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Family medical history FOH: Family ocular history F/U: Follow up appointment GH: General health G(M)P: General (medical) practitioner HA: Headaches HARC: Harmonious abnormal retinal correspondence HM: Hand motion vision – state distance Hx: History IOL: Intra-ocular lens IOP: Intra-ocular pressure ISNT: Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal
right ear a single-storey a can be mistaken as an o which could read "o.d.", meaning right eye ad., add. adde addatur: add let there be added ad lib. ad libitum: Latin, "at one's pleasure"; as much as one desires; freely compare pro re nata, "as needed", which by convention includes an aspect of "up to some maximum".
right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night Omne Nocte a.s., as, AS left ear auris sinistra a.u., au, AU both ears together or each ear aures unitas or auris uterque b.d.s, bds, BDS 2 times a day bis die sumendum b.i.d., bid, BID twice a day / twice daily bis in die gtt., gtts drop(s) gutta(e) h., h hour: hora
OD or o.d., an abbreviation used in medical prescriptions for omne in die or "once daily" both meaning "take once every day"; Doctor of Optometry (O.D.); Oculus dexter, ocular dexter, or ocularis dexter, meaning "right eye" in general ophthalmologic or optometric usage, particularly in eyeglass prescriptions
right eye (from Latin oculus dexter) overdose occupational disease: ODC: ornithine decarboxylase OE: otitis externa: O/E: on examination: OFC: orbitofrontal cortex: OGTT: oral glucose tolerance test: OHL: oral hairy leukoplakia OHS: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome: OHT: Orthotopic heart transplantation Oint: ointment: OM: otitis media: om ...
Oculus means eye. OS is an abbreviation for oculus sinister, Latin for left eye from the patient's point of view. OU is an abbreviation for oculi uterque, Latin for both eyes. N.B.: In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, RE (right eye), LE (left eye), and BE (both eyes) are used. Sometimes, just right and left are used.
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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").