re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
dropping a patient to the floor in preparation for CPR is known in EMS circles as a thoracic thump
There’s a pin on Pinterest that I’ve seen that goes through several iterations of euphemisms for biology, and a follow-on that adds additional phrases for NASA. The one that kills me every time is “lithobraking maneuver” - “the damn thing crashed into the ground.”