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The sternocleidomastoid muscle originates from two locations: the manubrium of the sternum and the clavicle. [4] It travels obliquely across the side of the neck and inserts at the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull by a thin aponeurosis.
statement of medical necessity SMS: senior medical student SMT: spinal manipulative therapy: SMV: superior mesenteric vein: SN: student nurse skilled nursing SNB: sentinel node biopsy (ductal carcinoma) SNF: skilled nursing facility: SNHL: sensorineural hearing loss: SNP: sodium nitroprusside single nucleotide polymorphism: SNRI: serotonin ...
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").
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).
Longitudinal studies on T SCM dynamics in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have shown that donor-derived T SCM cells were highly enriched early after HSCT, differentiated directly from Tn, and that Tn and T SCM cells (but not central memory or effector T cells) were able to reconstitute the entire heterogeneity of memory T cell subsets including T SCM cells. [6]
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
1906 – George W. Crile of the Cleveland Clinic describes the radical neck dissection. The operation encompasses removal of all the lymph nodes on one side of the neck, and includes removal of the spinal accessory nerve (SAN), internal jugular vein (IJV) and sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM).