Medical Abbreviations-B
A list of the accepted medical abbreviations beginning with B. (See subsequent lists for each letter of the alphabet). Great for anyone interested in working in clinical medicine.
Terms
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- below the knee amputation
- BKA
- bleeding time
- BT
- blood urea nitrogen
- BUN
- basophils
- Baso
- beats per minute
- bpm
- twice a day (bis in die)
- bid
- bright red blood per rectum (hematochezia)
- BRBPR
- breath sounds; bowel sounds
- B.S.
- bone conduction
- BC
- benign postural vertigo
- BPV
- biopsy
- Biop or Bx
- bronchoscopy
- Bronch
- bathroom privileges
- BRP
- basal metabolic rate
- BMR
- bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- BSO
- barium enema
- BE
- banded neutrophils
- Bands
- bundle branch block (RBBB- right BBB; LBBB- left BBB)
- BBB
- benign prostatic hypertrophy
- BPH
- barium
- Ba
- bilateral
- bil
- blood pressure
- BP
- bowel movement
- BM
- bilirubin (total and direct)
- bili (T/D)
- bromsulphalein
- BSP