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Boxer's fracture; Bumper fracture; Burst fracture; Bosworth fracture; Chance fracture; Chopart's fracture-dislocation; Clay-Shoveller fracture; Colles' fracture; Cotton's fracture; Dupuytren's fracture; Duverney fracture; Essex-Lopresti fracture; Galeazzi fracture; Gosselin fracture; Hangman's fracture; Holstein–Lewis fracture; Holdsworth ...
A bone fracture (abbreviated FRX or Fx, F x, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of any bone in the body. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several fragments, known as a comminuted fracture. [1]
fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of months x/40: x number of weeks of pregnancy x/52: x number of weeks x/7: x number of days 18F-FDG: 18F-fluordeoxyglucose: 2° secondary 2/2: secondary to 3TC: lamivudine 5-FU: 5-fluorouracil 5 ...
Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: ante cibum a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte ...
Abbreviation or symbol Latin, Greek, or Neo-Latin English Possible confusion aa, āā, ĀĀ ana of each AAA apply to affected area abdominal aortic aneurysm: a.c. ante cibum: before meals a.c.h.s., ac&hs ante cibum et hora somni: before meals and at bedtime a.d. auris dextra: right ear
lateral tibial plateau avulsion fracture with anterior cruciate ligament tear: internal rotation of the knee: Segond fracture at Who Named It? Shepherd's fracture: Francis J. Shepherd: fracture of the lateral tubercle of the posterior process of the talus: Shepherd's fracture at Mondofacto online medical dictionary Smith's fracture: Robert ...
Abbreviations of weights and measures are pronounced using the expansion of the unit (mg = "milligram") and chemical symbols using the chemical expansion (NaCl = "sodium chloride"). Some initialisms deriving from Latin may be pronounced either as letters ( qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion ( qid = "four times a day").
family history (in medicine, meaning specifically the medical histories of family members and ancestors) FIBD: found in bed dead FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridization: FL: femur length FLAIR: fluid attenuated inversion recovery: FLK: funny-looking kid (slang reference to dysmorphic features) fl.oz.