As a nurse I managed to keep my composed when I've just met baby Melina

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Should I say something???? Not that close a friend, but a friend nevertheless

Madradlady Cándida is the female version of Cándido which comes from Latin and it means 'dazzling light, gleaming,radiant, glowing, bright,shining, etc.'

And yes, it also means the disease Candida albicans. That's why Cándida is an old fashioned name.

Spelled and pronounced differently.

Rose cottage, isn't that code for when someone has passed on?

Rose cottage a national thing? Thought it was just our hospital! They call rose cottage the mortuary

BOF it's a euphemism for the mortuary.

Went to school with someone of that name (disliked her, not a nice person) couldn't believe it when I started nurse training and found out what her name meant

Rose Cottage can cause confusion - one ward I worked on called transport to collect a patient who was going home to his house, called Rose Cottage. Cue lots of confused whispers and poking of heads around the curtains to check he was still alive!

No, they're not 'nicely oblivious', it's a different word. There is no association, especially as it's not even spelled the same.

I suppose a thief would snigger if he met a guy called Rob?

Or a gardener dissolve into hysterics if he met someone called Doug?

Lots of names are actually the same sound as a word meaning something else. If the name isn't familiar to you as it's one from another culture... erm that's even less funny.

I thought Rose Cottage was just my hospital too!

And I know that Candida is also a name, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is thrush.

Never heard the word melena before, I've learnt something new today!

I would have been completely oblivious to the alternate medical meaning if I'd met a baby Melina. I expect, most non-medical people will also be oblivious.

I had an Italian great-aunty Melina. I have never heard of the medical term. Leave her alone!

I have no medical training but I know what Melena and Amelia mean and always judge a bit, particularly for Amelia - a quick google will tell you what it means.

It's a different word entirely! Don't say anything to the parents.

In Greece "Heston" means shit-on-him. Greeks used to call the actor Charlton Easton. Useless trivia for you.

Melena (pronounced Mel-en-ah?) is a different word to Melina (pronounced Mel-ee-na) so don't really see the hilarity. Malene and Malina are similar names too.

I have a cousin called Candida.

Also seriously considered Milena for dd1 - after reading a book about Kafka's girlfriend who had the name - but my doctor SIL persuaded me this was not a good idea, for the reasons detailed in this thread.

Oh, and my cousin - I can't tell you her surname, but it is honestly the last surname in the world you would want if your first name was Candida.

Malaena (blood in faeces) is pronounced ma-lee-na the same as the name.

I've heard of a Chlamydia too.

Alexia and Amelia - I remember being taught about these in uni and being stunned at the meanings, having only heard them as names.

Affliction of being a nurse - it spoils pretty names!

My daughter is called Amelia, a legitimate name...and I discovered not long after she was born, it was also the name of a birth defect (can't remember what it was though now)

oops xposted with Polka sort of

Amelia is without limbs.

Alexia is without words / unable to communicate through speech.

Aw heres hoping DD doesn't spend too much time googling her name when she is older

Oh well, it is a pretty name, lots of words have more than one meaning,

I'm sure more people know Amelia as a name than as a medical term.

I was faintly amused by a baby caked Lumen in the Evening standard yesterday. Again wouldN't be a HCPs first choice

I went to school with a Candida and a Melena.

divora please tell me it's thrush!

I'm sure I read on here (where else) about someone wanting to call a baby Cadaver.

That's the medical term for a dead body.

Oh well, this thread just taught me that 2 of our princesses have names close to or the same as medical conditions. We have an Amalia and an Alexia. The other princess is called Ariana, is that something medical too?