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Posted By: ARRRRGH! on 2006-06-28
In Reply to: Check this out---sm - noyb

Subject: This is a PERFECT example about how sm

misleading and inaccurate Google is. This definition is for acute PYELONEPHRITIS. You will not find "polynephritis" in any Stedman's or Dorland's reference. APN is the abbreviation for "acute pyelonephritis."

Poly means many. nephritis is inflammation of kidney.

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Dictator kept saying polynephritis ... sm - gmg
- has to be pyelonephritis - no such thing as polynephritis
- Check this out---sm - noyb
  - This is a PERFECT example about how sm - ARRRRGH!
    - dont believe everything you read, or - doubting thomas
    - I agree, but do you think docs are gonna--sm - noyb
      - only fast food I know is from McDonald's - I don't know the physicians you transcribe for,
      - That doesn't make it correct, though. I had sm - nm
      - WHY do you think it is, as you say, easier for a physician to say - dont believe everything you hear
        It is just the way the word is structured--sm - noyb
        they both have five syllables, so - lol
        Or the way some of us use prolly for probably. Shorthand speech is used in all fields now. nm - It's our "fast food" way of life
      - True, but we as MTs are suppose to know - the correct terms to use.nm

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