WOW.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: common abbreviations medical charts

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of medical abbreviations: H - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical...

    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 HAA: hepatitis-associated antigen or #History As Above HAART: highly active antiretroviral therapy HACA: human anti-chimeric antibody: HACE: High-altitude cerebral ...

  3. Congenital muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_muscular_dystrophy

    Congenital muscular dystrophies are autosomal recessively-inherited muscle diseases.They are a group of heterogeneous disorders characterized by muscle weakness which is present at birth and the different changes on muscle biopsy that ranges from myopathic to overtly dystrophic due to the age at which the biopsy takes place.

  4. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_Common...

    The acronym HCPCS originally stood for HCFA Common Procedure Coding System, a medical billing process used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to 2001, CMS was known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations

    "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword setters. However, some abbreviations may be found in other dictionaries, such as the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary.

  6. Past medical history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Medical_History

    Past medical history: "the patient's past experiences with illnesses, operations, injuries and treatments"; Family history: "a review of medical events in the patient's family, including diseases which may be hereditary or place the patient at risk"; Social history: "an age-appropriate review of past and current activities".

  7. Vital signs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital_signs

    Vital signs (also known as vitals) are a group of the four to six most crucial medical signs that indicate the status of the body's vital (life-sustaining) functions. These measurements are taken to help assess the general physical health of a person, give clues to possible diseases, and show progress toward recovery.

  8. List of medical abbreviations: F - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical...

    Abbreviation Meaning F x: fracture: FA: Fanconi anemia: FAMMM syndrome: familial atypical multiple mole melanoma syndrome: FANA: fluorescent antinuclear antibody test FAP: familial adenomatous polyposis: FAST: focused assessment with sonography for trauma: FB: foreign body: FBC: Family Birth Center full blood count: FBE: full blood exam: FBG ...

  9. Pulse oximetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

    A pulse oximeter probe applied to a person's finger. A pulse oximeter is a medical device that indirectly monitors the oxygen saturation of a patient's blood (as opposed to measuring oxygen saturation directly through a blood sample) and changes in blood volume in the skin, producing a photoplethysmogram that may be further processed into other measurements. [4]

  1. Ads

    related to: common abbreviations medical charts