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Medical Abbreviations

Medical Abbreviations

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MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS

 

+++

Much / many / present in excess

#

Fracture

 

Diagnosis

Diff ∆ or ∆∆

Differential diagnosis

Px

Nil / nothing / no

J°

No jaundice

↑

Up / increasing

N, &r\ arr;

Down, decreasing

 

┴

Central (of the trachea)

1/7

One day

2/52

Two weeks

3/12

3 months

T38.6°

Temperature 38.6

T-14

Term (ie baby's due date) less 2 weeks

T+7

Term plus 1 week

35+4/40

35 weeks & 4 days

37+3/40

37 weeks and 3 days

=

Equivalent to
3

OK or satisfactory

 

 

 

For online resources see:

 

http://www.medilexicon.com/ 

Some free material but access to the abbreviation database requires a subscription of $15 pa.

 

http://www.globalrph.com/abbrev.htm

Free alphabetical list of common medical abbreviations.

 

15 page medical abbreviation summary.

http://www.jdmd.com/glossary/medabbr.pdf

 

Royal College of General Practitioners list of abbreviations

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/default.aspx?page=4134

 

There is also an excellent book written by Nurse & Solicitor Ali Malsher called Medical Records for Lawyers published in 2002 (available from Xpl here).