GOMER

GOMER

GOMER is medical slang for a patient in a hospital who is demented or bordering on death, hence taking up room unnecessarily in the hospital. Doctors and nurses may feel that, past a certain level of degeneracy, providing life-prolonging treatments is no longer sensible, and that they should simply be allowed to die in peace.

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gomer

Noun

  1. A Hebrew measure of dry weight.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars.


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