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junior medical student, aka MS-3 JODM: juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus: JP JPD JPDs: Jackson-Pratt drain: JRA: juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (now called juvenile idiopathic arthritis) JVD: jugular venous distension: JVP: jugular venous pressure
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").
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "J Ja–Je. Jackson–Weiss syndrome; Jacobsen syndrome ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. 10th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see J (disambiguation).. For the Cyrillic letter Ј, see Je (Cyrillic). J J j Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic Language of origin Latin language Sound values [j ...
Origin language and etymology Example(s) -iasis: condition, formation, or presence of Latin -iasis, pathological condition or process; from Greek ἴασις (íasis), cure, repair, mend mydriasis: iatr(o)-of or pertaining to medicine or a physician (uncommon as a prefix but common as a suffix; see -iatry)
Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) : CAD Coronary artery disease
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. ...