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  2. List of medical abbreviations: B - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. 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

  4. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. List of medical abbreviations: L - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    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").

  8. Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    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