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• Medical Slangs

- M -

• Meat wagon

Transporting ambulance



• Mec, mec-staining

Referring to meconium, which spell out



• Mets, metz

Can mean at least two things; metastases and/or Metzenbaum scissors, and should be typed out in the proper context of the report.



• Mikes

Micrograms; spell out in a sentence; use standard abbreviation when dictated with a quantity



• Mud pies

Mnemonic for anion gap acidosis