When you become a med tech, you get more than a career in healthcare. You gain an entirely new vocabulary. For this article, we’ve collected some of the common words that hold different meanings to a med tech’s ear.
1. Mills
What everyone thinks it means: windmills or rice mills What you think it means: milliliters
2. Significant
What everyone thinks it means: something important or special What you think it means: a reason to cringe
3. Media
What everyone thinks it means: our access to pop culture What you think it means: something that increases culture
4. Culture
What everyone thinks it means: social behaviour and traditions What you think it means: growing cells under controlled conditions
5. Tween
What everyone thinks it means: someone who’s a pre-teen What you think it means: a lab surfactant
6. Alcohol
What everyone thinks it means: rubbing/drinking alcohol What you think it means: a lot of other chemicals not for rubbing/drinking
7. Butterfly
What everyone thinks it means: a colorful flying insect What you think it means: a gracious acceptance of defeat
