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MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS

1. AA Of each (ab ana)

2. AC Before meals (ante cibos)
3. AFB Acid fast bacillus
4. AD. Lib To the desired amount (ad libitum)
5. ALT. Die Or alternate days (alternis diebus)
6. AQ. Dest Distilled water (aqua destillata)
7. AD After dinner
8. ADH Anti diuretic hormone
9. ACTH Adreno corticotrophic hormone
10. AL Ankylostoma duodenal/ascaris lumbricoids
11. ALL Acute lymphatic leukaemia
12. ARV Anti rabies vaccine
13. ATS Anti tetanus serum
14. ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome
15. APTT Activated partial thromboplasting time
16. AMC Army medical corps.
17. AMS Army medical service.
18. AVS Army veterinary service.
19. AVD Army veterinary department.
20. AV Arterio venous fistula
21. AGN Acute glomerulo nephritis
22. AIDS Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome
23. ALS Advance life support
24. AOM Acute otitis media
25. AS Atrial stenosis
26. ASOM Acute suppurative otitis media
27. AP Angina pectoris
28. APH Anti pertal haemorrhage
29. ASD Atrial septal defect

30. BCG Bacille calmette guerin

31. BCPS Bangladesh college of physicians and surgeons
32. BD Dis in die (two times daily)
33. BP Blood pressure
34. BEP Benign enlargement of prostate
35. BCWC Bangladesh child welfare council
36. BPMPA Bangladesh private medical practitioner’s association.
37. BAAMS Bangladesh association for the advancement of medical science
38. BF Before meal
39. BDS Bachelor of dental surgery
40. BPH Benign prostate hypertrophy
41. BLS Basic life support
42. BMR Basal metabolic rate
43. BMA Bangladesh medical association
44. BFPA Bangladesh family planning association.
45. BT Bleeding time
46. BIRDEM Bangladesh Institute of research and rehabilitation in diabetes, endocrine
and metabolic disorder

47. C With (cum)

48. CO Compound (compositus)
49. CA Carcinoma (cancer)
50. CSOM Chronic suppurative otitis media
51. CCF Congestive cardiac failure
52. CVP Central venous pressure
53. CHD Congenital heart disease
54. CAT SCAN Computerized /Computed axial tomographic scanning
55. CFT Complement fixation test
56. CT SCAN Computerized/Computed tomographic scanning
57. COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
58. CPK Creatine phospho kinase
59. CPR Cardio pulmonary resuscitation
60. CMCH Chittagong medical college hospital
61. CMH Combined military hospital
62. CM Tomorrow morning (cras mane)

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63. CN Tomorrow night (cras nocte)
64. CWC Child welfare center
65. CMO Chief medical officer.
66. CLL Chronic lymphatic leukaemia
67. CHP Community health programme.
68. CHRA Community health research association
69. CT Coagulating time
70. CHR Chronic
71. CP Complete picture
72. CNS Central nervous system
73. CVD Cerebro vascular disease
74. CGN Chronic glomerulo nephritis
75. CS Culture & sensitivity

76. DNS Deviated nasal septum

77. DUB Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
78. DIC Disseminated intravascular coagulation
79. DO Diploma in ophthalmology
80. DA Diploma in anaesthesiology
81. DGO Diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics
82. DCH Diploma in child health
83. DCR Decrio cysto rhinostomy
84. DLC/DC Differential leucocytes count
85. DNA Deoxiribo nucleic acid
86. DMCH Dhaka medical college hospital
87. DPH Diploma in public health
88. D.Ph/D.Phil Doctor of philosophy
89. DDS Doctor of dental surgery
90. DDV Diploma in dermatology & veneraiology
91. DPT Diptheria partusis tetanus
92. DPM Diploma in psychiatric medicine
93. DPH Diploma in public health

94. ENT Ear nose and throat

95. ESR Erythrocytes sedimentation rate
96. ECG Electrocardiogram
97. EEG Electroencephalogram
98. EMS Emergency medical service
99. EV Enterovius vermacularis
100. EDD Expected date of delivery
101. EX. aq In water (ex aqua)
102. EX. Lact In milk (ex lacte)
103. ELISA Enzyme link immuno sorvent assay
104. ELSA Emergency life support apparatus

105. F Fasting
106. FNAC Fine needle aspiration for cytology
107. FB Foreign body
108. FCPS Fellow of the college of physicians and surgeons
109. FRCS Fellow of the royal college of surgery
110. FRSH Fellow of the royal society of health
111. FEV-1 Forced expiratory volume in 1 second
112. FWA Family welfare assistants
113. FWC Family welfare centre
114. FWV Family welfare visitor
115. FRCP Fellow of the royal college of physicians.
116. FRCS Fellow of the royal college of surgeons.
117. FPAB Family planning association of bangladesh.
118. FPIA Family planning international assistance.
119. FTA ABS Fluorescent treponebal antibody absorption

120. GA General anaesthesia

121. GH Growth hormone
122. GIT Gastro intestinal tract
123. GPI General paralysis of insane
124. GERD Gastro oesophageal reflux disease
125. GTT Glucose tolerance test

126. HB Haemoglobin
127. HN Tonight ( hac nocte)

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128. HLA Human leucocytic antigen
129. HKD Hodgkin’s disease
130. HS At bed time (hora somni)
131. HIV Human immuno deficiency virus
132. HBsAg Hepatitis ‘b’ virus surface antigen
133. HTN Hypertension

134. IBS Irritable bowel syndrome

135. IPPV Intermittent positive pressure ventilation
136. IQ Intelligence quotient
137. ITP Idiopathic thrombocytopanic purpura
138. IPGMR Institute of post graduate medicine and research
139. IHD Ischemic heart disease
140. IV Intra venous
141. IM Intra muscular
142. IEF International eye foundation
143. IRCS International red cross society.
144. IACR International agency for cancer research.
145. ICHR Institute of child health & research.
146. ICMR Indian council of medical research.
147. IPGMR Institute of post graduate medicine and research.
148. ICDDRB International centre for diarrhoeal disease research, bangladesh
149. IUD Inflammatory uterine disease
150. IVU Intra venous urography
151. IDDM Insulin dependant diabetes mellitus

152. LUCS Lower uterine caesarean section

153. LA Local anaesthesia
154. LBBB Left bundle branch block
155. LBW Low birth weight
156. LS SPINE Lumbo secral spine
157. LD BODY Leishmonia donavoni body
158. LDH Lactose dehydragenes
159. LASER Light amplification and stimulated emission of rays
160. LMF Licentiate of medical faculty
161. LT Left
162. LDS Licentiate of dental surgery.
163. LP Lumber puncture

164. M In the morning (mane)

165. MI Myocardial infarction
166. MEN Multiple endocrine neoplasia
167. MS Mitral stenosis
168. MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
169. MBBS Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery
170. MD Doctor of medicine
171. MS Master of surgery
172. MCPS Member of the college of physicians and surgeons
173. MB Bachelor of medicine.
174. MCH Meternity health centre.
175. MDS Master of dental surgery.
176. MRCS Member of the royal college of surgeons.
177. MP Malarial parasites
178. MR Mitral regurgitation

179. N At night (nocte)

180. NPA Naso pharyngeal angio fibroma
181. NOS Not other wise specified (no origine specified)
182. NIPSOM National institute of preventive and social medicine
183. NAD Not any deformity?
184. NSAID Non steroid anti inflammatory drug
185. NYD Not yet diagnosed

186. OCG Oral cholecysto graphy

187. OCL Intra ocular lens
188. OP Operated
189. OPV Oral polio vaccine

190. PC After meals ( post cibos)

191. PR By rectum (per rectum)

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192. PRN As required (prore nata)
193. PPH Post partum haemorrhage
194. PET Pre eclamptic toxaemia
195. PEM Protein energy malnutrition
196. PDA Patent ducts arteriosus
197. PT Prothrombin time
198. PUD Peptic ulcer disease
199. PUO Pyrexia of unknown origin
200. PP Post prandial
201. POP Plaster of paris
202. PCCE Posterior chamber cataract extraction
203. PABA Para amino benzoic acid
204. PBK Syndrome Paterson brown kelly syndrome
205. PNS/PNAS Posterior nasal septum

206. QID Four time daily

207. QH Four hourly (quartis horis)

208. RA Rheumatoid arthritis

209. REP Let it be repeated (repetatur)
210. RF Renal failure
211. RBBB Right bundle branch block
212. RE Routine examination
213. Rx Take thou/recipe
214. RT Right
215. RNA Ribo nucleic acid
216. RAIU Radio active iodine uptake
217. RTA Road traffic accident

218. SS Half (semis)

219. STUT Immediately (statim)
220. SOS If required
221. SMR Submucosal resection
222. SUGAR (F) Sugar (fasting)
223. SGOT Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic trans aminase
224. SCD Sickle cell disease
225. SVT Supraventricular tachycardia
226. SGPT Serum glutamate pyruvate trans aminase
227. SUGAR (PP) Sugar(post prandial)

228. TDS Three times a day (terdie sumendum)

229. TID Three times a day ( ter in die)
230. TIA Transient ischaemic attack
231. T4 Thyroxin
232. T3 Tri-iodothyroxin
233. TDPC Ter in die (thrice daily after meal)
234. TLC/TC Total leucocytes counts
235. TCE/TCEC Total circulatory eosinophil count
236. TT Tetanus toxoid
237. TSH Thyroid stimulating hormone

238. URTI Upper respiratory tract infection

239. USG Ultra sonogram
240. UTI Urinary tract infection

241. VES Ventricular extra systole

242. VVF Vasico vaginal fistula
243. VDRL Venereal disease research laboratory
244. VSD Ventricular septum defect
245. VMA Vanelil mandelic acid
246. VHSS Voluntary health service society.
247. VD Venereal disease

248. WHA World health assembly.

249. WHO World health organization.
250. WPW Wolf perkinson white syndrome
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