noun General Slang

horrendoma

· noun · medical

Horrendous + -oma — the spectacularly grim case nobody wants.

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Fake tumour name for a real nightmare. Built from 'horrendous' + the medical suffix '-oma' (tumour), it labels a patient or case so tangled with complications, comorbidities and bad outcomes that it stops being one disease and starts being a genre. Reserved for the truly grim — the kind of admission that gets a whispered warning at handover.

“Six co-morbidities, two failed surgeries, family threatening to sue — proper horrendoma.”
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horrendoma In A Sentence

Six co-morbidities, two failed surgeries, family threatening to sue — proper horrendoma.

Origin & Usage

Mock medical Latin/Greek; common in resident slang collections.

Tags #medical#hospital#residency#mock-latin

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