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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.
Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is a system of internationally agreed generic descriptors used to identify all medical device products. This nomenclature is a naming system for products which include those used for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease or injury in humans.
ISO 15223 Medical devices – Symbols to be used with medical device labels, labelling, and information to be supplied ISO 15223-1:2016 Part 1: General requirements; ISO 15223-2:2010 Part 2: Symbol development, selection and validation; ISO 15225:2016 Medical devices – Quality management – Medical device nomenclature data structure
ISO 7010 is an International Organization for Standardization technical standard for graphical hazard symbols on hazard and safety signs, including those indicating emergency exits. It uses colours and principles set out in ISO 3864 for these symbols, and is intended to provide "safety information that relies as little as possible on the use of ...
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 .
ISO 8625-1:1993 Part 1: General terms and definitions related to pressure; ISO 8625-2:1991 Part 2: General terms and definitions relating to flow; ISO 8625-3:1991 Part 3: General terms and definitions relating to temperature; ISO 8625-4:2011 Part 4: General terms and definitions relating to control/actuation systems
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").
A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses or procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as clinical coding.