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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 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.
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").
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis: ME Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: ME/CFS Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome: MFS Marfan syndrome: MI Myocardial infarction: MID Multi-infarct dementia: MIS Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome MIS-A Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in adults MIS-C
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Medication Administration Record: MARSA: methicillin- and aminoglycoside-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: MAS: Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome meconium aspiration syndrome MAST: Michigan alcohol screening test: MAT: multifocal atrial tachycardia microscopic agglutination test medication-assisted treatment. MBSS: modified barium swallow study ...
adverse drug reaction: ADW: Ain't Doin' Well A/E: Air entry A+E: accident and emergency: AEB: as evidenced by (commonly used by nurses) AED: automated external defibrillator antiepileptic drug(s) AEM: ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring: AF: atrial fibrillation atrial flutter amniotic fluid: AF-AFP: amniotic fluid alpha fetoprotein AFB ...
Abbreviation Meaning c̅ (c with an overbar) with (from Latin cum) means with C: cytosine cervical vertebrae: C1: atlas – first cervical vertebra of the spine C2: axis – second cervical vertebra of the spine CA: carcinoma cancer: Ca: calcium carcinoma cancer: CAA: coronary artery aneurysm: c/b: complicated by: CABG: coronary artery bypass ...