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Nearly Worthless Factoids

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:09 pm
by Stargzer
Nearly Useless Factoid

A follow up: After we mentioned earlier this month that a group of jellyfish is called a "smack," Stanley from the VA offered a list of collective nouns from the medical profession (with tongue firmly planted in cheek):

An acher of bacteriologists
A murmur of cardiologists
A stain of cytotechnologists
A rash of dermatologists
A speck of forensic pathologists
A vessel of heart surgeons
A clot of hematologists
A nursery of obstetricians
A dose of pharmacists
A pile of proctologists
A stream of urologists

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:35 pm
by gailr
A portfolio of artists?

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:10 pm
by Bailey
A ganglia of Neurologists?
A Ginsu of Surgeons?
A bowel of colonic specialists?
A gamma of radiologists?
A sneeze of allergists?
A googoo of pediatricians?
A family of practioners.
A DX of internists?
A chest of thoracic surgeons?
A shrink of psychiatrists?
mb.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:53 am
by Perry
a brace of orthopedists
a humor of endocrinologists
a spine of neurosurgeons
a silica of plastic surgeons
a sinus of ENTs
a colony of gastroenterolgists