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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 ...
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
Hospital Cornea Retrieval Programme HCTZ: hydrochlorothiazide: HCV: hepatitis C virus: HD: Hodgkin disease Hemodialysis Huntington's disease: HDL: high-density lipoprotein: HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol HDN: hemolytic disease of the newborn: HDS: hemodynamically stable (i.e., not bleeding) HDU: high dependency unit: HDV: hepatitis ...
And while some find the term too glib, young mental health advocates say the phrase is pitch-perfect. ... has made past suicide attempts and spent time a psychiatric hospital at the age of 18. She ...
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
funny-looking kid (slang reference to dysmorphic features) fl.oz. fluid ounce (1 Imperial fluid ounce ≈ 28.4 mL; 1 U.S. fluid ounce ≈ 29.6 mL) (use of these units is generally deprecated in modern medicine in favor of mL) FM: fetal movement: FMF: fetal movements felt FMP: first menstrual period (that is, menarche) FMPP: Familial male ...
City Hospital: Dr. Barton Crane Dr. Kate Morrow: Mel Ruick Anne Burr: City of Angels: Dr. Nate Ambrose Dr. Damon Bradley Dr. Ethan Carter Dr. Courtney Ellis Dr. Arthur Jackson Dr. Gwen Pennington Dr. Lillian Price Dr. Dan Prince Dr. Raleigh Stewart Dr. Ana Syphax Dr. Ben Turner Dr. Geoffrey Weiss Dr. Wesley Williams: Gregory Alan Williams ...
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