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I need to go into the medical field.
Sep. 23rd, 2004 01:28 amAnd do you know WHY?
Because if I go into the medical field I get to study ALLERGIES. And if I get to study ALLERGIES then I get to write RESEARCH DOCUMENTS about what I've studied. And if I get to write RESEARCH DOCUMENTS and they are about ALLERGIES then I get to use the Great Grand Medical Phrase of the Week: "nasal provocation".
Seriously. When you study whether something causes an allergy one of the ways you test it is by sticking some of it up a person's nose and waiting to see what happens. This is called "nasal provocation" and is undoubtedly the coolest blandly-put medical term since I first encountered the chapter heading "MEGACOLON*" in an old Merck Manual.
"Skin-specific IgE tests were positive to Abachi wood extract, and serum-specific IgE was demonstrated. Specific nasal provocation and bronchoprovocation tests performed by exposure to fine Abachi wood dust were positive..."
See? RIGHT THERE. NASAL PROVOCATION.
*wanders off to bed, happily humming and thinking nasally provocative thoughts*
*Lord, Lord, if you do not know what this term means, then I assure you that you will be a happier person if you just forget you ever saw it. Unless you're like me. In which case there's a lovely example of it in the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
Because if I go into the medical field I get to study ALLERGIES. And if I get to study ALLERGIES then I get to write RESEARCH DOCUMENTS about what I've studied. And if I get to write RESEARCH DOCUMENTS and they are about ALLERGIES then I get to use the Great Grand Medical Phrase of the Week: "nasal provocation".
Seriously. When you study whether something causes an allergy one of the ways you test it is by sticking some of it up a person's nose and waiting to see what happens. This is called "nasal provocation" and is undoubtedly the coolest blandly-put medical term since I first encountered the chapter heading "MEGACOLON*" in an old Merck Manual.
"Skin-specific IgE tests were positive to Abachi wood extract, and serum-specific IgE was demonstrated. Specific nasal provocation and bronchoprovocation tests performed by exposure to fine Abachi wood dust were positive..."
See? RIGHT THERE. NASAL PROVOCATION.
*wanders off to bed, happily humming and thinking nasally provocative thoughts*
*Lord, Lord, if you do not know what this term means, then I assure you that you will be a happier person if you just forget you ever saw it. Unless you're like me. In which case there's a lovely example of it in the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
