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Emergency medical services: EMT: Emergency medical technician: EMT-B: Emergency Medical Technician - Basic(OLD) EMT-I: Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate (OLD) EMT-P: Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic (OLD) EN: Enrolled nurse (AU) – See Licensed practical nurse: EORTC: European Organization for Research Treatment in Cancer EpSSG
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.
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").
The ICD-11 MMS is commonly referred to as simply "the ICD-11". [10] The "MMS" was added to differentiate the ICD-11 entities in the Foundation from those in the Classification. The ICD-11 MMS does not contain all classes from the Foundation ICD-11, and also adds some classes from the ICF. MMS stands for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics.
Medical Laboratory Scientist: MLS: American Society for Clinical Pathology: Medical Technologist: MT: State Licensure, American Medical Technologists Medical Laboratory Technician: MLT: State Licensure, American Society for Clinical Pathology, American Medical Technologists Licensed Professional Counselor: LPC or LCPC: State licensure Licensed ...
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (U.S. National Library of Medicine) MELD: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease: MEN: multiple endocrine neoplasia: MeSH: Medical Subject Headings (U.S. National Library of Medicine) MET: metabolic equivalent: met: metastasis (pronounced like the word met; plural mets) MFM: maternal and fetal ...
Miracle Mineral Supplement, often referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution, Master Mineral Solution, MMS or the CD protocol, [1] is a branded name for an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleaching agent, that has been falsely promoted as a cure for illnesses including HIV, cancer and the common cold.
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).