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Organization or personnel DC: Doctor of Chiropractic: DDS Doctor of Dental Surgery: DHB District Health Board (New Zealand) DI: Digital Imaging Technologist DMD: Doctor of Dental Medicine: DNP: Doctor of Nursing Practice: DO: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine: DoH: Department of Health (various countries) DNB: Diplomate of National Board India DPT ...
List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; P. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions This page was last ...
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").
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).
Assistive personnel that is state licensed and works under the direction of a Registered Nurse Emergency Medical Technician: EMT An EMT must be certified by the NREMT to be eligible for initial state licensure Advanced Emergency Medical Technician: AEMT An AEMT must be certified by the NREMT to be eligible for initial state licensure Paramedic: NRP
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)
List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations; External links
Abbreviation 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