Luka rold Benton that the drunk patient was "an MVA with a lot of ETOH." MVA I know, what did he mean by ETOH?

-- Melinda Ross (mross@value.net), January 13, 2001

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Response to Question re: Rock Paper Scissors

ETOH meant alcohol. I forget what exactly it stands for.

-- Lynn (lynn@wordsmyth.org), January 13, 2001.

Response to Question re: Rock Paper Scissors

I think that ethanol is a scientific work for "alcohol". Maybe "etoh" is an abbreviation doctors use so patients won't know what they're talking about.

-- Carin Haseltine (cdenisehaze@usa.net), January 13, 2001.

Response to Question re: Rock Paper Scissors

Ethanol is a kind of alcohol, which is really any hydrocarbon compound with an OH group stuck on the end somewhere. EtOH is an abbreviation for ethyl alcohol, but there are others; MeOH, for example, is methyl alcohol (aka methanol, the stuff you can't drink).

Yes, I'm picking nits this morning.

-- Mike Sugimoto (phloem@fumbling.com), January 13, 2001.

Response to Question re: Rock Paper Scissors

Mystery solved--thank you!

-- Melinda (mross@value.net), January 13, 2001.

Mind you in Ireland and the UK we call it C2H5OH - the organic chemistry formula for alcohol

-- Roy Madden (maddenroy@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.