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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").
maximum medical improvement: MMK: Marshall–Marchetti–Kranz procedure MMM: moist mucous membranes Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia MMP: medical marijuana patient Medical Monitoring Project (of the US CDC) MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: MMR: measles, mumps, and rubella combined vaccination mismatch repair MMR-D
For individuals with few symptoms, or those with contraindications to surgery, options exist for medical treatment in both mitral insufficiency and mitral valve stenosis, although they won't cure the conditions. Such medical treatments include diuretics, [46] [47] vasodilators, [47] [46] and ACE inhibitors. [46] [48] [49]
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).
NH: nursing home: NHL: non-Hodgkin lymphoma: NHW: non-healing wound: NICMP NICM: non-ischemic cardiomyopathy: NICU: neonatal intensive care unit: NIDDM: non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: NIF: Negative inspiratory force: NIH: National Institutes of Health NIPPV: Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation NK NK cells: natural killer ...
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
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test)