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mental health and mental retardation MHW: Mental Health Worker MI: myocardial infarction: MIC: minimum inhibitory concentration: MICA: mental illness and chemical abuse; mentally ill chemical abuser MICU: mobile intensive care unit / medical intensive care unit MIF: Müllerian inhibitory factor MIP
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").
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
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).
.mh, the Internet country code top-level domain for Marshall Islands; Malignant hyperthermia, in medicine; Masked hypertension, the phenomenon where a patient with hypertension has normotension in a clinical setting; Millihenry (mH), an SI unit of inductance; Megahenry (MH) millihour (mh), a non-SI unit of time; Megahour (Mh) Metre hour (m h ...
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.
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning h: hr / hours H: histamine or its receptors (if with subscripts) hemagglutinin: H x: history: HA ; H/A hypertonia arterialis headache calcium hydroxyapatite
Family medical history FOH: Family ocular history F/U: Follow up appointment GH: General health G(M)P: General (medical) practitioner HA: Headaches HARC: Harmonious abnormal retinal correspondence HM: Hand motion vision – state distance Hx: History IOL: Intra-ocular lens IOP: Intra-ocular pressure ISNT: Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal