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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.
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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").
Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) : CAD Coronary artery disease
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test)
The surgeon’s license of Hanford physician David Wayne Nelson is to be revoked by the California Medical Board after the board determined Nelson was guilty of gross negligence by performing a ...
Grawe's medical license was originally suspended Nov. 18 after "clear and convincing" evidence arose that her continued practice presented "a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public."
Emergency medical technician: EMT-B: Emergency Medical Technician - Basic(OLD) EMT-I: Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate (OLD) EMT-P: Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic (OLD) EN: Enrolled nurse (AU) – See Licensed practical nurse: EORTC: European Organization for Research Treatment in Cancer EpSSG