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- APGAR
- Adaptability, partnership, growth, affection, resolve - Arabic numerals
- As well as
- in addition to (equivalent to besides)
- Assure, ensure, insure
- make sure or certain
- assure
- make sure or certain (put5 one's mind at rest)
- ensure
- make sure or certain to occur
- insure
- make sure or cetain (but primary meaning is issue or obtain insurance in order to guarantee persons or property against risk)
- BMP
- beats per minute
- because
- for the reason that (denotes a specific cause-effect relationship)
- due to
- caused by or resulting from (not because)
- Caliber of Weapons
- Do not place a 0 before the decimal point
- French Canadian
- Do not hyphenate
- Cancer classification
- stage and grade are lower case
- stage 0
- carcinoma in situ
- Stages (numerbing)
- Use roman numerals for cancer stages, for subdivisions, capital letters and arabic suffixes without spaces or hyphens stage II, stage II3 or stage IV, stage IVB
- Colon Cancer Aster-Coller
- The patient's Aster-Coller B2 lesion exstends through entire thickness of colon wall, with no involvement of nearby nodes
- Broders Index
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aggressiveness of tumor malignancy developed in the 1920s by AC Broders grade 1 through grade 4
Broders grade 3 - Cervical cytology
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3 systems:
Papanicolaou test (Pap smear)
CIN classification
Bethesda system - Papanicolauo test
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roman numerals
Class I (within normal limits)
Class V (carcinoma) - CIN
- Cervical Intraepithelial neoplasia expressed in arabic numerals grade 1 (least severe) to grade 3 (most severe) use hyphen CIN-1, CIN-2, CIN-3) or CIN grade 1, CIN grade 2, CIN grade 3
- Bethesda
- Bethesda corresponds with Pap class 1 or II, but atypical squamous cell of undetermined significance (ASCUS) corresponds w/Pap class III
- Bethesda low grade
- Low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LGSIL) corresponds with Pap class III and CIN grade 1
- Bethesda high grade
- High grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HGSIL) corresponds with Pap classes III and IV and CIN grade 2 and 3. Next higher level is simply "carcinoma" which corresponds with Pap class V and carcinoma in CIN system
- Clark level
- Describes invasion level of primary malignant melanoma of the skin from the epidermis
- Clark level classification
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Use roman numeral 1 (least deep) to IV (deepest), lowercase level
Clark level 1 -
Clark level meanings
Clark level I - into underlying papillary dermis
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Clark level meanings
Clark level II - to junction of papillary and reticular dermis
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Clark level meanings
Clark level III - into reticular dermis
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Clark level meanings
Clark level IV - into the subcutaneous fat
- Dukes classification
- British pathologist Cuthbert E. Dukes which classifies extent of operable adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum
- Dukes classification - how to transcribe
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No apostrophe before or after s and use capital letter
Dukes A, Dukes B, Dukes C