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  2. Medical slang - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CESMA: Council for European Specialist Medical Assessments: CHT: Certified Hand Therapist: CMA: Canadian Medical Association: CMA: Certified medical assistant: CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: CNA: Certified Nursing Assistant: COG: Children's Oncology Group: COTA(A) Council on the ...

  4. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms for Medical & Dental professional organizations; Medical Abbreviations for iPhone; Medical abbreviations on mediLexicon; Medical acronyms and abbreviations on allacronyms.com; Over 20,000 medical abbreviations sorted into specialist categories; Medical abbreviations in various categories such as Physiology, Oncology, Laboratory and more

  5. Anesthesiology - Wikipedia

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    In the Nordic countries, anesthesiology is the medical specialty that is engaged in the fields of anesthesia, intensive care medicine, pain control medicine, pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medicine. Medical school graduates must complete a twelve-month internship, followed by a five-year residency program.

  6. List of medical abbreviations: S - Wikipedia

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    Meaning s̅: without (s with an overbar) (from Latin sine) S: sacrum: S x: symptoms surgery (though deemed by some as inappropriate) S 1: first heart sound: S 2: second heart sound: S 3: third heart sound S 4: fourth heart sound S&O: salpingo-oophorectomy Sb: Scholar batch SAAG: serum–ascites albumin gradient SAB: staphylococcal bacteremia

  7. List of medical abbreviations: C - Wikipedia

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    Meaning c̅ (c with an overbar) with (from Latin cum) means with C: cytosine cervical vertebrae: C1: atlas – first cervical vertebra of the spine C2: axis – second cervical vertebra of the spine CA: carcinoma cancer: Ca: calcium carcinoma cancer: CAA: coronary artery aneurysm: c/b: complicated by: CABG: coronary artery bypass graft ...

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    Don Grant, media psychologist and the national director of healthy device management for Newport Healthcare, an adolescent mental health treatment program with inpatient facilities around the ...

  9. Category:Medical slang - Wikipedia

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