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Right eye (oculus dexter) Ret. Retinoscopy RHyperT Right hypertropia RHypoT or RHT Right hypotropia RNFL Retinal nerve fibre layer RPE Retinal pigment epithelium RSOT Right esotropia Rx Prescription SE Spherical Equivalent: SLE Slit lamp examination SLM Slit lamp microscope EP Esophoria: ET Esotropia: Supp. Suppression V Vision (unaided) VA
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".
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.
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
Similar to medical prescriptions, eyeglass prescriptions are written on paper pads or included in a patient's electronic health record, and contain a number of different abbreviations and terms: DV is an abbreviation for distance vision. This specifies the part of the prescription designed primarily to improve far vision.
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 ...
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").
right ear (from Latin auris dexter) AD: Alzheimer's disease acute distress aortic dissection right ear (from Latin auris dexter) as directed ADA: adenosine deaminase American Dental Association American Diabetes Association; e.g., "ADA diet" Americans with Disabilities Act. ADC: AIDS dementia complex: ADCC: antibody-dependent cell-mediated ...