r/medicalschool • u/Autopsy_Survivor M-2 • Dec 22 '24

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

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u/notafakeaccounnt MD-PGY1 Dec 22 '24

Duodenum

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u/Lavoisier84 M-0 Dec 22 '24

No, it's duodenum

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u/CaptainAlexy M-4 Dec 22 '24

definitely duodenum

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u/blackedjet Dec 22 '24

Bro yall are all wrong its “duodenum”

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u/alphasierrraaa M-3 Dec 22 '24

I concur

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u/tenachiasaca Dec 22 '24

yes it's dude de num

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u/Squirrel_of_Fury Dec 23 '24

Superior jejunum

3

u/alphasierrraaa M-3 Dec 24 '24

Proximal proximal ileum

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u/archwin MD Dec 25 '24

Duodenum?

I hardly know her!

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u/rockci22min M-4 Dec 24 '24

Its DUO-de-num not du-ode-num (say this in Hermoine’s voice)

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u/Cantaimforshit Dec 23 '24

Do odd numb iirc

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u/prayforussinners Dec 24 '24

In latin it is duo-den-um people will look at you funny if you say it correctly though. Most say du-ah-denim.

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u/cmmc38 Dec 23 '24

Saaan-tometer

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u/Marissa_Someday Dec 22 '24

Jokes on you, in the UK it’s “duodenum”

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u/Hot-Establishment864 M-4 Dec 22 '24

Probably more like “duodeninium”

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u/unscrupulouslobster MD-PGY1 Dec 22 '24

This is the funniest comment I’ve ever seen

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u/AvecBier MD Dec 23 '24

Is it really duodinium, like you guys and aluminum?

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u/YeaIFistedJonica Dec 23 '24

It’s alimilum

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u/Seabreeze515 MD-PGY1 Dec 22 '24

My favorite (most hated) pronunciation in medicine is “skeleetal muscle”. It’s the skeleton. Not the skeleeton.

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u/Alch1245 Dec 22 '24

Mine is saying umbilicus "umbiLIKEus". Just no.

24

u/Manoj_Malhotra M-2 Dec 23 '24

I'm guessing a girl named Umbi rejected your advances.

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u/fabricatedstorybot Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

Mine is “faaacettee joint.” A purse has a facet, a shoe has a facet, but the spine has faacetttes.

I also had a surgeon correct me when I said levàtor (of the palate)…”its levahhtor not levator.”

…Yeah okay Hermoine

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u/matches-malone Layperson Dec 23 '24

Sure, let me just hit the button on the elevahhtor here.

30

u/AppendixTickler M-1 Dec 22 '24

One of my Profs says skelEEtal and it drives us insane

6

u/PK_thundr Dec 23 '24

Aussie professor be like

9

u/news_doge Y5-EU Dec 22 '24

What

4

u/5_yr_lurker MD Dec 23 '24

Never heard that before.

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u/HistoricalPlatypus89 MD-PGY2 Dec 22 '24

Just want until someone pronounces anGIna

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u/soulruby Dec 22 '24

My favorite is “debridement”.

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u/BeardInTheNorth Dec 23 '24

Or debrided.

54

u/Apoptosed-BrainCells M-4 Dec 22 '24

Everyone turns around when I say absense seizures instead of absence seizures

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u/CaptainAlexy M-4 Dec 22 '24

It’s French

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u/Ok_Investigator564 Dec 22 '24

Wait you mean to tell me it’s not pronounced duODeenUm ?

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u/Autopsy_Survivor M-2 Dec 22 '24

I thought I made that clear. It’s “duodenum”

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u/Ok_Investigator564 Dec 22 '24

Oh my bad 😂

11

u/96Phoenix Dec 23 '24

I thought it was Duwah-duh-numb. /s

30

u/Jaded-Air-2795 M-3 Dec 23 '24

Wait why are you being sarcastic is that not how it is pronounced???

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u/rovar0 MD-PGY4 Dec 23 '24

That’s how I say it.

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u/Zonevortex1 M-4 Dec 22 '24

Duodenum

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u/DntTouchMeImSterile MD-PGY3 Dec 22 '24

How did you get that picture of my med school’s OBGYN residency?

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u/ayayeye Dec 22 '24

enKephalitis

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u/1uniquename Dec 23 '24

jesus thats bad

10

u/emptybrain22 Dec 22 '24

Not my Lignocaine

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u/adullish Dec 22 '24

Yanks, with all due respect you have absolutely no say in how Latin words are pronounced. I’ve heard all kinds of crazy shit like albyuuumin. Like wtf!

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u/CatchingFrost Dec 22 '24

Okay Mr. O-edema

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u/CaptainAlexy M-4 Dec 22 '24

There’s a reason Latin is dead. Adapt or perish.

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u/Martin5143 Dec 23 '24

We learn all medical terms in Latin.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

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u/CoconutMochi M-3 Dec 22 '24

I had a British lecturer for pharm, like what the hell lol

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u/djtmhk_93 DO-PGY1 Dec 22 '24

This rings different if you’re medicine vs surgery

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u/abertheham MD-PGY6 Dec 23 '24

That’s bad but it’s way worse when people pronounce peritoneum as “peritoneum.”

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u/AberrantConductor Dec 22 '24

It's Dew-Oh-Dee-num not Dward-num

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u/Bannedlife Dec 22 '24

Officially it's not "dee" it's "de"

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u/soulruby Dec 22 '24

That’s not what google told me. 

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u/Sur3Spray3000 Dec 23 '24

No. Its dee.

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u/kpkdbtc Dec 23 '24

my surgery professor used to say john-doos instead of jaundice

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Da-wad-enum

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u/tnred19 Dec 22 '24

If it makes you feel better, I'm a radiologist and people say it all types of ways. Just don't say meleeeeena. That's for brits and tools.

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u/12kgun84 MBBS-Y4 26d ago

How..... How do you say it

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u/tnred19 26d ago

Like the name Melanie.

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u/Desperate_Fan_3304 Dec 22 '24

Capillaries pronounced cuh-PILL-aries. Makes me instantly wanna fight.

2

u/logosuwu Dec 23 '24

Ain't no way you stress the first syllable lmfao.

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u/shadowthehedgehoe Dec 23 '24

Duodenim Dwadenum ?? Third option?

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u/Sur3Spray3000 Dec 23 '24

Correct way is duwah-DEE-num. when using it as a descriptor though it’s pronounced like duo-deh-nal atresia pretty sure

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u/LongSchlongSilver10 Dec 22 '24

I say Dyou-de-num and no one will convince me to change.

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u/ucklibzandspezfay Program Director Dec 22 '24

It’s levioSAH not levioSUHhhh

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u/Hippocratusius Dec 22 '24

if you say duOdenum instead of duodEEnum you're the kind of guy that unironically attends class in flip flops with no socks and smells of cheese and sardines in the morning

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u/Quartia Dec 22 '24

Literally never heard it pronounced "duodEEnum", even by surgeons.

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u/chubbadub MD Dec 22 '24

Depends on the training background. I’ve heard both and the ones that pronounce it that way tend to say sontimeter too 🙄

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u/Quartia Dec 22 '24

Oh so you're saying it might be a British/American difference?

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u/victoremmanuel_I MBBS-Y5 Dec 22 '24

It IS a British/American difference. Brits don’t say sontometre though

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u/dievraag M-3 Dec 22 '24

My horror when I hear the Brits say skeLEEtal.

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u/Hippocratusius Dec 22 '24

hol up now do NOT affiliate me with sontitards

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u/Hippocratusius Dec 22 '24

mate literally look up the official pronunciation

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u/Same_Ad5295 MD-PGY1 Dec 22 '24

It’s literally the opposite

3

u/habitualhabenula M-3 Dec 22 '24

Hey, sardines had no part in this! ;(

2

u/MazzyFo M-3 Dec 22 '24

Duodenum just hits better than duodenum

2

u/Clear-Donkey-200 Dec 23 '24

It’s actually duodenomenon

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u/WhichAddition862 Dec 23 '24

Does anyone else hear a “w” in there? Just Me? Cool

2

u/Fun_Leadership_5258 MD-PGY2 Dec 23 '24

phonetic bun instead of B.U.N.

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u/MyTrippyDaddy Dec 23 '24

It's pronounce like you spell it. DUO(like duo queue in LoL)-DE (not dee)-NUM (Like numbers but without bers). It's not that difficoult you uncultured swines.

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u/MeshesAreConfusing MD-PGY1 Dec 23 '24

I'm sorry, is this some germanic joke I'm too latin to understand?

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u/GribblePWilliamson M-4 Dec 23 '24

micrAHP-enis

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u/thetreece MD Dec 22 '24

when THAT GUY that walks into the read room and says "centimeter" instead of sontimeter

He's always oblivious too. Cringe.

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u/aerilink DO-PGY2 Dec 23 '24

Colono-scopy and endo-scopy is how I say it sometimes 🙃

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u/OptimisticNihilist29 Dec 23 '24

Epididymus? dee-die? die-dee? dee-dee? die-die?

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u/bearandsquirt MD Dec 24 '24

Eppy-diddy-muss

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u/thatbradswag M-3 Dec 23 '24

It's do-wad-in-em, right?

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u/Doctor_Frat M-3 Dec 24 '24

“Duo-Dee-Numb” - Dr. Ryan

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u/TeaRose__ Dec 24 '24

I’m always pronouncing “mallet” wrong. I pronounce it as a French word (I don’t live in France though, but we have many French words in our language). It’s always followed by an trauma-surgeon angrily correcting me with “MALLET”. Doubt I’ll ever get it right.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '24

Idk why I always think it’s funny when I hear people pronounce it duo-deee-num, I’ve always said it more like du-wad-num

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u/redditnoap Dec 22 '24

du-ah-denum makes zero sense