom (also See LOLFDGB)
• FDSTW — Found Dead Stayed That Way
• FES — Fluttering Eye Syndrome – Patient Faking Unconsciousness
• FFDID — Found Face Down In Ditch
• FFDIG — Found Face Down In Gutter
• FFFF — See 4F (Fat, Fair, Female, Forty = Gall Bladder Disease)
• FHHS — (US) Female Hispanic Hysterical Syndrome (screaming And Crying)
• FIDO — F*ck It, Drive On (a Waste of Time/hoax Ambulance Call)
• FINE — F*cked Up , Insecure, Neurotic & Emotional
• FIRT — Failed Impact Resistance Test (crash Victim)
• FIT — Fart In Transit (gas Seen In The Intestines On An Abdominal Film)
• FITH — F*cked In The Head
• FLB — Funny Little Bumps (unexplained Skin Bumps)
• FLK — Funny Looking Kid (sometimes Suggests Rural Inbreeding – See FLP)
• FLK W/ GLM — Funny Looking Kid With A Good Looking Mother
• FLKBCOTP — Funny Looking Kid But Check Out The Parents
• FLP — Funny Looking Parents (hereditary Cause Suspected For FLK)
• FLUF — Funny Little Ugly F*cker
• FMPS — Fluff My Pillow Syndrome (attention/sympathy Seeker)
• FOALS NEIGH — F*ck Off And Let Someone Not Extremely Incompetent Get Here
• FOB — Found On Bench
• FODE — Falling On Deaf Ears
• FOL — Fat Old Lady, Gone Off Legs (GOF), Full of Sh*t(FOS). Confused Elderly Female, Unable To Exercise At Home, Now Unable To Move Unaided And Badly Constipated As A Result (see Also TCS).
• FOOBA — Found On Ortho Barely Alive (a Play On FUBAR – F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition)
• FOOSH — Fall Onto Outstretched Hand (as Cause of Broken Wrist/arm)
• FORD — Found On Road Dead
• FOS — Full of Sh*t (either Severely Constipated Or Metaphorically)
• FOS — Found On Street: Unidentified Dead Homeless Person
• FPO — For Practice Only (FTD)
• FTD — Fixing To Die
• FTF — Failed To Fly (botched Suicide)
• FUBAR — F*cked Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition
• FUBIL — F*ck You Buddy, I’m Leaving. The Act of A Doctor At A Small Hospital Dumping A Critically Ill Patient On Larger Hospital On Friday Afternoon Before He Leaves For The Weekend.
• FUPA — Fat Upper Pussy Area
• FURB — Funny, Unusual, Rectal Blockage (people Who Use Inappropriate Objects To Insert Into The Rectum)
• GACP — Gravity Assisted Concrete Poisoning – Jumped / Fell From Height
• GDA — Gonna Die Anyway
• GLF — Ground Level Fall (tripped Over)
• GLM — Good Looking Mum
• GOA — Gone On Arrival (police Turn Up, Ambulance Turns Up, Fire Brigade Turns Up, Patient Doesn’t)
• GOK — God Only Knows
• GOL — Gone Off Legs (see FOL)
• GOLP — Generalised Old Lady Pains
• GOMER — Get Out of My Emergency Room; Extended To Mean Elderly Patient Who Is Unable To Communicate Their Symptoms And Passed From One Department To Another
• GORK — God Only Really Knows
• GPH — Goddamns Per Hour
• GPO — Good For Parts Only (won’t Survive)
• GRAFOB — Grim Reaper At Foot of Bed
• GRAHOB — Grim Reaper At Head of Bed
• GROLIES — (UK) Guardian Reader of Low Intellect In Ethnic Skirt
• GSP — Gown Sign Positive – A Patient Who Leaves (self-discharge) Without Official Discharge Orders
• GTG — Go To Ground – Fall Out of Bed Or Chair
• GTMJACB — Gone To Meet Jesus, Ain’t Coming Back (dead)
• GTO — Gomer Tip Over (elderly Person With Injury From Trip Or Fall)
• GTTL — Gone To The Light (died)
• GUCCI — Genito-Urinary Clinc, Chlamydial Infection (posh Female With Sexually Transmitted Chlamydial Infection)
• GWR — God’s Waiting Room; Intensive Care Unit And/or Geriatric Unit
• HAIRY PSALMS — Haven’t Any Idea Regarding Your Patient, Send A Lot More Serum
• HALS — Hit And Left Standing (apparently Uninjured But In Shock After RTA/MVA)
• HBD — Has Been Drinking
• HEA — Heel Elevation Ataxia – A Woman Who Appears Staggering Drunk, But Is Sober (or Slightly Tipsy) But Can’t Walk On Seriously High Stiletto Heels
• HHS — Hospital Hobo Syndrome – Person Who Visits Multiple Hospitals Seeking Attention Or Accommodation
• HI5 — “HIV Positive (“”V”” Being The Roman Numeral For 5)”
• HIBGIA — Had It Before, Got It Again
• HIVI — Husband Is Village Idiot
• HLCS — Happy Little Campers – Children In Oxygen Tents