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American Medical Association: AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association: AMA: Australian Medical Association: AMSA: American Medical Student Association: AMT: American Medical Technologists: ANA: American Nurses Association: AND: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Association) ANF: Australian Nursing Federation ...
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Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) : CAD Coronary artery disease
Acronyms are very commonly used in healthcare settings. [1] They are formed from the lead letters of words relating to medications, organisations, procedures and diagnoses. [2] They come from both English and Latin roots. [2] [3] Acronyms have been described as jargon.
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).
Medical Women's International Association [1] Médecins Sans Frontières; World Allergy Organization [1] World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine [1] World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; World Health Organization; World Medical Association [1]
Abbreviation Meaning ā (a with a bar over it) before (from Latin ante) before: A: assessment a.a. of each (from Latin ana ana) amino acids: A or Ala – alanine; C or Cys – cysteine; D or Asp – aspartic acid; E or Glu – glutamic acid; F or Phe – phenylalanine; H or His – histidine; I or Ile – isoleucine; K or Lys – lysine; L or ...
Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC: bone mineral content: BMD: bone mineral density (also termed bone mass measurement) BMI: body mass index: BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR ...