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-gram, -gramme: record or picture Greek γράμμα (grámma), picture, letter, writing angiogram, gramophone -graph: instrument used to record data or picture Greek -γραφία (-graphía), written, drawn, graphic interpretation electrocardiograph, seismograph-graphy: process of recording
Graph; gram Write; draw; record Telegraph: the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters [see tele] Gyn Woman: Misogyny: The hatred of women [see miso] Helio: Sun: Heliotherapy: therapeutic exposure to sunlight [see therap] Hem; haem Blood: Hemorrhage: a profuse discharge of blood Hemi: Half
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 English suffix-graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.
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").
In the metric system, a microgram or microgramme is a unit of mass equal to one millionth (1 × 10 −6) of a gram.The unit symbol is μg according to the International System of Units (SI); the recommended symbol in the United States and United Kingdom when communicating medical information is mcg.
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 .
This definition intentionally excludes fetuses that are small for gestational age (SGA) but are not pathologically small. [3] Infants born SGA with severe short stature (or severe SGA) are defined as having a length less than 2.5 standard deviation scores below the mean.