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-rrhea flowing, discharge Greek ῥοίᾱ (rhoíā), flow, flux galactorrhea, diarrhea-rrhexis: rupture Greek ῥῆξῐς (rhêxis), breaking, bursting, discharge karyorrhexis-rrhoea flowing, discharge Greek ῥοίᾱ (rhoíā), flow, flux diarrhoea: rubr(o)-of or pertaining to the red nucleus of the brain Latin ruber, red rubrospinal-rupt
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.
Suffixes are attached to the end of a word root to add meaning such as condition, disease process, or procedure. In the process of creating medical terminology, certain rules of language apply. These rules are part of language mechanics called linguistics. The word root is developed to include a vowel sound following the term to add a smoothing ...
Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) : CAD Coronary artery disease
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 also known as a prepucectomy, as the medical term for the foreskin is the prepuce. Proctocolectomy is the removal of the colon or the large intestine and the rectum. Prostatectomy is the removal of the prostate gland.
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).
altered conscious state acute coronary syndrome acute chest syndrome: ACM: arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: ACTH: adrenocorticotropic hormone: ACP: advance care planning Advanced Clinical Practitioner ACPO: acute colonic pseudo-obstruction ACU: ambulatory care unit: ad. right ear (from Latin auris dexter) AD: Alzheimer's disease acute distress ...