| Acades vulgaris | - medical students |
| Appy | - person with suspected appendicitis |
| Ax(e) | - surgeon |
| Baby catcher | - obstetrician |
| Banana | - patient with jaundice |
| Beached whale | - obese patient |
| Betty | - a patient with diabetes |
| Blood Suckers | - those who take blood samples |
| Blown Mind | - gunshot wound to the head |
| Blue Pipe | - vein |
| Boneheads | - orthopaedics |
| Bordeaux | - bloodstained urine |
| Box | - to die |
| Bug Juice | - antibiotics |
| BUNDY | - But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet |
| Cabbage | - heart bypass |
| Captain Kangaroo | - chairman of a paediatrics department |
| Chocolate Hostage | - constipated |
| Cock Doc | urologist |
| Coffee and a Newspaper | - Patient is Constipated |
| Crumble (crumbly) | - elderly patient |
| Dement | - Alzheimer patient |
| Departure lounge | - geriatric ward |
| Disco biscuits | - the clubbers' drug ecstasy |
| Dishwasher | - sterilization machine |
| Eternal Care | - Intensive Care |
| Freud Squad | - psychiatrists |
| Gassers / Gas Passers | - anaesthetists |
| GLM | - good looking mum |
| Grapes | - haemorrhoids |
| Guessing tubes | - stethoscope |
| Guts and Butts | - general surgery |
| Hasselhoff | - term for any patient who shows up in the emergency room with an injury for which there is a bizarre explanation |
| Head whack | - head injury |
| House red | - blood |
| Inbreds | - doctors whose parents are also doctors |
| Meat hooks | - surgical instruments |
| Metabolic clinic | - the tea room |
| Molar masher | - dentist |
| Neuron | - Neurologist |
| Obs and gobs | - obstetrics and gynaecology |
| Orthopod | - orthopaedic doctor |
| Paws Up | - dead |
| Pee Pee Docs | - urology |
| Pediatron | - paediatrician |
| Shadow gazer | - radiologist |
| Squash | - brain |
| Trick cyclists | - psychiatrists |
| Twitch | - hypochondriac |
| Unclear medicine | - nuclear medicine |
| Vampires | - those who take blood samples |
| Very Close Veins | - varicose veins |
| White Mice | - tampons |
| Wig picker | - therapist or psychologist |
Category: English for Work
Tags: Acades vulgaris, Baby catcher, medical slang, slang in medicine
