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Abbreviations of weights and measures are pronounced using the expansion of the unit (mg = "milligram") and chemical symbols using the chemical expansion (NaCl = "sodium chloride"). Some initialisms deriving from Latin may be pronounced either as letters ( qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion ( qid = "four times a day").
The term psychiatry was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808 and literally means the 'medical treatment of the soul' (ψυχή psych-'soul' from Ancient Greek psykhē 'soul'; -iatry 'medical treatment' from Gk. ιατρικός iātrikos 'medical' from ιάσθαι iāsthai 'to heal').
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
The term "das Es" was originally used by Georg Groddeck, a physician whose unconventional ideas were of interest to Freud (Groddeck's translators render the term in English as "the It"). [53] The word ego is taken directly from Latin , where it is the nominative of the first person singular personal pronoun and is translated as "I myself" to ...
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
English as a second language (affects provider–patient communication) ESBL: extended spectrum beta-lactamase (see also gram-negative bacteria) ESM: ejection systolic murmur ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate: ESRF: end-stage renal failure: ESRD: end-stage renal disease: ESS: empty sella syndrome enhanced support service EST: endodermal sinus ...
psych-of or pertaining to the mind Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ), breath, life, soul psychology, psychiatry: ptero-, ptery-Pertaining to a wing; 'pterygo-', wing-shaped Greek πτερόν (pterón), wing, feather lateral pterygoid plate-ptosis: falling, drooping, downward placement, prolapse Greek πτῶσῐς (ptôsis), falling apoptosis ...
In the list, abbreviations in English are capitalized whereas those in Latin are not. These abbreviations can be verified in reference works, both recent [1] and older. [2] [3] [4] Some of those works (such as Wyeth 1901 [4]) are so comprehensive that their entire content cannot be reproduced here.