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Incredible - thanks @redbrooker - only this week @MichaelRosenYes made a show about NHS language use including “food pipe”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz …
Was thinking about this recently: with epilepsy, I’ve had it years and know a lot of very specific medical terminology that means consultants/A&E doctors can talk to you more specifically when they treat you and realise you understand.
But the website does need to be clear, ditto doctors treating new patients. Saw an opthalmologist and nurse in eye casualty recently, and both asked me repeated questions using hardcore jargon and five times I had to say “I have no idea what that means”.
I remember it being called that when I was at infant school.
For a long time it was called that in primary schools, but there was a concerted effort to stop infantilising science. The name is oesophagus that's what we should call it.
Incredible - only ever heard it called the oesaphagus: “commonly” is just nonsense.
Doctors often use 'windpipe' and 'foodpipe' as layman terms tbf
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