When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...

Dictionary.com recently unveiled its Summer Word Drop of new words that have been added to the online dictionary. And the new entries included three medical terms, five climate change and warm weather ...

Researchers found there is often a disconnect between the medical language used by doctors and patient understanding. Published in JAMA Network Open, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers ...

If you or a loved one is diagnosed with endometriosis, you’re bound to hear many new terms and phrases that may be baffling initially. It may even seem like you need to learn an entirely new language ...

If you haven’t been pregnant, you’d be forgiven for thinking the language of pregnancy is all baby bumps, bundles of joy, and comparisons to variously sized fruits. But in the doctor’s office, it’s a ...