Lesson 9 - Acronyms
Terms
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- AV
- Arteriovenous
- BKA
- Below Knee Amputation
- BUN
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- EEG
- Electroencephalogram
- FYI
- For your information
- HBP
- High blood pressure
- HEENT
- Head, eyes, ears, nose and throat
- HIV
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- HTN
- Hypertension
- ICU
- Intensive Care Unit
- IM
- Intramuscular
- LOA
- Leave of absence
- LRS
- Located Ringer's solution
- MD
- Muscular Dystrophy
- MOM
- Milk of magnesia
- MS
- Muscular sclerosis
- NBM
- not by mouth
- NPO
- nil per os
- NSD
- no significant disease
- PDR
- Physician's Desk Reference
- PERRLA
- the Pupils are Equal, Round and Reactive to Light and Accomodation
- RA
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- STD
- sexually transmitted disease
- VDRL
- Veneral Disease Research Laboratory
- WBC
- white blood count