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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").
Front cover of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Data page of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Lifelong "U" visa stamped on the OCI holder's passport (for OCIs issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015) The OCI document is a passport-like document, even though it is not a passport.
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning o: Nothing [ō—letter o with overbar] O 2: oxygen: OA: osteoarthritis: OAB: Overactive bladder: OAF: osteoclast activating factor
intermenstrual bleed (bleeding between periods) IMI: intramuscular injection: IMM: intramyometrial IMN: infectious mononucleosis: intramedullary nail: IMRT: intensity-modulated radiotherapy IMT: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor intima-media thickness: IMV: intermittent mandatory ventilation (see mechanical ventilation) Inc: incomplete INF(-α ...
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine .
It is important to note the difference between geriatrics, the care of aged people, and gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself. The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology.