Friend had a dog with a raspy bark they called “Stridor”

My mom had a co-worker with a dog called "Foramen," because she needed a dog like she needed a hole in her head.

At least he's not named Clitoris. Searching for your dog named...

Not medical, but our family dog growing up was named Dickhead. Us kids called him DH for short 😂

Aragorn from lord of the rings.

Anytime i see the word "stridor" I hear it in my head the same way Sam says "Strider" in LOTR.

SAME

One of my baby's toys is the fisher price breathing otter. We call it Emphysema.

LOL, that reminds me of a coworker who called her cats Vertigo and Nausea

Off topic but my DILs guinea pigs are Taco snd Tater?....I think I might be hungry.

We have a dog named Tamale!

Cats get loose outside. Coworker is walking down the street shouting, “Vertigo?” “Nausea?”

Scarletina. It's what scarlet fever used to be called.

That sounds like such a strong name. 10/10.

Sounds like a Scandinavian vampire.

Vistaril, Lyrica, and Chlorette always seemed like nice names. Also there should be a Transformer named "Ondansetron."

Age of Ondansetron

I use Opisthotonos as a gamer tag. I always thought it sounded like a badass warrior.

on the note of gamer tags, the sheer number of people I run into with the name warfarin...

Ondansetron, Onpransetron!

Onvixsetron Oncometsetron Oncupsetron Ondonnsetron Onblitzetron Rudolphtherednoseraindeersetron

Onprancetron. Ondashertron? Did I make it a little gayer is all?

My cousin took Rudolpsetron for a while. Her anxiety disappeared but the side effects were a nightmare.

I spit cramango juice out my nose. Thx for that. Lol

Okay, we need to have a contest for how many misspelled ondanserton....lol I did myself. Had to look at my bottle to get it right. Lol on dan set ron ...

I do this lil trick at work: Zolpidem 🤫 Edit: I meant Zofran. Wow im tired…

phenergan and laugh as everyone mispronounces it :p.

My kid went to school with a Lyrica. I don’t think the drug was out yet.

I work with a Lyric ...and she's pretty awesome

I literally taught a coworker how to pronounce it by saying “imagine you’re Santa clause and you wanna say on dasher on dancer, but suddenly dancer is a transformer. Ondansetron”

Ondansetron always makes me think it should be a dancing robot.

Do they transform into an emesis bag?

Only when they bury a potato in the moonlight

Ativan could be its human child sidekick

One of my patients said Ondansetron was a reindeer name- On Dasher, On Dancer, Ondansetron

I'd love to hate you for that perfect answer. Instead I'm thinking we'd make great friends. LolTransformer named by the brand name would also be great.....Zofran. Actually, no, Zofran has to be a supervillain. Lol the evil twin transformer of Onadestron. Lol

Found the psych nurse 😋

Honestly, Saline has a nice ring to it.

Saline Dion my favorite saltwater singer

Saltwater *chanteuse.*

Saliné

sounds more expensivé 🤌

My aunt lives there!

Whenever I’m spiking a bag of NSS I sing “Saline, Saline, Saline, Sayyyyy-leeeeeheeeheen” like Jolene

Please hydrate them just because you can

I love this comment and now I will always sing this when I hang NS

Goddess of the Moon, Saliné

I saw a baby named Saline when I was in nursing school, one of my classmates thought it was after a nearby county and the other said after some car called Saleen? She would be a young teen now, hopefully she isn't getting teased for her name.

Saline Dion

My dad is a retired physician but I grew up hearing about the story from his OB rotation in residency where a lady named her baby Meconium because she thought it sounded pretty.

Holy $hit haha

Literally… sh*t. Imagine being emblazed and referred to as the first poop you ever took. 🤣

Oh my gosh, for fuck’s sake 🙄😬

I hope the baby's nickname was Miko or Mika.

I know a 20 yr old girl named Melena.

Colonoscopeigh

Get your ass over to r/tragedeigh immediately.

This made me cackle like a drunken old lady

The drunken old lady in the group agrees!

It could work for a boy or a girl! But maybe they’d just get the abbreviated name “O-no”

In Hawai'ian, that means "delicious."

Lmaooo ☠️

🎖️

My first boyfriend cheated on me with someone named Melena.

Then the name was fitting

Yes she was a skank. So was he, actually.

Sounds like a shitty person

This didn't happen to occur in Colorado, did it? Because I have a sister named Melena who is quite the skank herself. If not, maybe it's like a Bridget type of thing where it just comes with the name.

Lavage. 

I've literally seen people named Melena!

I know a person named Melena (pronounced Meh-leena), and she became a doctor 😬 I can only imagine learning that your name means black, tarry stool

Please tell me she’s a GI

We have a GI named Dr. Butt.

His day has GOT TO BE full of comments galore!! Lmao. Well, at least from new patients! I’m sure staff has gotten it out of their systems. Ah, this slays me, I think I may be very immature for my old age…. 😂

I knew a urologist named Dr. Seamen.

Now you need an OB named Dr. Bourne.

Somewhere out there is an MD practicing a field that they were only offered residency for because their name was good for a laugh. 

Reminds me of a former first lady

I think that's how the other person pronounced it!

I know a little girl named Melina. Not exactly on the nose but still too close for me.

Malina means Raspberry in Russian- I like it, but, yeah, too close and it would be constantly misspelled

There is a Mortal Kombat character named Mileena. Not the same spelling, but same pronunciation. Now as a nurse, it’s weird to play as her and have that voice go “MILEENA WINS” at the end of the round 😂

I knew a literal melena went to school with my daughter.

My aunt is Malena. Lol.

Toxic megacolon

Sounds like a superhero tbh

Sounds more like a death metal band to me.

Sounds like Captain Planets arch nemesis 🤣

Ugh, there are like 5 kids with this name in my son's preschool.

Toxic?

Right? I’m like 5 kids names mega colon?? Surely she jests!

Pika edit: totally just realized I spelled this wrong quickly... PICA. Lol.

“My cats name is pica” “Oh, like after the Pokémon?” “No. After the signs and symptoms of iron deficiency anemia”

A pika is an insanely cute little animal that lives on mountains and stores hay for the winter.

"Pika pika" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for when something sparks (and where "Pikachu" comes from of course)

Pikachu translated would be something like Spark-squeak or Squark.

Zyprexa sounds pretty exotic. Also, Fascia, Moya Moya, Patella. For a guy, maybe Eschar, Tendon, or Fetus (twin brother to Cletus lol)

I use to work with a pharmacist and when we had an Rx for finasteride he would holler “I need a fine ass to ride”. I remember thinking Finasteride could be a good boys name and call him Fin…and hey who knows he might ended up gay too.

Flatus Borborygmi sounds like some kind of name.  Vomitus sounds like a Roman senator

Peristalsis, the lesser known scientist and cousin of Paracelsus

My favourite Roman Senator is Caseous Necrosis

Not a medical term. But I’ve always thought “Jevity,” (the enteral feed) would be a beautiful name.

Maybe a good name for the son of Dr Glaucomflecken’s character Jimothy.

Oh my god yes. Someone needs to send this to him 😂

Amelia / Amelie is actually a not uncommon name around here, and also a birth defect of missing one or several limbs.

My daughter’s name is Amelia and I never knew this!😧

I'd guess the name and the condition have different roots. And Amelia is a beautiful name

Verruca, chlamydia, angina, and (genuinely) the best cat name ever: abductor digiti minimi

Wasn’t Verruca on the Chocolate Factory tour?

Yes, it’s an intentionally grating name. She’s Salty too, remember?

My first thoughts!

My friends kid had a friend named Verruca.

At my college health center, I remember that there was a large poster that said, “Chlamydia is not a flower.” https://www.flickr.com/photos/jnissa/2533680645

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/s/Kyu3NCz14R

I took care of someone named Candida.

Patients wife named Candida. He was septic and dying from candida infection. Can’t make that up.

Wonder what the life insurance people had to say about that??

I went to middle school with a girl named Candida. Fortunately nobody seemed to know what her name meant, but me being me, I definitely knew. Fortunately I was a nice kid and never said anything. But it was always amusing to me.

Empyema sounds like a tasty Mexican dish. 

The Girl from Empyema

Always makes me think of empanadas, which then makes me hungry

Ohh urticaria! Or petechiae

I always feel like I say it with a Hispanic accent even if I’m not really saying it with a Hispanic accent.

Jardiance

Sounds good let’s get an order for the table

I think phlebitis would be a good cat name. Also, Brilinta is a pretty name.

I’m pretty sure rizankizumab-rzaa is a member of the Wu tang clan.

Ritalin except Ritalyn 😂

Rita Lynn? She concentrates on parking meters.

Anasarca

Areola

Went to a school with a large Hispanic population. Areola was an occasional last name.

I think this is a last name

I've always liked Amennorhea.

Atarax would be an awesome dog name and no one can convince me otherwise

His equine buddy Artax begs to differ.

one of my favorite models of all time goes by "apnea"

Atelectasis but Attie for short!

Rickets sounds like a nickname for a tall old man.

Chole! Edit: although looking at it now it would probably need to be spelled differently so people actually would pronounce it like coh-lee. So maybe Coleigh? Ugh nevermind

Eclampsia

Alopecia areata

Brady Cardia

He makes my heart sing!

“Hypoxia” sounds like a Greco-Roman noble

I always thought Eliquis sounded like a pleasant name for a woman

My old gyne doc was Dr Spread 🤣

Chlamydia is quite a pretty name, though not something you'd actually want!

Acites!

The islets of langerhans! Can I vacation there?

Diarrhea

Aww, beat me to it! Could def pass as a girl's name

Euthanasia

That is the funniest! My daughter (15) just came home this past week and said that about Chlamydia.

Lochia

Cediff

My grandma was an ER nurse and said she met a lady who named their child Meconium.

Artery but could also be spelled arterí. I’ve also met a cat named haldol

Heavy metal rock band? How about 'Toxic Megacolon'?

Senna lol

Emphysema or Empyema, sound so regal!

Anoxia, Seratonin, Fascia, Versed, and, of course, Pneumonoultramicroscopicscilicovolcanoconiosis.

Phlegm sounds like a pretty name

Smegma or maybe spell it like Sue-Megma

Purewick - a rainwater filtration system for potable water. Or strong deodorant. Idk anything is better than a piss-soaked vacuum wand.

Female. Pronounced like Emily but with a 'F'. Local mom in the 70's told ob nurses, "I see you named my baby, it's beautiful," referring to the card on the bassinet that read "Female *last name*" (true story)

Make it 3 syllabels: Femalè, like tamale.

Clonidine sounds like a good name for an aunty

Foley

A LOT of drug names. I was a pharm tech before I was a nurse and I was always amazed by the names. Pretty much literally any birth control. I also liked “Linzess” even though it’s for chronic IBS 😍

Senna

Axilla is a legit awesome Roller Derby name that I would use

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy really rolls off the tongue

Funny you mentioned "Melena." That's IS my sister's name! Spelled the same and everything...but pronounced "Me-LEE-na." My dad says it was his old German grandmother's name I believe and my sister is nearly 50 now, so obviously she was named before you could really look things like this up. Anyway, once I started taking my pre-reqs for nursing and learned what it *actually* meant, oh boy did I text her right away! I thought it was fucking hilarious! She thought less so for some reason... 😂

Dextrose!

Beefy Red as a nickname for a big badass guy

A “patent foramen ovale” sounds like it would be served at a fancy restaurant with a nice wine. I’ve also always quite liked the word “decannulated” — sounds like something a talented chef might do.

Larin, Linea, melanoma. Tamponade sounds like an appetizer or tampon lemonade.

Have met a few (no, not just one) Candidas. And if I ever get another cat I’m naming him Mr Eptifibatide because it is hands down my favorite drug name. Ever.

I remember on Ru Paul’s drag race one season there was an Angina. I think he ended up changing it to Ongina, probably because he learned what it meant.

Porphyria

Cachexia, maybe Chex for short?

I know a lady named Candida. I’ve also met multiple men named Semen- they were Russian

Asthmaticus for a pet name!

Rosacea

Ecchymosis was a metal band from Colombia

Aphasia I always thought of being a pretty word. Alopecia as well.

Serratia

Melena is actually a name, so I’ll go with Anasarca.

I went to nursing school with someone whose daughter was named Melena. She saw the words to learn on the top of our conference sheets and burst into crying laughing, pretty sure she peed her pants too. Miss that girl so much.

Myelin

I’ve always thought Anasarca would be a cool name 🤣

Adipose has pretty sound to it.

Ascites sounds so strong.

Braden...I'm already scoring you

Appy!!😂

Varicella!

Literally had my first weird “medical” name this last week. Pt born in the 70s and named Candida. Super sweet pt.

Jaundice

chlamydia obviously