Definition of pumpkin positive
pumpkin positive
- acronym for "pumpkin positive", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts, "which refers to the implication that a penlight shone into the patient's mouth would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up."
To resolve Google's penalty against this site, the following citation has been removed: "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003
Originally submitted by WalterGR from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 23 2010. (Edit this definition.)
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