Medical Latin
Written by Brian on February 23, 2009 – 11:10 pm -Some useful and poignant phrases with translations. Great for your next tattoo, or when prescribing medical marijuana “ql“. If nothing else, you can tell your partner you want to do it “more ferarum”.
primum non nocere
“first, to not harm”
A medical precept. Often falsely attributed to the Hippocratic Oath, though its true source is probably a paraphrase from Hippocrates’ Epidemics, where he wrote, “Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things: to help, or at least to do no harm.”
cura te ipsum
“take care of your own self”
An exhortation to physicians, or experts in general, to deal with their own problems before addressing those of others.
lege artis
“according to the law of the art”
Describes something genuine, true, real, tested, proven, not assumed, not placebo. The ‘art’ referred to in the phrase is medicine.
locus minoris resistentiae
“place of less resistance”
A medical term to describe a location on or in a body that offers little resistance to infection, damage, or injury. For example, a weakened place that tends to be reinjured.
ad pondus omnium (ad pond om)
“to the weight of all things” More loosely, “considering everything’s weight”.
The abbreviation was historically used by physicians and others to signify that the last prescribed ingredient is to weigh as much as all of the previously mentioned ones.
quantum sufficit (qs)
“as much as is enough”
Medical shorthand for “as much as needed” or “as much as will suffice”.
quantum libet (ql)
“as much as pleases”
Medical shorthand for “as much as you wish”.
coitus more ferarum
“congress in the way of beasts”
A medical euphemism for the doggy-style sexual position.
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