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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.
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).
stat: immediately (from Latin statim) STEC: Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (another name for enterohemorrhagic E. coli) STEMI: ST elevation myocardial infarction: STH: somatotropic hormone: STI: sexually transmitted infection soft tissue injury: STN: Subthalamic nucleus soft tissue neck: STNR: Symmetrical tonic neck reflex: STOP
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").
Stat (stylized STAT, sometimes also called Stat News) [1] is an American health-oriented news website launched on November 4, 2015, by John W. Henry, the owner of The Boston Globe. It is produced by Boston Globe Media and is headquartered in the Globe ' s own building in Boston .
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-form: used to form adjectives indicating "having the form of" Latin fōrma, form, shape cruciform, cuneiform, falciform fore-before or ahead Old English fōr(e)-, before, in front of foregut, foreshadow fossa: a hollow or depressed area; a trench or channel Latin fossa, ditch, pit fossa ovalis: front-of or pertaining to the forehead
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