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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").
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
F/C: fevers and/or chills: F/C/S: fevers and/or chills and/or sweating FCS: Faciocutaneoskeletal syndrome: FDC: follicular dendritic cells: fixed dose combination: FDG: fluordeoxyglucose: FDIU: fetal demise in utero: FDP: fibrin degradation product: Flexor digitorum profundus: FDS: Flexor digitorum superficialis: Fe: iron: FEF 25–75
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).
r/r/w: rales, rhonchi, wheezes (lung sounds) RS cell: Reed–Sternberg cell: RSB: Right sternal border RSI: rapid sequence induction: RSV: respiratory syncytial virus: R/t: related to RT: radiotherapy respiratory therapy reverse transcriptase: RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction RTA: renal tubular acidosis: RTC
L. List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of medical abbreviations: D; List of medical abbreviations: E; List of medical abbreviations: F
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Abbreviation Organization or personnel PA: Physician assistant or pathologist assistant PAC: Certified Physician assistant or pathologist assistant CPT: Phlebotomist: PCT: Primary care trust (UK) PGNZ: Pharmaceutical Guild of New Zealand PHARM: Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicines (Australia) Pharm.D: Doctor of Pharmacy PMS