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Founded in 1966, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is the world's largest professional society devoted to the study of kidney disease.Composed of over 20,000 physicians and scientists, ASN promotes expert patient care, advances medical research, and educates the renal community.
American Medical Association: Amb: ambulate: AMC: arthrogryposis multiplex congenita: AMI: acute mesenteric ischemia acute myocardial infarction: AML: acute myeloid leukemia: AMO: advanced medical optics AMP: adenosine monophosphate: Amp: ampule ampere: AMPA receptor: alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor of the ...
American Heart Association: AIEOP: Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica (Italian association to study pediatric oncology) AMA: American Medical Association: AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association: AMA: Australian Medical Association: AMSA: American Medical Student Association: AMT: American Medical Technologists: ANA ...
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).
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").
Wikipedia's list of medical abbreviations provides a comprehensive guide to Latin abbreviations used in the medical field.
An Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) is a tertiary education nursing degree which typically takes 2–3 years to complete. [1] In the United States , this type of degree is usually awarded by community colleges or similar nursing schools .
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test)