Ten Thousand Places

Stat! Second in my series of words and terms I enjoy. April 1, 2009

Filed under: Literature — tenthousandplaces @ 5:55 am

Stat, the instruction yelled out by doctors, means right away, immediately.  It is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim.

A very important related phrase: subsiste sermonem statim, which means, “Stop speaking immediately!”

 

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