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Peptic ulcer disease; Other names: Peptic ulcer, stomach ulcer, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer: An endoscopic image showing deep gastric ulcer.: Specialty: Gastroenterology General surgery
PUD: peptic ulcer disease: PUO: pyrexia of unknown origin: PUVA: psoralen UV A (photochemical ultraviolet light A waves) p.v. per vagina (as noun: vaginal examination with manual examination and speculum inspection) PV polycythemia vera PVC (VPC) premature ventricular contraction: PVD: peripheral vascular disease: PVFS: post-viral fatigue ...
The causes are divided into benign or malignant. Benign Peptic ulcer disease; Infections, such as tuberculosis; and infiltrative diseases, such as amyloidosis.; A rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction is blockage with a gallstone, also termed "Bouveret syndrome" or "Bouveret's syndrome".
Acronyms Diseases and disorders BA Bronchial Asthma: BBS Bardet-Biedl syndrome BBS Bashful bladder syndrome (see paruresis) : BEB Benign essential blepharospasm
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).
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").
Lykoudis is awarded a Greek patent (#22,453) for his antibiotic treatment of PUD. [23] 1962 Susser and Stein publish a paper identifying a cohort phenomenon of PUD in England. This is taken as evidence for stress causing PUD. [28] 1964 Lykoudis presents his antibiotic treatment for PUD at a meeting of the Medico-Surgical Society in Greece.
Sortable table 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)