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DASS

DASS Stands For : Director of Adult Social Services

DAT

DAT Stands For : daunomycin | days after treatment | delayed action tablet | dementia of Alzheimer‰Ûªs type | digital audio tape (!) | direct agglutination test | direct antibody testing | Disability Appeal Tribunal (obsolete) | delivered at term | Diet As Tolerated | delivered at term | Direct Antiglobulin Test | delivery at term | Diagnosis And Treatment

DATA

DATA Stands For : Distress Awareness Training Agency

DAU

DAU Stands For : daunomycin | daunorubicin | Day assessment unit | Dental Auxiliary Utilization

DAvMed

DAvMed Stands For : Diploma in Aviation Medicine

DB

DB Stands For : deaf-blind | decidua basalis | deep breath | demineralised bone | dense body | dextran blue | diet beverage | direct bilirubin | disruptive behaviour | distobuccal | DNA binding | dot blot | downstream box | duodenal bulb | Double Blind | Double-Blind | Date Of Birth | Disability | Double Bottom hip

DBS

DBS Stands For : Demographics Batch Service | Diamond-Blackfan syndrome | double blind study | deep-brain stimulation | Deep Brain Stimulation

DCAG

DCAG Stands For : Death Certification Advisory Group

DCC

DCC Stands For : DCC day care center (US) | Deleted in Colorectal Cancer Molecular biology | dextran-coated charcoal | direct clinical care | Direct Current Cardioversion | decompensated cirrhosis

DCCH

DCCH Stands For : Diploma of Community Child Health

DCD

DCD Stands For : dark cell degeneration | developmental cognitive disorder | Diploma in Chest Disease | disorders of cortical development | DISCONTINUED | Donation After Cardiac Death | Developmental Coordination Disorder

DCFS

DCFS Stands For : Directorate of Counter Fraud Services

DCH

DCH Stands For : delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity

DCLG

DCLG Stands For : Department for Communities and Local Government

DCMS

DCMS Stands For : Department of Culture | Duval County Medical Society

DCP

DCP Stands For : Diploma in Clinical Pathology | Diabetes Care Profile | Dynamic Compression Plate | Disease Control Priorities

DCS

DCS Stands For : damage control surgery | dense canalicular system | diffuse cortical sclerosis | distal coronary sinus | Dudley Community Services | dyskinetic cilia syndrome | Dorsal Column Stimulation | dendritic cells

DCSF

DCSF Stands For : Department for Children

DCT

DCT Stands For : daunorubicin | direct contact test | direct Coombs test | direct current | Disabled Children‰Ûªs Team | dynamic CT | Direct Coombs Test | Deep Cryogenic Treatment | Distal Convoluted Tubule

DCVS

DCVS Stands For : Dudley Community Voluntary Service

DCW

DCW Stands For : Data Collection Worksheet

DDA

DDA Stands For : Dangerous Drugs Act | descriptive data analysis | dideoxyadenosine | digital differential analysis | Disability Discrimination Act 1995 | Disabled Drivers‰Ûª Association (!) | Dispensing Doctors‰Ûª Association | Dangerous Drug Act (UK) | Dispensing Doctors Association

DDAM XX

DDAM XX Stands For : Diploma in Disability Assessment Medicine

DDD

DDD Stands For : dense deposit disease | dorsal dural deficiency | drug design and discovery | Daily Defined Dose | degenerative disc disease | Defined Daily Dose | Degenerative Disc Disease | Den Danske Dyrlaegeforening ( Danish Veterinary Association)

DDM

DDM Stands For : demineralised dentin matrix | design decision matrix | differential diagnosis manager | Diploma in Dermatological Medicine | Doctor of Dental Medicine

DDPHRCS

DDPHRCS Stands For : Diploma in Dental Public Health

DEB

DEB Stands For : debridement | Dental Estimates Board | dietary electrolyte imbalance | dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa | Diet Exercise And Behavior

DEC

DEC Stands For : deciduous | decompose | dendritic epidermal cell | Development and Evaluation Committee | diagnostic episode cluster | Disasters Emergencies Committee | Doppler echocardiography | duct epithelial cells | This term got 24 hits on 05112011 | Diagnostic Evaluation Center | Deceased | Decrease | Desquamated Epithelial Cell

DEFRA

DEFRA Stands For : Department for Environment | Department for Environment

DEL

DEL Stands For : deltoid | delusion

DEN

DEN Stands For : Delay Event Notice | denervation | Dengue virus | Device Experience Network | diethylnitrosamine | doctors‰Ûª educational needs

DENS

DENS Stands For : doctor‰Ûªs educational needs

DepMAC

DepMAC Stands For : Deployment Milestone Achievement Certificate

DES

DES Stands For : deadly seven | diffuse endocrine system | distal esophageal sphincter American for distal oesophageal sphincter | drug-eluting stent | Dental Environmental Stress | Drug Eluting Stent | Dermal-Epidermal Separation | Describe | Diethylstibestrol | diethylstilbestrol | Dry Eye Syndrome | diethylstilbestrol

DESMOND

DESMOND Stands For : Diabetes Education & Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed

DevMAC

DevMAC Stands For : Development Milestone Achievement Certificate | This term got 10 hits on 05112011 Because it was linked to spectacularly failed National Programme for IT

DFBO

DFBO Stands For : design

DFC

DFC Stands For : developmental field complex | Director(ate) of Finance and Contracting | dry-filled capsule | Diet & Fitness Center | Dental Fitness Class | Dental Fitness Classification

DfEE

DfEE Stands For : Department for Education and Employment‰ÛÒrenamed DfES ‰ÛÒDepartment for Education and Skills

DfES

DfES Stands For : Department for Education & Skills

DFFP

DFFP Stands For : Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning

DFG

DFG Stands For : direct forward gaze | Disabled Facilities Grant

DFT

DFT Stands For : defibrillation threshold | dementia of frontal type | density function theory | design fluency test | diastolic filling time | distance from target

DG5

DG5 Stands For : The Public Health part of the European Union

DGH

DGH Stands For : District general hospital | Doctors for Global Health

DGM

DGM Stands For : deleterious genomic mutation | Diploma in Geriatric Medicine | duodenal gastric metaplasia

DGoH

DGoH Stands For : Dudley Group of Hospitals

DH

DH Stands For : delayed hypersensitivity | developmental handicap | diaphragmatic hernia | diuretic hormone | double haploid | ductal hyperplasia | Department of Health | Double Helix | Dental Hygeinist | Developmentally Handicapped

DHA

DHA Stands For : District Health Authority | dorsal hypothalamic area | docosahexaenoic acid | docosahexaenoic acid

DHMSA

DHMSA Stands For : Diploma in The History of Medicine of The Society of Apothecaries (London)

DHSC

DHSC Stands For : Directorate of Health and Social Care (obsolete)

DHSS

DHSS Stands For : Department of Health and Social Security‰ÛÒwhich was divided into DoH and DSS

DHT

DHT Stands For : District Handicap Team | Dix-Hallpike test | DNA histogram type | DiHydroTestosterone | Dobhoff Tube (feeding tube)

DI

DI Stands For : days of incubation | dead implant | deep inhalation | dental index | dentinogenesis imperfecta | detrusor instability | diagnostic index | diastolic interval | dietary intake | diffusion imaging | Director of Information | Dirofilaria immitis | disability index | disto-incisal | distraction index | dobutamine infusion | donor insemination | dorso-iliac | double immunodiffusion | drug-induced | dyskaryosis index | Direct Injection | Damage Interval | Direct Inject | Diabetes Insipidus | Date of Injury | Diabetes Insipidus | Diagnostic Imaging

DIA

DIA Stands For : diakinesis | diffusely infiltrating astrocytoma | Digital Image Analysis | DIAbetic | Diaphragm | Drug-Induced Agranulocytosis | Diazepam | Drug Information Association | Drug Information Association

DIAL

DIAL Stands For : Disablement Information and Advice Lines

DIC

DIC Stands For : dead in cage | dead in car | dicoumarol | dorsal intercarpal | drip infusion cholangiography | drug information center | ductal infiltrating carcinoma | Drop In Center | Disseminated intravascular coagulation | Death is coming | Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation | Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

DICE

DICE Stands For : Disseminating Information on Clinical Effectiveness | Diagnoses for Intensive Care Evaluation

DICT

DICT Stands For : dictionary | Director(ate) of Information and Computer Technology | Dictation

DIG

DIG Stands For : desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma | Disablement Income Group | Dog Identification Group | drug-induced galactorrhoea | Dog Identification Group (of the Department of Transport

DIO

DIO Stands For : diet-induced obesity | district immunisation officer

DIP

DIP Stands For : desisopropylpropranolol | desquamative interstitial pneumonia | diffuse interstitial pneumonia | digital image processing | Digital Information Policy | diisopropyl phosphate | drug-induced psychosis | Digital Image Pro | Database of Interaction Proteins | Descending Inhibitory Pathway | Distal InterPhalangeal

DipA

DipA Stands For : Diploma in Anaesthetics

DipDerm

DipDerm Stands For : Diploma in Dermatology

DIPG

DIPG Stands For : Drug Information Pharmacists Group

DipGerMed

DipGerMed Stands For : Diploma in Geriatric Medicine

DipHSM

DipHSM Stands For : Diploma in Health Services Management

DipObst

DipObst Stands For : Diploma in Obstetrics

DipPaed

DipPaed Stands For : Diploma in Paediatrics

DipSW

DipSW Stands For : Diploma in Social Work

DipUro

DipUro Stands For : Diploma in Urology

DipVen

DipVen Stands For : Diploma in Venereology (sexually-transmitted diseases)

DIS

DIS Stands For : Departmental Investment Strategy | Diabetes Intervention Study | Diagnostic Interview Schedule | direct immunofluorescence stain | disability | distance | Division of Information Systems | Drug Information System | Delayed Itch Syndrome | Disabled | Disease

DisCASS

DisCASS Stands For : Disabled Citizens Advice and Support Service

DISP

DISP Stands For : Developing Information System for Purchasers | dispensary | Disposition | DISPense

DISS

DISS Stands For : Disability Information Service of Sussex | Disability Information Service Surrey

DKM

DKM Stands For : Deployment Key Milestone

DLA

DLA Stands For : Dental Laboratories Association | dermatolymphangioadenitis | diameter of left atrium | Deoxycholate Lactose Agar

DLCV

DLCV Stands For : drugs of limited clinical value

DLO

DLO Stands For : Diploma in Laryngology & Otology

dm+d

dm+d Stands For : Dictionary of Medicines and Devices

DMC

DMC Stands For : decision-making capacity | district medical committee | Detroit Medical Center | Downstate Medical Center (NY) | Direct Microscopic Count | Data Monitoring Committee | Diagnose Manage Cure

DMCC

DMCC Stands For : Diploma in Medical Care in Catastrophes

DMD

DMD Stands For : daily maintenance dose | delayed mental development | disease-modifying drug | Drug Misuse Database | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | Doctor of Dental Medicine | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

DMF

DMF Stands For : decayed | defective mitotic figures | Disabled Motorists Federation | distant metastasis-free | Drug Master File | Dose Modifying Factor

DMHE

DMHE Stands For : Department of Mental Health for the Elderly

DMO

DMO Stands For : District Medical Officer (obsolete) | District Medical Officer | Dental Management Organization

DMPhil

DMPhil Stands For : Master of Philosophy

DMRD

DMRD Stands For : Diploma in Medical Radiodiagnosis

DMT

DMT Stands For : Defence Mechanism Test | Departmental Management Team | digital memory test | Diver Medical Technologist | DNA methyltransferase | dorsomedial thalamus | drug maintenance treatment | dynamometer muscle testing | Decompression Massage Therapy | Dance Movement Therapy | Deep Muscle Therapy

DMU

DMU Stands For : directly managed unit

DN

DN Stands For : denervation | dentate nucleus | diabetic nephropathy | dibucaine number | Diploma in Nutrition | donor number | dysplastic naevus

DNA

DNA Stands For : did not arrive | Deoxyribonucleic Acid | deoxyribonucleic acid | Data And Numeric Analysis | DeoxyriboNucleic Acid | DeoxyriboNucleic Acid | Did Not Attend | Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNA-CR

DNA-CR Stands For : Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation

DNAR

DNAR Stands For : do not attempt resuscitation | Do Not Attemp Resuscitation

DNDRN

DNDRN Stands For : Dementias and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network

DNGN

DNGN Stands For : Disability Network Group Net

DNI

DNI Stands For : do not intubate (similar to DNR) | Do Not Intubate | Direct Neural Interface

DNS

DNS Stands For : Director of Nursing Services | dysplastic naevus syndrome | DiNitroSalicylic acid | Deviated Nasal Septum | Did Not Show for appointment

DNW

DNW Stands For : DNW Drugs North West

DO

DO Stands For : Diploma in Ophthalmology | Diploma in Osteopathy | direct observation | directly observed | disto-occlusive | distraction osteogenesis | Doctor of Optometry | dopamine oxidase | Dissolved Oxygen | Doctor of Osteopathy

DO HNS

DO HNS Stands For : Diploma in Otolaryngology‰ÛÒHead & Neck Surgery

DOA

DOA Stands For : date of accident | date of admission | days of age | depth of anaesthesia | Division of Accreditation | drug of abuse | Day Of Admission | dead on arrival | dead on arrival | Dead On Arrival | Dead On Arrival | drugs of abuse

DOB

DOB Stands For : district of business | dobutamine | date of birth | date of birth | Date Of Birth | Donation Of Brain

DOccMed XX

DOccMed XX Stands For : Diploma in Occupational Medicine

DoF

DoF Stands For : Director of Finance | Depth Of Focus

DOGPE

DOGPE Stands For : Director of General Practice Education

DOLS

DOLS Stands For : Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards

DOPS

DOPS Stands For : direct observation of procedural skills

DP

DP Stands For : deep pectoral | deep peroneal | definitive procedure | degradation product | degree of polymerisation | delta pattern | deltopectoral | delusional parasitosis | dementia praecox | dementia pugilistica | dental papillae | dental pulp | dermal papilla | dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans | desmoplakin | diabetes prone | diabetic polyneuropathy | diazepam | differential pulse | diffuse plaques | diphosphate | Director(ate) of Performance | disability pension | discriminating power | disopyramide phosphate | dispersion pattern | distal pancreatectomy | di

DPB

DPB Stands For : days post burn | Dental Practice Board | Department of Planning and Budget | diastolic blood pressure | dorsal parabrachial

DPGPE

DPGPE Stands For : Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education

DPH

DPH Stands For : Department of Public Health | diffuse pulmonary haemorrhage | diphenhydramine | Diploma in Public Health | Director of Public Health | Director(ate) of Public Health | Doctor of Public Hygiene | ductal papillary hyperplasia

DPR

DPR Stands For : Data Protection Registrar | deletion prone region | Directorate Performance Review | drug price review

DPT

DPT Stands For : Demerol | diphtheria | district planning team | Diphtheria | Multiple carboxylase deficiency | Diphtheria

DR

DR Stands For : death receptor | decerebrate rigidity | delivery room | diabetes resistant | digital radiology | dopamine receptor | drug resistant | Death Rate | Diabetic Retinopathy | Diagnostic Radiology | Doctor | Dorsal Root | Dressing | Doctor (may be a doctor or a dentist) | drachm (=60 grains)

DRA

DRA Stands For : Design and Release Authority | dialysis-related amyloidosis | donor-reactive antibodies | Digital Rotational Angiography | Distal Rectal Adenocarcinoma

DRCOG

DRCOG Stands For : Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

DRCOG XX

DRCOG XX Stands For : Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecologists

DRCOphth

DRCOphth Stands For : Diploma of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

DRO

DRO Stands For : Dental Reference Officer | differential reinforcement of other behaviours | Differential Reinforcer of Other Behaviour

DRS

DRS Stands For : Delirium Rating Scale | Dementia Rating Scale | Dental Reference Service | Diabetic Retinopathy Study | disease-related survival | DNA repair synthesis | Dyskinesia Rating Scale | Drag Reduction System

DSC

DSC Stands For : decidual stromal cells | deep superior colliculus | Dental Service Committee | dextran sulphate cellulose | Director(ate) of Strategy & Commissioning | Disability Services Centre | DNA synthetic capacity | Down syndrome child | Differential Scanning Calorimeter | Differential Scanning Calorimetry

DSCN

DSCN Stands For : Data Set Change Notices

DSMB

DSMB Stands For : data and safety monitoring board (data monitoring committee)

DSSA

DSSA Stands For : delivering same sex accommodation

DSU

DSU Stands For : day surgery unit

DTC

DTC Stands For : day treatment centre | detailed test of comprehension | Diagnostic and Treatment Centre | differentiated thyroid carcinoma | District TB Centre | dithiocarbamate | Direct-To-Patient

DTM&H

DTM&H Stands For : Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

DTOC

DTOC Stands For : delayed transfer of care

DTS

DTS Stands For : danger to self | diphtheria toxin sensitivity | dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy | delirium tremens | delirium tremors; alcoholism | Dementia Tremins | Digital Tourettes Syndrome

DV

DV Stands For : digital vibration | dilute volume | district valuer | domiciliary visit | double vision | ductus venosus | dysfunctional voiding | Diarrhea and Vomiting | Dengue Virus | Distribution Volume | Diagnostic Variable | Dengue Virus | Distance Vision | Distemper Virus

DWM

DWM Stands For : Dandy-Walker malformation | deep white matter | Disability West Midlands

DXA

DXA Stands For : dual energy x-ray absorptiometry

E

E Stands For : Air dose‰ÛÒradiation | early Genetics | ears | edema | edrophonium | effector | einsteinium | elbow | eldisine‰ÛÒan obsolete antineoplastic agent | electricity | electromotive force | element | embryo | embryonic | emmetropia | empfindichkeit | employment and training | endoplasmic | endotoxin | enema | enflurane | entamoeba | entgegen | enzyme | eosinophil | epinephrine | epithelium | erythrocyte | erythromycin | esophagus | esophoria for distance | ester | estradiol | ethanol | ethmoid sinus | etiology | euthanasia and disposal | excitat

E&D

E&D Stands For : equality and diversity

E&T

E&T Stands For : education and training

EAPMC

EAPMC Stands For : Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care

EAU

EAU Stands For : emergency admission unit | European Association of Urology | experimental allergic uveitis | Examination Under Anesthesia

EBD

EBD Stands For : effective biological dose | emotional or behavioural disorder | epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica | evidence-based dentistry | Emotional and Behavioral Disorder | Emotional Behavioral Disorders

EBIS

EBIS Stands For : evidence-based implementation support

EBL

EBL Stands For : endemic Burkitt‰Ûªs lymphoma | erythroblastic leukaemia | evidence-based learning | Estimated Blood Loss | Enzootic bovine leukosis

EBM

EBM Stands For : epithelial basement membrane | evidence-based medicine | experimental biology and medicine | Evidence-based medicine | Evidence Based Medicine | Evidence Based Medicine

EBME

EBME Stands For : Electro Biomechanical Engineer | Note: This term appears on several lists of abbreviations and acronyms that I found on this side of the pond There were no (none) hits on 05112011

EBP

EBP Stands For : elastin-binding protein | oestrogen-binding protein | Evidence-Based Practice | Evidence-Based Practice | evidence-based practice

EC

EC Stands For : E-cadherin | early cleavage | eccentric contraction | echocardiography | effector cell | ejection click | elderly control | electrical cardioversion | electrocautery | electrochemical | embryonal carcinoma | emergency centre | emphysematous cholecystitis | emphysematous cystitis | endocervical | endometrial cancer | endometrial carcinoma | endometrial cytology | endothelial cell | endurance capacity | energy cost | enriched condition | enteric coating | enterococci | enterocolitis | entorhinal cortex | environmental control | eosinophil count | eo

ECA

ECA Stands For : Edgbaston Commissioning Alliance | electrical control activity | Emergency Care Assistant | endothelial cell activation | endothelial cell antibody | enteric-coated aspirin | enterobacterial common antigen | esophageal carcinoma | external carotid artery | extra care area | Ephedra | external carotid artery | Ephedrine Caffeine And Aspirin | Epidemiological Catchment Area

ECAMSQ

ECAMSQ Stands For : European Council for the Accreditation of Medical Specialist Qualifications

ECC

ECC Stands For : eccentric contractions | Edgbaston Commissioning Consortia | enterochromaffin cells | estimated creatinine clearance | external chest compression | extracorporal circulation | Emergency Care Center | Evaluation of Clinical Competence | Exceptional Cases Committee | Effective Critical Carbohydrates | Embryonal Cell Carcinoma | Emergency Cardiac Care | EndoCervical Curettage | Enteric Coated Capsule | External Cardiac Compressions | Extracorporeal Circulation

ECE

ECE Stands For : endothelin-converting enzyme | evaluation of clinical events | extracapsular extension | Epizootic Catarrhal Enteritis

ECG

ECG Stands For : echocardiography | electrocardiography | equine chorionic gonadotropin | Echocardiography | ElectroCardioGram | electrocardiogram (Great Britain) | electrocardiogram | ElectroCardioGram | ElectroCardioGram

ECLS

ECLS Stands For : extracorporeal cardiac life support

ECM

ECM Stands For : electronic claims management | embryo conditioned media | endocrine cell micronests | endoscope-controlled microneurosurgery | epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis | erythema chronicum migrans | Every Child Matters | experimental cerebral malaria | extended cervical mediastinoscopy | external cardiac massage | extracellular mass | extracellular matrix | Electro Cell Manipulation | Extra Cellular Mass | extracellular matrix

ECN

ECN Stands For : emergency care network | external carotid nerve | external cuneate nucleus | eye cancer network

ECP

ECP Stands For : Effective Conduction Period | external cardiac pressure | extracellular polysaccharides | extracellular protein | extracorporeal photoimmunotherapy | extracorporeal photopheresis | Early Childhood Program | Effective Clinical Practice | Electronic Claims Processing | Emergency Care Provider | Emergency Contraception Pill | Emotionally Challenged Person | External Counter Pulsation | Effector Cell Precursor | Eosinophilic Cationic Protein | Extra-Cellular Polymer | Erythroid Committed Precursor | Early Chronic Phase | Ectrodactyly-Cleft Palate | Endogenous

ECT

ECT Stands For : electroconvulsive therapy | electroconvulsive threshold | emission computed tomographic | Emory Cardiac Toolbox | euglobulin clot test | European compression technique | exercise challenge test | Experiential Cognitive Therapy | Electro-Convulsive Therapy | Elementary Cognitive Task | ECTopy | electroconvulsive therapy | Electro-Convulsive Therapy | Enteric Coated Tablet

ECTMS

ECTMS Stands For : electronic clinical transfusion management system | This term had 89 hits on 05112011 and apparently was a pilot programme

ED

ED Stands For : Emergency Department | Early Discharge | Eating Disorder | Edged Dilution | Emergency Department | End Diastolic | Examination Documentation | Extracellular Domain | Elbow Disarticulation | Early Death | Eating Disorder | Ectodermal Dysplasia | Edema | Efferent Ductule | Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome | Embryonic Disk | Emergency Department | Endothelial Dysfunction | Erectile Dysfunction | Excretory Duct | Effective Dose | Emergency Department

EDCM

EDCM Stands For : Every Disabled Child Matters

EDI

EDI Stands For : European Drug index | Eating Disorder Inventory | estimated daily intake | Exercise

EDM

EDM Stands For : early diastolic murmur

EDT

EDT Stands For : electronic document transfer | emergency duty team | end-diastolic thickness | external data transfer

EEA

EEA Stands For : end-to-end anastomosis | eversion endarterectomy | Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation | European Environment Agency

EEC

EEC Stands For : ectodermal dysplasia with ectrodactyly and cleft lip or palate | endometrial epithelial cells | enteropathogenic Escherichia coli | exstrophy-epispadias complex

EFGCP

EFGCP Stands For : European Forum for Good Clinical Practice

EFMI

EFMI Stands For : European Federation of Medical Informatics

eGIF

eGIF Stands For : Electronic Government Interoperability Framework

EH

EH Stands For : eccentric hypertrophy | emotional handicap | emotionally handicapped | employee health | endometrial hyperplasia | enlarged heart | epidermal hyperplasia | epidermolytic hyperkeratosis | epidural haematoma | epithelial hyperplasia | epithelioid haemangioma | epithelioid hemangioendothelioma | essential hypertension | extramedullary haematopoiesis | extremely high

EHC

EHC Stands For : electrically heated cigarette | emergency hormonal contraception | enterohepatic circulation | epidemic haemorrhagic conjunctivitis | European Haemophilia Consortium | extrahepatic cholestasis

EHIC

EHIC Stands For : European Health Insurance Card

EHMA

EHMA Stands For : European Healthcare Management Association

EHO

EHO Stands For : extrahepatic portal venous obstruction

EHR

EHR Stands For : embryonic heart rate | environmental health review | exercise heart rate | Electronic Health Record | electronic health record | electronic health record

EHRC

EHRC Stands For : Equality and Human Rights Commission

EI

EI Stands For : early implementer | Eating Inventory | Edmonton injector | electrical injury | electrolyte imbalance | elongation index | elution inhibition | emotionally impaired | emphysema index | end inspiration | endotracheal intubation | Enzyme Inhibitor | Extrinsic Incubation | Erythroblastic Island | Environmental Illness | Erythema Induratum | Erythema Infectiosum | Evans Index | Exercise-Induced | Extensor Indicis | External Intercostal

EIA

EIA Stands For : Equality Impact Assessment | Enzyme ImmunoAssay | Exercise-Induced Asthma | Enzyme ImmunoAssay | Extracorporeal ImmunoAdsorption | EnteroInsular Axis | Exercise Induced Asthma | External Iliac Artery | Environmental Investigation Agency | Equine Infectious Anemia

EIP

EIP Stands For : early intervention in psychosis | electrical impedance plethysmography | esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis | extensor indicis proprius | extrinsic incubation period | early intervention program

EIS

EIS Stands For : early intervention service | endometrial carcinoma in situ | endoscopic injection sclerotherapy | European Infarction Study | Epidemic Intelligence Service | Epidemic Intelligence Service

EITS

EITS Stands For : essential IT skills

EMACO

EMACO Stands For : etoposide

EMAS

EMAS Stands For : Employment Medical Advisory Service

EMC

EMC Stands For : ̩ducation m̩dicale continue | Electronic Medicines Compendium | electronmagnetic charge | encephalomyocarditis | Eisenhower Medical Center | Electronic Medical Claim | EndoMetrial Curettage | Expanded Medical Capacity | Extracellular Matrix Component | Epithelial-Myoepithelial Carcinoma | Extraskeletal Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma

EMI

EMI Stands For : elderly mentally ill (older people with mental illness) | emergency medical information | extramedullary infiltration | Electronic Medical Information | Elderly Mentally Infirm | Egg Marketing Inspectorate

EMQ

EMQ Stands For : exercise motivation questionnaire | Extended matching question

EMR

EMR Stands For : electronic medical record; the preferred term in the UK is Electronic health record | emergency mechanical restraint | emergency medicine resident | emergency room | endoscopic mucosal resection | erythromycin resistance | essential metabolism ratio | evoked motor response | eye movement record | Emergency Medical Response | electronic medical record | emergency medical record | Electronic Medical Record | Electronic Medical Records | Emergency Medical Response

EMRSA

EMRSA Stands For : epidemic meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

ENB

ENB Stands For : English National Board for Nursing | esthesioneuroblastoma

ENP

ENP Stands For : Emergency Nurse Practitioner | enalapril | endotoxin neutralising protein

ENT

ENT Stands For : ears | embryonal nervous tissue | Enterobacteriaceae | enterococci | enterotoxin | entorhinal cortex | existing national target | ear | Ear | Ear Nose and Throat | Ear nose throat | Ear

EORTC

EORTC Stands For : European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer | European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer | European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer | European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer

EPACT

EPACT Stands For : electronic prescribing analysis and costing

EPC

EPC Stands For : early prostate cancer | Emergency Protection Coordinator | endocrine pancreatic cancer | endplate current | Energy Performance Certificate | erosive prepyloric changes | European Pancreatic Club | Euthanasia Prevention Coalition | exocrine pancreatic cancer | external pneumatic compression | Endothelial Precursor Cells | Emulsified Particulate Cellulose | Enhanced Primary Care | Extracellular Patch Clamp | EctoPlacental Cone | Exceptionally Pretty Cat

EPDS

EPDS Stands For : Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

ePHR

ePHR Stands For : electronic personal health record

EPIP

EPIP Stands For : Entity PACS Implementation Plan

EPOS

EPOS Stands For : Electronic Purchasing Online System | This term got 6 hits on 06112011

EPP

EPP Stands For : end plate potential | erythropoietic protoporphyria | Expert Patient Programme | Environmentally Preferable Purchasing | Erythropoetic ProtoPorphyria

EPR

EPR Stands For : early phase reaction | electronic patient recordThe term electronic health record is generally preferred | erythropoietin receptor | extracellular proteinase | Extra Patient Rate | Electronic Patient Record

EPS

EPS Stands For : Electronic Prescription Service | electrophysiological study | extrapyramidal syndrome | Emergency Pregnancy Service | Emergency Psychiatric Services | Extracellular Polymeric Substance | ElectroPhysiologic study | Electro Physiological Study | Enhanced Probiotic System | Expressed Prostatic Secretion | Extrapyramidal symptoms

EPT

EPT Stands For : early pregnancy testing | effective patient teaching | electric pulp testing | electroporation therapy | endocrine pancreatic tumour | endoscopic papillotomy | estrogen-progestogen therapy | ethanolamine phosphotransferase | exocrine pancreatic tumour | Expedited partner therapy | Early Pregnancy Test | Ephemeroptera Plecoptera And Trichoptera | Expedited partner therapy

EQ-5D

EQ-5D Stands For : EuroQol five dimension scale

EQA

EQA Stands For : external quality assessment | external quality assurance

EQR

EQR Stands For : essential quality requirements

EQUIP

EQUIP Stands For : Education and Quality in Primary Care | Effectiveness and Quality In Practice Group | This term got 25 hits on 25102011

ER

ER Stands For : early referral | early relapse | early repolarisation | early response | ejection rate | electrorheology | elimination rate | embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma | emergency department | emotional reactivity | enantiomer ratio | endocardial resection | endoluminal repair | endoscopic resection | endovascular repair | endurance runner | energy restriction | enoyl reductase | environmental resistance | enzyme reactor | epigastric region | epiregulin | epoxy resin | ER alpha | error rate | erythrocyte rosette | esophageal rupture | estradiol | estrogen recept

ERG

ERG Stands For : electroretinography | ergonovine | ergosterol | External Reference Group | ElectroRetinoGram | Evidence Review Group

ERMA

ERMA Stands For : emergency response management arrangements | This term got 53 hits on 06112011

ERT

ERT Stands For : emergency room thoracotomy | endogenous reverse transcription | enzyme replacement therapy | esophageal radionuclide transit | estrogen replacement treatment | external (beam) radiotherapy | Emergency Response Team | Estrogen Replacement Therapy

ES

ES Stands For : educational supervisor | electroshock | emergency service | employment service | end stage | end-systolic | end-to-side | endometrial stromal | endoscopic sclerotherapy | epileptic seizure | epithelioid sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | expectorated sputum | Emergency Surgery | Extended Scrub | Embryonic Stem | Erythroid Silent | Effective Sample | Enzyme Substrate | Electrical Stimulation | Empty Scrotum | Endocrine Society

ESCOP

ESCOP Stands For : European Scientific Cooperative for Phytotherapy | European Scientific Cooperative On Phytotherapy

ESD

ESD Stands For : early supported discharge | electronic submission document | electronic summation device | electrospray deposition | end-systolic diameter | entrance skin dose | entrance surface dose | environmental sex determination | esterase D | Extended Scale for Dementia | Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

ESE

ESE Stands For : Ensuring Sustainable Economies | European Society of Endodontology | evolutionary stable energy | exon splicing enhancer

ESF

ESF Stands For : Education Standards Fund | erythropoiesis stimulating factor | external skeletal fixation | external skeletal fixator | European Science Foundation

ESG

ESG Stands For : endovascular stent graft | Equality Strategy Group | ESG educational support group | European Society of Gynecology | evaluation steering group | expert scientific group

ESMI

ESMI Stands For : elderly severely mentally ill/infirm

ESP

ESP Stands For : end-systolic pressure | endometritis-salpingitis-peritonitis | evoked spinal potentials | Existing Systems Provider | extrasensory perception | Effectiveness Safety Personality | extra-sensory perception | Early Speech Perception | Effective Systolic Pressure

ESR

ESR Stands For : electron spin resonance spectroscopy | Electronic Staff Record | estrogen receptor | erythrocyte (blood) sedimentation rate | Erythrocyte Sedimentation rate | Erythrocyte Sedimentation rate | Endonasal Sphenoid Release | Equivlant Series Resistance | Erythrocyte Sedimentation rate

ETD

ETD Stands For : Education | electron transfer dissociation | eustachian tube dysfunction | estimated time of death | Elevated Temperature Drawn | Eustacian Tube Dysfunction

ETP

ETP Stands For : electron transport phosphorylation | Employer Training Pilot | entire treatment period

ETPC

ETPC Stands For : Education and Training Programme in informatics management and technology for Clinicians

EU

EU Stands For : Ehrlich unit | emergency unit | enzyme unit | etiology unknown | euthyroid | excretory urography | Enter Urethra | endotoxin unit | European Union

EUA

EUA Stands For : examination under anaesthesia | Examination Under Anesthesia | Examination Under Anesthesia | examination under anesthesia | Examination Under Anesthetic

EUTCD

EUTCD Stands For : European Union Tissue and Cells Directives

EVS

EVS Stands For : Enterprise Vocabulary Services | Eastern Vascular Society

EWA

EWA Stands For : energy-weighted acquisition | enterprise-wide arrangement

EWTD

EWTD Stands For : European Working Time Directive

F

F Stands For : finance & accounting | fraud and abuse | Filled | Fat | Fluorine | female | Fahrenheit | Female | Fetus | Flush | Forehead | Front

F&A

F&A Stands For : facilities & administration

F1

F1 Stands For : Foundation Year 1 (FY1) | Foundation year 1

F2

F2 Stands For : Foundation Year 2 (FY2)

FAC

FAC Stands For : fair access to care | familial adenomatosis coli | focal active colitis | functional aerobic capacity

FACS

FACS Stands For : fair access to care services | fatty acyl CoA synthetase | Fellow | fluorescence-activated cell sorter | Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter | Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting | Facial Action Coding System | Fellow of the American College of Surgeons

FAEM

FAEM Stands For : Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine

FAQS

FAQS Stands For : frequently-asked questions

FAST

FAST Stands For : Fast Agglutination Screening Test | Fast Antimicrobial Screen Test | Fitness | fluorescence allergosorbent test | Frenchay aphasia screening test | Functional Assessment Screening Test | Face | First Access for Shock and Trauma | focused assessment with sonography for trauma | Face | Focused Abdominal Sonography For Trauma | Fortified Amino Scalp Therapy

FAWN

FAWN Stands For : funding advice workers‰Ûª network

FBC

FBC Stands For : female breast cancer | fetal brain cells | full business case | functional bladder capacity | Full Blood Count | Family Birthing Center | Full Blood Count

FCE

FCE Stands For : finished consultant episode | food conversion efficiency | Functional Capacity Evaluation

FCOphth

FCOphth Stands For : Fellow of The College of Ophthalmologists

FDA

FDA Stands For : factorial discriminant analysis | Family Doctor Association | Food and Drug Administration (USA) | Frenchay disarthria assessment | Food and Drug Administration | Fluorescein Diacetate A | Food and Drug Administration | Food and Drug Administration

FED

FED Stands For : Forum for Education and Development | Figure Eight Distribution | Fractional Effective Dose | Fish Eye Disease

FENIB

FENIB Stands For : familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies

FFA

FFA Stands For : female fat admirer | Fundus Fluorescein Angiography | Free Fatty Acid | For Further Appointment | Free Fatty Acid | Fusiform Face Area

FFAEM

FFAEM Stands For : Fellow of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine

FFARCS

FFARCS Stands For : Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetics of the Royal College of Surgeons

FFCE

FFCE Stands For : first finished consultant episode

FFDRCS

FFDRCS Stands For : Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery Royal College of Surgeons

FFPM

FFPM Stands For : Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

FGM

FGM Stands For : fibrogranulomatous material | Foundation for Genetic Medicine

FHom

FHom Stands For : Faculty of Homeopathy

FHS

FHS Stands For : Family Health Services | Framingham Heart Study | Family Heart Study | Family History Score | Fetal Heart Sound | Functional Health Status | Fresh Human Serum | Familial Hamophagocytic Syndrome | Fetal Heart Sounds | Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome | Floating Harbor Syndrome | Floppy Head Syndrome | Food Hyper-Sensitivity

FHSA

FHSA Stands For : Family Health Services Authority* | The FHSAs were abolished‰ÛÒalong with the District Health Authorities and Regional Health Authorities‰ÛÒin 1995

FHSCU

FHSCU Stands For : Family Health Services Computer Unit | This term got 56 hits on 25102011

FIBD

FIBD Stands For : found in bed dead | Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease

FICM

FICM Stands For : Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

FIP

FIP Stands For : Fair Information Practices | field initiated project | filiform papillae | focal intestinal perforation | Feline Infectious Peritonitis

FIPO

FIPO Stands For : Federation of Independent Practitioners Organisations

FIPO-Nat-MAC

FIPO-Nat-MAC Stands For : Federation of Independent Practitioners Organisations-National Medical Advisory Committee

FITTA XX

FITTA XX Stands For : Fixed Term Training Appointment

FIU

FIU Stands For : Fraud Investigation Unit

FLAIR

FLAIR Stands For : FLuid Attenuated Inversion Recovery | Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery

FLUS

FLUS Stands For : follicular lesion of undetermined significance

FM

FM Stands For : facial myokimia | faecal matter | family medicine | family member | ferromagnetic | fetal membranes | fetal movement | fibromyalgia | fibrosing mediastinitis | foramen magnum | forensic medicine | freedom medicine‰ÛÒPakistan | frequency modulation‰ÛÒradio | friable material | from | front material‰ÛÒbooks | furosemide | Flavin Mononucleotide | Female Male | Fine Motor

FMIP

FMIP Stands For : Financial Management Information Project

FMS

FMS Stands For : Faculty of Medical Science | fat-mobilising substance | Federal Monitoring Survey | fibromyalgia syndrome | financial management system | False Memory Syndrome | Feline McDonough Sarcoma

FNC

FNC Stands For : Family Nurse Clinician | fatty nutritional cirrhosis | fine needle cytology | full nursing care | funded nursing care | Functional Neuromuscular Conditioning

FNP

FNP Stands For : facial nerve palsy | Family Nurse Partnership | flunitrazepam | Family Nurse Practitioner

FOI

FOI Stands For : flight of ideas

FOM

FOM Stands For : Faculty of Occupational Medicine (of the Royal College of Physicians) | field of measurement | floor of mouth

FoPM

FoPM Stands For : Faculty of Pain Medicine

FORD (picture)

FORD (picture) Stands For : FORD (picture) found on road dead

FP

FP Stands For : familial polyposis | family physician | family planning | family practice | family practitioner | femoropopliteal | field potential | first pass | flavoprotein | flexor pollicis | fluorescence polarisation | fluorescent protein | follicular phase | frozen plasma | fusion protein | Fat Potential | Food Poisoning

FP/FV

FP/FV Stands For : first patient first visit

FP92

FP92 Stands For : Prescription Exemption Certificate

FP96

FP96 Stands For : Prescription pre-payment certificate

FPA

FPA Stands For : Family Planning Association | fluorescence polarisation assay

FPharmM

FPharmM Stands For : Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

FPhM

FPhM Stands For : Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine | Faculty of Public Health Medicine

FPI

FPI Stands For : first patient in

FPIS

FPIS Stands For : Family Planning Information Service

FPP

FPP Stands For : faculty practice plan | familial periodic paralysis | fertilization promoting peptide

FPS

FPS Stands For : family planning services | family practitioner services | fee-paying service | Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society | Flacid Penis Syndrome

FRAT

FRAT Stands For : Falls Risk Assessment Tool

FRCGP

FRCGP Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners

FRCO

FRCO Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists | Fellow of the Royal College of Organists

FRCOphth

FRCOphth Stands For : FRCOphth Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

FRCP(Edin)

FRCP(Edin) Stands For : FRCP(Edin) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)

FRCP(Glasg)

FRCP(Glasg) Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (of Glasgow)

FRCP(Lon)

FRCP(Lon) Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (of London)

FRCPath

FRCPath Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists

FRCPCH

FRCPCH Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

FRCPE

FRCPE Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England

FRCPI

FRCPI Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

FRCPS(Glasg)

FRCPS(Glasg) Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

FRCPsych

FRCPsych Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

FRCR

FRCR Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists

FRCS

FRCS Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS(Edin)

FRCS(Edin) Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (of Edinburgh)

FRCS(Glasg)

FRCS(Glasg) Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (of Glasgow)

FRCSI

FRCSI Stands For : Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

FRED(A) XX

FRED(A) XX Stands For : Fast Response Electronic Dispatch for Ambulance

FReM

FReM Stands For : Finance Reporting Manual

FRFPSG

FRFPSG Stands For : *Note This is an old title that preceded the Faculty becoming a College | Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow*

FRI

FRI Stands For : Family Relationships Index | fluorescence reflectance imaging | Framingham Risk Index | Frontline Readiness for Implementation

FRIPHH

FRIPHH Stands For : Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

FSID

FSID Stands For : Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

FSRH

FSRH Stands For : Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists)

FSSA

FSSA Stands For : Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations

FT

FT Stands For : Fallot‰Ûªs tetralogy | Family Therapy | Full Term | Function Test | Free Testosterone | Free Thyroxine | full-term | Fallopian Tube | False Teeth

FT-UMP

FT-UMP Stands For : follicular tumour of uncertain malignant potential

FTAP

FTAP Stands For : floor target action plan

FTe

FTe Stands For : Foundation Trust equivalent (Equivalent Foundation Trust) | free testosterone | Full Time Equivalent

FTP

FTP Stands For : failure to progress OB/GYN | frontotemporal dementia | full term pregnancy | Failure To Progress

FTSTA XX

FTSTA XX Stands For : Fixed Term Specialist Training Appointment (FYYA)

FTT

FTT Stands For : fixed term training | free tissue transfer | Fecal Immunohistochemical Testing | failure to thrive | Failure To Thrive

FTTA XX

FTTA XX Stands For : Fixed Term Training Appointment

FUR

FUR Stands For : ferric uptake regulation | follow-up report | freed-up resources | furosemide

FWAF

FWAF Stands For : flexibility within a framework

FY

FY Stands For : Foundation Year | full year

FY1 XX

FY1 XX Stands For : FY1 appointment

FY2 XX

FY2 XX Stands For : FY2 appointment

FYE

FYE Stands For : full year effect | full year equivalent

GATT

GATT Stands For : General Agreement on Tariff and Trade | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (of the WTO)

GBH

GBH Stands For : gamma benzene hexachloride | Grizzly Bear Habitat

GCC

GCC Stands For : gastric cardia cancer | General Chiropractic Council | giant cell carcinoma | glassy cell carcinoma | glucocorticoid | goblet cell carcinoid | guanylyl cyclase C | Genital Correction Clinic

GCS

GCS Stands For : general clinical services | genome conformational state | Gianotti-Crosti syndrome | glucocorticosteroid | graduated compression stockings | Glasgow Coma Score | Glasgow Coma Scale | group C streptococcus/i | Glasgow Coma Scale

GCSE XX

GCSE XX Stands For : General Certificate of Secondary Education

GDC

GDC Stands For : General Dental Council | glutamate decarboxylase | Guglielmi Detachable Coil | Genetically Deficient Cretin | Genetic Disease Control | Guglielmi Detachable Coil | (Institute for) Genetic Disease Control | General Dental Council | Great Dane Club

GDP

GDP Stands For : glucose degradation product | good distribution practice

GDS

GDS Stands For : general dental services | Geriatric Depression Scale | Geriatric Depression Score | Global Deterioration Scale | General Dental Service

GES

GES Stands For : gastroesophageal sphincter | Gender Equality Scheme | gene expression signature | generalised eigen system | glucose electrolyte solution

GHH

GHH Stands For : Good Hope Hospital

GHS

GHS Stands For : growth hormone secretagogue

GIDA

GIDA Stands For : government intervention in deprived areas | This term got 65 hits on 25102011

GIGO XX

GIGO XX Stands For : Garbage in

GINA

GINA Stands For : Genetic Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

GKP

GKP Stands For : Genetics Knowledge Park

GMC

GMC Stands For : glomerular mesangial cell | General Medical Condition | General Medical Council | Geographic Managed Care | Gold Medical Card | General Medical Council | General Medical Council

GMC XX

GMC XX Stands For : general medical clinic

GMP

GMP Stands For : general medical problem | General Medical Practice | Ganulocyte-Monocyte Progenitor | Good Manufacturing Practices | Granular Membrane Protein | Gourasana Meditation Practice

GMS

GMS Stands For : global mood scale | glyceryl monostearate | gomori methenamine silver stain | General Medical Services | Gomori Methenamine Silver stain

GMS2 XX

GMS2 XX Stands For : New General Medical Services contract

GOC

GOC Stands For : General Optical Council | glandular odontogenic cyst | gynaecological oncology centre | Gene Ontology Consortium | Glasses Over Contacts | General Optical Council (human

GOK

GOK Stands For : An acronym that has been flogged almost completely (but not quite | God only knows (!)

GOP

GOP Stands For : General Optical Council

GORU

GORU Stands For : geriatric orthopaedic rehabilitation unit

GOS

GOS Stands For : General Ophthalmic Services | Glasgow Outcome Scale | Glasgow Outcome Score | Greater Ormond Street

GOSC

GOSC Stands For : General Osteopathic Council

GOSH

GOSH Stands For : Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

GOWM

GOWM Stands For : Government Office of the West Midlands

GP

GP Stands For : G protein | gallstone pancreatitis | gangliocytic paraganglioma | gas permeable | gas production | gastric perforation | gastroparesis | gel precipitation | general paresis | gliomatosis peritonei | glomerulopathy | glossopharyngeal | glucose phosphate | glutamic pyruvate | glycerol phosphate | glycopeptide | glycophorin | glycoprotein | good prognosis | Goodpasture | gram positive | granuloma pyogenicum | Green Paper | gross product | growth plate | gutta percha also | General Practitioner | Glyco Protein | guinea pig | granulocyte progenitor |

GP PUG XX

GP PUG XX Stands For : General Practice Pan User Group

GPAQ

GPAQ Stands For : General Practice Assessment of Quality

GPASS

GPASS Stands For : General Practice Administration System Scotland

GPAWG

GPAWG Stands For : GP Appraisal Working Group

GPC

GPC Stands For : G protein-coupled | gastric parietal cell | General Practitioners Committee | glycerophosphocholine | gram positive cocci | Gram-Positive Cocci | General Practical Competence | Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis

GPEC

GPEC Stands For : General Practice Education Committee | General Practice Emergency Centre

GPFC

GPFC Stands For : General Practice Finance Corporation

GPFH

GPFH Stands For : general practice fundholder (extinct)

GPMSS

GPMSS Stands For : General Practice Minimum System Specification | This term got 32 hits on 25102011

GPPUG

GPPUG Stands For : GP Pan User Group (GP PUG)

GPSI XX

GPSI XX Stands For : General Practitioner with Special Interest

GPSoC

GPSoC Stands For : GP Systems of Choice

GPT

GPT Stands For : alanine aminotransferase | general professional training | glutamic pyruvate transaminase | guanine phosphoribosyl transferase

GPVT

GPVT Stands For : General Practitioner Vocational Training

GPVTS

GPVTS Stands For : General Practitioner Vocational Training Scheme

GPwSI

GPwSI Stands For : general practitioner with Special Interest (GPSI)

GRIPP

GRIPP Stands For : Getting Research into Policy and Practice | Getting Research Into Purchasing and Practice | This incorrect translation of GRIPP got 56 hits on 21102011

GRN

GRN Stands For : gene regulatory note | Goods Received Note | Graduate Registered Nurse | gene regulatory network | Gene Relation Network

GSCC

GSCC Stands For : General Social Care Council

GSL medicine

GSL medicine Stands For : General Sales List medicine

GU

GU Stands For : glucose unit | glucose uptake | glucose utilisation | Goldblatt unit | Geriatric Unit | Genito Urinary | Gastric ulcer | Genito Urinary | Genitourinary

GUI

GUI Stands For : glucose utilisation index

GUM

GUM Stands For : genitourinary medicine

GWC

GWC Stands For : General Whitley Council | good wound care | Grown Wounded Child

H

H Stands For : health and safety | hysterectomy and sterilisation | Hospitalization | Hypodermic | Haploid | Hematachometer | mustard gas | height | Hands | Head | Health | Hearing | Heart | Hepatitis | Heterosexual | Histidine | hr

H&S

H&S Stands For : haemorrhage and shock

H@N

H@N Stands For : Hospital at Night

HA

HA Stands For : habitual abortion | haemolytic anaemia | haemophilia A | health assessment | Health Authority | hepatic artery | hepatitis A | hepatitis-associated | heterophil antibody | high affinity | hippuric acid | Hispanic American | histocompatibility antigen | hospital-acquired | human albumin | hydroxyapatite | hyperactivity | hyperaldosteronism | HaemAgglutination | Helicopter Ambulance | Hospital Accreditation | haemagglutinin | Herpangina | Headache | Hearing Aid | Heart Attack | hemagglutinin | High Anxiety | Hospital Admission | Horse Association

HAA

HAA Stands For : hepatitis-associated antibody | Health Action Area | Hospital Activity Analysis | Hepatitis- Associated Antigen | Hepatitis Associated Antibodies

HAAC

HAAC Stands For : Health Action Area Coordinator

HAI

HAI Stands For : haemagglutination inhibition | healthcare-associated infection | hepatic arterial infusion | hospital-acquired infection | Histology Activity Index (Knodell Score) | haemagglutinin-inhibiting antibodies | Hospital Acquired Infection | Hospital-acquired infection

HAQU

HAQU Stands For : Healthcare Accreditation and Quality Unit

HAS

HAS Stands For : Health Advisory Service | hepatic artery stenosis | human activity system | Human Alienation Syndrome

HASCAS

HASCAS Stands For : Health And Social Care Advisory Service

HASHD

HASHD Stands For : hypertensive arteriosclerotic heart disease

HB

HB Stands For : haemangioblastoma | haemophilia B | Health Board (Scotland) | heart block | hepatitis B | His bundle | homeobox | housing benefit | hydroxybutyrate | HeartBeat | Human Being | HGB | Haemoglobin | Half Blind | Human Brain | Half Breed

HBG

HBG Stands For : Health Benefit Group | human beta-glucuronidase

HBN

HBN Stands For : health building notes

HBPC

HBPC Stands For : Hospital-based programme coordinator

HC

HC Stands For : haematopoietic cell | haemochromatosis | hairy cell | handicapped | Hassall‰Ûªs corpuscles | Health Centre | Health Circular | Healthcare Commission; HCC is generally preferred | healthy children | healthy control | helper cell | Hemocult | heparin cofactor | hepatitis C | hepatocellular | Hickman catheter | histochemistry | Histoplasma capsulatum | homocysteine | hybrid capture | hypercalcaemia | Hyaline Cast | hair color | head circumference | Hair Composition | Hair Cuticle | Head Circumference | Headache Cure | Hurt Comfort | Hydrocortisone

HCA

HCA Stands For : healthcare assistant | hepatocellular adenoma | historic cost accounting (!) | Home Care Assistant | homocysteic acid | Hospital Caterers Association (!) | HÌ?rthle cell adenoma | hybrid capture assay | Healthcare Certification Authority | high content analysis

HCAG

HCAG Stands For : Hospital Consultants Advisory Group

HCAI

HCAI Stands For : healthcare-acquired infection | healthcare-associated infection

HCC

HCC Stands For : Heathcare Commission | history of chief complaint | hospital computer centre | HÌ?rthle cell carcinoma | Harvard Cancer Center | hepatocellular carcinoma | hepatocellular carcinomas | HepatoCellular Carcinoma

HCEU

HCEU Stands For : Healthcare Evaluation Unit

HCHS

HCHS Stands For : hospital and community health services

HCP

HCP Stands For : healthcare professional | Healthy Cities Program | hereditary coproporphyria

HCS

HCS Stands For : Hajdu-Cheney syndrome | health commissioning services | holiday care service | human chorionic somatotropin | human cord serum | Hybrid Capture system | hypercoagulable state | high content screening | Human Chorionic Somatomammotropin

HCSC

HCSC Stands For : hospital and community health services

HDA

HDA Stands For : haemodialysis | Health Development Agency (obsolete) | heptadecanoic acid | heteroduplex analysis | Huntington‰Ûªs Disease Association

HDR

HDR Stands For : Health Data Repository | heparin dose response | high dose radiation | Hospital Discharge Register | Hospital Discharge Registry | homology-directed repair | High Dose Rate

HE

HE Stands For : haemangioendthelioma | haematoxylin and eosin | haemorrhagic enteritis | health economy | health education | Hektoen enteric Microbiology | hepatic encephalopathy | hepatitis E | hereditary elliptocytosis | herpetic encephalopathy | high endothelial | holoenzyme | hypereosinophilia | hyperextension | hypertensive encephalopathy | horse epithelium

HEA

HEA Stands For : Health Education Authority (abolished in 2000) | health equity audit | Hektoen enteric agar

HEBS

HEBS Stands For : Health Education Board for Scotland

HEFC

HEFC Stands For : Higher Education Funding Council

HELMIS

HELMIS Stands For : Health Management Information Service (Nuffield

HENIG

HENIG Stands For : Health Economy NICE Implementation Group

HESP

HESP Stands For : Health Economics Support Project

HF

HF Stands For : haemofiltration | haemorrhagic fever | Hageman factor | haplotype frequency | head of fetus | heat flow | Hemochromatosis Foundation | high fat | high fibre | high fructose | hip fracture | Hispanic female | host factor | hot flashes | hot flushes | human factor | human fibroblast | humidifier lung | hydatid fluid | hydrops fetalis | hyperfractionated | hypoxic fraction | Health Facility | Human Furnace | heart failure | Hair Follicle | Hay fever | Heart Failure | Hip Flexor | Homotopy Functor

HFEA

HFEA Stands For : Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority

HG

HG Stands For : haemoglobin; Hb is generally preferred | haplogroup | haptoglobin | Hazard Grade | healthy group | herpes gestationis | high growth | highly gifted | histologic grade | human gonadotropin | human growth | hypoglossal | mercury Hg

HGAC

HGAC Stands For : Human Genetics Advisory Commission (obsolete)

HIA

HIA Stands For : haemagglutination inhibition assay | Hardware | health impact assessmentBritish | hepatic intra-arterial | High Impact ActionsBritish | Housing Improvement Agency British | human intestinal absorption

HIBCC

HIBCC Stands For : Health Index Bar Code Council | Health Index Business Communications Council | This term got 33 hits on 25102011 | This term got 7 hits on 21102011

HIC

HIC Stands For : Health Improvement Centre | Health Informatics Community | hepatic iron concentration | Health Insurance Claim | Hypermethylated In Cancer | Head Injury Criteria

HIEC

HIEC Stands For : Health Innovation and Education Cluster

HIG

HIG Stands For : Health Implementation Group | human immunoglobulin

HIMP

HIMP Stands For : Health Improvement and Modernisation Programme

HINOS

HINOS Stands For : Health Informatics National Occupational Standards

HIP

HIP Stands For : Health Improvement Programme | health insurance plan | hedgehog-interacting protein | hippocampal | hippurate | HS interacting protein | hypertension in pregnancy | Health Improvement Program | Hospital In-Patient | Hsc Interacting Protein | help in place | Health Improvement Project | Health Information Project | Help For Incontinent People

HIQS

HIQS Stands For : Health Informatics Quality Scheme

HIS

HIS Stands For : Health Informatics Service | health information service | Health Interview Survey | heat inactivated serum | Hemodilution In Stroke study | histidine | histology | Hormones In Stroke study | hospital information system | Hungarian Isradipine Study | HIV Incidence Surveillance

HISS

HISS Stands For : Hospital Information Support Systems | Hospital Infection Standardized Surveillance | Hospital-acquired Infections Surveillance System | Holistic Inventory Of Stimulus Sensitivities

HJSC

HJSC Stands For : hospital junior staff committee

HLS

HLS Stands For : Healthy Lifestyle Survey | Hippel-Lindau syndrome | hyperlipidaemic serum | High Level Synthesis

HMA

HMA Stands For : health market analysis | Health Ministries Association | heteroduplex mobility assay | humanized monoclonal antibody

HMB

HMB Stands For : Health Modernisation Board | human myoglobin | This term got 65 hits on 07112011 | Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

HMN

HMN Stands For : hereditary motor neuronopathy | Health Metrics Network

HMN7B

HMN7B Stands For : hereditary motor neuronopathy type VIIB

HMR

HMR Stands For : heart-to-mediastinum ratio | histiocytic medullary reticuloendotheliosis | hospital medical record | human mannose receptor (CD206)

HMT

HMT Stands For : higher medical training | histamine methyltransferase

HN

HN Stands For : haemagglutinin neuraminidase | haemorrhage of newborn | head & neck‰ÛÒusually | head nurse | Health Notice‰ÛÒusually | hereditary nephritis | Heymann‰Ûªs nephritis | High Nitrogen

HNA

HNA Stands For : health needs assessment | heparin neutralising activity

HNI

HNI Stands For : Housing Needs Index | Human Nutrition Institute

HO

HO Stands For : Hearing Officer | Hemoccult Lab medicine | heterotopic ossification | high oxygen | house officer | hyperbaric oxygen | hypertrophic osteoarthropathy | History of

HoB

HoB Stands For : Heart of Birmingham (PCT) | human osteoblast | Head of bed

HoCA

HoCA Stands For : head of corporate affairs

HoCG

HoCG Stands For : head of clinical governance

HoEFT

HoEFT Stands For : Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

HOMGO

HOMGO Stands For : hypomagnesemia renal with ocular involvement

HoMM

HoMM Stands For : Head of Medicines Management

HON

HON Stands For : Health of The Nation | Health on the Net Foundation | honorary

HoNOS XX

HoNOS XX Stands For : Health of the Nation Outcome Scales

HOSOL

HOSOL Stands For : Home Office Shortage Occupation List

HotN

HotN Stands For : Health of the Nation

HPA

HPA Stands For : Health Promotion Advisor | Health Protection Agency (UK) | His-Purkinje activity | human platelet antigen | hyperphenylalaninaemia | hypertrophic pulmonary arthropathy | hypothalamic pituitary axis | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal | HaemangioPericytomA | Hypothalamic - Pituitary - Adrenal (axis) | hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis

HPAN

HPAN Stands For : Health Professionals Alert Notice

HPC

HPC Stands For : haemangiopericytoma | haematopoietic progenitor cell; haematopoietic stem cell is generally preferred | Health Professions Council | Healthcare Purchasing Consortium | hepatitis C | history present complaint | hydrogenated phosphatidylcholine | hypopharyngeal carcinoma | history of present complaint

HPE

HPE Stands For : Health Promotion England (abolished | hepatoportoenterostomy | higher professional education | histopathological examination | holoprosencephaly | hydrostatic pulmonary (o)edema | Hypericum perforatum extract | History and Physical Examination | Human Phisiological Equivalent

HPERU

HPERU Stands For : Health Policy and Economic Research Unit

HPS

HPS Stands For : haemophagocytic syndrome | Health-Promoting Schools | Heart Protection Study | hepatopulmonary syndrome | Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome | hexulose-6-phosphate synthase | His-Purkinje system | human patient simulator | hyperprostaglandin E syndrome | hypertrophic pyloric stenosis | Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | human patient simulator | Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome | Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome

HPS/S

HPS/S Stands For : Health Promoting Schools/Service

HPU

HPU Stands For : Health Protection Unit | hospital planning unit

HQCA

HQCA Stands For : High Quality Care for All

HQHQ

HQHQ Stands For : Healthcare Quality Headquarters

HR

HR Stands For : haematologic remission | haemorrhagic retinopathy | hairpin ribozyme | heat resistant | high responder | histamine receptor | histamine release | homing receptor | homologous repeat | hormone receptor | hospital report | hospitalisation rate | human recombinant | human resources or personnel | hyperimmune reaction | hypersensitivity reaction | hypersensitivity response | hypoxic response | Haematological Response | hazard ratio | High Risk | Headache Removal | Heart rate | Horrific Regurgitation | Hospital Record

HRC

HRC Stands For : hereditary renal cancer | high risk characteristic | hormone-receptor complex | Hospital Recognition Committee | Heart Rate Control | Human Respiratory Coronavirus

HRG

HRG Stands For : high risk group | Healthcare Resource Group

HSAC

HSAC Stands For : Health Service Advisory Committee

HSC

HSC Stands For : haematopoietic stem cell | Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland | health screening centre | Health Select Committee | Health Service Circular | Health Service Commissioner | heat shock consensus | horizontal semicircular canal | hysteroscopy | hematopoietic stem cell(s) | hematopoietic stem cell | Health and Safety Commission

HSCIP

HSCIP Stands For : Health and Social Care Integration Programme

HSCQC

HSCQC Stands For : Health and Social Care Quality Centre

HSDU

HSDU Stands For : hospital sterile and disinfection unit

HSE

HSE Stands For : haemorrhagic shock encephalopathy | Health Survey for England | heat shock response element | hepatic sinusoidal endothelium | high self-esteem | human serum esterase | human skin equivalent | human spongiform encephalopathy | Herpes Simplex Encephalitis | Health and Safety Executive

HSG

HSG Stands For : Health Service Guidance | Health Strategy Group | histamine-succinyl-glycine | Housing Support Group | human serum globulin | hysterosalpingogram | HysteroSalpingoGraphy

HSI

HSI Stands For : Health Service Indicator | Health Status Index | Heaviness of Smoking Index | high signal intensity | Hogwarts Slightly Improved

HSJ

HSJ Stands For : Health Service Journal

HSMC (BU)

HSMC (BU) Stands For : Health Services Management Centre (Birmingham University)

HSMP

HSMP Stands For : Highly Skilled Migrant Program

HSNC

HSNC Stands For : historical significant non-complier

HSPI

HSPI Stands For : Health Services Prices Index

HSSI

HSSI Stands For : Higher Severity Service Incident

HST

HST Stands For : haematopoietic stem cell transplantation | Harvard Step Test | hereditary stomatocytosis | higher surgical trainee | higher surgical training | human serum transferase | hydroxysteroid sulphotransferase | Hypertrophy Specific Training

HST rotation

HST rotation Stands For : higher surgical training rotation

HT

HT Stands For : haematocrit | haplotype | Hashimoto thyroiditis | head trauma | Healing Touch | hearing test | hearing threshold | heart transplant | hepatic tumour | hereditary thrombocytopaenia | hereditary tyrosinaemia | heterosexual | histotechnologist | hormone therapy | human teratocarcinoma | hyperthyroidism | hypnotherapy | Home Treatment | High Threshold | Hypothesis Testing | healing touch | height | Heart | Helium Talking | High Temper | Historical Temperament | Hospital Treatment | Hyper-Thyroidism | Hypertension

HTA

HTA Stands For : Human Tissue Act 2004 | Human Tissue Authority | hyalinising trabecular adenoma | Health Technology Assessment

HTCS

HTCS Stands For : Hospital Travel Costs Scheme

HTM

HTM Stands For : hand-to-mouth | high-technology medicine | human thrombomodulin | human transcriptome map

HUS

HUS Stands For : HAEMOLYTIC URAEMIC SOMEYNDR | Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

HV

HV Stands For : hepatitis virus | high-viscosity | highly virulent | hypersensitivity vasculitis | hypervolemic | Health Visitor | Half Value | HantaVirus | Healthy Volunteer | High-Volume | heavy | Hepatic vein | Herpes Virus | Home Visit | Hospital Visit | Hyaline Vascular | Hypersensitivity Vasculitis | Hyperventilation | Horse Vitaman

HWBB

HWBB Stands For : Health & Well-Being Board

I&DeA

I&DeA Stands For : Improvement and Development Agency

I&E

I&E Stands For : income and expenditure

IAPT

IAPT Stands For : Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

IATP

IATP Stands For : Integrated Academic Training Pathways | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

IB

IB Stands For : immunoblot | immunoblotting | implantation bleeding | Incapacity Benefit | inclusion body | insulin binding | interstitial brachytherapy | Inflammatory Bowel | Internal Bleeding

IBD

IBD Stands For : interest-bearing debt (!) | irritable bowel disease | ischaemic brain disease | Isolation By Distance | Identity By Descent | inflamatory bowel disease | irritable bowel disease | Inclusion Body Disease | Infectious Bursal Disease | Inflammatory Bowel Disease

IBM

IBM Stands For : ideal body mass See Body mass index | Inclusion Body Myositis

IBMS

IBMS Stands For : Institute of Biomedical Science

IC

IC Stands For : ichthyosis | immune competent | immunochromatography | immunoconjugate | immunocytochemistry | imprinting centre | indeterminate colitis | infantile colic | infectious colitis | inferior cardiac | inferior collicular | inferior colliculus | inflammatory cells | inflammatory cytokines | Information Commissioner | inhaled corticosteroids | inner canthal | inner canthus | inner cortex | inorganic carbon | institutional care | instrument calibration | insular carcinoma | insular cortex | intensive chemotherapy | inter cibum between meals | intermediate

ICB

ICB Stands For : Integrated Commissioning Board | intracavitary brachytherapy | intracoronary brachytherapy | intracranial bleeding

ICC

ICC Stands For : immunocytochemistry | Indian childhood cirrhosis | infection control committee | Integrated Child Credit | Integrated Commissioning Consortium | intercalated cells | internal conversion coefficient | interstitial cell of Cajal | intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma | invasive cervical carcinoma | Intensive coronary care

ICD

ICD Stands For : I cell disease | immune complex disease | implantable cardioverter-defibrillator | induced circular dichroism | International Classification of Disease | Ischaemic Coronary Disease | International Classification of Diseases | International Classification of Diseases | implantable cardioverter defibrillator | Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator | implantable cardioverter‰ÛÒdefibrillator | INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES | International Classification of Diseases (coding system) | Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrill

ICER

ICER Stands For : Incremental Cost Effective Ratio

ICES

ICES Stands For : Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences | Integrated Community Equipment Stores | Information Collection and Evaluation System | International Council of Electrophoresis Societies

ICGN

ICGN Stands For : Intercollegiate Group on Nutrition

ICGT

ICGT Stands For : Information Governance Toolkit

ICH

ICH Stands For : International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use | International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use | International Conference of Harmonization | International Conference on Harmonization | Inter Cranial Hemorrhage | Intra-Cranial Hemorrhage | International Co-operation on Harmonisation (of Technical Requirements for the Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products) | International Co-operation on Harmonization

ICNA

ICNA Stands For : Infection Control Nurses Association

ICP

ICP Stands For : Integrated Care Pathway | Integrated Care Pilot | Interdisciplinary Care Plan | Intermittent Catheterisation Protocol | Intra-Cranial Pressure | Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy | intracranial pressure | Infantile Cerebral Palsy | Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle | Inter-Cranial Pressure | IntraCranial Pressure

ICRS

ICRS Stands For : Integrated Care Records Service

ICT

ICT Stands For : information communication technology | ImmunoChemoTherapy | Infection Control Team | Insulin Coma Therapy | Immunoreactive ChemoTherapy | Induction ChemoTherapy | Indirect Coombs Test | Intermittent Cervical Traction

ICU

ICU Stands For : immune contact urticaria | infant care unit | intermediate care unit | Intensive Care Unit | Intensive Care Unit

IDA

IDA Stands For : Improvement Development Agency | Indian Dental Association | Iron Deficiency Anemia | Iron Deficiency Anemia

IDDM

IDDM Stands For : insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus | Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus | Integrated Dialysis Data Management

IDF

IDF Stands For : infantile digital fibromatosis | insoluble dietary fibre | interim data feed | This term got 7 hits on 07112011

IDSU

IDSU Stands For : interdepartmental support unit

IELTS XX

IELTS XX Stands For : International English Language Testing System

IfH

IfH Stands For : Investing for Health

IFMH

IFMH Stands For : Information for the Management of Healthcare

IFR

IFR Stands For : Individual Funding Request | isoflavone reductase | Inspiratory Flow Rate

IFRS

IFRS Stands For : International Finance Reporting Standards (!)

IG

IG Stands For : immature granulocyte | immunoglold | information governance | inspiratory gasp | intermediate grade | intervention group | intragastric | IntelliGenetics | Immune globulin | ImmunoGlobulin | Immune globulin | immunoglobulin | Internal Globulin | Italian Greyhound

IGS

IGS Stands For : image-guided surgery | inappropriate gonadotropin secretion | Information Governance Strategy

IGSG

IGSG Stands For : Information Governance Steering Group

IGSoC

IGSoC Stands For : Information Governance Statement of Compliance

IGTT

IGTT Stands For : impaired glucose tolerance test | Information Governance Training Tool

IHCD

IHCD Stands For : Institute of Health and Care Development

IHE

IHE Stands For : infantile haemangioendothelioma | Institute of Hospital Engineering | International Health Exchange | Integrating the Health Enterprise

IHF

IHF Stands For : impaired hepatic function | Industrial Health Foundation | International Health Federation | International Hospital Federation | International Hospital Foundation | ischaemic heart failure

IHLC

IHLC Stands For : International Health Links Centre

IHM

IHM Stands For : implantable haemodynamic monitor | in hospital mortality | infrahyoid muscles | Institute of Healthcare Management | international health and medicine | Indian Head Massage

IHRIM

IHRIM Stands For : Institute of Health Record and Information Management

IHSM

IHSM Stands For : Institute of Health Services Management | Institute of Health Services Managers

IHTSDO

IHTSDO Stands For : International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation

IIP

IIP Stands For : implantable insulin pump | increased intracranial pressure | indirect immunoperoxidase | Inventory of Interpersonal Problems

IITT

IITT Stands For : Institute of IT Training

ILA

ILA Stands For : insulin-like activity | interlobar artery | interlobular artery | International Leprosy Association

IM&T

IM&T Stands For : information management and technology

IMA

IMA Stands For : Indian Medical Association | Industrial Medical Association | inferior meatal antrostomy | internal mammary artery | Irish Medical Association | ischaemia-modified albumin | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | Ischemia Modified Albumin | inferior mesenteric artery | Inferior Mesenteric Artery | Ischemia Modified Albumin

IMCA

IMCA Stands For : independent mental capacity advocate

IMD

IMD Stands For : immune deficiency | immunodeficiency | index of multiple deprivations | institute for mental diseases | Institution for Mental Diseases | Invasive mold disease | Immune-Mediated Disease | Index of Multiple Deprivation | Inherited Metabolic Disease | Invasive Meningococcal Disease

IMHA

IMHA Stands For : immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia | Independent Medical Health Advocacy Service | Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis | Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia

IMIA

IMIA Stands For : International Medical Informatics Association | International Medical Interpreters Association

imms

imms Stands For : Primary immunisations

IMR

IMR Stands For : illness management and recovery | individual medical record | Institute for Medical Research | Internal Management Review | interventional magnetic resonance | intramedullary rod | Infant Mortality Rate

IMT

IMT Stands For : immunomodulatory therapy | immunotherapy | inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour | Integrated Multidisciplinary Teams | intima media thickness | Implantable Miniature Telescope | intima-media thickness | Integrative Manual Therapy | Intimal-Medial Thickness

INNS

INNS Stands For : Interim NHS Numbering System

IOG

IOG Stands For : improving outcomes guidance

IP

IP Stands For : immune precipitate | immunoperoxidase | immunophenotype | incontinentia pigmenti | incubation period | infection prevention | inferoposterior | inflammatory pseudotumour | inorganic phosphate | inositol phosphate | inpatient | interpeduncular nucleus | interstitial pneumonia | interstitial pressure | inverted papilloma | ionisation potential | isoelectric point | In Patient | Independent Practice | Intense Pain | initial positive | InterPhalangeal | Interpharangeal | Intra- Peritoneal | intraperitoneal

IPA

IPA Stands For : Indicative Prescribing Amount | International Paediatrics Association | intrapulmonary artery | invasive pulmonary aspergillosis | ImmunoPeroxidase Assay | Independent Physicians Association | Inter-Practice Agreement | ImmunoPeroxidase Assay | Independent Practitioner Association | Inferior Phrenic Artery | Internal Pudendal Artery | Internet Porn Addiction | Intralobar Pulmonary Artery

IPHA

IPHA Stands For : Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association

IPR

IPR Stands For : immediate phase reaction | independent professional review | individual performance review | isoproterenol

IQAP

IQAP Stands For : Information Quality Assurance Programme

IQC

IQC Stands For : instrument quality control | internal quality control

IQI

IQI Stands For : Indicators for Quality Improvement

IR

IR Stands For : immune response | immunoreactive | interim report | internal rotation Rehabilitation medicine | inversion recovery Imaging MRI | inverted repeat Molecular biology | ionising radiation | Index of Response | Individual Referral | Independent Review | Instrument Reference | Intelligence Ratio | IR Inferior rectus | Inferior Rectus | Insulin Resistance | Internal Rotation

IRP

IRP Stands For : idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis | Independent Reconfiguration Panel | independent review panel | insulin-releasing polypeptide | interstitial radiation pneumonitis | intramural research programme | isovolumic relaxation period | Interrupted Renewal Process | Iron Regulatory Protein | International Reference Preparation

ISB

ISB Stands For : Information Standards Board | inner spiral bundle | Intercollegiate Specialty Examinations Board | International Society of Biomechanics | interscalene block | Invest to Save Budget

ISB HaSC

ISB HaSC Stands For : Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care

ISCM

ISCM Stands For : IT Service Continuity Management

ISIP

ISIP Stands For : Integrated Service Improvement Programme

ISMF

ISMF Stands For : Information Security Management Forum

IT

IT Stands For : iliotibial | immature teratoma | immune tolerance | immunotoxin | induction therapy | inferior temporal | inferior turbinate | inferotemporal | insulin therapy | intention tremor | intermediate trophoblast | intermittent traction | interstitial tissue | intertrochanteric | intradermal test | intrathecal | ischial tuberosity | idiopathic thrombocytopenia | Individual Therapy | Inhalation Therapy | Intensive Therapy | intrathecal

ITK

ITK Stands For : inducible tyrosine kinase | Insight Toolkit | Interoperability Toolkit | Interleukin-2-inducible T-cell Kinase

ITP

ITP Stands For : idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura | immune thrombocytopaenic purpura | individualised treatment plan | innovative training post | inosine triphosphate | intrathoracic pressure | intratracheal pressure | Inverse Treatment Planning | Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

ITS

ITS Stands For : Independent Tribunal Service (abolished | inferior temporal sulcus | Initial Tracing Service | insulin-transferrin-selenium | intertubercular sulcus | Im Tired Syndrome

ITT

ITT Stands For : insulin tolerance test | interdisciplinary treatment team | intestinal transit time | Intention To Treat | Internal tibial torsion

ITU

ITU Stands For : intensive therapy/treatment unit | international toxic unit | Intensive Therapy Unit

IWLS

IWLS Stands For : Improving Working Lives Standard

JACIE XX

JACIE XX Stands For : Joint Accreditation Committee of the ISCT and the EBMT

JCAB

JCAB Stands For : Joint Clinical Advisory Board

JCB

JCB Stands For : Joint Commissioning Board | Journal of Cell Biology

JCC

JCC Stands For : Joint Committee on Contraception | Joint Consultants Committee | Journal of Clinical Chiropractic | junctional channel complex

JCCC

JCCC Stands For : Joint Consultation and Communications Committee

JCG

JCG Stands For : joint commissioning group

JCGMH

JCGMH Stands For : Joint Commissioning Group for Mental Health

JCGSH

JCGSH Stands For : Joint Commissioning Group for Sexual Health

JCHMT

JCHMT Stands For : Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training see there

JCHST

JCHST Stands For : Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training

JCI

JCI Stands For : Abbreviation for: | joint clinical intervention | Joint Commission International

JCIA

JCIA Stands For : Joint Committee on Immunology and Allergy | Joint Commission International Accreditation

JCMG

JCMG Stands For : Joint Committee on Medical Genetics

JCPCT

JCPCT Stands For : Joint Committee of PCTs

JCPT

JCPT Stands For : Joint Committee on Pathology Training | Joint Counts for Pain and Tenderness

JCPTGP

JCPTGP Stands For : Joint Committee for Postgraduate Training for General Practice

JCST

JCST Stands For : Joint Committee on Surgical Training

JCSTD

JCSTD Stands For : Joint Committee for Specialist Training in Dentistry

JD

JD Stands For : Doctor of Jurisprudence | jejunal diverticulitis | junction domain | juvenile diabetes | Jobless Doctors

JDC

JDC Stands For : joint disciplinary committee | junior doctors committee

JE

JE Stands For : Japanese encephalitis | job evaluation | job evaluators | joint effusion | junctional epithelium | junctional escape | Japanese Encephalitis

JF

JF Stands For : joint finance | joint fluid | jugular foramen | juvenile form

JFC

JFC Stands For : Joint Formulary Committee

JGPITC

JGPITC Stands For : Joint GP IT Committee

JM

JM Stands For : Jendrassik manoeuvre | juxtamedullary | Juvenile Myositis

JNC(J)

JNC(J) Stands For : Joint Negotiating Committee (on Juniors)

JPAC

JPAC Stands For : Joint Planning Advisory Committee (SWAG)

JRCPTB

JRCPTB Stands For : Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board

JSA

JSA Stands For : Job Seekers Allowance (!) | Journal of Substance Abuse

JSNA

JSNA Stands For : Joint Strategic Needs AssessmentBritish

KLOE

KLOE Stands For : key lines of enquiry

KSF

KSF Stands For : Key Skills Framework | Knowledge and Skills Framework (NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework)

LA

LA Stands For : lactic acidosis | Lambert | laser ablation | laser angioplasty | late antigen | latex agglutination | left atrial | leukocyte adhesion | levator ani | local anaesthesia | low affinity | Local Anesthesia | Lab Assistant | Lumpus Anticoagulant | left arm | left atrium | LeukoAraiosis | Long Acting | Lupus Anticoagulant

LAA

LAA Stands For : left atrial appendage | leukaemia-associated antigen | Local Area Agreement | local authority association | low attenuation area | Liberty Air Acknowledgement

LAC

LAC Stands For : lactate | lactation | lactic acid | Lactobacillus acidophilus | Lay Advisory Committee | Local Authority Circular | Local Authority Company | lupus anticoagulant | Laceration | Long Arm Cast

LAH

LAH Stands For : left atrial hypertrophy | Licentiate of Apothecaries‰Ûª Hall | low-affinity heparin | Left Anterior Hemiblock

LALT

LALT Stands For : larynx-associated lymphoid tissue in the eye

LAPIS

LAPIS Stands For : Locality And Practice Information System

LARC

LARC Stands For : long-acting reversible contraception | long acting reversible contraception | long acting reversible contraception

LAS

LAS Stands For : laxative abuse syndrome | Life Attitudes Schedule | locum appointment for service | London Ambulance Service | low amplitude signal | lymphadenopathy syndrome | lymphokine-activated suppressor | Label As Such

LASSD

LASSD Stands For : Local Authority Social Services Department

LAT

LAT Stands For : lactic acid threshold | latency | latency-associated transcript | lateral atrial tunnel | latex agglutination test | latissimus dorsi | lidocaine | locum appointment for training | lateral | Last Action Type | Lateral | Lidocaine

LBC

LBC Stands For : lamellar body count | liquid-based cytology | load-bearing capacity | lymphoid blast crisis

LCA

LCA Stands For : lateral costal artery | left carotid artery | left circumflex artery | leukocyte common antigen | lithocholic acid | liver cell adenoma | Logical Connection Architecture | Left Coronary Artery

LCCB

LCCB Stands For : local collaborative commissioning board

LCFS

LCFS Stands For : Locality Counterfraud Specialist

LCV

LCV Stands For : large cell variant | lateral cerebral ventricle | limited clinical value (procedures of limited clinical value) | lymphocytc choriomeningitis virus | LeukoCytoclastic Vasculitis | Laboratoire Central V̩t̩rinaire

LD

LD Stands For : L-dopa | lactase deficiency | lactate dehydrogenase | Lafora disease | lamina densa | Laron dwarfism | lateral dorsal | Leishmania donovani | leukocyte depletion | Liberal Democrat (!) | light dark | limit of detection | linkage disequilibrium | lipodystrophy | liver disease | living donor | loading dose | local democracy (!) | local development | luminal diameter | lymphocyte depletion | lymphoproliferative disorder | Labor & Delivery | Lactic Dehydrogenase | Low Dose | Lethal Dose | Logarithm Digitalis | low dose | letahal dose | lethal dos

LDAF

LDAF Stands For : Learning Disabilities Award Framework

LDC

LDC Stands For : leucocyte differential count | lidocaine | Local Dental Committee | lysine decarboxylase

LDPB

LDPB Stands For : Learning Development Partnership Board

LDS

LDS Stands For : lacrimal drainage system | late developmental stage | local development scheme | locked door seclusion

LEA

LEA Stands For : labour epidural analgesia | lead education agency | Lewis a | lower extremity amputation | lumbar epidural anaesthesia | Late Embryogenesis Abundant

LEL

LEL Stands For : large extracellular loop | lower explosive limit (!) | lowest effect level | lymphoepithelial lesion

LEO

LEO Stands For : Leading Empowered Organisations | Law Enforcement Officer

LEPT

LEPT Stands For : Learning Environment for Pathology Trainees

LES

LES Stands For : Lower OEsophageal Sphincter | Lipid Extract Surfactant | Lower Esophageal Sphincter | Lambert-Eaton Syndrome | LESion | Lower Esophageal Sphincter

LESLP

LESLP Stands For : London Emergency Services Liaison Panel

LGA

LGA Stands For : left gastric artery | light for gestational age Rarely used in practice | low grade astrocytoma | Large For Gestational Age | Local Government Association

LGBT

LGBT Stands For : Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender | Lesbian Gay Bisexual Or Transgender

LHB

LHB Stands For : lateral habenular nucleus | left heart bypass | Local Health Board (Wales) | long head of biceps

LHC

LHC Stands For : lead hazard control | left heart catheterisation | Local Health Community | Local Health Council

LHCC

LHCC Stands For : local health care co-operative (Scotland)

LHE

LHE Stands For : latent hepatic encephalopathy | light and heat energy | local health economy

LHG

LHG Stands For : local health group (Wales) | Left Hand Grip

LHP

LHP Stands For : late hyperpolarising potential | latent hypoparathyroidism | local health partnership | local health plan

LHVN

LHVN Stands For : Locality Health Voice Network

LIFT

LIFT Stands For : Late Intervention Following Thrombolysis | Local Implementation Finance Trust

LIG

LIG Stands For : ligation | local implementation group | ligament

LIN

LIN Stands For : linoleic acid | lobular intraepithelial neoplasia | Local Intelligence Network | low-income neighbourhood | lysis inhibition | Laryngeal Intraepithelial Neoplasia | linimentum - liniment

LINks

LINks Stands For : Local Involvement Networks

LIS

LIS Stands For : lanthanide-induced shift | left intercostal space | liposome immunosensor | lissencephaly | lobular in situ | locked in syndrome | low intermittent suction | low ionic strength | low-income subsidy | lymphocytic infiltration of the skin | Laboratory Information System | Lacking In Serotonin | Living Information System

LISA

LISA Stands For : less invasive surgical approach | LHC‰ÛÒLocal Health Community IM&T‰ÛÒInformation Management and Technology Self Assessment | localised in situ amplification

LIT

LIT Stands For : local immune therapy | lumbar infusion test | Leukocyte Immune Therapy | Leukocyte Immunization Therapy

LIZ

LIZ Stands For : London Initiative Zone

LLL

LLL Stands For : La Leche League | left lobe of liver | Leave Lower Left | left lower lobe (lung) | Le Leche League | Left Lower Leg | Left Lower Lid | Left Lower Lobe | Left Lower Lung

LLM

LLM Stands For : lipid-laden macrophage | Master of Laws

LMC

LMC Stands For : lateral motor column | left main coronary artery | left middle cerebral artery | lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity | Local Medical Committee

LMDT

LMDT Stands For : local multi-disciplinary team

LMR

LMR Stands For : Local Modernisation Review | Left medial rectus (of eye)

LMS

LMS Stands For : lateral medullary syndrome | left main stem | Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery | Laboratory Management System | Laboratory Management System | LeioMyoSarcoma

LMSSA

LMSSA Stands For : Licentiate of Medicine & Surgery of The Society of Apothecaries

LMT

LMT Stands For : left main trunk | leukocyte migration test | long-term memory | Last Minute Treatment

LMWAG

LMWAG Stands For : Local Medical Workforce Advisory Group | This body appears to have had its heyday from 1996 to 2000-ish With 58 hits on 08112011

LNG

LNG Stands For : levonorgestrol | local negotiating committee | levonorgestrel

LOA

LOA Stands For : Leber optic atrophy | left occiput anterior | linoleic acid | loosening of association | loss of attachment | lysis of adhesions | Live On Arrival | Law of Attraction | Left Occipitoanterior

LOBNH

LOBNH Stands For : lights on but nobody home (!)

LOC

LOC Stands For : lateral occipital complex | lower oesophageal contractility | Length of Confinement | Level Of Care | loss of consciousness | Level Of Care | Level Of Consciousness | Loss Of Consciousness

LoC FIN DOC

LoC FIN DOC Stands For : Letter of Competence for Faculty Instructing Doctors

LoC IUT

LoC IUT Stands For : Letter of Competence in Intrauterine Techniques

LoC SDI

LoC SDI Stands For : Letter of Competence in Subdermal Implants

LOS

LOS Stands For : late onset schizophrenia | late onset sepsis | longitudinal observational study | low output syndrome | lower oesophageal sphincter | Length Of Stay | Loss Of Sight

LPA

LPA Stands For : lateral patellofemoral angle | Lease Plus Agreement | left pulmonary artery | lipoprotein A | local planning authority | Locally Preferred Alternative | Lipoprotein(a)

LPC

LPC Stands For : last patient complete | late positive complex | lateral periodontal cyst | lipid protein complex | Local Pharmaceutical Committee | loose patch clamp | lysophosphatidylcholine | Laurel Pregnancy Center | Laboratory Pasteurized Count

LPfIT

LPfIT Stands For : London Programme for IT

LPO

LPO Stands For : last patient out | lateral preoptic area | Left Posterior Oblique | Light perception only

LPS

LPS Stands For : lateral premotor system | levator palpebrae superioris | liposarcomas | Local Pharmaceutical Scheme | local pharmaceutical services | Lovastatin Pravastatin Study | lumbar punctures | lymphoproliferative syndrome | LipoPolySaccharide | Large Polyp Stony | Large Polyp Scleractinian | Large Polyp Stoneys | Levator Palebrae Superioris | LipoPolySaccharide | Little Pink Starfish

LQF

LQF Stands For : Leadership Qualities Framework (NHS Leadership Framework)

LRA

LRA Stands For : Land Retained Agreement | lateral right atrium | left renal artery | logistic regression analysis

LRCP

LRCP Stands For : Licentiate | Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner

LRCP&S

LRCP&S Stands For : Licentiate

LRCS

LRCS Stands For : Licentiate

LRF

LRF Stands For : large restriction fragment | lateral reticular formation | Leukemia Research Foundation | LH-releasing factor | Local Resilience Forum | luteinizing hormone releasing factor | Leukaemia Research Fund | Leukemia Research Fund | Leukemia Research Fund

LRFP&S

LRFP&S Stands For : Licentiate

LRIMH

LRIMH Stands For : Leicester Royal Infirmary Maternity Hospital

LSC

LSC Stands For : last subject complete | Lichen Simplex Choronicus | Learning and Skills Council

LSCB

LSCB Stands For : local safeguarding children board

LSCG

LSCG Stands For : local specialised commissioning group

LSD

LSD Stands For : lesions simulating disease | Letterer-Siwe disease | lipid storage disease | local service desk | local spin density low sodium diet | low salt diet | lumpy skin disease | lysosomal storage disease | Lysosomal Storage Disorder | lysergic acid diethylamide | Lysosomal storage diseases | Last Stage Of Delirium

LSI

LSI Stands For : last subject in

LSMS

LSMS Stands For : Local Security Management Specialist

LSO

LSO Stands For : last subject out | Left Salpingo-Oophorectomy | Local Serving Office | Lutetium OxyorthoSilicate

LSP

LSP Stands For : left sacrum posterior | local service partnership | local service provider | Large Supernatant Protein | Last Scope Position | Lumbar SPine

LSV

LSV Stands For : lateral sacral vein | left subclavian vein | Lone Star virus | Long Saphenous Vein

LTA

LTA Stands For : large T antigen | laser thermal ablation | laser thermal angioplasty | laser trabecular ablation | lead tetraacetate | leisure time activity | life-threatening asthma | lifetime allowance | lipoteichoic acid | long-term adaptation | long-term agreement | Lotus tetragonolobus agglutinin | lung tumor-associated antigen | lymphocyte toxicity assay | lymphocyte transformation assay | lymphotoxin alpha | Late Term Abortion

LTC

LTC Stands For : large transformed cell | leukotriene C | local tumour control | long-term care | long-term condition | lysed tumour cell | Long Term Care | Long Term Care

LTCH

LTCH Stands For : long-term care hospital | Long-Term Acute Care Hospital | LONG-TERM CARE HOSPITAL

LTFM

LTFM Stands For : long term financial model | long term fiscal model

LTFT training

LTFT training Stands For : Less than full-time training

LTM

LTM Stands For : lean tissue mass | learning to manage (health information) | long-term memory | Long Term Memory

LTRSR

LTRSR Stands For : Labelling

LVD

LVD Stands For : large vessel disease | left ventricular diameter | left ventricular dysfunction | lymphatic vessel density

LVSD

LVSD Stands For : left ventricular systolic dysfunction

LYS

LYS Stands For : life years saved | lysine

MA

MA Stands For : mandelic acid | masseter | maternal age | maternity allowance | medical assistance | medical authorisation | menstrual age | metal age | mixed agglutination | Modernisation Agency | motor area | Mycobacterium avium | Medical Accident | Medical Appointment | Medicare Advantage | Mercury Amalgam | Motorcycle Accident | Monophyletic Assemblage | Medical authorization | Mental Age | Metamorphic Anamorphosis | Moderately Advanced | Muscle Activity

MAAG

MAAG Stands For : Medical Audit Advisory Group | Multidisciplinary Audit Advisory Group

MAC

MAC Stands For : Macintosh (computer) | major ambulatory category | maximum acceptable concentration | maximum aerobic capacity | Medical Advisory Committee | Medicare Appeals Council | membrane attack complex | Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale | Migration Advisory Committee | minimum antibiotic concentration | mitral annular calcification | Medication Access Computer | Minimum Alveolar Concentration | Monitored Anaesthesia Care | Morning and Afternoon Care | Mammalian Artificial Chromosome | Marker And Cell | Minimum Alveolar Concentration | Mycobacterium avium complex |

MACS

MACS Stands For : Migration Analysis Cleansing Service | Maroondah Approach to Clinical Services | Multi Aids Cohort Study | Multicenter Aids Cohort Study | Minimal Access Cranial Suspension

MADEL

MADEL Stands For : Medical And Dental Education Levy

MADEN

MADEN Stands For : Medical And Dental Education Network

MAF

MAF Stands For : Management Accountancy Framework | Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue | Macrophage Activating Factor | Maximum Aerobic Function

MAGGOT

MAGGOT Stands For : medically able

MALDA

MALDA Stands For : Multi-Agency Learning Disability Assessment | This term got 6 hits on 22102011 and is thus assumed to have been retired

MANCAS

MANCAS Stands For : Manchester Care Assessment Schedule

MAP

MAP Stands For : magnesium ammonium phosphate | malignant atrophic papulosis | mandibular angle plane | maturation-activated protein | maximum aerobic power | mean airway pressure | medical advantage plan | medical aid post Military medicine | medical assessment process | medical assistance plan | medical audit programme | medically-assisted procreation | Medicare Advocacy Project | medication administration record | megaloblastic anaemia of pregnancy | melphalan | membrane-associated protein | mercapturic acid pathway | mesenteric arterial pressure | microtubule-associat

MAPA

MAPA Stands For : management of actual and potential aggression

MAPPA

MAPPA Stands For : Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements

MARAC

MARAC Stands For : Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference

MARAP

MARAP Stands For : Multi Agency Risk Assessment Panel

MARS

MARS Stands For : Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme | Medical Amateur Radio Society | Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System

MAS

MAS Stands For : magnesium aluminum silicate | Marital Adjustment Scale | masseter | McCune-Albright syndrome | milk-alkali syndrome | minimal access surgery | Minor Ailment Scheme | motor assessment scale | myoclonic absence seizure | Marker Assisted Selection | Manifest anxiety scale | Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

MASC

MASC Stands For : masculine | Medical Academic Staff Committee | Medical Advisers Support Centre | Male Abuse Survivors Centre

MAST

MAST Stands For : mastectomy | mastitis | mastoid | medical antishock trousers | military anti shock trousers | mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase | mitochondrial AST | motion artifact suppression technique | mRNA accessible site tagging | multi-agency support team | Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale | Medical Anti-Shock Trousers | Minimal Access Spinal Technologies | Medical Anti-Shock Trousers

MAT B1 XX

MAT B1 XX Stands For : Maternity Certificate B1

MAU

MAU Stands For : Medical admission unit | Medical Assessment Unit | MicroAlbumin Urine lab test | Egyptian: Cat

MB

MB Stands For : main bronchus | Mallory body | mamillary body | mammillary body | maternal blood | Medicinae Baccalaureus‰ÛÒBachelor of Medicine | medulloblastoma | methyl bromide | methylene blue | midbrain | myocardial bridge | myoglobin | Miracle Baby | MegaBase | Muscle Back | Muscle Balance | Myocardial B

MB BS XX

MB BS XX Stands For : Bachelor of Medicine

MB ChB XX

MB ChB XX Stands For : Bachelor of Medicine

MBC

MBC Stands For : maximum binding capacity | medullary breast cancer | metastatic breast cancer | metastatic breast carcinoma | methotrexate | mitral balloon commissurotomy | monocytoid B-cell | Medical Board of California | Massachusetts Biotechnology Council | Minimum Bactericidal Concentration | Male Breast Cancer | Maximum Bladder Capacity | Maximum Breathing Capacity | Migratory Bird Center

MC

MC Stands For : mass casualties | mast cell | maximum concentration | Medicines Commission | medullary carcinoma | medullary cavity | meningococcal | menstrual cycle | mercuric chloride | Merkel cell | mesangial cell | mesothelial cell | metacarpal | microcalcification | microcirculation | microtubule centre | mineralocorticoid | minimal change | minocycline | mitochondria | mitomycin C | mitotic count | mitral commissurotomy | mixed cellularity | mixed cryoglobulinaemia | molluscum contagiosum | mononuclear cell | motor cortex | mucinous carcinoma | mucocutaneo

MCA

MCA Stands For : Medical Control Agency | Mental Capacity Act | methylated CpG island amplification | motorcycle accident | mucinous cystadenoma | multiple congenital anomalies | Medicines Control Agency (UK) | Middle Cerebral Artery | Medicines Control Agency

MCCD

MCCD Stands For : medical certificate of cause of death

MChD

MChD Stands For : Magister Chirurgiae Dentium

MChOrth

MChOrth Stands For : Magister Chirurgiae Orthopaedium

MCHS

MCHS Stands For : myocerebrohepatopathy spectrum | myocerebrohepatopathy syndrome

MCI

MCI Stands For : mandibular cortical index | manually controlled infusion | mean cardiac index | mucociliary clearability index | multiple casualty incident | Medical Council of India | Mild Cognitive Impairment | mild cognitive impairment | Mild Cognitive Impairment | Millicurie | Mobile Computer Injury

MCQ

MCQ Stands For : medical care quality | Memory Compensation Questionnaire | multiple-choice questions (MCQ)

MCRG

MCRG Stands For : Medical Career Research Group | This term got 38 hits on 22102011

MD

MD Stands For : myocardial disease | Manic Depressant | Medical Department | Medical Doctor | Mind Destroying | Mis-Diagnosis | Malate Dehydrogenase | Male treated with Deoxycorticosterone | Medical Doctor | Medium Dosage | MethylDopa | Minimum Dosage | Moderately Differentiated | Macular Degeneration | Magnesium Deficiency | Malic De-hydrogenase | Manic Depressive | Mantoux Diameter | Medio-Dorsal | Mesio-Distal | Mitral Disease | Monocular Deprivation Ophthalmology | Motion-Defined | Movement Disorder | Muscular Dystrophy | Myocardial Damage | Myotonic Dystrophy

MDA

MDA Stands For : manual dilation of the anus | MD anaesthesiologist | medical device alert | medical device amendments | megadalton | mento-dextra anterior‰ÛÒobstetrics | methydopamine | methylenedioxymethamphetamine/3 | Muscular Dystrophy Association | Methylene Dioxy Amphetamine | Minimum Detectable Activity

MDAP

MDAP Stands For : multi-deanery appointment process (obsolete) | Medical Device Application Profile

MDAU

MDAU Stands For : maternal day assessment unit (day assessment unit)

MDBT

MDBT Stands For : maternal day assessment unit (day assessment unit)

MDD

MDD Stands For : Doctor of Dental Medicine | minimum detected dose | multiple daily dosing | Medical Data Drill | Medical Device Directive | major depressive disorder | Major Depressive Disorder | Mal De Debarquement Syndrome | Mean Daily Dose

MDDUS

MDDUS Stands For : Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

MDS

MDS Stands For : major depressive syndrome | Master of Dental Surgery | mesonephric duct system | Miller-Dieker Syndrome | myelodysplastic syndrome | Myelo Dysplastic Syndrome | Movement Disorder Specialist | Myelo Dysplastic Syndrome

MDT

MDT Stands For : maggot debridement therapy | mast degeneration test | mean death time | mean dissolution time | median detection threshold | medical design technology | microsurgical DREZotomy | mirror drawing test | multidisciplinary teamBritish | multiple drug therapy | Multi Disciplinary Team | Motivational Dog Training

MDU

MDU Stands For : multiple disability unit | More Dicto Utendus (to be used as directed)

MEA

MEA Stands For : cysteamine | mean electrical axis | mercaptoethylamine | microelectrode array | microwave endometrial ablation | middle ear adenoma | modern equivalent asset | multiple endocrine adenomatosis | multiple endocrine adenomatosis; multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) is generally preferred | Membrane Electrode Assembly

MEC

MEC Stands For : Management Education for Clinicians | Management Executive Committee | mechlorethamine | meclofenamate | meconium | median effective concentration | middle ear canal | mouse embryo cell | mucoepidermoid carcinoma

MEMSA

MEMSA Stands For : myoclonic epilepsy myopathy sensory ataxia

MENCAP

MENCAP Stands For : Royal Mencap Society (formerly

MEP

MEP Stands For : medical expert panel | meperidine | metalloendopeptidase | middle ear pressure | motor end plate | motor evoked potential | Metallo Endo-Peptidase | Maximum Expiratory Pressure | megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cell | Motor End Platelet | Motor Evoked Potentials

MERIT

MERIT Stands For : Medical Emergency Response Incident Team

MERVE

MERVE Stands For : Medical Emergency Response Vehicle

MESB

MESB Stands For : Medical Education Standards Board

MFAEM

MFAEM Stands For : Member

MFDS

MFDS Stands For : Member

MFF

MFF Stands For : market forces factor | metal fume fever

MFFP

MFFP Stands For : Member

MFOccM

MFOccM Stands For : Member

MFPH

MFPH Stands For : Member | Monroe Family Pet Hospital

MFPHM

MFPHM Stands For : Member

MGS

MGS Stands For : malignancy grading system | Meckel Gruber syndrome | membranous glomerulosclerosis | minimum government standard | muscle glycogen synthase | Meckel-Gruber Syndrome

MGSA

MGSA Stands For : melanoma growth stimulating activity

MH

MH Stands For : maintenance hemodialysis | malignant histiocytosis | malignant hypertension | malignant hyperthermia | medial habenula | medial hamstring | medial hypothalamus | menstrual history | mesenchymal hamartoma | microscopic haematuria | migraine headache | minor histocompatibility | molecular hybridisation | Mueller-Hinton | muscular hypertrophy | myocardial hypertrophy | Master Herbalist | mass hysteria | Medical Hold | Medical Humanities | mental health | Malignant Hypersensitivity | Marital history | Medical History | Mental Health

MHAC

MHAC Stands For : Mental Health Act Commission

MHE

MHE Stands For : malignant haemangioendothelioma | Mental Health Enquiry | multiple hereditary exostosis | Multiple Hereditary Exostoses

MHMDS

MHMDS Stands For : mental health minimum data set

MHPAF

MHPAF Stands For : mental health performance assessment framework | This definition got 10 hits on 22102011 and is thus unlikely to be in active use

MHPRA

MHPRA Stands For : Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

MHPSS

MHPSS Stands For : Manchester Health Promotion Specialist Service | Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Network

MHRA XX

MHRA XX Stands For : Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority

MHRT

MHRT Stands For : Mental Health Review Tribunal (Mental Health Tribunal)

MHSWR

MHSWR Stands For : Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations

MIDIRS

MIDIRS Stands For : Midwife Information and Resource Service

MIG

MIG Stands For : measles immune globulin | Medical Information Group | Medicare Insured Group (US | membrane immunoglobulin; surface immunoglobulin (sIg) is generally preferred | Midwife Information Group | monoclonal immunoglobulin | Monokine induced by interferon gamma

MIMMS

MIMMS Stands For : Major Incident Medical Management and Support

MIMS

MIMS Stands For : medical inventory management system | Migraine and Myocardial Ischaemia Study | Monthly Index of Medical Specialities

MIMT

MIMT Stands For : Major Incident Management Team

MINAP

MINAP Stands For : Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project

MINI

MINI Stands For : Mental Illness Needs Index

Mini CEX XX

Mini CEX XX Stands For : Miniature clinical examination (Mini-CEX)

Mini PAT XX

Mini PAT XX Stands For : Mini peer assessment tool (Mini-PAT)

MINTS

MINTS Stands For : Minor Injury Nurse Treatment Specialist

MIRAS

MIRAS Stands For : mitochondrial recessive ataxia syndrome

MIRE

MIRE Stands For : Major Incident Response Executive

MLSO

MLSO Stands For : Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer

MMC

MMC Stands For : macrophage-mediated cytotoxicity | massive myocardial calcification | methylmercuric chloride | minimum medullary concentration | mitomycin C | Modernising Medical Careers | mucosal mast cells | mucosal-type mast cells | Maine Medical Center | Macro Molecular Complex | Maximum Mass Concentration | Migrating Motility Complex | Migrating Motor Complex

MMG

MMG Stands For : malignant monoclonal gammopathy | mammography | Medicines Management Group | medical management guidelines

MMR

MMR Stands For : masseter muscle rigidity | maternal mortality rate | measles | Medication Management Review (Australia) | mildly mentally retarded | mouth-to-mouth resuscitation | mutation in mismatch repair | myocardial metabolic rate | Macro- Molecular Resource | Mouse Mutant Resource | Macro- Molecular Resource | Measles | Maximum Metabolic Rate | Measles | measles mumps and rubella

MMSAC

MMSAC Stands For : Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee

MMSL

MMSL Stands For : Medicines Management Safety Lead

MNC

MNC Stands For : Modernising Nursing Careers | mononuclear cells | multinucleated cells

MNGIE

MNGIE Stands For : mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy

MO

MO Stands For : mesial occlusal | morbid obesity | morphine | myositis ossificans | Male Only | Mono-Oxygenase | MOnoclonal | Medical Officer | Membrane Oxygenator | Methyl Orange | Micro-Organism | MOnocyte | Multiple Osteochondromas | Mandibular Organ | Medical Oddity | Medulla Oblongata | Mitral Opening | Morbidly Obese | Mouth Opening | Month

MoD

MoD Stands For : maturity-onset diabetes | mean optical density | medic on duty | medical officer of day | mesio-occlusodistal | mode of death | multiorgan donors | multiple organ dysfunction | Medical Officer of the Day | Medicine On Delivery | March Of Dimes | MODerate

MOEH

MOEH Stands For : Medical Officer for Environmental Health

MOH

MOH Stands For : Medical Officer of Health (Director of Public Health) | medication overuse headache | Medical Officer of Health

MoM

MoM Stands For : Map of Medicine | mitochondrial outer membrane | multiple of the median | Metal-On-Metal | metal-on-metal | Milk Of Magnesia | Millennium Occupational Medicine | milk of magnesia

MOR

MOR Stands For : matched odds ratio | median odds ratio | Millennium Operating Regime | morphine | mortality odds ratio | Michigan Operating Room | Mortal Oscillatory Rate

MoU

MoU Stands For : midwife obstetric unit | Maximum Oxygen Uptake

MP

MP Stands For : macular pigment | male pseudohermaphroditism | maternal plasma | mating population | matrix protein | maxillary process | mean pressure | melphalan | membrane potential | mesangial proliferation | metacarpal phalangeal | metalloproteinase | metatarsophalangeal | methylprednisone | metoprolol | microscopic polyarteritis | micturition pressure | middle phalanx | midplane | mitral prolapse | molecular pathology | mononuclear phagocytic | monophasic | monophosphate | monopolar | motor potential | multiparous | multiplanar | multiprogrammable pacemaker

MPA

MPA Stands For : main pulmonary artery | Markov process amplitude | Master of Pharmacy Administration | maximal planar area | maximal profile area | mean pulmonary arterial | medial plantar artery | medial preoptic area | Medical Prescribing Adviser | Medical Procurement Agency | medroxiprogesterone acetate | mercaptopropionic acid | methylprednisolone acetate | microscopic polyarteritis | minor physical anomaly | mycophenolic acid | Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | Mean Pulmonary Artery | medroxyprogesterone acetate

MPC

MPC Stands For : mean plasma concentration | mean platelet count | medial prefrontal cortex | medial premotor cortex | Medical Patterns of Care | Medical Practices Committee (abolished | Medical Provider Component | meiotic pairing centre | Mental Processing Composite | multicatalytic proteinase complex | muscle precursor cell | myeloma plasma cell | Milk Peptide Complex | Maximum permissible concentration | Mobile Patient Charting

MPET XX

MPET XX Stands For : Multi-Professional Education and Training

MPH

MPH Stands For : male pseudohermaphroditism | massive pulmonary haemorrhage | methylphenidate hydrochloride | microtiter plate hybridisation | multicomponent phenol hydroxylase | Masters in Public Health | Master of Public Health

MPharm

MPharm Stands For : Master of Pharmacy

MPI

MPI Stands For : mannose phosphate isomerase | maximum point of impulse | mean pixel intensity | Medicare Provider Inventory | megakaryocyte proliferation index | mucus protease inhibitor | Multidimensional Pain Inventory | Multiphasic Personality Inventory | Multiprofessional Institute | Multivariate Prognostic Index | myocardial performance index | Master Patient Index | Myocardial Perfusion Imaging | Myocardial Perfusion Imaging | Medical & Pharmaceutical Information

MPS

MPS Stands For : Macular Photocoagulation Study | Market Penetration Survey | marriage prediction schedule Psychology | Master Patient Survey | Maternal Perinatal Scale | mean particle size | meconium plug syndrome | medial pallidal segment | medial premotor system | Medical Provider Survey | Member | metalloproteinases | meters/second | methylprednisolone | Modernising Public Services | mononuclear phagocytic system | Montreal platelet syndrome | movement-produced stimuli Neurology | mucopolysaccharide | mucopolysaccharidosis | mucosal prolapse syndrome | multidimensio

MPT

MPT Stands For : malignant phyllodes tumour | maximum part time | mechanical pain threshold | mechanical pressure therapy | metabolic profile test | methylprednisolone pulse therapy | muscle provocation test | Mycobacterium paratuberculosis | Melphalan

MRC

MRC Stands For : magnetic resonance cholangiography | magnetic resonance cisternography | magnetic resonance colonography | Medical Registration Council | Medical Research Council | Medical Research Council | Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain | Mutant Research Centre | Medical Research Council | Medican Research Council | Medical Research Council | Mitral Ring Calcification | Multilocular Renal Cyst | Meat Research Corporation ( Australia)

MRCA

MRCA Stands For : magnetic resonance coronary angiography | Member

MRCO

MRCO Stands For : Member

MRCOA

MRCOA Stands For : Medical Research Council trial in Older Adults

MRCOG

MRCOG Stands For : Member

MRCP(XYZ) XX

MRCP(XYZ) XX Stands For : Member of the Royal College of Physicians of (Edinburgh)

MRCPCH

MRCPCH Stands For : Member

MRCPS

MRCPS Stands For : Member

MRCR

MRCR Stands For : Member

MRCS

MRCS Stands For : Member

MREC

MREC Stands For : mismatch repair enzyme cleavage | Multicentre Research Ethics Committee (ethics committee) | microbial reverse electrodialysis cell | Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee

MRHA

MRHA Stands For : Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority

MRO

MRO Stands For : Medical Records Officer | Muscle Receptor Organ

MRPharmS

MRPharmS Stands For : Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

MRSA XX

MRSA XX Stands For : Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

MRT

MRT Stands For : Metabolic response testing | Magnetic Resonance Therapy | Mean Residence Time | Mean Response Time | Medical Radiologic Technologist | Malignant Rhabdoid Tumour | Matrix Regeneration Therapy

MS

MS Stands For : Maffuci syndrome | magnesium sulphate | maintenance and servicing | maladjustment score Psychology | malate synthase | malignant schwannoma | Manchester Scale | mandibular series | Manduca sexta | mannose-sensitive | marbling score | Marfan syndrome | marital status | masochism and sadism | mass screening | mass spectra | Master of Surgery | maternal separation | maternal serum | maxillary sinus | mean score | mean sensitivity | mean survival | mechanical stimulation | mechanical stress | Meckel syndrome | medial septum | median survival | mediast

MSAC

MSAC Stands For : Maternity Services Advisory Committee | Medical Services Advisory Committee

MSC

MSC Stands For : major septic complication | major symptom complex | marrow stem cells | Masters of Science | Materials Services Center | medial septum complex | Medical Services Committee | medical smart card | medical staff corps | Medicare Status Code | medicines selection committee | membrane secretory component | mid-systolic click | migrating spike complex | Modernising Scientific Careers | Moloney sarcoma cell | morphine sulphate | motile sperm count | motor-sensory cortex | myeloid suppressor cells | Mesenchymal Stem Cell | Mesenchymal Stem Cell | Medicines Sel

MSF

MSF Stands For : mean spectral frequency | meconium-stained fluid | M̩decins Sans Fronti̬res | Mediterranean spotted fever | megakaryocyte stimulating factor | melanocyte-stimulating factor | multi-source feedback | Multiple Sclerosis Foundation | Molecular Simulations File | M̩dicins Sans Fronti̬res (Doctors Without Borders)

MSK

MSK Stands For : medullary sponge kidney | Memorial Sloan-Kettering | musculoskeletal | musculoskeletal medicine | Musculoskeletal Service | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Musculo-SKeletal

MSLC

MSLC Stands For : Maternity Services Liaison Committee

MSOP

MSOP Stands For : minimum standard of performance | Mutual Security Objectives Plan

MSP

MSP Stands For : macrophage-stimulating protein | major secretory protein | Medicare Secondary Payer (USA) | Medical Service Provider | matching to sample | Maximum Spawning Potential

MSS

MSS Stands For : Master of Social Service | Medicare Statistical System | Medium Secure Service | meningococcal septic shock | mental status schedule | microsatellite stability | middle suprasylvian sulcus | minor surgery suite | morphine sulfate solution | Motor Status Scale | multiple sclerosis susceptibility | muscular subaortic stenosis | musculoskeletal symptoms | Maternal Serum Screening | Maternity Support Services | Medical Social Services | Motion Sickness Susceptibility | Mucus-Stimulating Substance | Multi-Sensory Stimulation | Musculo-Skeletal System

MT

MT Stands For : Massage Therapist | Medical Technology | Medical Transcription | Mitochondrial Targeting | Membrane Type | Miniature Tube | Medical Technology | Malignant Tertian fever | Mantoux Test | Manual Traction | Maximal Therapy | More Than | Muscle Test | Muscles And Tendons | Maternal Transfer

MTI

MTI Stands For : malignant teratoma | Medical Training Initiative | minimum time interval | molecular topological index | Modular Transitional Implants | Modular Transitional Implant

MTPD

MTPD Stands For : maximum tolerable period of disruption

MTPOD

MTPOD Stands For : maximum tolerable period of disruption

MUR

MUR Stands For : Medicaid Utilization Rate | medicines use review | mu opioid receptor | muramic acid | myocardial uptake ratio | Medicine Use Review

MUSCLE

MUSCLE Stands For : Multi Station Clinical Examination (OSCE)

MWC

MWC Stands For : maximum work capacity | Mental Welfare Commission | Maximum Wellness Center

MWCS

MWCS Stands For : Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (Mental Welfare Commission)

MWSAC

MWSAC Stands For : Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee

MWSAG

MWSAG Stands For : Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Group | This term had 28 hits on 22102011

N&MC

N&MC Stands For : Nursing and Midwifery Council

N3 SP

N3 SP Stands For : N3 Service Provider

N3 XX

N3 XX Stands For : New National Network

N3SP

N3SP Stands For : N3 Service Provider

NAC

NAC Stands For : N-acetylcarnosine | N-acetylcysteamine | National Addiction Centre | National Association of Cytologists | National Asthma Campaign | National Asthma Center | National Asthma Council Australia | near attack conformation | near attack conformer | needle aspiration cytology | Needs Assessment Checklist | Neighborhood Asthma Coalition | neoadjuvant chemotherapy | nipple-areolar complex | non-alcoholic cirrhosis | Not A Candidate | Not A Chain | N-acetylcysteine | Neuro Associative Conditioning

NACGP

NACGP Stands For : National Association of Commissioning General Practitioners

NACPME

NACPME Stands For : National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education

NAFHP

NAFHP Stands For : National Association of Fundholding Practices (now extinct)

NAG

NAG Stands For : N-acetylglucosamine | narrow-angle glaucoma | National Advisory Groups | neutral alpha-glucosidase | N Acetyl Glucosamine | Nominations and Awards Group (of BVA)

NAGPT

NAGPT Stands For : National Association of General Practice Tutors

NAHAT

NAHAT Stands For : National Association of Hospital Authorities and Trusts (obsolete)

NAHFM

NAHFM Stands For : National Association of Health and Facilities Managers

NAHSPO

NAHSPO Stands For : National Association of Health Service Personnel Officers

NAHSPRO

NAHSPRO Stands For : National Association of Health Service Public Relations Officers

NALT

NALT Stands For : nasopharynx-associated lymphoid tissue in the eye | nose-associated lymphoid tissue in the eye

NAO

NAO Stands For : nucleus-associated organelle | Nasal Airway Obstruction

NAPE

NAPE Stands For : N-acyl phosphatidylethanolamine

NAPMECA

NAPMECA Stands For : National Association of Postgraduate Medical Education Centre Administration | This term got 29 hits on 22102011

NAS

NAS Stands For : Narcotics Assistance Section | National Acceptor Survey | Normative Aging Study | No Abnormality Seen | National Academy of Sciences | Nucleus Accumbens Septum | Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome | Normative Aging Study

NASP

NASP Stands For : National Application Service Provider | National Association for Shoplifting Prevention

NATN

NATN Stands For : National Association of Theatre Nurses | National Association of Training Nurses | This term got 24 hits on 22102011

NatPaCT Programme XX

NatPaCT Programme XX Stands For : National Primary and Care Trust Development Programme

NatPaCT XX

NatPaCT XX Stands For : National Primary and Care Trust Development

NAWCH

NAWCH Stands For : National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital

NB

NB Stands For : notified body | Neuroblastoma | New Born | Newborn | Nose Bleed

NBTC

NBTC Stands For : National Blood Transfusion Committee

NBTS

NBTS Stands For : National Blood Transfusion Service (obsolete

NCA

NCA Stands For : National Cancer Act | National Council on Aging | National Council on Alcoholism | nested clade analysis | neurocirculatory asthenia | neutrophil chemotactic activity | nevus cell aggregate | non contract activity | noncompetitive antagonist | nonspecific cross-reacting antigen | nuclear cerebral angiogram | numerical chromosomal abnormalities | nurse-controlled analgesia | Nursing Competence in Aging

NCAA

NCAA Stands For : National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAS)

NCAS XX

NCAS XX Stands For : National Clinical Assessment Service

NCAT

NCAT Stands For : National Clinical Advisory Team | neurocognitive assessment tool | NormoCephalic ATraumatic

NCCA

NCCA Stands For : National Centre For Clinical Audit (absorbed by National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence‰ÛÒNIC) | National Commission for Certification of Acupuncturists (USA) | National Community Care Alliance | This term got 32 hits on 22102011 on lists of abbreviations and acronyms and thus assumed to be retired

NCCG

NCCG Stands For : non consultant career grade

NCCG doctor

NCCG doctor Stands For : non consultant career grade doctor

NCCSDO

NCCSDO Stands For : National Coordinating Centre for Service Delivery and Organisation (Research and Development | This term got 74 hits on 22102011

NCE

NCE Stands For : Na+/Ca2+ exchange | national certification examination | National Confidential Enquiry | National Counselor Examination for Licensure and Certification negative contrast echocardiography | net current expenditure | noncontact erection | normal cervical epithelium

NCEPOD XX

NCEPOD XX Stands For : National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death or National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Death

NCIE

NCIE Stands For : nonbullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma

NCIN

NCIN Stands For : National Cancer Intelligence Network

NCISH

NCISH Stands For : National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide (by people with Mental Illness)

NCL

NCL Stands For : National Civic League (!) | National Clinical Lead | neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis | non-coronary leaflet | nonrandom chromosome loss | Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory | Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses

NCMO

NCMO Stands For : National Casemix Office

NCMP

NCMP Stands For : National Child Measurement Programme

NCPC

NCPC Stands For : National Council for Palliative Care

NCRI

NCRI Stands For : National Cancer Research Institute | norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor

ncRNA

ncRNA Stands For : non-coding RNA (ribonucleic acid)

NCRP

NCRP Stands For : National Clinical Reference Panel

NCRS

NCRS Stands For : National Care Record System

NCSC

NCSC Stands For : National Care Standards Commission (abolished in 2004; its functions were transferred to Care Quality Commission)

NCTFS

NCTFS Stands For : North Central Thames Foundation School

NCV

NCV Stands For : nasal cavity volume | National Centre for Volunteering (obsolete) | non-cholera Vibrio | Nerve Conduction Velocity

NCVO

NCVO Stands For : National Council for Voluntary Organisations

NDA/BLA

NDA/BLA Stands For : New Drug Application/Biologic License Application

NEAT

NEAT Stands For : New and Emerging Applications of Technology | NHS Estate Action Toolkit | Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis

NEC

NEC Stands For : necrotising enterocolitis | neuroendocrine carcinoma | neuroendocrine cell | nonesterified cholesterol | Nursing Ethics Committee | not elsewhere classified | NECrosis | Necrotizing EnteroColitis | Neuro Emotional Complex

NED

NED Stands For : neuroectodermal dysplasia | neuroendocrine differentiation | no effort detected | normal equivalent deviation | No Evident Disease | No evidence of disease | New Eating Disorder | No evidence of disease

NEET

NEET Stands For : not in education

NeLH

NeLH Stands For : National electronic Library For Health

NELHI

NELHI Stands For : National Electronic Library for Health Information

NES

NES Stands For : National Enhanced Service | neuroendocrine syndrome | neurological evaluation scale | NHS Education for Scotland | non-epileptic seizure | nuclear export sequence

NET

NET Stands For : nerve excitability test | neuroendocrine tumour | new and emerging technologies | non-equilibrium thermodynamics | National Emphysema Treatment | Neuro Emotional Technique

NETFS

NETFS Stands For : North East Thames Foundation School

NEWS

NEWS Stands For : Nights

NEX

NEX Stands For : number of excitations | Nose Ear And Xiphoid

NF

NF Stands For : natriuretic factor | necrotising fasciitis | neointima formation | neural fold | neurofibroma | neurofibromatosis | neurofilament | neurotrophic factor | Nissen fundoplication | nitrofurazone | nodular fasciitis | non-functioning | normal for | Nuffield Foundation | Nursing Facility | necrotizing fasciitis | National Formulary | NeuroFibromatoses

NFD

NFD Stands For : nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy

NFI

NFI Stands For : National Fraud Initiative | near field imaging | nerve function impairment | neurofibromatosis I | Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory | National Fisheries Institute (USA)

NFW

NFW Stands For : no further work | nursed fairly well

NGEDC

NGEDC Stands For : National Genetics Education and Development Centre

NGO

NGO Stands For : Non-governmental organisation | Non-Government Organization | Neisseria GOnorrhoeae

NHAIS XX

NHAIS XX Stands For : National Health Applications and Infrastructure Services

NHLS

NHLS Stands For : National Health Laboratory Service

NHS

NHS Stands For : National Health Scheme | National Health Service (Great Britain) | National Health Service (NHS) | National Health Service Executive (abolished 2002) | National Health Survey | National Hospice Study | NHS Professionals | NHS Supplies | NHS Training Division | normal healthy subject | normal human skin | Nurses‰Ûª Health Study | This term got 15 hits on 22102011 in secondary sources and thus presumed to have been retired | This term got 34 hits on 22102011 | National Health Service (UK) | Non-Hospital Surgery | National Health Service | Nurses Health Study<

NHS AC

NHS AC Stands For : NHS Appointments Commission

NHS AR

NHS AR Stands For : NHS Administrative Register

NHS BSA

NHS BSA Stands For : NHS Business Services Authority

NHS BSP

NHS BSP Stands For : NHS Breast Screening Programme

NHS CA

NHS CA Stands For : NHS Consultants Association

NHS CB

NHS CB Stands For : NHS Commissioning Board

NHS CC

NHS CC Stands For : NHS Coding and Classification

NHS CCC

NHS CCC Stands For : NHS Coding and Classification

NHS CfH

NHS CfH Stands For : NHS Connecting for Health

NHS CPT

NHS CPT Stands For : NHS Community Practice Teacher

NHS CR

NHS CR Stands For : NHS Central Register

NHS CRD

NHS CRD Stands For : NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

NHS CRS

NHS CRS Stands For : NHS Care Records Service

NHS CSP

NHS CSP Stands For : NHS Cancer Screening Programme

NHS CTA

NHS CTA Stands For : NHS Clinical Trials Adviser

NHS D

NHS D Stands For : NHS Direct

NHS E

NHS E Stands For : National Health Service Estates

NHS EED

NHS EED Stands For : NHS Economic Evaluation Database

NHS EHU

NHS EHU Stands For : NHS Ethnic Health Unit

NHS FT

NHS FT Stands For : NHS Foundation Trust (Foundation Trust)

NHS I

NHS I Stands For : NHS Institute

NHS IA

NHS IA Stands For : NHS Information Authority

NHS IC

NHS IC Stands For : NHS Information Centre

NHS IMC

NHS IMC Stands For : NHS Information Centre

NHS KSF

NHS KSF Stands For : NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (Simplified Knowledge and Skills Framework)

NHS LA

NHS LA Stands For : NHS Litigation Authority

NHS LIFT

NHS LIFT Stands For : NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust

NHS ME

NHS ME Stands For : NHS Management Executive (Scotland)

NHS MEE

NHS MEE Stands For : NHS Medical Education England

NHS P

NHS P Stands For : NHS Partners

NHS PA

NHS PA Stands For : NHS Pensions Agency (subsumed into NHS Business Services Authority)

NHS PASA

NHS PASA Stands For : NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency

NHS PSA

NHS PSA Stands For : NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency

NHS Q&PC

NHS Q&PC Stands For : NHS Quality & Productivity Challenge

NHS QIS

NHS QIS Stands For : NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

NHS S

NHS S Stands For : NHS Scotland

NHS SB

NHS SB Stands For : NHS South Birmingham

NHS SBS

NHS SBS Stands For : NHS Shared Business Services

NHS SCAG

NHS SCAG Stands For : NHS Security and Confidentiality Advisory Group

NHS SS

NHS SS Stands For : NHS Superannuation Scheme

NHS T

NHS T Stands For : NHS Trust

NHS TD

NHS TD Stands For : NHS Training Directorate

NHS TF

NHS TF Stands For : NHS Trust Federation

NHS TU

NHS TU Stands For : NHS Training Unit

NHS U

NHS U Stands For : NHS University (obsolete)

NHS WMSHA

NHS WMSHA Stands For : NHS West Midlands Strategic Health Authority

NHS&CCA

NHS&CCA Stands For : NHS and Community Care Act 1990

NHS(S)

NHS(S) Stands For : NHS (Scotland)

NHSP

NHSP Stands For : National Healthy Schools Programme

NI

NI Stands For : name identity | Narcotrend Index | National Indicator | natural immunity | necroinflammatory | necrosis index | negative ion | neointima | neostriatum intermedium | neural invasion | neuraminidase inhibition | neurogenic inflammation | neuroimaging | neurointermediate | neurologic impairment | neurologic improvement | neurologically impaired | neurologically intact | neutralization index | nicotine | nifedipine | nimesulide | nitrogen index | nitrogen intake | noise index | non-invasive | nonischemic | nosocomial infection | not isolated | nuclea

NIAS

NIAS Stands For : Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

NICARE

NICARE Stands For : Northern Ireland Centre for Health Care Cooperation and Development | This term got 5 hits on 22102011 and thus assumed to have been retired from active use

NICE

NICE Stands For : National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) | National Institute of Clinical Excellence | National Institute Of Clinical Examiners | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK) | Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education | National Intensive Care Evaluation | National Institute for Clinical Excellence

NICE CHTE XX

NICE CHTE XX Stands For : National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Centre for Health Technology Evaluation

NICS

NICS Stands For : National Institute of Clinical Studies | neuro-immuno-cutaneous system | Northern Ireland Civil Service

NICVA

NICVA Stands For : Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

NIGB XX

NIGB XX Stands For : National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care

NIHR

NIHR Stands For : National Institute for Health Research

NIHR CSP XX

NIHR CSP XX Stands For : National Institute of Health Research Coordinated System for gaining NHS Permission

NIMHE

NIMHE Stands For : National Institute for Mental Health in England

NIMM

NIMM Stands For : NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model

NIN

NIN Stands For : National Intervention Network | non-invasive neoplasia | Nine Inch Nails

NINo

NINo Stands For : National Insurance Number

NIRB

NIRB Stands For : non-institutional review board

NISP

NISP Stands For : National Infrastructure Service Provider

NIV

NIV Stands For : National Institute for Virology | Non-Invasive Ventilation

NLH

NLH Stands For : National Library For Health (NHS Evidence) | nodular lymphoid hyperplasia

NLMS

NLMS Stands For : National Learning Management System

NLOP

NLOP Stands For : NPfIT (National Programme for IT) Local Ownership Programme | This term got 57 hits on 22102011

NMAC

NMAC Stands For : National Malaria Advisory Committee | National Medical Advisory Committee

NMAS

NMAS Stands For : National Messaging Assurance Service

NMD

NMD Stands For : Naturopathic Medical Doctor

NME

NME Stands For : National Medical Enterprises | necrolytic migratory erythema | neuromuscular efficiency | North

NMET

NMET Stands For : non-medical education and training

NMHDU

NMHDU Stands For : National Mental Health Development Unit

NMIS

NMIS Stands For : Nurse Management Information System | This term got 51 hits on 29112011

NMP

NMP Stands For : nerve-muscle pedicle | non medical prescribers | normal menstrual period | nuclear matrix protein | nucleoside monophosphate | N-Methyl Pyrrolidone | Novel Membrane Protein

NN4B

NN4B Stands For : NHS Numbers for Babies

NNT

NNT Stands For : new national target | Numbers Needed to Treat | number needed to treat

NOF

NOF Stands For : National Obesity Forum | National Opportunities Fund | National Osteopathic Foundation | neurite outgrowth factor | Neck Of Femur

NOMIS

NOMIS Stands For : National Online Manpower Information Service

NOS

NOS Stands For : National Occupational Standards | nitric oxide synthase | no organisms seen | non-organ specific | not on staff | Neonatal Opium Solution | Not Otherwise Specified - other eating disorder | Not Otherwise Specified | No Obvious Syndrome | Not Otherwise Specified

NP

NP Stands For : N protein | nasal polyp | national priorities | National Program | National Programme | natriuretic peptide | nerve palsy | neural plate | neuritic plaque | neuropathic pain | neuropathy | neuropeptide | Niemann-Pick | nitrogen-phosphorus | nitroprusside | non-principal | nonapeptide | nonhistone protein | nonparametric | normal-phase | nosocomial pneumonia | not present | nucleoside phosphorylase | nucleotide pair | nucleus pulposus | Nucleotide Protein | nasal pack | nasopharyngeal | neuropsychiatric | Nasopharynx | Needle Punch | NeuroPathol

NPA

NPA Stands For : nasopharyngeal aspirate | National Pharmacy Association | National Prostate Association | near field accommodation | neutral protease activity | Nurse Practice Act | NasoPharyngeal Airway | New Pheromone Additive | National Pig Association

NPAT

NPAT Stands For : National Patients‰Ûª Access Team

NPC

NPC Stands For : National Population Council | National Prescribing Centre | nearpoint of convergence | net present cost (!) | net protein catabolism | no prenatal care | no present complaint | nodal premature contraction | non-parenchymal cells | non-protein calories | normal phase chromatography | nucleoprotein complex | nutritional prevention of cancer | National Prescriptions Collaborative | no prior chemotherapy | NasoPharyngeal Carcinoma | Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma | National Prescriptions Collaborative | No Previous Complaint

NPCRDC

NPCRDC Stands For : National Primary Care Research and Development Centre

NPfIT

NPfIT Stands For : National Programme for IT

NPG

NPG Stands For : National Priorities Guidance | neuropeptide gamma | NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards | nonpolypoid growth | normal pressure glaucoma | nurses‰Ûª professional group | The ‰ÛÏlong form‰Û of the above is: Modernising Health and Social Services: National Priorities Guidance‰Û?now you can sleep