Physicians and other healthcare professionals are notorious for using jargon, slang, and abbreviations in their travels around the hospital. These medicine, surgery orthopedic, psychiatry, pediatric, gynecology, and urology words can be very confusing for patients. Listed below are some of the more common ones:
D and C – dilation and curretage (relaxing the cervix and performing a manual scraping of the inside of uterus or endometrium)
DI – diabetes insipidus
DNR – do not resuscitate
DPL – diagnostic peritoneal lavage
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