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LOL: little old lady (often LOL in NAD—see House of God) lymph-obligatory load: LOM: limitation of motion LOP: left occiput posterior (fetal position) LORTA: loss of resistance to air (in anesthesiology; when placing epidural, LORTA indicates entrance of needle to epidural space) LOS: length of stay: Lot: lotion: LOT: left occiput transverse ...
Alphabet Agency/Alphabet Soup/Alphabet Bois Used in the United States to denote the multiple federal agencies that are commonly referred to by their initials such as the FBI, ATF, and DEA. Anda An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [ 1 ] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC.
Texas Office of State-Federal Relations; Texas Optometry Board; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department; Texas Pension Review Board; Texas Public Finance Authority; Texas Racing Commission; Texas Real Estate Commission; Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Texas School for the Deaf; Texas Secretary of State; Texas Space Commission ...
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).
The agency's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Division, along with Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University coordinate the Texas School Survey, [4] a program consisting of two surveys on drug and alcohol abuse, an annual one done at the local school-district level and a biennial statewide survey. The statewide survey, called ...
This summer, the acronym LOL has gone out of style amongst Gen-Z-ers and has been replaced in popularity by IJBOL, which stands for “I just burst out laughing”.
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").