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  2. List of medical abbreviations: R - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation Meaning R: respiration, (right) RA: refractory anemia rheumatoid arthritis right atrium room air RAD: reflex anal dilatation right axis deviation reactive airway disease radiation absorbed dose reactive attachment disorder: Rad hys: radical hysterectomy: RAE: right atrial enlargement RAI: radioactive iodine: RAIU: thyroid reactive ...

  3. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms for Medical & Dental professional organizations; Medical Abbreviations for iPhone; Medical abbreviations on mediLexicon; Medical acronyms and abbreviations on allacronyms.com; Over 20,000 medical abbreviations sorted into specialist categories; Medical abbreviations in various categories such as Physiology, Oncology, Laboratory and more

  4. Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1] a.c. before meals: ante cibum a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night Omne Nocte a.s., as, AS 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

  5. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Family medical history FOH: Family ocular history F/U: Follow up appointment GH: General health G(M)P: General (medical) practitioner HA: Headaches HARC: Harmonious abnormal retinal correspondence HM: Hand motion vision – state distance Hx: History IOL: Intra-ocular lens IOP: Intra-ocular pressure ISNT: Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal

  6. Roentgen equivalent man - Wikipedia

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    The definition was refined in 1950 as "that dose of any ionizing radiation which produces a relevant biological effect equal to that produced by one roentgen of high-voltage x-radiation." [ 19 ] Using data available at the time, the rem was variously evaluated as 83, 93, or 95 erg /gram. [ 20 ]

  7. Dosimetry - Wikipedia

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    By definition, 1 Gy = 100 rad and 1 Sv = 100 rem. The fundamental quantity is the absorbed dose (D), which is defined as the mean energy imparted [by ionising radiation] (dE) per unit mass (dm) of material (D = dE/dm) [8] The SI unit of absorbed dose is the gray (Gy) defined as one joule per kilogram. Absorbed dose, as a point measurement, is ...

  8. Medical physics - Wikipedia

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    Although medical physics may sometimes also be referred to as biomedical physics, medical biophysics, applied physics in medicine, physics applications in medical science, radiological physics or hospital radio-physics, a "medical physicist" is specifically a health professional [4] with specialist education and training in the concepts and ...

  9. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    Meaning SI unit of measure alpha: alpha particle: angular acceleration: radian per second squared (rad/s 2) fine-structure constant: unitless beta: velocity in terms of the speed of light c: unitless beta particle: gamma: Lorentz factor: unitless photon: gamma ray: shear strain: radian