what does STAT mean?

[Little Skittle]

i know it means like "hurry up" or "be fast"...its a saying similar to ASAP...but what is the acronym for stat

 

[AmerikazMost]

it comes from a latin word meaning immediately. it's not an acronym for anything.

 

[AmerikazMost]

pull out a dictionary sometime.. here's what you might find

stat abbr 1 [L statim] immediately 2 statute

 

[EDouble]

i never heard of STAT before except as in 'statistic'?
I know ASAP thats it

 

[AmerikazMost]

i never heard of STAT before except as in 'statistic'?

Don't you watch ER or a show like that?

"I need 50 miligrams of sodium chloride stat!"


And yes, I know that's salt.

 

[Jurhum]

in my dialect it means pussies .. no lies

 

[EDouble]

And yes, I know that's salt.

one of the few things that I took from chemistry class

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Pretty much every medical drama has crazy doctors yelling STAT after every order, suprised you havent heard that before.

 

[PuffnScruff]

people....the internet is your friend
Stat, from statim, is a medical term meaning "immediately" (from Latin) or, in more recent history, someone has come up with the acronym: Sooner Than Already There. Example: "Hand me the scalpel Sooner Than Already There." - Dr. Ramirez.

 

[EDouble]

that shits gay lol...and i guess i haven't ever cared enough to remember it watchin any medical dramas

 

[Dogmatic187]

Little Skittle check Wikipedia.com for answers to dumb questions that waste space on certain boards.

 

[AmerikazMost]

Fuck Wikipedia. I'm tired of everyone relying on that. It's become the crutch of lame internet users. Use a damn dictionary to look up the meaning of words.

 

[mechman]

Statim cirro ad lavitum.

 

[Dogmatic187]

Fuck Wikipedia. I'm tired of everyone relying on that. It's become the crutch of lame internet users. Use a damn dictionary to look up the meaning of words.

How else am I going to find how to get blood stains out of my carpet?

 

[mechman]

^Experience. Cat Urine gets nasty blood stains right out!

 

[AmerikazMost]

Dogmatic..i'm sure there are other sites for it, but that's not something i complain about.

using it to do research papers, using it as a dictionary, etc.

it can be helpful, but it's overused




and you could call your mother

 

[Little Skittle]

Little Skittle check Wikipedia.com for answers to dumb questions that waste space on certain boards.

Oh shit, sorry. I forgot this message board had a limited area and is only used for the most important of topics.

 

[Dogmatic187]

^^It is, we need more room for "the finest girls" thread.

 

[AmerikazMost]

Oh shit, sorry. I forgot this message board had a limited area and is only used for the most important of topics.

I'm with you. The board should be open to questions. I got mad at members in the Life forum for dismissing new members because they ask things about Pac that we consider to be common knowledge.

You're question could've been solved with a dictionary though. It's only one of the most common books in the history of the world. There are online dictionaries as well.

 

[not really ken]

^why should he check a dictionary, when he's got people on this board ready to answer his question? If he had never asked, then many peole who never even thought about this would not have had this piece of information.