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  2. List of medical abbreviations: H - Wikipedia

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    acronym for a group of bacteria that are a frequent cause of endocarditis in children HAD: HIV-associated dementia: HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: HAE: hereditary angioedema: H/A: headache: HAI: healthcare-associated infection or hospital-acquired infection: HALE: health-adjusted life expectancy HAPE: high-altitude pulmonary edema ...

  3. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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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").

  4. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    take (often effectively a noun meaning "prescription"—medical prescription or prescription drug) rep. repetatur: let it be repeated s. signa: write (write on the label) s.a. secundum artem: according to the art (accepted practice or best practice) SC subcutaneous "SC" can be mistaken for "SL," meaning sublingual. See also SQ: sem. semen seed ...

  5. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms Diseases and disorders H1N1 flu: Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1 influenza HAS Holmes–Adie syndrome: HCP Hereditary coproporphyria: HD Huntington's disease: HDL2 Huntington's disease–like 2: HELLP syndrome: Hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count syndrome HeV Infection Hendra virus infection HF ...

  6. 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.

  7. List of acronyms: H - Wikipedia

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    initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

  8. Medical slang - Wikipedia

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    Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...

  9. Major adverse cardiovascular events - Wikipedia

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    The so-called "classical 3-point MACE" is defined as a composite of nonfatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular death. [4] [5] But another study defines MACE as "CVD events, admission for HF (Heart Failure), ischemic cardiovascular [CV] events, cardiac death, or MACE". [6]