Acom

English translation: It's the name given to the ward, instead of a number

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English term or phrase:Acom
Selected answer:It's the name given to the ward, instead of a number
Entered by: Anna Maria Augustine (X)

11:39 Sep 19, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
English term or phrase: Acom
She was admitted to "Acom" ward for the night.
Rahi Moosavi
Canada
Local time: 01:14
It's the name given to the ward, instead of a number
Explanation:
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Note added at 2 mins (2006-09-19 11:42:32 GMT)
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Probably named after a doctor or someone to do with the hospital.
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 07:14
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3 +3It's the name given to the ward, instead of a number
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
4anterior communicating artery
juvera
3Joint Forces Command (Formerly ACOM)
Ramesh Madhavan
2acorn
Fan Gao


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acom
It's the name given to the ward, instead of a number


Explanation:
*

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Note added at 2 mins (2006-09-19 11:42:32 GMT)
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Probably named after a doctor or someone to do with the hospital.

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 07:14
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  R. Alex Jenkins
2 hrs

agree  Fan Gao: Yes I've been in hospitals with some very strangely named wards:)
13 hrs

agree  Jason Willis-Lee
6 days
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
acom
anterior communicating artery


Explanation:
I wouldn't be surprised that the ward's name originates from the commonly used acronym of the above.

...the anterior communicating artery (Acom)
www.cimne.upc.es/iacm/News/Expressions16.pdf

Patients and methods: Thirty-one patients with ACom...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/cbjn/2000/00000014/000... -

Example: Saccular ACOM aneurysm on angio.
www.neurology.ucla.edu/education/ppts/2003/Headache.J.Hogan...

juvera
Local time: 06:14
Does not meet criteria
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
acom
Joint Forces Command (Formerly ACOM)


Explanation:
Is this a war story?

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Note added at 3 hrs (2006-09-19 14:58:14 GMT)
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Joint Forces Command was also known as Allied Comand (ACOM). If the period is WW II, we are looking at an Allied Command Hospital Ward.

Ramesh Madhavan
Local time: 10:44
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in TamilTamil
Notes to answerer
Asker: Please read the question again, the category is "medical" so no war stories!

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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
acom
acorn


Explanation:
Another reason that made me think of acorn was that I once had a stay in hospital and I was in "Willow" ward. This hospital had its wards named after trees so it probably had an "acorn" ward there too.

Fan Gao
Australia
Local time: 15:14
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Native speaker of: Chinese
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