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Interesting... The word that got "bleeped" was totally g-rated. Reads better this way though. The imagination comes up with pointier terms than the one I used.

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Millwater Publishing wrote:
The PC police are improving , but don't like insulting words (I suspect your word was Id iot). It used to do things like bleep "rape" from the word "scrape" and other combinations of letters that were offensive as a stand alone word. Imagination was more fun then.

P u s s was created at 10^-43 seconds after the big bang. :cool:

brian robertson in gray, stuff deleted

One of my favorite inaccurate Vet terms..."sterile abcess"?????

Sterile as opposed to septic. There are no pathogenic microorganisms or pus in a sterile abscess, it's usually just a hard lump. IME, they're fairly common around the mainline of race horses running at fair tracks.

Tom, why not refer to it as a hematoma. Abcess implies a infection/foreign body.

brian robertson in gray

Tom, why not refer to it as a hematoma.

As I understand it, a hematoma is a bruise; i.e., tissue engorged with blood that's not flowing.

Abcess implies a infection/foreign body.

I think "infection" when I hear "abscess," but most texts further define abscesses as being septic (microorganisms present) or sterile (no microorganisms present.)

My reference to mainlines and brush tracks had to do with unscrupulous race trainers' missing the jugular vein when attempting the intravenous injection of vitamins, medications and other substances. The tissue around the jugular veins of some match track horses feels like somebody has implanted pea gravel.

brian robertson wrote:
Haematoma is specifically a collection of blood. Coming from the latin haemato which means blood.

What Tom is talking about is extravasation. When the injection has been done badly and the needle misses the vein and the fluid or medication meant for intravenous administration doesn't go into the vein at all but into the tissue surrounding the IV.

Or else the vein has been damaged by poor practice such as repeated use of same site or using needles with too large a diameter or with an irritant substance or bacteria and then it can become blocked and the substance injected takes an alternative route and known as collateral circulation and you see track lines or damage lines near the skin surface.