Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wanna know one of the reasons I love Firefox? Because when I'm reading Trench Doc and he uses words like succinylcholine and my lay brain thinks "what the hell is that?" I can double click on the word to highlight it, where upon a small red bound box appears under the word. I mouse over the box and The Free Dictionary is kind enough to give me a very detailed definition of said word. For example:
Of course, this leads to a desperate need to find out what "esterification" means, which leads to a whole hour's worth of dictionary-ing because I'm just the type of person who will occasionally sit down and actually read a dictionary. Usually when I run out of serial killer books.
A crystalline compound, C14H30N2O4, formed by esterification of succinic acid with choline and used medically to produce brief but complete muscular relaxation.This sounds like GREAT STUFF. I wonder if I can use it to shut up The Husband when he starts snoring at a decibel that sounds like the infamous description of a tornado "It sounded like a freight train coming through the living room!".
Of course, this leads to a desperate need to find out what "esterification" means, which leads to a whole hour's worth of dictionary-ing because I'm just the type of person who will occasionally sit down and actually read a dictionary. Usually when I run out of serial killer books.
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# posted by Carol : 12:30 PM
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As for Sux, the 'muscle relaxation' in the dictionary is actually muscle paralysis, for about 4-8 minutes. Every muscle you usually have control over in your body is no longer controllable. It's not a nice relaxant like Valium, it's a deadly one unless used by folks with a lot of training.
We use it to intubate people as part of Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI), as the 'muscle relaxation' part.
Don't give it to your husband, unless you want to wind up in the news.
GruntDoc
We use it to intubate people as part of Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI), as the 'muscle relaxation' part.
Don't give it to your husband, unless you want to wind up in the news.
GruntDoc
# posted by 
: 1:08 AM
: 1:08 AM
Fear not, fellow Texan. I rarely fantasize about killing my husband. Like when, to stop listening to his snoring I have left our bed to sleep on the sofa and can STILL hear him from the living room. Or when I think about how much life insurance I have on him. Or that time when my first Miata was only a few weeks old and parked in our garage and my husband dinged it with his car door. And then there was that time....
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