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Laymen's Term:

"To put something in layman's terms is to describe a complex or technical issue using words and terms that the average individual (someone without professional training in the subject area) can understand, so that they may comprehend the issue to some degree." - UrbanDictionary

Secara ringkasnya, Laymen's Term merupakan istilah yang digunakan untuk menjelaskan/menerangkan sesuatu yang kompleks atau teknikal, supaya orang awam yang biasa (tanpa latihan/latar belakang pendidikan professional dalam bidang perubatan) dapat memahami isu tersebut pada tahap tertentu.

SENARAI TERKINI

(15 OGOS 2010)

Sila ambil perhatian, penggunaan istilah laymen ini bergantung kepada lokaliti tempatan (daerah, negeri), bangsa, peringkat umur pesakit serta faktor-faktor lain.

angin ahmar = stroke

balik mata = dizziness

barah = tumor/cancer

batu ginjal = gall stone

batu hempedu = gallstone

batu karang = renal stone

batu karang = renal stone = urolithiasis

batuk berdarah = hemoptysis

batuk kering = TB (tuberculosis)

batuk kokol = whooping cough / pertussis

beguk = bengkak cantik = mumps

bisul = boil=fruncle/carbuncle (depends on saiz, org kata bisul ada mata/xdak mata)

buasir = haemorrhoid

busung = ascites

buta warna = rabun warna = colour blindness (bezakan monochromacy/dichromacy dll)

berpeluh tapak tangan/kaki = hyperhidrosis

cacar = VZV infection

cerah perut = cirit birit = diarrhea

cirit birit = diarrhoea

darah tinggi = hypertension

demam campak = chicken pox

demam kepialu = typhoid fever

demam kuning = jaundice

demam kura2 = demam malaria

ghiso = mobile swelling (cysts, lipoma, etc)

gila meroyan = PND (Post-Natal Depression)

hempedu = gall bladder

jantung berlubang = congenital heart defect (septal defect)

kancing gigi = tetanus

kayap = shingles

kebas = numbness

kejang = cramps

kekoh di hatu = bruises

kekura kaki = dorsal part of foot, metatarsus

kenaling = palpitation or tachycardia

kencing berdarah = hematuria

kencing manis = diabetes

kencing tikus (penyakit) = leptospirosis

ketuat = warts

ketumbit = tembel = stye @ chalazion (bezakan)

kudis = crust

kurap = tinea

kusta = leprosy

kutil = corn

lelah = asthma (dyspnea-kalau symptom)

lemah jantung = heart failure

lenguh badan = lethargic

lenguh badan = malaise, hypotony

nyanyuk = dementia, alzheimer

panau = Pityriasis Versicolor

paru-paru berair = pneumonia

pembuluh darah = blood vessel

penat (kedah) = asthma attack (make sure!)

pengsan = loss of consciousness

penyakit kencing tikus = leptospirosis

pitam = lightheaded, dizziness, vertigo

rabun dekat = hyperopia

rabun jauh = myopia

rabun silau = astigmatism

rabun tua = presbyopia

rawan = cartilage

resdung = sinusitis

sakit dada = angina pectoris

sakit sendi = arthritis

sawan, tarik = epilepsy / seizure

scabies = kudis buta (kutu babi same ke?)<--x sama. kutu babi besar scabies kecik je

sekok = kembung perut = perut masuk angin = flatus, meteorism?

selaput dalam mata (katarak) = cataract

selesema = influenza/flu/common cold

sembelit = constipation

semut-semut =paresthesia

sengbak = leg swelling

senok = memulas = colicky pain

serban = semut-semut = paraesthesia

sumsum tulang = bone marrow

tahi mata = eye gunk, gound, booger = rheum, dried eye discharge

tahi telinga = ear wax = cerumen

tahi hidung = booger, snot = rheum, dried nasal mucous

tarik mengkarung =kejang = cramp

terseliuh = sprained (joint), strained (muscle)

tulang penampar nyamuk =tulang belikat = skapula

tulang rusuk = ribs

ulu hati (pain) = heart burn

uluran/angin pasang = inguinal hernia

untut = elephantiasis

urat = can be nerves/vessels

NOTA: Penggunaan singkatan ini berbeza-beza mengikut hospital/pusat kesihatan. Sila semak dengan pusat kesihatan tempatan anda

R/T = ryle's tube feeding

TPN = Total parenteral nutrition.

EN = enteral nutrition

LOA = Loss of appetite

SOB = short of breathness

GI = gastrointestinal

CVA = cerebrovascular accident = stroke

CXR = chest x-ray

Tab = tablet

PCM = paracetamol

bid = twice per day (bis in die)

tid = three times per day (ter in die)

qid = four times per day (quater in die)

qd = daily (quaque die)

SC = subcutaneously

IV = intravenously

IM = intramuscularly

SVT = supraventricular tachycardia

TRO = to rule out (diff.ddx)