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  2. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms for Medical & Dental professional organizations; Medical Abbreviations for iPhone; Medical abbreviations on mediLexicon; Medical acronyms and abbreviations on allacronyms.com; Over 20,000 medical abbreviations sorted into specialist categories; Medical abbreviations in various categories such as Physiology, Oncology, Laboratory and more

  3. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms in healthcare; List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations

  4. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).

  5. Acronyms in healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms are very commonly used in healthcare settings. [1] They are formed from the lead letters of words relating to medications, organisations, procedures and diagnoses. [2] They come from both English and Latin roots. [2] [3] Acronyms have been described as jargon.

  6. List of medical abbreviations: B - Wikipedia

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    Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC: bone mineral content: BMD: bone mineral density (also termed bone mass measurement) BMI: body mass index: BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR ...

  7. List of medical abbreviations: H - Wikipedia

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    acronym for a group of bacteria that are a frequent cause of endocarditis in children HAD: HIV-associated dementia: HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: HAE: hereditary angioedema: H/A: headache: HAI: healthcare-associated infection or hospital-acquired infection: HALE: health-adjusted life expectancy HAPE: high-altitude pulmonary edema ...

  8. List of medical abbreviations: 0–9 - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test) # fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of ...

  9. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    A major branch is medical biostatistics, which is exclusively concerned with medicine and health. [66] Bipolar disorder – is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood [67] [68] [69] Birth control – also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent ...