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Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport [1] [5] (IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL) (Catalan: Aeroport Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, Spanish: Aeropuerto Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat), and also known as Barcelona-El Prat Airport, is an international airport located 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest [6] [7] of the centre of Barcelona, lying in the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat ...
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").
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.
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).
IATA time zone code is constructed of 2–4 characters (letters and digits) as follows: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code is always used as first and second characters of time zone code. If country is not divided into separate time zones – no more characters added. Just 2 characters used.
Barcelona El Prat Airport, IATA code; an abbreviation for the city of Barcelona; Port of Barcelona, by shortened form of the UN/LOCODE ESBCN without the country prefix; Baja California, geographical ISO 3166 code MX-BCN; Birmingham Canal Navigations, a network of the English canal system in Birmingham, Wolverhampton
A baggage tag for a flight heading to Oral Ak Zhol Airport, whose IATA airport code is "URA". An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [1]
Johannesburg Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, for instance, was formerly known as Jan Smuts International Airport, with code FAJS. When the airport was renamed O. R. Tambo International Airport, its ICAO code was updated to FAOR. Some airports have two ICAO codes, usually when an airport is shared by civilian and military users.