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no known allergies: NKDA: no known drug allergies: NL: normal NLP: no light perception (highest degree of blindness) NM: nuclear medicine: NMR: nuclear magnetic resonance: NNH: number needed to harm: NNT: number needed to treat: NO: nitric oxide: No. number NOF: neck of femur fracture (refers to hip fracture) NOMI: nonocclusive mesenteric ...
Allergies to the sugar carbohydrate found in beef, venison, lamb, and pork called alpha-gal. It is brought on by tick bites. [43] Allergic reaction to pork is an exception, as it may also be caused by pork-cat syndrome instead of alpha-gal allergy. Rice: Sneezing, runny nose, itching, stomachache, eczema.
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").
allergies "NKDA" including drug allergies (including antigens and responses). "NKA" = "no known allergies". "NKDA" = "no known drug allergies". Some sources include both acronyms, [3] which reduces ambiguity between drug allergies and other allergies (such as food allergies or allergies to pets) medications "none"
Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) ALD Alcoholic liver disease: ALI Acute lung injury: ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia: ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: AMD Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD
Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. [11] These diseases include hay fever , food allergies , atopic dermatitis , allergic asthma , and anaphylaxis . [ 1 ]
Before allergy medicine, there were a whole slew of bizarre ways to treat symptoms of what was known in the late 1800s as "hay fever." The term "allergy" didn't exist until 1906, says Theresa ...
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).