With unprecedented enthusiasm, Iowans have embraced the challenge to become the healthiest state in the nation by 2016. Since well-being includes both physical and emotional health – and laughter contributes to both - Monday, April 2, has been declared “Laugh Out Loud Day” in Iowa. I hope the following brings you a laugh or two!
Medical Definitions
· Artery: The study of paintings.
· Bacteria: Back door to cafeteria.
· Barium: What doctors do when patients die.
· Benign: What you be after you be eight.
· Cesarean Section: .A neighborhood in Rome.
· Catscan: Searching for kitty.
· Cauterize: Made eye contact with her.
· Colic: A sheep dog.
· Coma: A punctuation mark.
· D & C: Where Washington is.
· Dilate: To live long.
· Enema: Not a friend.
· Fester: Quicker than someone else.
· Fibula: A small lie.
· Genital: Non-Jewish person.
· G. I. Series: World Series of military baseball.
· Hangnail: What you hang your coat on.
· Impotent: Distinguished, well known.
· Labor Pain: Getting hurt at work.
· Medical Staff: A Doctor's cane.
· Morbid: A higher offer than I bid.
· Nitrates: Cheaper than day.
· Node: Was aware of.
· Outpatient: A person who has fainted.
· Pap Smear: A fatherhood test.
· Pelvis: Second cousin to Elvis.
· Post Operative: A letter carrier.
· Recovery Room: Place to do upholstery.
· Rectum: Darn near killed him.
· Secretion: Hiding something.
· Seizure: Roman emperor.
· Tablet: A small table.
· Terminal Illness: Getting sick at the airport.
· Tumor: More than one.
· Urine: Opposite of you're out.
· Varicose: Nearby, close by.
· Vein: Conceited
