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Several acronyms have been developed to categorize the appropriate questions to include: "MMASH", for Medical Illnesses, Medications, Allergies, Surgeries, Hospitalizations.
Forms terms denoting conditions relating to eating or ingestion Greek φαγία (phagía) eating < φᾰγεῖν (phageîn), to eat Trichophagia-phago-eating, devouring Greek -φᾰ́γος (-phágos), eater of, eating phagocyte: phagist-Forms nouns that denote a person who 'feeds on' the first element or part of the word
Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night ...
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").
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Admission notes document the reasons why a patient is being admitted for inpatient care to a hospital or other facility, the patient's baseline status, and the initial instructions for that patient's care.
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.