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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).
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").
Wikipedia's list of medical abbreviations provides a comprehensive guide to Latin abbreviations used in the medical field.
Medical prescription. A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient. Historically, it was a physician's instruction to an apothecary listing the materials to be ...
List of medical abbreviations: 0–9. Dx - Diagnosis, Sx - Symptoms, Fx - Fracture, Tx - Treatment, Hx - History S/b-seen by.
Acronyms Diseases and disorders BA Bronchial Asthma: BBS Bardet-Biedl syndrome BBS Bashful bladder syndrome (see paruresis) : BEB Benign essential blepharospasm
laboratory (in health care, usually referring to clinical laboratory) LABA. long-acting beta agonist. LABBB. left anterior bundle branch block. Lac. laceration. lactate. LAD.
end diastolic flow (describing the flow of blood through the umbilical artery) EDH. epidural hematoma. EDM. esophageal Doppler monitor. EDRF. endothelium-derived relaxing factor aka nitric oxide. EDTA. ethylene-diamine-tetraacetic acid.