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  2. List of medical abbreviations: V - Wikipedia

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    VE: vaginal examination (manual examination) VEB: ventricular ectopic beat: VED: Vacuum Erection Device VEE: Venezuelan equine encephalitis: VF V-fib: ventricular fibrillation: VFSS: videofluoroscopic swallow study: VH: visual hallucinations vaginal hysterectomy VHL: Von Hippel–Lindau disease: VIN: vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia VIR ...

  3. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of obfuscation (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more than one possible interpretation).

  4. List of acronyms: V - Wikipedia

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    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). (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc

  5. Category:Medical devices - Wikipedia

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    A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implant, in vitro reagent, or similar or related article that is used to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or other conditions, and does not achieve its purposes through chemical action within or on the body (which would make it a drug).

  6. Global Medical Device Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Medical equipment - Wikipedia

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    I. Ice pack; Impedance cardiography; Inadine; Incentive spirometer; Incubator (culture) Inhaler spacer; Injector pen; Instruments used in cardiology; Instruments used in dermatology

  8. Medical devices could become safer with this new ... - AOL

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    Researchers from the University of British Columbia have developed a "groundbreaking coating" that could make blood-contacting devices safer. Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu discusses the benefits.

  9. Ventricular assist device - Wikipedia

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    The first successful long-term implantation of an LVAD was conducted in 1988 by Dr. William F. Bernhard of Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center and Thermedics, Inc. of Woburn, MA, under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research contract which developed HeartMate, an electronically controlled assist device.