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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 ...
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.
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").
Inverse benefit law – Drug benefit-harm ratio falls with marketing; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; Medicines reconciliation; Medical device (such as hearing aids, for example) may be specified by a type of prescription; Off-label use – Use of pharmaceuticals for conditions different from that for which they were approved
Dose-limiting Describes side effects of a drug or other treatment that are serious enough to prevent an increase in dose or level of that treatment. (NCI) Dose-ranging study A clinical trial in which two or more doses of an agent (such as a drug) are tested against each other to determine which dose works best and is least harmful. (NLM) Dose-rate
Use of abbreviations, such as those relating to the route of administration or dose of a medication, can be confusing and is the most common source of medication errors. [2] Use of some acronyms has been shown to impact the safety of patients in hospitals, and "do not use lists" have been published at a national level in the US. [4]
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis: ME Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: ME/CFS Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome: MFS Marfan syndrome: MI Myocardial infarction: MID Multi-infarct dementia: MIS Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome MIS-A Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in adults MIS-C
The term dosage form may also sometimes refer only to the pharmaceutical formulation of a drug product's constituent substances, without considering its final configuration as a consumable product (e.g., capsule, patch, etc.). Due to the somewhat ambiguous nature and overlap of these terms within the pharmaceutical industry, caution is ...