the Ringo finger
Newly coined medical phrases from the British Medical Journal’s Christmas 2007 issue, as reported by Thomas H. Maugh II of the LAT:
- Hasselhoff: an emergency room patient with a bizarre explanation for his injury
- Ringo: a member of a team who is expendable
- disco biscuit: Ecstasy
- testiculation: “the holding forth with expressive hand gestures by a consultant on a subject in which he or she has little knowledge”
