Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
bilateral ventricular assist device (left and right) BK: bradykinin: BKA: below-the-knee amputation: b/l: bilateral BL: Burkitt's lymphoma: bl.cult: blood culture: bld: blood: BLE: Bilateral Lower Extremity (in/on both legs). BLS: basic life support: BM: bone marrow bowel movement breast milk
left ear auris sinistra a.u., au, AU both ears together or each ear aures unitas or auris uterque b.d.s, bds, BDS 2 times a day bis die sumendum b.i.d., bid, BID twice a day / twice daily bis in die gtt., gtts drop(s) gutta(e) h., h hour: hora: qhs, h.s., hs at bedtime or half strength quaque hora somni ii two tablets duos doses iii three tablets
left ear a can be mistaken as an o which could read "o.s." or "o.l", meaning left eye ATC around the clock a.u. auris utraque: both ears a can be mistaken as an o which could read "o.u.", meaning both eyes BDS, b.d.s. bis die sumendum: twice daily bib. bibe: drink bis bis: twice b.i.d., b.d. bis in die: twice daily
left heart catheterization: LHRH: luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone: Lig: ligament: LIH: left inguinal hernia: LLD: leg length discrepancy: LLE: left lower extremity: LLETZ: large loop excision of the transformation zone: LLL: left lower lobe LLQ: left lower quadrant: LM: left main LMA: left mentoanterior (fetal position) laryngeal mask ...
oculus sinister (left eye) OU oculus uterque (both eyes) PD Pupillary distance PERRLA Pupils equal, round, reactive to light and accommodation PH Pinhole see Pinhole occluder and Visual_acuity#Legal_definitions: PHNI Pinhole No Improvement see Pinhole occluder and Visual_acuity#Legal_definitions: PHVA Pinhole Visual Acuity: PL Perception of light
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").
For example, the right arm and leg are controlled by the left, contralateral, side of the brain. Ipsilateral (from Latin ipse 'same'): on the same side as another structure. [25] For example, the left arm is ipsilateral to the left leg. Bilateral (from Latin bis 'twice'): on both sides of the body. [26]
left, left side Latin sinister: sinistrocardia: sinus-of or pertaining to the sinus Latin sinus, a curve, bend, hollow cavity, bosom sinusitis: sito-food, grain Greek σῖτος (sîtos) sitophobia: somat(o)-, somatico-body, bodily Greek σῶμα (sôma) somatic somn(o) Sleep Latin somnus, sleep, drowsiness insomniac [11]-spadias: slit, fissure