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Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
TMC: toxic megacolon: TMJ: temporomandibular joint: TNF: tumor necrosis factor: TNG: trinitroglycerin: TNM: tumor-nodes-metastases: TNTC: too numerous to count TOA: tuboovarian abscess TOC: test-of-cure (+TOC meaning patient cured of disease proven via test) TOC: Transition of care TOD: transoesophageal Doppler TOE: transoesophageal ...
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Transportation Materiel Command, a unit of the United States Army until 1962; Trapeziometacarpal joint, a joint in the thumb; Tmcft (TMC, tmc) (thousand million cubic feet), a volume measurement of water; Run TMC, a high-scoring trio of teammates in the National Basketball Association from 1989 to 1991