From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
Subject: Re: What's the origin of "STAT?"
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In article <1993Apr28.100131.157926@zeus.calpoly.edu> dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field)) writes:
>The term "stat" is used not only in medicine, but is a commonly used
>indicator that something is urgent.  
>
>Does anyone know where it came from?  My dictionary was not helpful.
>
>-- 


From the word 'statim' (Latin, I think), meaning immediately.


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