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gork

[gawrk]

noun Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.

Origin:
1970–75; perhaps back formation from gorked (slang) anesthetized; apparently an expressive coinage

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gork definition

[gork]

n.
a fool; a dupe. : Martin acts like such a gork sometimes.
in.
and GORK. an alleged hospital chart notation of the diagnosis God only really knows. (Hospitals.) : I see old Mr. Kelly is in again with a hundred complaints. His chart says GORK.
tv.
to give a patient sedation. (Hospitals.) : Dr. Wilson says to gork the patient in 226.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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