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bilateral BL: Burkitt's lymphoma: bl.cult: blood culture: bld: blood: BLE: Bilateral Lower Extremity (in/on both legs). BLS: basic life support: BM: bone marrow bowel movement breast milk Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of ...
Unilateral (from Latin unus ' one '): on one side of the body. [9] For example, a stroke can result in unilateral weakness , meaning weakness on one side of the body. Varus (from Latin ' bow-legged ' ) and valgus (from Latin ' knock-kneed ' ) are terms used to describe a state in which a part further away is abnormally placed towards (varus) or ...
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.
take (often effectively a noun meaning "prescription"—medical prescription or prescription drug) rep. repetatur: let it be repeated s. signa: write (write on the label) s.a. secundum artem: according to the art (accepted practice or best practice) SC subcutaneous "SC" can be mistaken for "SL," meaning sublingual. See also SQ: sem. semen seed ...
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
Abbreviation Meaning U OSM: urine osmolality UA: urinalysis unstable angina U/A upon arrival UAE: Uterine Artery Embolization (synonym for Uterine Fibroid Embolization) UBT: urea breath test: UC: ulcerative colitis uterine contraction: UCHD: usual childhood diseases (see list of childhood diseases) UCTD: Undifferentiated connective tissue ...
An isolated cleft of the palate (whether Veau-I soft palate only or Veau-II hard and soft palate) is a "midline" cleft. A Veau-III cleft may be considered "unilateral," as it is contiguous with a unilateral cleft lip. A Veau-IV cleft may be considered "midline" or "bilateral" as it is contiguous with a bilateral cleft lip.
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").