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Wyong (/ ˈ w aɪ ɒ ŋ /) is a town on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 63 km SSW of Newcastle and 93 km NNE of the state capital Sydney . Established in 1888, it is one of the two administrative centres for the Central Coast Council local government area .
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
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.
Bruthen – a Celtic place name used in Britain (now named Breidden), between Shropshire, England and Powys, Wales; also a Scott's Gaelic word meaning striped or checked; and in Cornish the word means freckled or speckled. Bodalla – a corruption of "boat alley". Narrabeen – a corruption of "narrow bean". Traralgon
Meaning WAIS(-R) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Revised) WAP: wandering atrial pacemaker (see multifocal atrial tachycardia) WAS: Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome WASP: Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein WAT: white adipose tissue: WBAT: weight bearing as tolerated: WBC: white blood cell white blood cell count WBI: whole bowel irrigation: WBRT
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) # fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of months x/40: x ...
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").
A pair of passing loops were added south of the station in 1948. In the 1950s, a new bridge was built over Wyong Creek immediately south of the station, with the old railway bridge becoming part of the Pacific Highway. [4] Between April 1982 [5] and June 1984, Wyong was the northern extremity of the electrified network. [6]