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Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder: ABPA Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: ACC Agenesis of the corpus callosum: ACS Acute coronary syndrome: ACTH deficiency Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency: ACUG Arthrocutaneouveal granulomatosis (see Blau syndrome) ACVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: AD Alzheimer's disease: AD
Black's Medical Dictionary (42nd ed, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-0419-4) is a comprehensive medical dictionary featuring definitions of medical terms, concepts and conditions, published by A & C Black Publishers. It was first published in 1906, and is now in its forty-second edition. It is considered a simplified home reference for medical terms. [1]
Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions.
A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders. A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. A disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance. Lists of animal diseases; List of autoimmune diseases; List of cancer types; List of childhood diseases and disorders; List of endocrine diseases
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Pages in category "Medical terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 377 total. ... Chronic condition; Chronic care; Clinical ...
condition, formation, or presence of Latin -iasis, pathological condition or process; from Greek ἴασις (íasis), cure, repair, mend mydriasis: iatr(o)-of or pertaining to medicine or a physician (uncommon as a prefix but common as a suffix; see -iatry) Greek ἰατρός (iatrós), healer, physician iatrochemistry, iatrogenesis-iatry
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 ...