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Front cover of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Data page of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Lifelong "U" visa stamped on the OCI holder's passport (for OCIs issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015) The OCI document is a passport-like document, even though it is not a passport.
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.
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").
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning o: Nothing [ō—letter o with overbar] O 2: oxygen: OA: osteoarthritis: OAB: Overactive bladder: OAF: osteoclast activating factor
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
intermenstrual bleed (bleeding between periods) IMI: intramuscular injection: IMM: intramyometrial IMN: infectious mononucleosis: intramedullary nail: IMRT: intensity-modulated radiotherapy IMT: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor intima-media thickness: IMV: intermittent mandatory ventilation (see mechanical ventilation) Inc: incomplete INF(-α ...
Opioid-induced constipation (OIC) develops in 90 to 95% of people taking opioids long-term. [110] Since tolerance to this problem does not generally develop, most people on long-term opioids need to take a laxative or enemas. [111] Treatment of OIC is successional and dependent on severity. [112]
The Pakistan Foreign Office has argued that India's inclusion in OIC would violate the rules of the OIC, which require that an aspirant state should not have an ongoing conflict with a member state. [94] Kenya – Requested full membership in 2011. [86] Liberia – Requested full membership in November 2016. [95]