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dl: deciliter: dL: deciliter DLB: dementia with Lewy bodies: DLCO: diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide: DLE: disseminated lupus erythematosus (systemic lupus erythematosus) DLI: donor lymphocyte infusion: DLP: dyslipoproteinemia [1] DM: diabetes mellitus, Dermatomyositis: DM2: Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as Non-Insulin ...
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").
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
AMA style avoids use of this abbreviation (spell out "twice a day") bis ind. bis indies: twice a day bis in 7 d. bis in septem diebus: twice a week BM bowel movement: commonly used in the United Kingdom when discussing blood sugar. From BM Stix – the measurement sticks used for calculating blood sugar; BM being an abbreviation of Boehringer ...
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.
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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.