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Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) CAD Coronary artery disease: CADASIL: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy CAP Community acquired pneumonia: CAPA
This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language A. ab ...
What exactly is an acronym? It’s a word comprised of the first initials of the other words, which is then pronounced as its own word. ... and Children. Medical acronyms. AIDS. Acquired ...
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
Degenerative disk disease: DDH: developmental hip dysplasia: DDI: didanosine: DDx: differential diagnosis: D&E: dilatation and evacuation: DEE: developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: DES: diethylstilbestrol Drug-eluting stent: DEXA: Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry: DH: developmental history Department of Health (United Kingdom), a branch ...
This series of lists omits periods from acronyms and initialisms. It uses periods for certain abbreviations that traditionally often have them (mostly older Latin/Neo-Latin abbreviations). For example, both bid and b.i.d. may be found in the list. It generally uses the singular form of an abbreviation (not the plural) as the headword.
chronic granulomatous disease: CGI: Clinical global impression (including subscales such as CGI-BP, CGI-C, CGI-E, CGI-I, CGI-S) cGMP: cyclic guanosine monophosphate: CGN: chronic glomerulonephritis: CH: congenital hypothyroidism: CHC: combined hormonal contraceptive: CHD: chronic heart disease congenital heart defect coronary heart disease: ChE ...
best pharmaceuticals for children act: BPD: biparietal diameter borderline personality disorder bronchopulmonary dysplasia: BPES: blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome: BPH: benign prostatic hyperplasia/benign prostatic hypertrophy BPM: beats per minute: BPP: biophysical profile: BPPV: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: BPSD