There are
a number of ‘medical’ terms for patients
believed to be somewhat intellectually challenged. Some are well known like LOBNH (Lights On But
Nobody Home); some less so like CNS-QNS (Central Nervous System - Quantity Not
Sufficient). But one reader of this blog
recently referred me to the delightful term "pumpkin positive". This
refers to the implication that a penlight shone into the patient's mouth would
encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up. That had to go on this blog!
Do you remember putting a torch into one's mouth with the lights off and watching cheeks glow? I must try it again and see what happens now?
ReplyDeleteComments about second childhood seem appropriate here...
DeleteThere's a site i found once that had hundreds of these medical terms that they use to refer to patients without the patient's understanding it, and it was hysterically funny. If i can find it again, maybe i'll do a post on that. Meanwhile, i'm going to use this term!
ReplyDeleteI think our pusses must be "pumpkin positive". Misty keeps forgetting she's had breakfast (and she nagged enough before)!
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