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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
Journal of Medical Biochemistry: Biochemistry: Walter de Gruyter: English: 1982–present Journal of Medical Biography: Medical Personnel: SAGE Publishing: English: 1993–present Journal of Medical Case Reports: Medicine: BioMed Central: English: 2007–present Journal of Medical Economics: Medicine: Taylor and Francis Group: English: 1998 ...
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").
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).
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
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.
Journal of Medical Case Reports is an open access peer-reviewed medical journal publishing case reports and research on case reports. It was established in 2007 and is published by BioMed Central. The editor-in-chief is Michael Kidd (University of Sydney). The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL and Scopus. [1]
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