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Minimal residual disease (MRD), also known as Molecular residual disease, is the name given to small numbers of cancer cells that remain in a person either during or after treatment when the patient is in remission (no symptoms or signs of disease).
Meaning M: murmur (heart murmur or heart attack that can cause death) MACE: Major adverse cardiovascular events: MAC: Mycobacterium avium complex: MAE: moves all extremities MAHA: microangiopathic hemolytic anemia: MAL: midaxillary line: MALT: mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue: MANOS: minilaparoscopy assisted natural orifice surgery: MAOI ...
Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night ...
Medical billing, a payment process in the United States healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed.
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).
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").
Required minimum distributions (RMDs) are a fact of life for most Americans once they reach the age of 73 — and while many retirees may welcome the additional income from the mandatory annual ...
(99217–99220) Hospital observation services (99221–99239) Hospital inpatient services (99241–99255) Consultations (99281–99288) Emergency department services (99291–99292) Critical care services (99304–99318) Nursing facility services (99324–99337) Domiciliary, rest home (boarding home) or custodial care services