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This is a list of initials, acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Air Force.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank).
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.
SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. [4]
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...
BOHICA – Bend Over Here It Comes Again (U.S. military slang) BRAC – Base Realignment And Closure; BRAT – Born Raised And Transferred (American usage, refers to dependent children of military personnel) Usually pronounced "Military Brat" (Or "Air Force BRAT", or Army "Brat", Navy "Brat" etc.). [6]
Abbreviation Organization or personnel IASP: International Association for the Study of Pain: IAMMS: Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences: IBCLC: International Board Certified Lactation Consultant: ICG: Italian Cooperative Group IFMSA: International Federation of Medical Students' Associations: IMD: Institution for Mental Disease: IMF
AF or A-fib Atrial fibrillation: AGS Aicardi–Goutières syndrome: AH Acquired hemophilia AHA Acquired hemophilia A AHB Acquired hemophilia B AHC Alternating hemiplegia of childhood: AHF Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever: AKI Acute kidney injury: AIDS: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIP Acute intermittent porphyria: ALA DD
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").