CSI Question: What does 'DFO' mean?

Factual Questions
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I’m not sure if this belongs here or in Cafe Society, but anyway:

Sometimes on CSI, the CSI guys say something like, "The vic’s DFO’. What does DFO stand for?

I’ve tried looking it up on the web, but even the usually reliable Acronymn Finder has let me down.

(/Leia mode on): Please help me Teeming Millions…you’re my only hope! (/Leia mode off).

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Done Fell Over

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It means Done Fell Out (of bed) but can also mean Done Fell Over.
It’s from the same school as:
OLFDGB - Old Lady Fall Down Go Boom
TRO - Time Ran Out
DRT - Dead Right There
and
ADS from TMB - Acute Dying Spell from Too Many Birthdays

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What’s the etymology of this one? (And what does it mean?)

I’ll add one I heard of in Ireland, on a prescription:

Give this patient AOT.

I.e. any old thing.

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I understood it as meaning the victim just died without any obvious violence in evidence. Or no source of the violence in evidence.

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That does match the use of DFO on CSI. I was taking it to mean Dead From and couldn’t figure out what the O stood for.

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Sorry, my reading comprehension drops a few levels when I have an 18 month old jumping in my lap.

I think it means a serious injury from a fall. I am not in the med profession, and had to look it up to realise it had originated from there, but I use the term all of the time as a colloquialism.

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Dead From Oldness.

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I know what it stands for, and that’s the way I want to go. :wink:

And not screaming in terror like the person under me…

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overdose?

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http://twiztv.com/scripts/csi/season4/csi-410.txt

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25hnc/arc20050901.html; http://www.igs.net/~hwt/emerg.acronyms.cute

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I actually did think of Dead From Overdose, but it didn’t fit the context - the phrase is used only when there’s some mystery about the cause of death. Done Fell Over seems to fit best.

And on preview: Gfactor, that exact show was on last night - that’s what reminded me to look it up.

Plynck: It took me a minute, but :smiley:

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That’s funny! Hadn’t heard these.
In some motorcycle riding circles we have WFO.
“His throttle has two settings; Idle and WFO (Wide Fucking Open)” :smiley:

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Dead From Overdose?

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Never mind. (I keep too many tabs open…)

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I saw it last night. If I’m not confabulating, at the time I thought, “DFO? I bet there will be a thread on the SDMB about it tomorrow.”

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So, what EMS and the like use acronyms to sound more mysterious? DFO means nothing more than “Dead, and we have no fucking clue how?” Yeesh. I’m somewhat miffed. I thought it was something really technical.

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I think I read in the “On Language” column in the NYT that that doctors have an acronym that they put on the chart of patients with puzzling symptoms:

GORK

It stands for “God only really knows.”

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I seem to recall a whole list of acronyms that medical pros use to communicate sardonically about grave situations.

One I remember is “circling the drain” for somebody in the Terry Schiavo mode of existence.

For whatever reason, I think I read that stuff here somewhere. Months ago maybe. If not here, surely online somewhere.

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I posted a link to one of them earlier: http://www.igs.net/~hwt/emerg.acronyms.cute