Meaning & use
gorked
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In hospital slang, heavily sedated or unresponsive, often used to describe a patient in a deeply diminished mental state.
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After the surgery, he was so gorked from the anesthesia he couldn't answer simple questions.
Nurses joked quietly about how gorked the patient in room four seemed after his medication.
A note on using this word
This is informal medical slang, sometimes considered a backronym for "God Only Really Knows," and it is generally avoided in formal clinical documentation.
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