US Slang Expressions

[Tracy]

Some of my personal favorites are medical slang terms (I used to work 
in a hospital).  For example:

Banana bag - IV fluids with potassium

Circling the drain - a person not likely to live much longer

LOLNAD - little old lady, no apparent distress

Train wreck - patient with multiple medical problems

GOMER - get out of my emergency room

"He bought a tube" - patient was put on a ventilator

Celestial discharge (or "patient transferred to eternal care 
facility) - death

Teeth-to-tattoo ratio - patients with more tattoos than teeth always 
seem to recover surprisingly well


I worked at a university hospital where all the buildings were named 
for people.  The county morgue was the Robert Evans Morgue, so we 
also referred to someone who died as "gone to Bob Evans".

Tracy