A former healthcare worker shares his favorite word: esophagastroduodenoscopy. That’s a procedure where an endoscope is passed through the mouth and down the throat into the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. It may be a mouthful, but even a word describing an unpleasant procedure has a certain musicality. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Esophagastroduodenoscopy”: Fun to Say, Not to Experience”
We asked you for your favorite words, and Dave Spencer left us a voicemail with one.
He used to work in the health care industry, and he said he always loved coming across the word esophagastroduodenoscopy.
Esophogastroduodenoscopy?
Yes.
Yes.
I hear esophagus, I hear duodenum.
What surgery is this?
Yep.
This is when an endoscope is passed through the mouth and down the throat into the esophagus stomach and duodenum, or duodenum.
You can say it either way.
But it just goes to show that, you know, a word can be beautiful even if it describes something unpleasant – esophagastroduodenoscopy.
Well, a beautiful word that I know is toll free, and that’s our toll free number (877-929-9673.
