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NPIS

NPIS Stands For : National Poisons Information Service | Numeric Pain Intensity Scale

NPO

NPO Stands For : National Programme Office | This term appears in several lists of British medical abbreviations | Nil Per Os (Nothing By Mouth) | Nil Per Os (Nothing By Mouth)

NPSA

NPSA Stands For : National Patient Safety Agency

NPT

NPT Stands For : nasal provocation test | near patient testing | neomycin phosphotransferase | Neuropsychiatry Technician | nocturnal penile tumescence | nonpyramidal tract | near-patient testing | Normal pressure and temperature

NQR

NQR Stands For : NADH-quinone reductase | national quality requirement

NR

NR Stands For : nasal (airflow) resistance | natural resistance | natural rubber | nearest relative | nephrogenic rests | neuroleptic responsive | nitrate reductase | nitrogen retention | NMDA receptor | no radiation | no recurrence | no refill | no respiration | non-reactive | non-reducing | non-resistance | non-response | normal response | nuclear receptor | nuclease resistant | nutrient restriction | no reaction | Nerve Root | No Reaction | No Response | Normal Range | Not Remarkable | Not Responsive | Nutritional Requirement | not refillable

NRE

NRE Stands For : negative regulatory element | non-recurring expenditure | norepinephrine

NRF

NRF Stands For : negative regulatory factor | Neurosciences Research Foundation

NRL

NRL Stands For : National Reference Laboratories | nucleosome repeat length | nucleus reticularis lateralis

NRLS

NRLS Stands For : National Radiological Protection Board

NRR

NRR Stands For : nasal respiratory resistance | net reproduction rate | Nuclear Receptor Resource | National Research Register | UK National Research Register | No Recognizeable Response | Noise Reduction Rating

NRT

NRT Stands For : nucleus reticularis | Natural Recovery Therapy | Neural Response Telemetry | Nicotine Replacement Therapy

NSCA

NSCA Stands For : National Sentinel Clinical Audit | National Subacute Care Association

NSCG

NSCG Stands For : National Specialised Commissioning Group

NSFOP

NSFOP Stands For : National Service Framework for Older People

NSS

NSS Stands For : National Services Scotland | nephron-sparing surgery | neurologic severity score | nutrition support services | Normal Saline Solution | Normal Size and Shape

NSU

NSU Stands For : Neurosurgical unit | Nonspecific urethritis | Non Specific Urethritis

NTN

NTN Stands For : National Training Number | nephrotoxic nephritis | Number Treated Needlessly

NTN bottleneck XX

NTN bottleneck XX Stands For : National Training Number bottleneck (NTN bottleneck)

NTNCWS

NTNCWS Stands For : nontransient noncommunity water systems

NTTRL

NTTRL Stands For : National Tissue Typing Reference Laboratory

NUG

NUG Stands For : National Users Group | necrotising ulcerative gingivitis | Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis

NVP

NVP Stands For : N-vinyl pyrrolidone | nausea and vomiting in pregnancy | newly vulnerable person | Nevirapine | Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy

NWL sector

NWL sector Stands For : North West London sector

NwSI

NwSI Stands For : nurse with special interest

NWTFS

NWTFS Stands For : North West Thames Foundation School

NWW

NWW Stands For : Abbreviation for: NHS Wide Web

NYCDoHMH

NYCDoHMH Stands For : New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (!)

OA

OA Stands For : obstructive apnoea | occipital artery | occiput anterior | odontoameloblastoma | oesophageal atresia | oleic acid | oligoastrocytoma | open appointment | ophthalmic artery | option appraisal | organic anion | orotic acid | ovarian artery | oxalic acid | old age | Osteo-arthritis | osteoarthritis | Ocular Albinism | Optical Axis | OsteoArthritis | Osteoarthritis

OAT

OAT Stands For : O-acetyltransferase | Object Alternation Test | oligoasthenoteratozoospermia | open artery trial | oral anticoagulation therapy | organic anion transporter | ornithine acetyltransferase | ornithine aminotransferase | osteoarticular tuberculosis | Out of Area Transfer | Out of Area Treatment(formerly ECR‰ÛÒextracontractual referral) | oxygen atom transfer | Occluded Artery Trial | Oral Appliace Therapy

OBC

OBC Stands For : optimum bactericidal concentration

OBD

OBD Stands For : occupied bed day | opioid bowel dysfunction | organic brain disease

OBS

OBS Stands For : obliterative bronchiolitis syndrome | obstetric service | obstruction | obstructive bowel syndrome | obvious bullshit | oligoclonal bands | Observation | OBServer | OBStetrics | Organic Brain Syndrome

OCCO

OCCO Stands For : Office of the Chief Clinical Officer

OCMO

OCMO Stands For : Office of the Chief Medical Officer (Wales)

OCN

OCN Stands For : oculomotor nucleus | optically clear nuclei | osteocalcin

OCU

OCU Stands For : observation care unit | Occupational Command Unit

OD

OD Stands For : occupational dermatitis | oesophageal dysfunction | oligodendroglioma | Ollier disease | open drainage | operations directorate | organ dysfunction | organisational development | osteochondritis dissecans | right eye (oculus dexter) | OverDose | Oculus Dexter | RIGHT EYE (Lat ocularis dexter) | OverDose | Occupational Disease | Oculus Dexter (Right Eye) | Once Daily | Order Disorder | Ostrich Disorder | OverDose | Oxygen Demand | oculus dexter - right eye | omne in die - every day/once daily (preferred to qd in the UK[3]) | once daily

ODA

ODA Stands For : on day of admission | Operating Department Assistant | Orphan Drug Act | outer dynein arm | Overseas Development Agency | Overseas Doctors Agency | Overview | Oklahoma Department of Agriculture

ODP

ODP Stands For : ocular dominance plasticity | offspring of diabetic parents | Orderly Departure Programme | This term got 59 hits on 22102011

ODS

ODS Stands For : Office of Dietary Supplements | Organisation Data Service | Organisational Development Strategy | organised delivery system | Oxygen Depletion Sensor

ODS codes

ODS codes Stands For : Organisation Data Service codes

ODTS

ODTS Stands For : Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

OF

OF Stands For : open field | operating framework | orbitofrontal | organ failure | osmotic fragility | ossifying fibroma | oxidation fermentation | Obliquity factor; Output factor

OFFA

OFFA Stands For : Office for Fair Access

OH

OH Stands For : obese hypertensive | occipital horn | occupational health | open heart | oral hygiene | orthostatic hypotension | osteopathic hospital | Occupational history

OHS

OHS Stands For : occipital horn syndrome | Occupational Health Service | oral health section | oral hydration solution | ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome | Oxford Hip Score | Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome | Open Heart Surgery

OJEU

OJEU Stands For : Official Journal of the European Union

OKS

OKS Stands For : optokinetic simulation | Oxford Knee Score

OLM

OLM Stands For : ocular larva migrans | Oracle Learning Management | outer limiting membrane

OME

OME Stands For : Office Manpower Economics (London) | Office of Medical Examiner | otitis media with effusions | This term got 42 hits on 22102011 and is thus assumed to have been retired from active use

OMFU

OMFU Stands For : oral and maxillofacial unit

OMNI XX

OMNI XX Stands For : Organising Medical Networked Information

OMP

OMP Stands For : olfactory marker protein | omeprazole | Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner | Outer Membrane Protein

ONS

ONS Stands For : optical nerve sheath | optical nerves | Oncology Nursing Service | Other Nervous System

ONS format XX

ONS format XX Stands For : Office for National Statistics format

OOH

OOH Stands For : out of hospital

OOP

OOP Stands For : out of programme | Out Of Plaster

OOPC

OOPC Stands For : out of programme for career break

OOPE

OOPE Stands For : out of programme for experience

OOPR

OOPR Stands For : out of programme for research

OOPT

OOPT Stands For : out of programme for clinical teaching

OP

OP Stands For : occipitoparietal | oesophagopharyngeal | opium | opponens pollicis | osteopaenia | osteopontin | Off Pump | On Program | Operative Procedure | Out-Patient | OPtometry | Oncotic Pressure | Out-Patient | Occiput Posterior | Occlusal Plane | Open Palm | OPeration | Organising Pneumonia | OroPharyngeal | OroPharynx | OsteoPorosis | Out-Patient | Olfactory Pit

OPD

OPD Stands For : obstructive pulmonary disease | orphan products development | otopalatodigital | outpatient department | Once Per Day | Obnoxious Personality Disorder | Officially Pronounced Dead | Out-Patient Department

OPG

OPG Stands For : ocular plethysmography | Office of the Paymaster General | oocysts per gram (of faeces) | optic pathway glioma | OrthoPantomoGram | OculoPlethysmoGraphy | Osteoprotegerin

OPP

OPP Stands For : ocular perfusion pressure | organophosphate pesticides | organophosphate poisoning | outpatient with procedure | oxygen partial pressure | Opposite | Ovine Progressive Pneumonia

OPT

OPT Stands For : ocular photodynamic therapy | opisthotonos | optic pathway tumour | optician | oral provocation test | Ontological Paradigm Technique | Outpatient treatment

ORAC

ORAC Stands For : oxygen radical absorbance capacity

ORAM

ORAM Stands For : Organisational Readiness Assurance Model

OS

OS Stands For : left eye‰ÛÒoculus sinister | mouth (os) | obese strain | observational study | occupational safety | office surgery | oligosaccharide | Omenn syndrome | opening snap | Opitz syndrome | oral solution | organ-specific | Osgood-Schlatter | osteosarcoma | osteosclerosis | outer segment | overlap syndrome | oxidative stress | Opposite Strand | overall survival | Osteogenic Sarcoma (bone tumors) | Overall Survival | Left eye (oculus sinister) | Ocular Sinister | Oculus Sinister - Left Eye | Oral Surgery | OStium (mouth) | Oxygen Saturation | Orthopteris

OSC

OSC Stands For : open sigmoid colectomy | Ophthalmic Service Committee | oscillation | osteocalcin | Overview and Scrutiny Committee | Objective Straight Chiropractic

OSCE XX

OSCE XX Stands For : Objective Structured Clinical Exam

OSCHR

OSCHR Stands For : Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research

OSG

OSG Stands For : odontostomatognathic | Office of Surgeon General | officer support group

OSPE 1 XX

OSPE 1 XX Stands For : Objective structured practical examination Part 1

OSPE 2 XX

OSPE 2 XX Stands For : Objective structured practical examination Part 2

OSPHE

OSPHE Stands For : Objective Structured Public Health Exam

OT

OT Stands For : occlusion time | olfactory threshold | omeprazole test | open tracheostomy | optic tract | oral tolerance | orthopaedic treatment | Occupational Therapy | occupational therapy | Objective test | Observing Tool | Occupational Therapy | Old Tuberculin | Operating Theater | Orthostatic Tremors

P&T

P&T Stands For : professional and technical

PA

PA Stands For : Palaeopathology Association | palladium | panic attack | paranoia | Parapsychological Association | pathology | patient | patients‰Ûª association | percussion & auscultation | performance analysis | periarteritis | periodic acid | pernicious anaemia | phosphoric acid | photoallergic | physician advisor | physician‰Ûªs assistant (USA) | plasminogen activator | platelet adhesiveness | Police Authority (!) | polyarteritis | positive attitude | postmortem examination‰ÛÒie | prealbumin | pregnancy-associated | procainamide | profile analysis | progr

PAC

PAC Stands For : pancreatic adenocarcinoma | papular acrodermatitis childhood | photoactivated adenylyl cyclase | plasma aldosterone concentration | polycyclic aromatic compound | primary angle closure | primary auditory cortex | product of ambulatory care | prostate adenocarcinoma | Public Accounts Committee | pulmonary adenocarcinoma | pulmonary artery catheterisation | Physicians Assistant Committee | Post-Acute Care | P1 Artificial Chromosome | P1 Artificial Chromosome | Personal Access Code | Pharmaceutically Active Compound | Partners Against Cancer | Premature Atri

PACE

PACE Stands For : Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 | Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness | Property Advisers to the Civil Estate (!) | Patient Administrative Cycle Enhancements | Progressive Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion | Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness | Post Abortion Counseling And Education | Processing Acceleration And Cerebral Enhancement

PACES XX

PACES XX Stands For : MRCP(UK) Part 2 Clinical Examination

PACS

PACS Stands For : Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) | Pediatric Activity Card Sort | Picture Archiving and Communications System | premature atrial contractions | Partial Anterior Circulation Syndrome | Pediatric Activity Card Sort | Posterior Anterior Chest System

PACS XX

PACS XX Stands For : Patient Care and Services

PAF

PAF Stands For : paroxysmal atrial fibrillation | Performance Assessment Framework | permanent atrial fibrillation | phosphodiesterase-activating factor | plain abdominal field | platelet-activating factor | progressive autonomic failure | Public Audit Forum (!!!) | pulmonary arteriovenous fistula | Platelet Activating Factor

PAG

PAG Stands For : Performance Advisory Group | phosphate-activated glutaminase | Policy Advisory Group | pregnancy-associated glycoprotein | pulmonary angiography | Protein Advisory Group | preanal ganglion | Periaquaductal Gray Matter

PAM

PAM Stands For : Parents Against Molesters | penicillin aluminium monostearate | percent accepted mutation | performing arts medicine | phenylalanine mustard | pralidoximine methiodide | primary acquired melanosis | primary amoebic meningoencephalitis | professions allied to medicine | pulmonary alveolar macrophage | pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis | Percent of Accepted Mutations | perception-action mechanism | physical activity monitor | Pregnancy After Miscarriage | Postapproval Monitoring

PAMIS

PAMIS Stands For : Parliamentary Monitoring and Intelligence Service (!)

PAMP

PAMP Stands For : pathogen associated molecular pattern | preload-adjusted maximal power | pulmonary artery mean pressure | Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern

PARR XX

PARR XX Stands For : Patients At Risk of Readmission

PAS

PAS Stands For : para-aminosalicylic acid | Parent Attitude Scale | Patient Administration System MedpeakUKK | Performance Appraisal System | periodic acid-Schiff (stain) | Personality Assessment Scale | physician-assisted suicide | Polish Amiodarone Study | positron annihilation spectroscopy | posterior airway space | primary antiphospholipid syndrome | problem appraisal scales | progressive accumulated stress | public address system | pulmonary artery stenosis | Patient Accounting System | Patient Administration System | Per-ARNT-Sim | Primosome ASsembly | ParAminobenzo

PASA

PASA Stands For : primary acquired sideroblastic anaemia | Purchasing And Supply Agency (NHS Purchasing And Supply Agency)

PAU

PAU Stands For : Paediatric Assessment Unit | penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer | postmenopausal atrophic urethritis

PBAC

PBAC Stands For : policy-based access control | position-based access control

PBC

PBC Stands For : peripheral blood cell | practice-based commissioning | public benefits corporation | Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

PBCGC

PBCGC Stands For : Practice Based Commissioning Governance Committee

PBD

PBD Stands For : peroxisome biogenesis disorder | Protein Binding Domain | Peroxisomal Biogenesis Disorder

PBL

PBL Stands For : primary brain lymphoma | primary breast lymphoma | problem-based learning | Peripheral Blood Leukocytes | Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes

PBMA

PBMA Stands For : programme budgeting and marginal analysis

PBO

PBO Stands For : permanent balloon occlusion | placebo | Pin Bone Out | Pin Bones Out

PbR

PbR Stands For : Payments by Results | peptide binding region | peribrachial region | post-birthing room | pre-budget report | Pathology Bearing Regions

PC

PC Stands For : patient choice (NHS Choices) | Patients‰Ûª Council | peak capacity | penetrating cell | pentose cycle | pericarditis | pericentral | peripheral cell | phaeochromocytoma | phenol coefficient | phobia clinic | phosphate cycle | phosphatidylcholine‰ÛÒlecithin | phosphocholine | phosphocreatinine | phosphorylcholine | physocyanin | plasma cell | plasmacytoma | platelet concentrate | platelet count | pneumotaxic centre | polycarbosilane | portable computer | portocaval | post cibum | posterior chamber Ophthalmology | posterior commissure Neuroanatomy |

PCA

PCA Stands For : pancreatic cancer | parietal cell antibody | Patient Choice Advisor | patient-controlled analgesia | percutaneous carotid arteriogram | peripheral circulatory assist | posterior cerebral artery | posterior communication artery | primary care association | prostate cancer | Patient Controlled Analgesia | Patient Controlled Anesthesia | Post Conceptual Age | Posterior Crico Aritenoid | Prostate Cancer Archive

PCAG

PCAG Stands For : Primary Care Audit Group

PCC

PCC Stands For : Pasteur Culture Collection | patient-centred care | Pearson‰Ûªs correlation coefficient | plasma catecholamine concentration | plasma cortisol concentration | pneumatosis cystoides coli | poison control centre | postcoital concentration | posterior cingulate cortex | premature chromosome condensation | primary care centre | primary care clinic | primary cell culture | protein C cofactor

PCCG

PCCG Stands For : Primary Care Coordinating Group

PCDB

PCDB Stands For : Primary Care Delivery Board | Provider/Contractor Data Base

PCG

PCG Stands For : plasma cell granuloma | precentral gyrus | preventive care group | primary care group

PCLA

PCLA Stands For : Primary Care Learning Association

PCPC

PCPC Stands For : Primary Care Performance Committee

PCPI

PCPI Stands For : patient | Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

PCRC

PCRC Stands For : Primary Care Resource Centre

PCT

PCT Stands For : palliative care team | papillary carcinoma of thyroid | Pediatric Cardiology Today | percutaneous tracheostomy | perfusion CT | peripheral conduction time | photochemotherapy | poker chip tool | porphyria cutanea tarda | portacaval transposition | positron computed tomography | postcoital test | preoperative chemotherapy | primary care team | procalcitonin | prothrombin consumption time | proximal convoluted tubule | pulmonary circulation time | Para Centrum Texel | Patent Cooperation Training | Post Cycle Therapy | Pet Care Trust

PCT MS

PCT MS Stands For : primary care trust-led medical services

PCTMS

PCTMS Stands For : primary care trust-led medical services

PD

PD Stands For : Paget‰Ûªs disease | pancreatic duct | pancreaticoduodenal | panic disorder | papillary dermatitis | paralysing dose | Parkinson‰Ûªs disease | pars distalis | partial deficiency | patent ductus | percutaneous drainage | perfusion defect | perinatal death | pesistent diarrhoea | Peyronie‰Ûªs disease | phosphate dehydrogenase | physical disabilities | Pick‰Ûªs disease | poorly differentiated | population doubling | posterior deltoid | posterior descending | postpartum day | prenatal diagnosis | prescribed dose | problem drinker | programmed death | pr

PDC

PDC Stands For : pancreatic ductal carcinoma | parkinsonism-dementia complex | paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis | poorly differentiated carcinoma | private diagnostic clinic | public dividend capital

PDEE

PDEE Stands For : Patient Data Enquiry/Extract

PDF

PDF Stands For : Parkinson‰Ûªs Disease Foundation | peritoneal dialysis fluid | postdialysis fatigue | primary dysfunction

PDR

PDR Stands For : pancreaticoduodenal resection | Physicians‰Ûª Desk Reference | proliferative diabetic retinopathy | Physicians Desk Reference | Physicians Desk Reference | Physicians Desk Reference | Pulsed Dose Rate | Physicians Desk Reference | Physicians Desk Reference | Powder For Reconstitution

PDS

PDS Stands For : pain dysfunction syndrome | Paris dosimetry system | Parkinson‰Ûªs Disease Society | paroxysmal depolarising shift | penile Doppler study | perfusion defect size | peritoneal dialysis solution | Personal Demographics Service | Personal Dental Service(s) | positive Darwinian selection | Progressive Deterioration Scale | psychomotor disadaptation syndrome | Psychotic Depression Scale | pulsed Doppler sonography | Poole Diabetes Study | Patient Distribution System | Poole Diabetes Study | Prairie Dog Specialists

PDSA

PDSA Stands For : People‰Ûªs Dispensary for Sick Animals | plan | Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals (UK)

PDSNBO

PDSNBO Stands For : Personal Demographics Service National Back Office | This term got 24 hits on 28102011

PDT

PDT Stands For : pain detection threshold | pancreaticoduodenal transplantation | perchlorate discharge test | percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy | population doubling time | Programme Delivery Team | PhotoDynamic Therapy

PDU

PDU Stands For : power Doppler ultrasonography | pulsed Doppler ultrasonography | Perinatal Diagnostic Unit | PropaneDiol Utilization

PE

PE Stands For : pancreatic endocrine | pancreatic exocrine | pancreatic extract | paraffin-embedded | pars externa | partial epilepsy | paternity exclusion | peak ejection | pectus excavatum | pelvic examination | pelvic exenteration | penile enlargement | penile erection | performance error | pericardial effusion | peritoneal exudate | personal edition | phenylephrine | phorbol ester | phosphoethanolamine | physician extender | phytooestrogen | pigment epithelium | pilocarpine epinephrine | placental extract | plasma exchange | plasmapheresis | platinum etoposide

PEAT

PEAT Stands For : Patient Environment Action Team

PEC

PEC Stands For : pancreatic exocrine cells | perivascular epithelioid cell | Psychiatric Emergency Center | pulmonary ejection click | Perinatal Evaluation Centre | Parallel Elastic Component

PECANS

PECANS Stands For : Pan European Collaboration on Antipsychotic Naive Schizophrenia

PEP

PEP Stands For : patient education programme | peer evaluation program | pepsin | peptide | phosphoenolpyruvate | population education program | positional expression profiling | pre-ejection period | protein eletrophoresis | psychiatric evaluation profile | psychoeducational profile | post-exposure prophylaxis | Postexposure prophylaxis | Peak Expiratory Pressure | PEPpermint | Positive Expiratory Pressure | Post Exposure Prophylaxis | post-exposure prophylaxis | pulmonary embolism prevention

PEP/PLP

PEP/PLP Stands For : personal education plan/personal learning plan

PEPP

PEPP Stands For : Pooled budget External Placement Panel

PEST

PEST Stands For : political | Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing | Production Economics Strategies Technology

PET

PET Stands For : Heeerrrrrreeee Kitty | pancreatic endocrine tumour | Partial Exchange Transfusion | Peritoneal Equilibration Test | Positron Emission Tomography | Post-Exposure Treatment | Pre-Eclamptic Toxaemia | Psychiatric Emergency Team | Paraffin-Embedded Tissue | Positron Emission Tomography | Post-Exposure Treatment | Pancreatic Endocrine Tumor | Positron Emission Tomography | Patulous Eustacian Tube | Petrolatum | Positron Emission Tomography | Psychic Empathetic And Telepathic

PETA

PETA Stands For : People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (!) | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETS

PETS Stands For : Paediatric Emergency Transfer Service | This term got 57 hits on 23102011 | PEt Travel Scheme (proposed new import regulations for cats and dogs entering the UK)

PF

PF Stands For : parafascicular | parafollicular | pars flaccida | partial filling | partial Fourier | patellofemoral | patients‰Ûª forum | peak flow | perfusion fluid | pericardial fluid | peritoneal fluid | physical fitness plantar flexion | plain film | plasma factor | plasma fibrinogen | Plasmodium falciparum | platelet factor | pleural fluid | post fertilisation | post fracture | posterior fossa | potentiation factor | prefrontal | primary fibromyalgia | primary follicle | primordial follicle | profile | proliferative fraction | protection factor | proximal

PFI

PFI Stands For : portal flow index | progression-free interval | pulsatile flow index | Profits From Illness

PfIT

PfIT Stands For : Programme for IT (National Programme for IT)

PFO

PFO Stands For : perfluorooctane | pissed | Parent Faculty Organization | Patent Foramen Ovale | patent foramen ovale

PFT

PFT Stands For : pancreatic function test | permit free training | plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumour | posterior fossa tumour | prednisone | Pulmonary Function Testing | Pulmonary Function Test

PGCME

PGCME Stands For : Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

PGD

PGD Stands For : partial gonadal dysgenesis | pathological gambling disorder | patient group directions | phosphogluconate dehydrogenase | Postgraduate Dean | prostaglandin D | pure gonadal dysgenesis | Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

PGDip

PGDip Stands For : postgraduate diploma | postgraduate diplomate

PGEA

PGEA Stands For : postgraduate education allowance

PGMDE

PGMDE Stands For : postgraduate medical and dental education

PGME

PGME Stands For : postgraduate medical education

PH

PH Stands For : acidity (pH) | papillary hyperplasia | parathyroid hormone | partial hysterectomy | passive haemagglutination | patient history | peliosis hepatis | phaeochromocytoma | phenacetin | Philadelphia | phosphate | pin hole | porphyria hepatica | posterior hypothalamus | postural hypotension | primary hyperparathyroidism | prolyl hydroxylase | Prospect Hill | pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia | pulmonary haemorrhage | pulmonary haemosiderosis | Presbyterian Hospital | Process Homeostasis | Hydrogen ion concentration | Pleckstrin Homology | Past History |

PHA

PHA Stands For : passive haemagglutination assay | Pelger-HÌ?et anomaly | personal health assessment | phenylalanine | phytohaemagglutinin | posterior hypothalamic area | posthypnotic amnesia | primary hyperaldosteronism | pseudohypoaldosteronism | public health agency | Public Health Alliance (incorporated into UKPHA) | Public Health Association | pulse-height analyser | Preventive Health Assessment | Post-development Health Assessment | Peripheral Heart Action | Preventive Health Assessment

PHANYC

PHANYC Stands For : Public Health Association of New York City (!)

PHB

PHB Stands For : personal health budget | Pharmacopoeia Britannica | phenobarbital | phenylbutzone | phosphorylase B | porcine haemoglobin | preventive health behaviour

PHC

PHC Stands For : parahippocampal cortex | pharmaceutical chemist | phosphtidyl choline | pituitary hypothalamus complex | primary healthcare | public health center | Preventive Health Center | Primary Health Care | Primary Health Centre | Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Pet Health Council

PHCDS

PHCDS Stands For : Public Health Common Data Set

PHCN

PHCN Stands For : Public Health Commissioning Network

PHCSG

PHCSG Stands For : Primary Health Care Specialist Group

PHCT

PHCT Stands For : primary health care team

PHD

PHD Stands For : pathological habit disorder | personal health data | phage host defective | PhilosophiÌ? Doctor (PhD) | pleckstrin homology domain | poor helpless drunk | potentially harmful drug | prolyl hydroxylase domain | pulmonary heart disease | Personal Health Decision | Permanent Health Damage | Personal Health Diary | Physical Health Defined | Potentially Heavy Drinker

PHI

PHI Stands For : passive haemagglutination inhibition | phagocytosis index | phosphate isomerase | primary HIV infection | primary hyperoxaluria | Professionalising Health Informatics | Past History Information | Patient Health Information | Private Health Information | Proctected Health Information | penetrating head injury | Personal Health Information | Physically Health Impaired | Private Health Information

PHIT

PHIT Stands For : Public Health Intelligence Team

PHL

PHL Stands For : permanent hearing loss | Public Health Laboratory

PHPU

PHPU Stands For : Public Health Policy Unit

PHRU

PHRU Stands For : Public Health Resource Unit

PHSO

PHSO Stands For : Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

PHSS

PHSS Stands For : Personal Health Summary System | This term got 31 hits on 23102011

PI

PI Stands For : pain intensity | pancreatic insufficiency | parallel imports | pars intermedia | Pearl Index | perfusion imaging | peripheral iridectomy | phosphatidyl inositol | physically impaired | physiologic index | pituitary | plaque inhibition | poison ivy | post implantation | post infection | post inoculation | post irradiation | post ischaemic | primary infection | prognostic index | proliferation index | pulmonary index | pulmonary infarction | pulse inversion | Protease Inhibitor | Propidium Iodide | Penile Implant | Perpetual Idiosy | Personal Injury

PIAG

PIAG Stands For : Public Involvement Action Group | Patient Information Advisory Group

PIB

PIB Stands For : partial ileal byposs | Permanent Injury Benefit | polyhedral inclusion body | Pain In the Backside

PICS

PICS Stands For : Prescribing Information and Communications System (PICS) | Patient Informatics Consult Service

PICS XX

PICS XX Stands For : Pacing in Cardiomyopathy Study

PICU

PICU Stands For : paediatric intensive care unit | psychiatric intensive care unit | pulmonary intensive care unit | Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit | Prenatal Intensive Care Unit

PID

PID Stands For : pain intensity differences | patient identification | patient identifier | person identifiable data | personally identifiable data | primary immune deficiency | proliferative intraocular disorder | Pelvic inflammatory disease | Primary immune deficiencies | primary immunodeficiency disease | Pelvic inflammatory disease | Poughkeepsie Inflamatory Disease | Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc

PIL

PIL Stands For : patient information leaflet | pegylated immunoliposome | person information leaflet | Pilula (pill)

PIN

PIN Stands For : patient identification number | patient information network | penile intraepithelial neoplasia | Physician Identification Number | posterior interosseous nerve | prior identification notice | protein inhibitor of NOS | Public Information Network | This term had 13 hits on 23102011 | Provider Identification Number | Pain In The Neck | Prostate Intraepithelial Neoplasia

PIP

PIP Stands For : phosphatidylinositol phosphate | physician incentive plan | pipericillin | piperidin | positive inspiratory pressure | postinflammatory polyposis | practice incentive payment | primary injury prevention | Productivity Improvement Programme | proximal interphalangeal (joint) | Psychotic Inpatient Profile | Public Information Programme | Pharmaceutical Interface Product | Prescription Information Package | Project Investigator Patient | Proximal Inter Phalanx | Peak Inspiratory Pressure | Personal Insulin Pump | Poly Implants Protheses | Present Illness Pro

PLAB part 1 XX

PLAB part 1 XX Stands For : Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board

PLAB part 2 XX

PLAB part 2 XX Stands For : Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board

PLCV

PLCV Stands For : procedures of limited clinical value

PLD

PLD Stands For : partial lipodystrophy | people with learning disabilities | percutaneous lumbar discectomy | phospholipase D | platelet defect | polycystic liver disease | posterior latissimus dorsi

PLE

PLE Stands For : panlobular emphysema | parietal lobe epilepsy | polymorphous light eruption | pronounced life extinct | protein-losing enteropathy | Protein Losing Enteropathy

PLIMS

PLIMS Stands For : Pathology Laboratory Information System

PLP

PLP Stands For : palatal lift prosthesis | parathyroid hormone-like peptide | partial laryngopharyngectomy | personal learning plan | phantom limb pain | phospholipid | proteolipid | PTH-like peptide | Personal Limitation Point

PLT

PLT Stands For : partial liver transplantation | Past life/lives therapy | primed lymphocyte test | protected learning time | protein loading test | platelet | Platelets

PM

PM Stands For : papillary muscle | partial mastectomy | partial meniscectomy | partial mole | particular matter | pectoralis major | perinatal mortality | plasma membrane | point mutation | polarising microscopy | poor metaboliser | porokeratosis of Mibelli | posterior malleolus | posterior maxillary | posterior mesencephalon | posterior mitral | posteromedial | postmenopausal | Practice Manager | premotor | psoas major | pterygoid muscle | pulmonary macrophage | purulent meningitis | pyloromyotomy | Preventive Medicine | Progress Monitor | petit mal (form of epil

PMA

PMA Stands For : Pre-Market Approval Application | pre-motor area (brain) | progressive muscular atrophy | Para Methoxy Amphetamine | Positive Mental Attitude | Progressive Muscular Atrophy

PMC

PMC Stands For : postmarketing commitment | Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy | PRE-MOTOR CORTEX | premotor cortex | percutaneous microwave coagulation | Pre-Menstrual Cycle

PMCPA

PMCPA Stands For : Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority

PMETB XX

PMETB XX Stands For : Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB)

PMI

PMI Stands For : Pain Management Inventory | painless myocardial ischaemia | panoramic mandibular index | Patient Master Index | patient medication instruction | Physician Manager Institute | post mortem interval | posterior myocardial infarction | present medical illness | previous medical illness | prior myocardial infarction | private medical insurance | Permanent Medical Impairment | point of maximum impulse | Past medical illness | Point of Maximal Impulse | Point Of Maximum Impact | Point of maximum impulse (on chest examination)

PMLD

PMLD Stands For : Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties

PMQ

PMQ Stands For : Pain Medicine Questionnaire | primary medical qualifications

PMR

PMR Stands For : paper medical record | papillary muscle rupture | peak metabolic rate | percutaneous myocardial revascularisation | physical medicine and rehabilitation | pollutant mass rate | polymorphic reticulosis | postmarketing requirement | prior medical record | profoundly mentally retarded | progressive muscle relaxation British | proportionate mortality ratio | psychomotor retardation | patient movement request | Perinatal Mortality Rate | Polymyalgia Rheumatica | Professional Medical Representatives | Partial Metabolic Response | Polymyalgia Rheumatica | Post-M

PMS

PMS Stands For : physiologic monitoring system | plasmid maintenance sequence | poor miserable soul | postmarketing surveillance | postmeiotic segregation | postmitochondrial supernatant | Pravastatin Multinational Study | premenstrual syndrome | primary medical services | Personal Medical Services | Pre-Menstral Stress | Preventive Medicine Services | Phenazine Methosulphate | post-menopausal syndrome/symptoms | Pharyngeal Mucosal Space | Pre-Menstral Syndrome | Pre-Menstrual Syndrome | Psychotic Mood Shift | Psychotic Mood Swings | Puffy Mid Section

PND

PND Stands For : Purulent Nasal Discharge | Partial Neck Dissection | Post-Natal Day | Pre-Natal Diagnosis | Post-Nasal Drip | Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorder | Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea | Peripheral Nerve Dysfunction | Post-Nasal Drip | Post-Natal Depression

POC

POC Stands For : persistent organohalogen compound | postoperative care | primary olfactory cortex | progestin-only oral contaceptive | proof of concept (!) | Plan Of Care | Point Of Care | Products Of Conception | Pain On Contact | Primary Olfactory Complex | progestin-only contraceptive | Previously Owned Cat

POCA

POCA Stands For : plan of corrective action | prednisone | Protection of Children Act 1999

POCT

POCT Stands For : point-of-care testing

PODS

PODS Stands For : Pharmacy | postoperative days | potential organ donors | Probability Of Death Score | Positive Outcomes Dont Stress

POLG

POLG Stands For : polymerase gamma

POM

POM Stands For : pain on motion | Pommy | preoptic medial nucleus | proopiomelanotropin | purulent otitis media | Prescription-Only Medicine

POMR

POMR Stands For : problem-oriented medical record | Pproblem Orientated Medical Record | Problem Orientated Medical Record | Problem Orientated Medical Records | Problem Oriented Medical Record | Problem Oriented Medical Records

POPPs

POPPs Stands For : Partnership for Older People Projects

POPUMET XX

POPUMET XX Stands For : Protection of Persons Undergoing Medical Examinations or Treatment

POU

POU Stands For : placenta | pulmonary oncology unit

PoVA

PoVA Stands For : Protection of Vulnerable Adults (from abuse)

PP

PP Stands For : palpable purpura | pancreatic polypeptide | pancreatic pseudocyst | paradoxical pulse | patient pathway | peak pressure | pentose phosphate | perfusion pressure | periodic paralysis | Peyer‰Ûªs patch | phenylpyruvate | pin prick | placenta praevia | plasmapheresis | plaster of Paris | polypeptide | portal pressure | post prandial | posterior parietal | posterior pituitary | postpartum period | precocious puberty | prepubertal | primary provider | private patient | private practice | promoter protein | Prospective Payment | protein phosphatase | p

PPA

PPA Stands For : palpation | participating provider agreement | Pathology Practice Association | phenylpyruvic acid | Pittsburgh Pneumonia Agent | plasminogen proactivator | posterior pulmonary artery | postpartum amenorrhoea | preferred provider arrangement | Prescription Pricing Authority | price per accession | primary peritoneal adenocarcinoma | primary progressive aphasia | pure pulmonary atresia | per Prokura | Phenylpropanolamine Hydrochloride | People Protecting Animals | Puppy Protection Act

PPD

PPD Stands For : peak particle diameter | periodontal pocket depth | pigmented purpuric dermatosis*** | post psychotic depression | postpartum depression | Prescription Pricing Division | primary progressive dementia | postpartum day | Psycho Physical Development | Purified Protein Derivative | persistent post-traumatic distress | post-partum day | Post-Partum Depression | purified protein derivative | Packs Per Day | Permanent Partial Disability | Post Partum Depression | purified protein derivative (TB test)

PPG

PPG Stands For : peak pressure gradient | portal pressure gradient | post-prandial glycaemia | Practitioners Performance Group | principal police grant (!) | pterygopalatine ganglion | pylorus-preserving gastrectomy | This term had 47 hits on 23102011 | Postprandial glucose

PPI

PPI Stands For : paired pulse inhibition | partial permanent impairment | Partnerhip for Policy Implementation | peptidyl prolyl isomerase | phosphoinositide | portal perfusion index | postpartum interval | preproinsulin | protein-protein interaction | purified porcine insulin | Patient and Public Involvement | Patient Public Involvement | Patients Perspective of Illness | Pea Protein Isolate | protein-pump inhibitor | Proton Pump Inhibitor | psychophysiological interaction | Proton Pump Inhibitior

PPIF

PPIF Stands For : patient and public involvement forum (Local Involvement Network)

PPR

PPR Stands For : paired pulse ratio | papulopustular rosacea | parapyramidal region | patient-provider relationship | Pharmaceutical Price Regulation | Physician Payment Reform | progressive pigmentary retinopathy | proximal promoter region | PTHrP receptor | Putative Promoter Region

PPRD

PPRD Stands For : programme for provisionally registered doctors | This term got 56 hits on 23102011

PPRS

PPRS Stands For : Pharmaceutical Prices Regulation Scheme

PPS

PPS Stands For : parapharyngeal space | Parliamentary Private Secretary (!) | pepsin A | peripheral pulmonary stenosis | Personal Preference Scale | plasminogen-plasmin system | post-polio syndrome | postpartum sterilisation | postperfusion syndrome | postpericardiotomy syndrome | postpump syndrome | progressive pneumonia of sheep | Paradoxical Parasympathetic Syndrome | Post Polio Syndrome | Preferred Provider Services | Purely Panic Stricken

PPV

PPV Stands For : parapox virus | paroxysmal positional vertigo | pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine | positive pressure ventilation | post payment verification | Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (23-valent) (replaced by the term PPSV23) | Pars Plana Vitrectomy

PR

PR Stands For : P receptor | pagetoid reticulosis | palindromic rheumatoid arthritis | pars recta | partial resection | partial response | penicillin resistant | performance ratings | perfusion rate | peripheral resistance | pharmaceutical representative | phenol red | phosphorylation rate | photoreactive repair | photoreceptor | physical rehabilitation | pityriasis rosea | placental retention | polymorphic reticulosis | polymyalgia rheumatica | poor responder | post resuscitation | pregnancy rate | prevalence rate | primary response | primitive reflexes | producti

PRB

PRB Stands For : pay review body | percutaneous renal biopsy | pharmaceutical resources branch | phosphorylation of retinoblastoma

PRCC

PRCC Stands For : Principles and rules for co-operation and competition

PRD

PRD Stands For : Performance Review and Development | positive regulatory domain | proline-rich domain

PRDI

PRDI Stands For : positive regulatory domain I element

PREPP

PREPP Stands For : Post Registration Education and Preparation for Practice | This term got 33 hits on 23102011

PRF

PRF Stands For : Platelet-rich fibrin

PRHO XX

PRHO XX Stands For : Preregistration house officer (PRHO)

PRIMAP

PRIMAP Stands For : Patient Records and Information Management

PRIMIS+ XX

PRIMIS+ XX Stands For : Primary Care Information Services (PRIMIS+)

PRINCE XX

PRINCE XX Stands For : PRojects IN Controlled Environments

PRO

PRO Stands For : patient-reported outcome | patients‰Ûª rights organisation | peer review organisation | peer-review organisation | physician review organisation | professional review organisation | proflavin | progesterone | proline | prolyl | pronation | propranolol | protein | Prophylactic

PROM

PROM Stands For : Patient Reported Outcome Measures | premature rupture of membranes | Passive Range Of Motion | Premature Rupture Of the Membranes

PROMETHEUS

PROMETHEUS Stands For : Provider payment Reform for Outcomes

PRP

PRP Stands For : PACAP-related peptide | penicillase-resistant penicillin | penicillin-resistant pneumococci | performance-related pay | physiologic rest position | pityriasis rubra pilaris | platelet-rich plasma | pre-registration period | pre-RNA processing | primary Raynaud phenomenon | primer recognition protein | proline-rich protein | psychotic reaction profile | pulmonary rehabilitation programme | Platelet Rich Plasma | Polyribosyl Ribitol Phosphate | Precursor Rna Processing | Prion Related Protein | pan-retinal photocoagulation | Polyribosylribitol Phosphate Pol

PRU

PRU Stands For : peripheral resistance unit | physicians‰Ûª response unit | Police Resources Unit (!) of the Home Office | This term got 86 hits on 23102011

PRUH

PRUH Stands For : Princess Royal University Hospital

PS

PS Stands For : pain score | Palmaz-Schatz | pap smear | papillary serous | papulosquamous | paradoxical sleep | paraffin section | parasympathetic | partial saturation | partial seizure | passive smoking | pathological stage | patient survey | peak systolic | performance score | performance status | personal service personality scale | Pharmaceutical Services | phosphatidyl serine | photosensitive | photosynthesis | physiologic saline | phytosterol | pituitary stalk | plastic surgery | population spike | Porter-Silber | postmaturity syndrome | presenting symptom

PSA

PSA Stands For : posterior septal artery | posterior spinal artery | Pre-Scheduled Appointment | Procedural Sedation and Analgesia | Professional Services Agreement | Prostate-Specific Antigen | Public Sector Agreement | Protein Specific Antigen | Prostate-Specific Antigen | Prostate-Specific Antigen | Persistent Sciatic Artery | Pressure Sensitive Adhesive | Progressive Spinal Ataxia | Prolonged Sleep Apnea | Prostate-Specific Antigen | Psoriasis Symptom Assessment | PSoriatic Arthritis | Poor Stray Animal | Poultry Science Association

PSC

PSC Stands For : Pediatric Symptom Checklist | peptide-sensitive channel | peripheral stem cell | Pharmaceutical Services Committee | posterior semicircular canal | posterior subcapsular cataract | Postmarket Strategies Committee | Primary Service Coordinator | primary synovial chondromatosis | primitive stem cells | prospective studies collaboration | public sector comparator | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center | Posterior subcapsular cataract | Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

PSD

PSD Stands For : pancreas-sparing duodenectomy | patient services department | pilonidal sinus disease | placental sulphatase deficiency | polysystemic dysautonomia | post-stroke depression | posterior sagittal diameter | protein sequence database | psychosomatic disease | Protein S Deficiency | Post Stroke Depression | Pesticides Safety Directorate

PSIS

PSIS Stands For : Personal Spine Information Service | plastic surgery information system | posterosuperior iliac spine | Posterior Inferior Iliac Spine

PsLCV

PsLCV Stands For : Procedures of Limited Clinical Value

PSM

PSM Stands For : palmitoyl sphingomyelin | pansystolic murmur | patient self-management | positive surgical margins | postsurgical mediastinitis | Practice Support Model | presystolic murmur | problem solving method | Professions Supplementary to Medicine | prostate-specific membrane antigen

PSNC

PSNC Stands For : Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

PSS

PSS Stands For : painful shoulder syndrome | Panic Symptom Scale | patient scheduling system | Performance Status Scale | personal social services | physiologic saline solution | Poisoning Severity Score | portosystemic shunt | primary Sj̦gren syndrome | professional stress scale | psoriasis severity scale | Psychiatric Status Schedule | psychosocial short stature | PTSD Symptom Scale | perceived stress scale | Progressive Systemic Sclerosis

PSUMP

PSUMP Stands For : prostatic stromal proliferation of uncertain malignant potential

PT

PT Stands For : pain threshold | parathyroid | paroxysmal tachycardia | part-time | patellar tendon | performance test | pertussis toxin | phototherapy | phototoxicity | popliteal tendon | portal tract | posterior tibial | pretectal | prior treatment | proficiency testing | propylthiouracil | pulmonary tuberculosis | pulp testing | pyramidal tract | Peptidyl Transfer | Prothrombin time | partial tonsillectomy | percutaneous tracheotomy | Physical Therapy | physiotherapy | preferred term | Pain and Torture | Patient | Pencil Test | Permanent and Total | Physical

PTCA

PTCA Stands For : percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography | Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angiograph | Percutaneous Transhepatic CholAngiogram | Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

PTE

PTE Stands For : percutaneous transcatheter embolisation | post transplant erythrocytosis | post traumatic epilepsy | proximal tubular epithelium | pulmonary thromboembolism | post-traumatic epilepsy

PTL

PTL Stands For : pancreatic triglyceride lipase | patient targeting list | patient tracking list | peripheral T cell lymphoma | preterm labour | primary thyroid lymphoma | This term got 45 hits on 23102011 | Pre Term Labor | Purple Tailed Lizard

PTS

PTS Stands For : patient transport services | Pediatric Trauma Score | peptide transport system | post thrombotic syndrome | post-traumatic syringomyelia | prior to surgery | patients | post-thrombotic syndrome | Patient Transport Service | positive threshold shift | Post Traumatic Stress

PUN

PUN Stands For : patient unmet needs | plasma urea nitrogen

PVL

PVL Stands For : Panton-Valentine leukocidin | Peri -Ventricular Leukomalacia

PwSI

PwSI Stands For : Practitioner with Special Interest (GP with special interest)

PYA

PYA Stands For : Penultimate Year Assessment

q

q Stands For : long arm of a chromosome | quintal | Quinacrine | Every two hours | Quaque ( Each or Every) | Queasy | quaque - every

QA

QA Stands For : quality accounts | quarternary amine | quinolinic acid | Quick Acting

QAA

QAA Stands For : Quality Assurance Authority | Quality Assessment Agency (for higher education)

QAFP

QAFP Stands For : Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme

QALY

QALY Stands For : quality-adjusted life year | quality-adjusted life years | Quality Adjusted Life Year

QARC

QARC Stands For : Quality Assurance Reference Centre

QAT

QAT Stands For : quality assessment team

QC

QC Stands For : Queen‰Ûªs Counsel

QEHB

QEHB Stands For : Queen Elizabeth Hospitals Birmingham

QEII

QEII Stands For : Queen Elizabeth Hospital

QIPP

QIPP Stands For : Quality

QMAES

QMAES Stands For : Quarterly Monitoring Accident and Emergency Services

QMAS

QMAS Stands For : Quality Management and Analysis subsystem | The latter term got 28 hits on 23102011

QMAS XX

QMAS XX Stands For : Quality Management and Analysis system

QOF target XX

QOF target XX Stands For : Quality and Outcomes Framework target (QOF target)

QOF XX

QOF XX Stands For : Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)

QPC

QPC Stands For : Quality and Productivity Challenge | quality of patient care

QPDT

QPDT Stands For : Quality and Practice Development Team

QR

QR Stands For : quercetin | quick release (!) | quiet room | quieting response | quinone reductase

QSS(C)

QSS(C) Stands For : Quality Safety and Standards (Committee)

QUANGO XX

QUANGO XX Stands For : quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (quango)

R&M

R&M Stands For : routine and manual

R&S

R&S Stands For : recruitment and selection

RA

RA Stands For : radial | radial artery | radioactive | radioactivity | radioassay | radiographic absorptiometry | radionuclide angiography | ragweed antigen | receptor antagonist | rectus abdominis | refractory anaemia | refractory ascites | regional anaesthesia | regression analysis | renal agenesis | renal artery | research associate | respiratory arrest | retinoic acid | revenue account (!) | right anterior | right atrial | rotational atherectomy | rounded atelectasis | route of administration | Room Air | rheumatoid arthrisi | Rheumatoid Arthritis | right arm

RAB

RAB Stands For : recombinant antibody | Resource Accounting and Budgeting | Resource Accounting Body | risk assessment battery

RAc

RAc Stands For : Registered Acupuncturist | Recovery Audit Contractor

RACI

RACI Stands For : Responsible

RACPC

RACPC Stands For : rapid access chest pain clinic

RAE

RAE Stands For : reactive angioendotheliomatosis | Retinol Activity Equivalents | Right Atrial Enlargement

RAG

RAG Stands For : Red Amber Green (traffic light) | Research Allocation Group | risk assessment in genetics | This term got 6 hits on 23102011 and is thus unlikely to be in active use | Recombination Activating Gene | Retinal Ablation Gene

RAG rating system

RAG rating system Stands For : Red Amber Green rating system (Traffic light rating system)

RAGE

RAGE Stands For : Radiotherapy Action Group Exposure | Rating scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly | receptor for advanced glycosylation end products | Random Activation Gene Expression | Receptor For Advanced Glycation End

RAHSC

RAHSC Stands For : Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children | Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children

RAP

RAP Stands For : rapid assessment procedure | rapid atrial pacing | referrals | regression associated protein | remedial action plan | Research Applications Program | RNA-III Activating Protein | Regression-Associated Protein | Reinforcing AIDS Prevention | Renal Artery Pressure | Retinal Angiomatous Proliferation | Right Atrial Pressure

RARP

RARP Stands For : resource allocation resource paper | This term got 1 (!) hit on 23102011 It seems inconceivable that it would be in active use

RAS

RAS Stands For : recurrent aphthous stomatitis | Registered Addiction Specialist | respiratory assessment service | retinoic acid syndrome | Rokitansky-Aschoff sinus | rotational atherectomy system | Renin-Angiotensin System | Retrovirus Associated Sequences | renal artery stenosis | Redirecting Antibody Specificity | Renal Artery Stenosis | Reticular Activating System | Reticular Activation System

RASP

RASP Stands For : resource allocation and service planning

RAT

RAT Stands For : radiation therapy | recombinant human antithrombin | Remuneration And Terms (of service committee) | rheumatoid arthritis test | right atrial tachycardia | Radical Anxiety Termination | Right Animal Treatment

RAWP

RAWP Stands For : Resource Allocation Working Party

RBAC

RBAC Stands For : role-based access control

RCA

RCA Stands For : radiofrequency catheter ablation | random case analysis | red cell agglutination | red cell aggregate | renal carcinoma | renal cell adenoma | renal concentrating ability | replication-competent adenovirus | residual cortical activity | right carotid artery | right coronary angiography | root canal anterior Dentistry | rotational coronary atherectomy | Royal College of Anaesthetists | Ricinus Communis Agglutinin | Ricinus Communis Agglutinin | Right Coronary Artery

RCAP

RCAP Stands For : Remedial Clinical Action Plan

RCC

RCC Stands For : rape crisis centre | Rathke cleft cyst | red cell cast | regional cancer centre | Registered Clinical Counsellor | right common carotid | Rural Community Council | Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center | Red blood Cell Count | Red Cell Concentrate | renal cell cancer | Rotterdam Coronary Calcification Study | Renal Cell Carcinoma

RCDM

RCDM Stands For : Royal Centre for Defence Medicine

RCH

RCH Stands For : registered care home | renal compensatory hypertrophy | reproductive and child health | residential care home | right cerebral hemisphere | Royal Children‰Ûªs Hospital (Aus) | Rockville City Hospital

RCM

RCM Stands For : radiocontrast medium | rapid culture method | red cell mass | reflectance confocal microscopy | restrictive cardiomyopathy | Right Costal Margin

RCN

RCN Stands For : radiocontrast nephropathy | renal cortical necrosis | right caudate nucleus | Royal College of Nurses

RCoA

RCoA Stands For : Royal College of Anaesthetists

RCOG

RCOG Stands For : Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists

RCOphth

RCOphth Stands For : Royal College of Ophthalmologists

RCP

RCP Stands For : reactive C protein | red cell protoporphyrin | regional cerebral perfusion | Research Capability Programme | retrograde cerebellar perfusion | revised class play | Regional Collection Plan | Registry of Comparative Pathology (defunct)

RCPath

RCPath Stands For : Royal College of Pathologists

RCPCH

RCPCH Stands For : Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

RCPE

RCPE Stands For : Royal College of Physicians of England

RCPsych

RCPsych Stands For : Royal College of Psychiatrists

RCR

RCR Stands For : renal clearance rate | replication-competent retrovirus | respiratory control ratio | rolling circle replication

RCRIM

RCRIM Stands For : Regulated Clinical Research and Information Management

RCS

RCS Stands For : READ classification system Informatics | recombinant congenic species | red cell suspension | repeat caesarean section | reticulum cell sarcoma | Retirement Confidence Survey | Royal College of Surgeons

RCSE

RCSE Stands For : Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

RCSLT

RCSLT Stands For : Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

RCT

RCT Stands For : radiochemotherapy | radionuclide computed tomography | randomised clinical trial | randomised controlled trial | RCT Abbreviation for: | reciprocal chromosomal translocation | renal cell tumour | respiratory compensation threshold | retention control training | retrograde conduction time | root canal therapy | rotator cuff tear | ruptured chordae tendineae | Randomized Controlled Trial | Relative Contrast Test | Root Canal Treatment | Randomized Controlled Trial | rotator cuff tear | Randomized Controlled Trial | Randomized Controlled Trial | Rectum Crac

RDA

RDA Stands For : recently detoxified alcoholic | research and development agreement | rural development area | recommended daily amount | Recommended Daily Allowance | recommended daily amount | Recommended Dietary Allowance | Riding for the Disabled Association

RDO

RDO Stands For : regional development organisation | RNA-DNA oligonucleotide

RDPGPE

RDPGPE Stands For : Regional Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education

RDT

RDT Stands For : Registered Drama Therapist | Retinal Damage Threshold

RDU

RDU Stands For : regional dialysis unit

RDUK

RDUK Stands For : Rare Disease UK

REA

REA Stands For : radioenzyme assay | rapid environmental assessment | rapid epidemiologic assessment | Regional Education Adviser | restriction enzyme analysis | Restriction Endonuclease Analysis | reactive arthritis

REACH

REACH Stands For : Regional Education About Choices in Health | Rehabilitation Among women with Coronary Heart Disease | Research and Educational for Children in Asthma | Research on Endothelin Antagonism in Chronic Heart Failure | Resource utilization in Congestive Heart Failure | Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer‰Ûªs Caregiver Health | Retired Executives Action Clearing House | There were no hits on 23102011 for this term | Reaching Euglycemia And Comprehensive Health

REC

REC Stands For : Racial Equality Council | receptor | recombination | Reforming Emergency Care | renal epithelial cell | research ethics committee | respiratory epithelial cell | Rear End Collision | Receive | Recommend | Recurrent

REF

REF Stands For : regional ejection fraction | renal erythropoietic factor (erythropoeitin) | restriction endonuclease fingerprinting | restriction endonuclease fragments | Relative Exposure Factor

RES

RES Stands For : Race Equality Scheme | radionuclide esophageal scintigraphy | reduced emissions scenario (!) | regional economic strategy (!) | Reproducibility Echocardiography Study | research | resident | restriction endonuclease | ReticuloEndothelial System | Reticuloendothelial Sysem

RESG

RESG Stands For : Race Equality Steering Group

RFA

RFA Stands For : radiofrequency ablation | reasons for assessment | restriction fragment analysis | RF ablation | right femoral artery | risk factor of atherosclerosis | Radio Frequency Ablation | Radiation Field Analyser | right forearm | Right forearm

RfAS

RfAS Stands For : Requirements for Accreditation Scheme | This term got 3 hits on 23102011

RFC

RFC Stands For : radiofrequency catheter | radiofrequency coagulation | radiofrequency current | rosette-forming cell | Residual Functional Capacity

RFID

RFID Stands For : radiofrequency identification | Radio Frequency IDentification

RFN

RFN Stands For : Registered Fever Nurse | retrofacial nucleus | riboflavin

RFR

RFR Stands For : rapid fluid resuscitation | relapse-free rate | renal functional reserve | request for resources

RFUCMS

RFUCMS Stands For : Royal Free and University College Medical School

RGN

RGN Stands For : Registered General Nurse (First level nurse)

RHA

RHA Stands For : recombinant human albumin | right hepatic artery | The RHAs were abolished‰ÛÒalong with Family Health Services Authorities and the District Health Authorities‰ÛÒin 1995 | RHeumatoid Arthritis

RHB

RHB Stands For : reduced haemoglobin | regional health board (obsolete) | right heart bypass

RICS

RICS Stands For : radioimmunoconjugates | rehabilitation and intermediate care service | Research Informatics Consult Service

RID

RID Stands For : radial immunodiffusion | radioimmunodetection | Regional Implementation Directors | remission-inducing drug | restless | Restless Irritable And Discontent | Ruptured intervertebral disc

RIDDOR

RIDDOR Stands For : Reporting of Injuries

RIG

RIG Stands For : rabies immunoglobulin | reimbursement grant | Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy

RIMA

RIMA Stands For : reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type A

RIPA

RIPA Stands For : Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 | Royal Institute of Public Administration

RIPH

RIPH Stands For : Royal Institute of Public Health(it merged with the Royal Society of Health in 2008 to become the Royal Society for Public Health)

RIPHH

RIPHH Stands For : Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

RITA XX

RITA XX Stands For : Record of Individual Training Assessment

RM

RM Stands For : radiation monitoring | radiation myelopathy | radical mastectomy | radical mastoidectomy | radon monitor | random migration | range of movement | red meat | red muscle | reduction mammaplasty | reference material | regional metastases | rehabilitation medicine | Reichert‰Ûªs membrane | Reiki Master | repeated miscarriage | respiratory movement | respiratory muscle | resting metabolism | rhabdomyolysis | Royal Marsden | ruptured membrane | Rotation Measure | Registered Midwife | rhabdomyolysis | Redemptive Movement

RMI

RMI Stands For : recent myocardial infarction | reperfused myocardial infarction | Resource Management Initiative | Risk of Malignancy Index | Rapid Migraine Initiator

RMO

RMO Stands For : Regional Medical Officer | Responsible Medical Officer | Resident Medical Officer | Rocky Mountain Orthodontics

RMSG

RMSG Stands For : Risk Management Steering Group

RMT

RMT Stands For : Registered Music Therapist | Rehab Management Toolkit | Registered Massage Therapist (Canada) | Recovered Memory Therapy

RN

RN Stands For : radical nephrectomy | radionuclide | ranitidine | rebound nystagmus | red nucleus | reflux nephropathy | regenerative nodule | rehabilitation nurse | rheumatoid nodule | Remarkable Nurses | Registered Nurse | Rattus Norvegicus

RNCC

RNCC Stands For : registered nursing care contribution

RNID

RNID Stands For : Royal National Institute for the Deaf (later Royal National Institute for Deaf People

RNMH

RNMH Stands For : Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped (obsolete title)

RO

RO Stands For : radiation oncologist | reactive oxygen | reflux oesophagitis | relative odds | renal oncocytoma | renal osteodystrophy | revenue out turn (!) | Regional Office | Radon Occurrence | Reproductive Organ | Routine order | Rule Out

ROCR SC

ROCR SC Stands For : Review of Central Returns Steering Committee

ROE

ROE Stands For : Regional Office for Europe | right otitis externa

ROHFT

ROHFT Stands For : Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust

ROI

ROI Stands For : range of interest | reactive oxygen intermediate | Release Of Information

ROSE XX

ROSE XX Stands For : Refugees and Overseas health professionals

RPGD

RPGD Stands For : Regional Postgraduate Dean

RPST

RPST Stands For : Risk Pooling Scheme for Trusts

RPT

RPT Stands For : Registered Phlebotomy Technician | Registered Physical Therapist | Registered Play Therapist | renal parenchymal thickness | renal proximal tubule | Relapse Prevention Therapy | Registered Pharmacy Technician

RPU

RPU Stands For : Regional Policy Unit

RRASOR

RRASOR Stands For : Rapid Risk Assessment for Sex Offense Recidivism

RRL

RRL Stands For : Revenue Resource Limit | righting reflex latency

RRSO

RRSO Stands For : Risk reducing salpingo-ooporectomy

RRT

RRT Stands For : radical radiation therapy | recommended replacement time | regimen-related toxicity | Regional Resource Team | Registered Respiratory Therapist | reverse transcriptase | Renal Replacement Therapy

RSCN

RSCN Stands For : Registered Sick Children‰Ûªs Nurse (obsolete title)

RSH

RSH Stands For : rectus sheath haematoma | right heart failure | Royal Society of Health (Royal Society of Public Health) | RiverSide HealthCare Home

RSI

RSI Stands For : repetitive strain injury | Rush Sexual Inventory | Repeated Strain Injury | Rapid sequence induction anesthesia | Rapid Sequence Intubation | Repetitive Stress Injury

RSM

RSM Stands For : recurrent spontaneous miscarriage | restriction site mutation | Regulator of Secondary Metabolites | Royal Society of Medicine

RSV

RSV Stands For : right saphenous vein | right sinus of Valsalva | right subclavian vein | Research and Supply Vessel | respiratory syncytial virus | Respiratory Syncytial Virus | Robertson Selection Value | Rous Sarcoma Virus

RTI

RTI Stands For : reproductive tract infection | reverse transcriptase inhibitor | road traffic incident | routine task inventory | Rapid Tube Input | Reproductive Tract Infection | Respiratory Tract Infection | Respiratory Tract Infections

RTT

RTT Stands For : Referral to treatment | Randomly Thought Thoughts | Resources Treatment And Training

RtTT

RtTT Stands For : Referral to Treatment Target

s

s Stands For : atto- | Sedate | Stable | Specimen | Sensory | Sick | Sinister | Sleep | Squint | Stumble | Snail

S4BH

S4BH Stands For : Standards for Better Health

SAC

SAC Stands For : seasonal acute conjunctivitis | serous adenocarcinoma | Sexual Addiction and Compulsion | Specialty Advisory Committee | splinting for acute closure | standardised assessment of concussion | stoma appliance customisation | substance abuse counsellor | Sacral | Shortarm Cast | Scottish Agricultural Colleges

SAD

SAD Stands For : Single Anomalous Dispersion | Sinoaortic denervation or deafferentiation | Subacromial decompression | ugar-acetone-diacetic acid test | Seasonal Affective Disorder | Source-Axis Distance | Seasonal Affected Disorder | Seasonal Affective Disorder | Seasonal Allergy Distress | Simple Anxiety Defect | Situational Affected Depression | Social Anxiety Disorder | Stoupa Addiction Disorder | Stress | Swinford Anxiety Disorder

SADR

SADR Stands For : serious adverse drug reaction | Standard Ambulatory Data Record

SaFF

SaFF Stands For : Service and Financial Framework

SAG

SAG Stands For : sagittal | senescence-associated gene | Standards Assurance Group | statoacoustic ganglion | Swiss agammaglobulinaemia | Senescence Associated Gene

SAGNIS

SAGNIS Stands For : Strategic Advisory Group for Nursing Information Systems

SAHC

SAHC Stands For : Scottish Association of Health Councils

SAHEM

SAHEM Stands For : self-applied health enhancement method

SALD

SALD Stands For : serum aldolase | Services For Adults with Learning Disabilities

SALT

SALT Stands For : serum alanine aminotransferase | skin-associated lymphoid tissue | speech and language therapist | Swedish Aspirin Low-dose Trial

SANDO

SANDO Stands For : sensory ataxia neuropathy dysarthria and ophthalmoplegia

SAP

SAP Stands For : saponin | saporin | saposin | secreted acid phosphatase | secreted aspartic protease | sensory action potential | serum alkaline phosphatase | Single Assessment Process | situs ambiguus with polysplenia | SLAM-associated protein | slow action potential | spontaneous action potential | stable angina pectoris | standardised assessment of personality | Staphylococcus aureus protease | steroidogenesis activator polypeptide | surfactant associated protein | symptom-associated probability | systolic arterial pressure | Sensitive To Antimicrobial Peptides | Sla

SAPHE

SAPHE Stands For : Self Assessment in Professional and Higher Education (obsolete

SAQ

SAQ Stands For : safety attitudes questionnaire | saquinavir | self-appraisal questionnaire | Supplementary Application Questionnaire | Supplementary Additional Questionnaire

SAR

SAR Stands For : sarcoidosis | sarcoma | sarcosine | seasonal allergic rhinitis | secondary attack rate | sinoatrial rate | slowly adapting receptor | specific absorption rates | standardised access ratio | staphylococcal accessory regulator | subjective analysis return | survival after recurrence | suspected adverse reaction | systemic anaphylactic reaction | Systemic Affect Rating | Scatter-Air Ratio | Sodium Absorption Ratio | Sodium Adsorption Ratio | Specific Absorption Rate

SARM

SARM Stands For : selective androgen receptor modulator

SARP

SARP Stands For : Sexual Assault Response Policy | Sexual Attitude Reassessment Process | Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program | Secreted Apoptosis-Related Protein

SAS

SAS Stands For : sarcoma-amplified sequence | saturated ammonium sulphate | Scottish Ambulance Service | serrated adenoma | severe aortic stenosis | short aorta syndrome | Sklar Aphasia Scale | sleep apnoea syndrome | staff and associate specialists | staff grade and associate specialist doctor | standard accounting system | Supplier Attachment Scheme | Short Arm Splint | Short Attention Span | Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis

SAU

SAU Stands For : statistical analysis unit | surgical admission unit

SAZ

SAZ Stands For : Sport Action Zone | sulfasalazine | Swiss Air-Ambulance

SBCH

SBCH Stands For : South Birmingham Community Health

SBIC

SBIC Stands For : South Birmingham Independent Commissioners

SBPO

SBPO Stands For : South Birmingham Provider Organisation

SBPS

SBPS Stands For : South Birmingham Provider Services

SC

SC Stands For : sarcomatoid carcinoma | satellite cells | Schwann cell | scintigraphy | sclerosing cholangitis | sebaceous carcinoma | secondary care | secretory carcinoma | secretory component | semicircular canal | seroconversion | serum cholesterol | serum complement | serum concentration | serum creatinine | sex chromatin | Sezary cell | short chain | sickle cell | sigmoid colon | single copy | small cell | smoking cessation | Snellen chart | social care | sodium citrate spinal canal | specialist care | specialty clinic | spinal cord | spindle cell | squamo

SC&H

SC&H Stands For : Social Care and Health

SCAE

SCAE Stands For : spinocerebellar ataxia with epilepsy

SCAG

SCAG Stands For : NHS Security and Confidentiality Advisory Group

SCCAG

SCCAG Stands For : Southern Combined Clinical Advisory Group

SCEP

SCEP Stands For : Supply Chain Excellence ProgrammeSee National Generics Programme

SCG

SCG Stands For : specialised commissioning group | standards consulting group | strategic commissioning group | superior cervical ganglion | superior cervical ganglionectomy | This term got 27 hits on 23102011 and is thus unlikely to be widely used

SCHIN

SCHIN Stands For : Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle

SCM

SCM Stands For : secretory cell metaplasia | Specialist in Community Medicine | spleen conditioned medium | spondylotic cervical myelopathy | squamous cell metaplasia | steatocystoma multiplex | sternocleidomastoid | subcutaneous mastectomy | Supportive Care Manager | SternoCleidomastoid-Muscle | Solid Color Mare

SCMO

SCMO Stands For : Senior Clinical Medical Officer

SCoPME

SCoPME Stands For : Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical (and Dental) Education

SCoRPME

SCoRPME Stands For : Standing Committee on Regional Postgraduate Medical Education | This term got 3 hits on 23102011

SCPMDE

SCPMDE Stands For : Scottish Council For Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

SCR

SCR Stands For : serious case review | short consensus repeat | sister chromatic recombination | social care region | summary care record | This term got 76 hits on 23102011 and thus may not be in common use | Sustainable Cell Rate | Sustain Cell Rate | Serum Creatinine

SCT

SCT Stands For : sacrococcygeal teratoma | salmon calcitonin | sentence completion test | sentence comprehension test | Sertoli cell tumour | sickle cell trait | Society of County Treasurers (!) | solid and cystic tumour | specialised commissioning team | spinal cord transection | spinal cord trauma | spinocerebellar tract | spiral CT (computed tomography) | stair climbing test | stem cell transplantation | sugar-coated tablet | supervised community treatment | Sussex Community Trust | sickle cell trait | Stem Cell Transplant | Static Contraction Training

SCT(WM)

SCT(WM) Stands For : Specialised Commissioning Team (West Midlands)

SDCP

SDCP Stands For : Site Development Control Plan

SDS

SDS Stands For : same day surgery | Schedule for Deficit Syndrome | school dental services | self-rated depression scale | sensory deprivation syndrome | Sheehan Disability Scale | Shy-Drager syndrome | Social Desirability Scale | sodium dodecyl sulphonate | specific diagnostic service | Spine Directory Service | standard deviation score | Symptom Distress Scale | Same Day Surgical | Sequence Detection System | Sudden death syndrome

SDTM

SDTM Stands For : Study Data Tabulation Mode

SDV

SDV Stands For : source document verification | Single- Dose Vial

SE

SE Stands For : sensory epithelium | serine esterase | serum | sexually experienced | sheep erythrocyte | side effect | sleep efficiency | social exclusion | socioeconomic | Starr-Edwards | Stress Echocardiography | Solo Exons | Sperm Extract | Solvent Extraction | Sub-clinical Encephalopathy | Spin Echo | Spongiform Encephalopathy | Squamous Epithelium | Status Epilepticus | Sub-Epidermal

SERC XX

SERC XX Stands For : Science & Engineering Research Council

SES

SES Stands For : self esteem scale | Single Equality Scheme | sirolimus-eluting stent | Society of Eye Surgeons | socioeconomic status | soluble E selectin | staphylococcal enterotoxin | subendothelial space | Sanitarium Epidemic Station | Sanitarium Epidemic Station | Swinging Eye Syndrome

SFBH

SFBH Stands For : Standards for Better Health

SFI

SFI Stands For : sciatic function index | Self-report Family Inventory | sexual function index | social function index | social fund inspector | sporadic fatal insomnia | standing financial instructions

SGR

SGR Stands For : skin galvanic response | Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists | Stanford Genomic Resources | Surgeon Generals Report

SGUMDER

SGUMDER Stands For : Standing Group on Undergraduate Medical and Dental Education and Research

SHA

SHA Stands For : severe haemophilia A | Socialist Health Association (!) | Southern hybridisation analysis | special health authority | sperm head anomalies | standard hash algorithm | staphylococcal hemagglutinating antibody | strategic health authority | strategic hospital alliance | Shampoo

SHACE

SHACE Stands For : Strategic Health Authority Chief Executives

SHACIOs

SHACIOs Stands For : Strategic Health Authority Chief Information Officer | With 43 hits on 25102011

SHAPE

SHAPE Stands For : Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation | Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education

SHARE

SHARE Stands For : Scottish Health Authorities Revenue Equalisation | Spine Hand Arm Rehabilitation Ergonomics

SHARP

SHARP Stands For : Sexual Health Attitude Restructuring Process | Safety And Health Achievement Recognition Program | Scottish Heart And Arterial Risk Prevention

SHAS

SHAS Stands For : Scottish Health Advisory Service (now

SHEN

SHEN Stands For : Specific Human Energy Nexus

SHEPS

SHEPS Stands For : Society of Health Education and Promotion Specialists

SHFLD

SHFLD Stands For : split hand/foot malformation with long bone deficiency

SHFM

SHFM Stands For : split hand/foot malformation

SHIFT

SHIFT Stands For : substitution of hospital and other institutional-focused technology | This acronym appears in Tony White‰Ûªs NHS Jargon Explained; there were 6 hits for this term on 20102011

SHIP

SHIP Stands For : Self-Help Intervention Project | sexual health in practice | SH2-containing inositol phosphatase | Small Hospital Improvement Program | src homology 2-containing inositol phosphatase | STD/HIV Intervention Program | Supplemental Health Insurance Plan | Senior Health Insurance Program

SHMO

SHMO Stands For : Senior Hospital Medical Officer | social health maintenance organisation

SHO

SHO Stands For : A junior doctor in the pre Modernising Medical Careers era (pre-2007) of training in the UK | secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy | senior house officer (SHO) | Stryker Howmedica Osteonics

SHOT

SHOT Stands For : serious hazards of transfusion | Sheffield Obesity Trial | Severe Hazards Of Transfusion | Stock Horse Of Texas

SHOW

SHOW Stands For : Scotland‰Ûªs Health on the Web | Scottish Health On The Web

SHRINE

SHRINE Stands For : Strategic Human Resources Information Network | This term got 15 hits on 20102011

SHRUGS XX

SHRUGS XX Stands For : Scottish Health Resource Utilisation Groups

SHTAC

SHTAC Stands For : Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre | This was a Special Health Board established in 2000

SI

SI Stands For : sagittal index | saline infusion | satiety index | self-inflicted | sensitivity index | serious illness | serious injury | seriously ill | serum iron | severity index | sexual intercourse | sexually inexperienced | shock index | signal intensity | silent infarction | silent ischaemia | silver | Singh Index | sinus irregularities | situs inversus | smoking index | snoring index | social interaction | spinal injury | stratum intermedium | stress incontinence | stroke index | Structured Interview | suicidal ideation | superior/inferior | survival i

SIA

SIA Stands For : sequence independent amplification | sequential injection technique | serum inhibitory activity | serum-in-agar | sialic acid | slide immunoenzymatic assay | small intestine atresia | sperm-immobilising activity | Spinal Injuries Association | stress-induced analgesia | stretch-induced arrhythmia | Structured Intermittent Auscultation | subacute infectious arthritis | Subintimal angioplasty | Survivors of Incest Anonymous | Spectrophotometric Intracutaneous Analysis

SIC

SIC Stands For : self intermittent catheterisation | serum insulin concentration | soluble immune complex | specific inhalation challenge | State Insurance Commission | Statement of Internal Control | Self-Intermittent Catheterization | Scan Inverse Complementary | Streptococcal Inhibitor of Complement

SIFTR XX

SIFTR XX Stands For : Service Increment for Teaching and Research (SIfTR)

SIG

SIG Stands For : solution integration group | systems integration group | signal | Surface ImmunoGlobulin | write on label

SIGN XX

SIGN XX Stands For : Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

SIMS

SIMS Stands For : Serious Incident Management System | Standardised Incident Management System | Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptoms | This term had 4 hits on 19102011 | Societal Institute of the Mathematical Sciences

SING

SING Stands For : Sexuality Issues Network Group | This term had 29 hits on 25102011 | Solar plexus

SIRI

SIRI Stands For : safety information resources on the internet | serious incident requiring investigation | Suicide Intervention Response Inventory

SIRO

SIRO Stands For : Senior Information Risk Owner

SIRT

SIRT Stands For : selective internal radiation therapy | service issues resolution team | This term got 3 (!) hits on 10112011

SIS

SIS Stands For : selective identification system | Senior Intelligence Service | signal intelligence service | software intensive system | special information system | special intelligence support | statistical information system | strategic intelligence system | supplier information system | supplies information service | Surgical Information Systems | This term got 9 hits on 20102011 (with the added keyword NHS) | Self Injury Support | Susceptible Infective Susceptible

SISTC

SISTC Stands For : Selection into Surgical Training Centres | This term had 4 hits on 19102011

SITF

SITF Stands For : Social Investment Task Force (final report

SLA

SLA Stands For : slide latex agglutination | somatomedin-like activity | surfactant-like activity

SLE

SLE Stands For : seizure-like events | Service Line Economics | slit lamp examination | St Louis encephalitis | stress life event | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | systemic lupus erythematosis | St Louis Encephalitis | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Systolic Linear Exponentiator

SLI

SLI Stands For : secretin-like immunoreactivity | selective lymphoid irradiation | serotonin-like immunoreactivity | somatostatin-like immunoreactivity | specific learning incident | splenic localisation index | Sporadic Language Impairment

SLIPS

SLIPS Stands For : Note This term had 47 hits on 19102011 It was the title of a course from the Royal College of Surgery | Safety and Leadership for Interventional Procedures and Surgery

SLR

SLR Stands For : Service Line Reporting | short latency response | Shwartzman local reaction | straight leg raise | subthalamic locomotor region | Straight Leg Raising

SLS

SLS Stands For : Selected List Scheme | Sodium Lauryl Sulfate | StreptoLysin S | Severed Life Support | Short Leg Splint | Stagnant Loop Syndrome | Stein-Leventhal Syndrome

SLT

SLT Stands For : Shiga-like toxin | single lung transplantation | smokeless tobacco | Speech and Language Therapist | selective laser trabeculoplasty | Slight

SLTS

SLTS Stands For : Speech and Language Therapy Service

SMA

SMA Stands For : scala media area | severe malarial anaemia | shape memory alloys | simultaneous multichannel autoanalyser | smooth muscle actin | smooth muscle antigen | Snow Mountain Agent | somatomedin a | somatomedin activity | spinal muscle atrophy | spiral modiolar artery | spontaneous motor activity | Student medical assistant | Smooth Muscle Antibody | superior mesenteric artery | Sensory Motor Amnesia | Spinal Muscular Atrophy | Superior Mesenteric Artery | Supplementary Motor Area

SMART

SMART Stands For : Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease | Self-Measurement for Assessment of the Response to Trandolapril | Serum Markers Acute myocardial infarction and Rapid Treatment | Simultaneous Multiple Angle Reconstruction Technique | Simultaneous Multislice Acquisition using Rosette Trajectories | specific | Supportive Medical Aid Responding (to individual needs) Team | Sharing Medical Adherence Responsibilities Together | Somatic Mutation And Recombination Tests | Senior Medication Assessment Research Trial | Semi-automated Anatomic Reporting of Trajectories | Subc

SMAS

SMAS Stands For : Substance Misuse Advisory Service (extinct) | superficial musculo-aponeurotic system | superior mesenteric artery syndrome | Superficial Musculo Aponeurotic System

SMC

SMC Stands For : Scottish Medicines Consortium | skeletal muscle cell | small marker chromosome | somatomedin C | standard medical care | subjective memory complaints | Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes | Smooth Muscle Cell

SMDT

SMDT Stands For : specialist multi-disciplinary team

SMF

SMF Stands For : secondary myelofibrosis | Social Market Foundation | space medical facility | static magnetic field | substructural molecular fragment | Standard Mammogram Form

SMI

SMI Stands For : severe mental impairment | silent myocardial infarction | silent myocardial ischaemia | Spanish medical Interpreter | sperm motility index | St Micheal Ipoh | Sensory Motor Integration | Seriously Mentally Ill

SMO

SMO Stands For : safe motherhood officer | second medical opinion | site management organisation | surveillance medical officer | Supervising Medical Officer | Senior Medical Officer | Sociedad Mexicana de Ortopedia

SMP

SMP Stands For : skim milk protein | social marketing project | standard medical practice | strategic management plan | submuscular plexus

SMR

SMR Stands For : severe mental retardation | sexual maturity rating | standard metabolic rate | standardised morbidity ratio (!) | standardised mortality ratio | streptomycin resistant | submucosal resection | Standardized Mortality Ratio | Standard mortality ratio | Sensory Motor Rhythm | Submucous Resection | Suppressed Mite Reproduction | Suppression of Mite Reproduction

SMS

SMS Stands For : Security Management Specialist | senior medical student | serial motor seizures | Simvastatin Multicenter Study | Socioeconomic Monitoring System | solitary myofibroma of skin | somatomedins | Specialties Matching Service | sphingomyelin synthase | stiff man syndrome | Smith-Magenis syndrome | Smith Magenis Syndrome

SN

SN Stands For : saphenous nerve | sciatic nerve | scrub nurse | sebaceous nevus | second neoplasm | sensorineural | sensory neurone | sentinel (lymph) node | seronegative | serum neutralisation | silver nitrate | Sin Nombre | sinus node | sodium nitrate | solitary nucleus | spinal nerve | splanchnic nerve | spontaneous nystagmus | staff nurse | stromal nodule | student nurse | substantia nigra | supernatant | supernumerary | suprasternal notch | sural nerve | sinus node | sinus node

SNAFU

SNAFU Stands For : situation normal

SNMAC

SNMAC Stands For : Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee

SNMT

SNMT Stands For : systematic nutritional muscle testing

SNOMED

SNOMED Stands For : Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine | Systematized NOMenclature of MEDicine

SNP

SNP Stands For : School Nurse Practitioner | Scottish Nationalist Party (!) | single nucleotide polymorphism (!) | sinonasal polyposis | sinus node potential | sodium nitroprusside | synaptophysin | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism | Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

SNR

SNR Stands For : signal to noise ratio

SNTN

SNTN Stands For : Scottish National Training Number

SO

SO Stands For : salpingo-oophorectomy | second opinion | secondary oocyte | shoulder orthosis | sine oculis (gene) | sleep onset | sphincter of Oddi | standing orders | suggestive of | superior oblique | superior olive | superoxide | systolic output | Senior Opinion | Some Of | Supraorbital | Sutures Out

SOA

SOA Stands For : schedule of accommodation | secondary organic aerosol | spinal opioid anaesthesia | statement of accountability | super output areas | swelling of ankles | Sulphate Of Ammonia | Save Our Animals

SOAD

SOAD Stands For : second opinion appointed doctor

SOAP

SOAP Stands For : subjective | systolic ophthalmic artery pressure | Shipley Ophthalmic Assessment Programme | Subjective Objective Assesment Plan | Subjective

SOC

SOC Stands For : scene of crime | sense of coherence | sequential oral contraceptive | serum osteocalcin | small outer capsid | spin orbit coupling | standard of care | standard(s) of care | start of care | state of consciousness | store-operated channel | strategic outline case | standard(s) of care | Standards Of Care | Stream Of Consciousness

SOCC

SOCC Stands For : Selly Oak Commissioning Consortium

SOCITM

SOCITM Stands For : Society of Information Technology Managers

SOD

SOD Stands For : schedule of delegation | segmental odontomaxillary dysplasia | septo-optic dysplasia | statement of deficiency | SuperOxide Dismutase | Septo Optic Dysplasia | Septo Optic Dysplasia | Sodium | Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction | SuperOxide Dismutase

SODoH

SODoH Stands For : Scottish Department of Health

SofH

SofH Stands For : Secretary of Health

SOHHD

SOHHD Stands For : Scottish Office Home and Health Department (said to be extinct)

SOLIACS

SOLIACS Stands For : Solian Solution in the Acute Setting

SOLMANIA

SOLMANIA Stands For : Comparison of Valproate-Amisulpride and Valproate-Haloperidol in Bipolar I Patients (clinical trial)

SOMI

SOMI Stands For : sterno-occipital-mandibular immobilizer | Sternal Occipital Mandibular Immobilizer

SON

SON Stands For : school of nursing | superior ovarian nerve | supraorbital nerve

SORAG

SORAG Stands For : Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide

SOSIG

SOSIG Stands For : Social Science Information Gateway

SP

SP Stands For : sclerosing peritonitis | secondary polycythaemia | secretory piece | seizure prone | senile plaque | septum pellucidum | serine protease | serum protein | severe periodontitis | sialadenoma papilliferum | slow potential | social phobia | sodium pentobarbital | soft palate | solid phase | soluble protein | spastic paralysis | spectrophotometry | speech pathology | sphincter preservation | spinous process | spontaneous pneumothorax | spontaneous proliferation | standard practice | standard procedure | standardised patient | stationary phase | strateg

SPA

SPA Stands For : sheep pulmonary adenomatosis | shrinking pleuritis with atelectasis | Small Practices Association | soluble protective antigen | spastic ataxia | sperm penetration assay | sphenopalatine artery | spinal anaesthesia | spondyloarthropathy | spontaneous physical activity | spontaneous platelet aggregation | staphylococcal protein A | structured professional activities | superficial palmar arch | supporting professional activities | suprapubic (bladder) aspiration | surfactant protein A | Scottish Prescribing Analysis | Super Powerful Amphetamine

SPAIN

SPAIN Stands For : Social Policy Ageing Information Network

SPC

SPC Stands For : salicylamide | salivary protein complex | second primary cancer | seropositive carrier | single palmar crease | slow potential change | soy protein concentrate | specialist palliative care | spinal cord | spleen cell | standard platelet concentrate | stromal precursor cells | sulcal prefrontal cortex | superior pharyngeal constrictor | suprapubic catheter | synthesising protein complex | Standard Program Category | Standard Plate Count | Statistical Process Control

SPfIT

SPfIT Stands For : Southern Programme for IT

SPG

SPG Stands For : spastic paraplegia | specific gravity | sphenopalatine ganglion | splenoportography | systolic pressure gradient | Security Policy Group | Sponge | Standardized Potency Guaranteed

SPIN

SPIN Stands For : Sandwell Public Information | Social Phobia Inventory | speech perception in noise | Special Pet In Need

SPL

SPL Stands For : serum prolactin level | service plan | spiriform nucleus | spleen | splenectomy | spondylolysis | structured product label | superior parietal lobe | Splint | Sub-Palpebral Lavage

SPM

SPM Stands For : scapuloperoneal myopathy | second primary malignancy | social and preventive medicine | Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine | spatiotemporal population map | spontaeous pneumomediastinum | statistical parametric map | synaptic plasma membrane | synaptosomal plasma membrane | syncytiotrophoblast plasma membranes | Special Purpose Monitor | spontaneous pneumomediastinum

SPMS

SPMS Stands For : secondary progressive multiple sclerosis | specialist primary medical services | specialist provider medical services

SPP

SPP Stands For : salmon pancreatic polypeptide | Sexuality Preference Profile | signal peptide peptidase | skin perfusion pressure | small plaque parapsoriasis | suprapubic prostatectomy

SPR

SPR Stands For : sarcoplasmic reticulum | scanned projection radiography | selective posterior rhizotomy | skin pathergy reaction | skin potential response | Society for Pediatric Radiology | solid phase radioimmunoassay | substance P receptor | The Society for Pediatric Radiology | Sprain | Spray

SPRAT

SPRAT Stands For : Sheffield Peer Review Assessment Tool

SPS

SPS Stands For : semipermeable surface | simple partial seizure | simulated patient surgery | slow potential shift | Social Phobia Scale | specialised services | standard payroll system | standard population sample | Suicide Probability Scale | superior petrosal sinus | surgical pathology staging | systemic progressive sclerosis | Small Polyp Stony | Small Polyped Stony

SPT

SPT Stands For : second primary tumour | secretin-pancreozymin test | serine palmitoyl | single patient trial | single primary tumour | skin prick test | Specialist Planning Team | Specialist Trainee | supportive periodontal therapy | symptomatic palatal tremor | skin-prick test | Spinal Tap | Start Puppy Training

SPV

SPV Stands For : saccadic peak velocity | sheep pox virus | simian parvovirus | special purpose vehicle (!) | splenoportovenography | statement of personal values | stentless porcine valve | systolic peak velocity | systolic pressure variation

SQC

SQC Stands For : service quality committee | squamous cell | squamous cell carcinoma

SQP

SQP Stands For : squamous cell papilloma | suitably-qualified person

SR

SR Stands For : sarcoplasmic reticulum | saturation recovery | scavenger receptor | Schatzki ring | seasonal rhinitis | secretion rate | self reported | self-replicating | Society of Radiographers | soluble receptor | somatostatin receptor | spacer region | spatial resolution | standard deviation | startle response | stellate reticulum | stereotactic radiosurgery | steroid receptor | stimulus-response | surface roughness | survival rate | suture removal | systematic review | Senior Registrar | Senior Resident | Side Rail | Stress Relaxation | Systemic Review | Se

SRB

SRB Stands For : sex ratio at birth | sulphate-reducing bacteria | Single Regeneration Budget | Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

SRCh

SRCh Stands For : State Registered Chiropodist (Podiatrist)

SRD

SRD Stands For : serous retinal detachment | service-related disability | signal response domain | Society for the Right to Die | State Registered Dietician | sustained rate duration

SRE

SRE Stands For : Schedule of Recent Events | Schedule of Recent Experience | serum response element | sex and relationship education | skeletal-related event | Society for Radiological Engineering | spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus | sterol regulatory element | sterol response element | serum response element | Serum Responsive Element | Skeletal Related Event

SRG

SRG Stands For : Scottish Resuscitation Group | selective recombinant genotyping | service-related group | specialty review group | Stakeholders Review Group | standard risk group | Systems Reform Group | Surgery

SRN

SRN Stands For : salt-resistant normotensive | superficial radial nerve | Subretinal neovascular membrane | Syringe

SRO

SRO Stands For : Senior Responsible Owner | shortest region of overlap | State Review Officer | subject-reported outcome

SRSAG

SRSAG Stands For : supraregional services advisory group | This term got 51 hits (19102011)

SS

SS Stands For : safe sex | safer sex | salbutamol sulphate | saline solution | Salmonella-Shigella (agar) | same sex | saturation solution | sedation score | seizure stage | seizure-sensitive | selective shunt | self service | self stimulation | self-selected | sepsis syndrome | septic shock | serum sickness | severity score | S̩zary syndrome | shear stress | short stature | sicca syndrome | side-to-side | sidestream smoke | silk suture | single stranded | Sj̦gren syndrome | skull series | sliding scale | social science | Social Security (US) | social suppor

SSAP

SSAP Stands For : Statement of Standard Accounting Practice (!) | Stage- Specific Activator Protein

SSARG

SSARG Stands For : standard spending assessment reduction grant | This term got 48 hits (25102011)

SSAT

SSAT Stands For : Social Security Appeals Tribunal‰ÛÒabolished in 2008 Its functions were transferred to First Tier Tribunal

SSBBW

SSBBW Stands For : super-sized big beautiful woman

SSBHM

SSBHM Stands For : super-sized big handsome man

SSC

SSC Stands For : Scientific and Standardization Committee | Sector Skills Council | shared services centre | steady state concentration | stromal stem cell | student selected components | superior semicircular canal | systemic scleroderma | systemic sclerosis | Size

SSCF

SSCF Stands For : Safer and Stronger Communities Fund

SSD

SSD Stands For : scleroderma spectrum disorders | segmental spinal dysgenesis | sexual size dimorphism | silver sulphadiazine | single sided deafness | single-strand damage | Social Services Department | speech-sound discrimination | steroid sulphatase deficiency | sterol-sensing domain | succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase | systemic scleroderma | Source-to-Surface Distance | subjective sleep disturbance | Source Skin Distance

SSDP

SSDP Stands For : Strategic Service Development Plan

SSfH

SSfH Stands For : Secretary of State for Health

SSHA

SSHA Stands For : Society of Sexual Health Advisers

SSI

SSI Stands For : Scale for Suicidal Ideation | segmental sequential irradiation | severity score index | single strand initiation | Social Services Inspectorate | somatic symptom index | standard spending indicator | stuttering severity instrument | surgical site infection | symptom severity index | Sliding Scale Insulin | surgical site infection | Sore Shoulder Improved | SSRI

SSIP

SSIP Stands For : strategic service implementation plan | This term got 11 hits on 25102011

SSIS

SSIS Stands For : Social Services Information System

SSM

SSM Stands For : serum-supplemented medium | skin-sparing mastectomy | slipped strand mispairing | solid-supported membrane | special study module | system status management | Superficial Spreading Melanoma

SSP

SSP Stands For : stingent starvation protein | sustained spike potentials | Sub-regional Strategic Partnership | Surgical Safety Product | Sequence Specific PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | Stigma S-associated Protein | ScintiSplenoPortography | Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis | Species Survival Plan

SSR

SSR Stands For : secondary sex ratio | service strategy and regulation | signal sequence receptor | single-strand region | site-specific recombination | sphincter-saving resection | Simple Sequence Repeat | Sympathetic skin response | Society for the Study of Reproduction

SSRADU

SSRADU Stands For : Social Services Research and Development Unit

SSRG

SSRG Stands For : Social Services Research Group

SSSI

SSSI Stands For : Site of Special Scientific Interest (!)

ST

ST Stands For : seizure threshold | seminiferous tubule | semitendinosus | sensory threshold | Shiga toxin | signal transduction | sinus tachycardia | skin temperature | skin testing | skinfold thickness | slow twitch | smokeless tobacco | sniff test | soft tissue | solid tumour | solitary tract | stable toxin | stage | standard therapy | standard treatment | stereotypy | sternothyroid | sternotrachealis | steroid therapy | stimulation | storage time | strength training | stress test | subacute thyroiditis | sulphathiazole | sulphotransferase | superior tempor

ST1

ST1 Stands For : Specialty trainee

ST2

ST2 Stands For : Specialty trainee

ST3

ST3 Stands For : Specialty trainee

STA

STA Stands For : second trimester abortion | Specialist Training Authority | standard tube agglutination | Staphylococcus aureus | sulfotransferase A | superficial temporal artery | superior thyroid artery | Specialist Training Authority (human

STAC

STAC Stands For : Scientific and Technical Advice Cell

STAR

STAR Stands For : Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement | Short-Term Assessment and Rehabilitation team | signal transduction and activation of RNA | Special Targeted | Specialty Training and Advanced Research | staged abdominal repair | Staphylokinase Recombinant Trial | Start Talking About Recovery | steroidogenic acute regulatory protein | Systems Test for Alternative Reimbursement | Supplemental Transport Ambulance Resource | Support | Study of Tamoxifen And Raloxifene | Shock Trauma Air Rescue | Sharing Treatment And Recovery | Specialised Trauma Air Response | Steps Tow

STAR PU

STAR PU Stands For : Specific therapeutic group age-sex prescribing unit

StBoP

StBoP Stands For : Shifting the Balance of Power

STC

STC Stands For : *Note Both terms are in active use; Specialty Training Committee is formally (per the GMC) preferred | sarcomatoid thymic carcinoma | serum total cholesterol | shock trauma centre | spatiotemporal convergence | special treatment clinic | Specialist Training Committee* | Specialty Training Committee* | Short Term Care

STD

STD Stands For : ST-segment depression | Sexually Transmitted Disease | Skeletal Transcript Database | Sterilized Testing Developer | Sexual Tension Disorder | Sexually Transmitted Disease | Short-Term Depression | Skin Test Dose | Small Testicle Disorder | Standard | Standing Tremor Disorder | Sheep Transmitted Disease

STEIS

STEIS Stands For : Strategic Executive Information System

STEP

STEP Stands For : serial transverse enteroplasty | Standards Enforcement in Procurement | striatal enriched phosphatase | Surgical Training and Education Programme (STEP course)

STG

STG Stands For : Special Transitional Grant | Short Term Goal

StHA

StHA Stands For : Strategic health authority

STI

STI Stands For : science and technology information | serum trypsin inhibitor | sexually-transmitted infection | Sexually Transmitted Incident | Sexually Transmitted Infection | Structured Treatment Interruption | sexually transmitted infection | sexually transmitted infection(s) | sexually-transmitted infection | soft-tissue infection(s) | Severe Thumb Injury | Sexually Transmitted Infection | Signal Transduction Inhibitor | Soft Tissue Injury | Structured Treatment Interruptions | Systolic Time Interval

STIR

STIR Stands For : Short TI Inversion Recovery | Short T Inversion Recovery

STKH

STKH Stands For : stakeholder

STR

STR Stands For : scotopic threshold response | seven transmembrane receptor | short tandem repeat | single twitch response | soluble transferrin receptor | Specialty Registrar (StR) | Structured Training Report | subtotal resection | superior temporal region | supratrigeminal region | systolic time ratio | Special Tube Request | Short Tandem Repeats | Straight | Strain | Strength

STRAP

STRAP Stands For : Specialty Training Assessment Process

STRW

STRW Stands For : Support

STSS

STSS Stands For : short term support services | staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome | streptococcal toxic shock syndrome | streptococcal toxic shock syndrome

SU

SU Stands For : secretory unit | single unit | solar urticaria | substance use | sulphonylurea | Stroke Unit

SUDI

SUDI Stands For : sudden unexplained death in infancy/an infant

SUI

SUI Stands For : serious untoward incident (serious incident requiring investigation) | simple user interface | stress urinary incontinence | suicide | Specific Uptake Inhibitor

SURE

SURE Stands For : Service User Research Enterprise

SUS

SUS Stands For : Secondary Uses Service (Programme) | Society of University Surgeons | solitary ulcer syndrome | stained urinary sediment | Suspension

SUS programme

SUS programme Stands For : Secondary Users Service Programme

SVA

SVA Stands For : sagittal vertical access | selective vagotomy and antrectomy | sinus of Valsalva aneurysm | subtotal villous atrophy | Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults | Selective Visceral Angiography | Shell Vial Assay | Serrano Village Association | SupraVentricular Arrhythmia | Singapore Veterinary Association

SWAG

SWAG Stands For : Specialist Workforce Advisory Group | stupid wild-ass guess

SWAT

SWAT Stands For : SWitching to Abilify Trial | Sit | Special Well Armed Team | Straight White Attractive Teeth | Stress

SWBHT

SWBHT Stands For : Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital Trust

SWG

SWG Stands For : Service Working Group | Settlement Working Group | Specialty Working Group

SWOT

SWOT Stands For : Strengths | Sydney Welcome Orientation and Transition

SWSHA

SWSHA Stands For : South West Strategic Health Authority

T

T Stands For : Tesla | test/control | transitional care | treated/control | Tuberculosis | Thymine | Tired | Tuberculosis | Tamer

T&CS

T&CS Stands For : terms and conditions of service

T&O

T&O Stands For : trauma and orthopaedics

T&R

T&R Stands For : Treat and Release | Tenderness and rebound

T/C

T/C Stands For : table of contents

T1-12

T1-12 Stands For : Bones in the thoracic spine (upper back)

T2MD

T2MD Stands For : Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

TA

TA Stands For : Technology appraisalsor | Applanation tonometry | Tenth Amphetamine | Traffic Accident

TAB

TAB Stands For : team assessment of behaviour | temporal artery biopsy | thyroid antibodies | total androgen block | total autonomic block | Type A behaviour | Tumors | Tablet | Therapeutic Abortion | Touch And Breathe | tabella - tablet

TAC

TAC Stands For : tacrolimus | Technology Accreditation Commission | tetracaine-adrenaline-cocaine | therapeutically achievable concentration | total abdominal colectomy | total aganglionosis coli | Trainee Advisory Committee | transient aplastic crisis | transplant aspiration cytology | transverse aortic constriction | truncus arteriosus communis | Taxotere | Triple Antibiotic Cream | Tiger Authentication Committee

TACFIG

TACFIG Stands For : Town And Country Issues Financial Issues Group

TAG

TAG Stands For : T antigen | Technical Appraisals Guidance | Thalassaemia Action Group | tumour antigen | TriAcylGlycerol | Topical Antimicrobial Gel | Taxon Advisory Group

TALOBIA

TALOBIA Stands For : Theres a lot of it about

TALOIA

TALOIA Stands For : there‰Ûªs a lot of it about (!)

TAP

TAP Stands For : T cell activating protein | Thouless-Anderson-Palmer | tocopherol-associated protein | total alkaline phosphatase | toxicology and applied pharmacology | Trainee Assistant Practitioner | Training Application Performance | transluminal angioplasty | transmembrane action potential | transoesophageal atrial pacing | transporter for antigen presenting | transvaginal amniotic puncture | tricuspid angiplasty | trypsinogen activation peptide | Tip Associated Protein | Toxicological Agent Protective | Transporter for Antigen Processing | Twin Affinity Purification

TATT

TATT Stands For : tattoo | Tired All the Time | tired all the time (!)

TB

TB Stands For : taste buds | Taussig-Bing | temporal bone | term birth | terminal bronchiole | theobromine | thiabendazole | toluidine blue | total bilirubin | total biomass | total buffer | trabecular bone | tracheobronchial | trypan blue | Tuberculosisor Training Board | tumour bank | tumour-bearing | Tuberculosis | Thymol Blue | tuberculosis | Tissue Bank | Total body | Tuberculosis | Thoroughbred

TBA

TBA Stands For : tert butyl alcohol | testosterone-binding activity | to be admitted | To Be Announced or Arranged | total bile acids | trabecular bone area | tracheobronchial amyloidosis | traditional birth attendant | transluminal balloon angioplasty | trypsin-binding activity | Traditional Birth Attendent | Trained Birth Assistant | To Be Arranged | Thoroughbred Breeders Association | Tropical Biology Association

TBF

TBF Stands For : Total Body Failure | Total body fat

TBG

TBG Stands For : Thyroxine binding globulin capacity | Thyroid Binding Globulin

TC

TC Stands For : T cell | T cytotoxic | tacrolimus | talocalcaneal | taurocholate | teratocarcinoma | terminal cancer | Tertiary Careor | tetracycline | tetrahedral complex | theca cell | thymocyte | thyrocalcitonin | thyroid carcinoma | tobacco control | tongue carcinoma | tonic clonic | tonic contraction | total colectomy | total coliform | total communication | Total Communicationor | Town Councilor | transcobalamin | transhepatic cholangiography | transitional carcinoma | transitional care | transplant centre | trauma centre | treatment centre | trichilemmal

TCA

TCA Stands For : trichloroacetic acidor | TriCyclic Antidepressants | Tricyclic Anti-Depressant | trichloroacetic acid | Tricyclic Antidepressant | Transient Cerebral Accident (mini-stroke)

TCBL

TCBL Stands For : temporary capital borrowing limit | Temporary Capital Borrowing Limit (part of capital control framework)

TCI

TCI Stands For : target-controlled infusion | to come in (!) | total cerebral ischaemia | transient cerebral ischaemia | transient cognitive impairment | Therapeutic Crisis Intervention | to come in (for appt) | Transient Cerebral Ischemia | Thermal Comfort Inventory | to come in | Transient Cerebral Ischemia

TCP

TCP Stands For : thalamocortical projection | therapeutic class profile | total circulating protein | Total Commissioning Pilot | Total Commissioning Project | tricalcium phosphate | tropical calcific pancreatitis | Trivalent Chromium Pretreatment | Tumor Control Probability | ThromboCytoPenia | Tablet

TCR

TCR Stands For : Teenage Conception Rate | T Cell Receptor | T Cell Receptor | T Cell Receptor

TCS

TCS Stands For : terms and conditions of service | tethered cord syndrome | tonic-clonic seizure | topical corticosteroids | tracheal cartilaginous sleeve | Transforming Community Services

TDB

TDB Stands For : toxicology databank | Tracking Database

TDHC

TDHC Stands For : The Doctors Healthcare Company | The Doctors Healthcare Company‰ÛÒsubsumed by Sonic Healthcare Ltd in 2002

TDS

TDS Stands For : ter die sumendum - Three Times Daily | Ter Die Sumendus (three times a day) | Three Times Daily | travelers diarrhea sequelae | Total Dissolved Solids | Ter Die Sumendum (three times a day)

TEACCH

TEACCH Stands For : Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children

TEACCH XX

TEACCH XX Stands For : Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children

TEC

TEC Stands For : thiotepa | thromboembolic complications | thymic epithelial cell | thyroid epithelial cell | total eosinophil count | tracheal epithelial cells | Training and Enterprise Council (extinct) | Training and Enterprise Council (now abolished) | Transluminal Endarterectomy Catheter | Tubular Epithelial Cell

TED

TED Stands For : Training | thrombo embolism deterrent | Tending To Emotional Disorders | Thrombo Embolism Deterrent | Thyroid Eye Disease | Total Effective Dose

TEETH

TEETH Stands For : tried everything else | tried everything else

TEL

TEL Stands For : telencephalon | There were 33 hits for this term on 25102011 | translocation E26 leukaemia | Trust Executive Letter

TELCO

TELCO Stands For : The East London Communities Organisation

TENS

TENS Stands For : transcutaneous electro-nerve stimulator An electronic pain relief machine | Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation | Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation | Trans-Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome | Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

TERN

TERN Stands For : Trans European Road Network

TERS

TERS Stands For : Testing Environments and Related Services

TFT

TFT Stands For : Thin Film DisplayTG Triglycerides | Tectonic Fallopian Tunnel | Thyroid Function Test

THUNDERBURDS

THUNDERBURDS Stands For : The High User Number Delivering Early Referrals By Urgent Right Direction System | There were 3 hits for this term on 25102011 It is probably retired

TIA

TIA Stands For : temporary injury allowance | thrombosis-inducing activity | total intestinal aganglionosis | trabecular iris angle | Traffic Impact Assessment | transient ischaemic attack | Transient Ischaemic Attackor | trypsin inhibitor activity | tumour-induced angiogenesis | Transient Ischemic Attack | transient ischemic attack | Transient Ischemic Attack | Trouble In Arteries

TICK

TICK Stands For : Teamwork

TICS

TICS Stands For : Trafford Integrated Care Services | Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status

TID

TID Stands For : Three Times Daily | Ter In Die (Three times a day) | Ter In Die | Three Times A Day | Ter In Die (Three times a day)

TIE

TIE Stands For : TGF-beta inhibitory element | transient ischaemic episode | translation inhibitory element | Toxicity Identification Evaluation | Treatment Information Exchange

TIP

TIP Stands For : Telemedicine Instrumentation Pack | terminal interphalangeal | translation-inhibiting protein | Trauma Intervention Program | Thylakoid Insertion Protein | Treatment Improvement Protocol

TIS

TIS Stands For : Technical Information Services | Technical Informations Services | tetracycline-induced steatosis | titanium interbody spacer | totally implantable system | toxic infectious shock | triage illness scale | trypsin-insoluble segment

TLA

TLA Stands For : theta-like activity | thymus leukaemia antigen | time-limited admission | translumbar aortogram | translumbar aortography | transluminal angioplasty | tumescent local anaesthesia

TLC

TLC Stands For : Tender loving care - what you need when the doctors have finished with you | Tender Loving Care | Theraputic Living Center | Total Luxury Care | Thin-Layer Chromatography | Tender Loving Care | Tumescent Liposuction Contouring | Tender Loving Care | Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes | Total Leg Control | Total Lung Capacity | Total Lymphocyte Count | Three Legged Cat | Tiger Loving Care

TLOC

TLOC Stands For : Total Loss Of Consciousness

TMB

TMB Stands For : theoretical mechanistic biochemistry | too many birthdays (!) | transient monocular blindness

TME

TME Stands For : Total Managed Expenditure | transmissible mink encephalopathy | true metabolisable energy | Trust Management Executive | Total Mesorectal Excision

TMG

TMG Stands For : thymoglobulin | toxic multinodular goitre | transitional management group | trimethylguanosine | Thiazolylmethylguanidine

TMI

TMI Stands For : Triage of Minor Illness

TMJ

TMJ Stands For : TemporoMandibular Joints Disorder | Temporo-Mandibular Joint | temporomandibular joint | Temporo-Mandibular Joint

TMS

TMS Stands For : tandem mass spectrometry | telemetry monitoring service | thallium myocardial scintigraphy | total motile sperm | trace mineral salt | Transaction Messaging Service | Treasury Management Strategy | trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole | Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome | Tension Myositis Syndrome | Touch Massage Stroke | Transcortical Macrocephalic Sensing | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

TMT

TMT Stands For : Trust Management Team | Trail Making Test | Tarso- Metatarsal joint

TNF

TNF Stands For : Tumour Necrosis Factor | Tumor Necrosis Factor | tumor-necrosis factor | TUMOR NECROSING FACTOR | Tumor Necrosis Factor

TOD

TOD Stands For : target organ damage | target organ disease | took own discharge | total optical density | Time of Death

TOE

TOE Stands For : tender on examination | transoesophageal echocardiography | TransOesophageal Echocardiogram

TOP

TOP Stands For : Termination of pregnancyor Topically | Termination of pregnancy | Theory Of Practice | Termination Of Pregnancy | Topically | Topical

TOPS

TOPS Stands For : Termination of Pregnancy Service | tuberculosis outreach and prevention service | Teenage Oncology Patient Support

TOPSS

TOPSS Stands For : Training Organisation for Personal Social Services

TORCH

TORCH Stands For : Treatment Outreach and Rehabilitation Service | Toxoplasmosis Other Rubella Cytomegalovirus And Herpes

TP

TP Stands For : tea polyphenols | teenage pregnancy | telepathology | temperature and pressure | temporal peak | temporal pole | temporoparietal | tender point | tension pneumothorax | tensor palati | term pregnancy | terminal phalanx | terminal phase | testosterone propionate | theta pattern | ThinPrep | thiopental | thrombocytopaenia | thrombocytopaenic purpura | thromboplastin | thymic peptide | thymidine phosphorylase | tibialis posterior | tinea pedis | tissue pressure adjective | tongue protrusion | topotecan | torsades de pointes | torus palatinus | total

TPAS

TPAS Stands For : Tenants Participation Advisory Service

TPB

TPB Stands For : Transformation Programme Board | Theory of Planned Behavior

TPC

TPC Stands For : Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator | thyroid papillary carcinoma | time to peak contrast | total patient care | total plasma catecholamines | total plasma cholesterol | total protein content | touch preparation cytology | treatment planning conference | Total Psoriasis Cure

TPD

TPD Stands For : Therapeutic Products Directorate (Canada) | threatened preterm delivery | tidal peritoneal dialysis | Training Programme Director | tropical pancreatic diabetes | temperature-programmed desorption | Temporary Partial Disability | Total and Permanent Disability

TPE

TPE Stands For : Therapeutic Plasma Exchange | Tuberculous Pleural Effusion

TPIT

TPIT Stands For : trigger point injection therapy

TPN

TPN Stands For : triphosphopyridine nucleotide | Total Parenteral Nutrition | Total Parenteral Nutrition | Total Parenteral Nutrition

TPP

TPP Stands For : third-party processor | total plasma protein | total purchasing project | Total Purchasing Projector | Transport Policies & Programmesor | Trust Patient Panel | Thiamine PyroPhosphate | Ternary Pulse Position

TPPE

TPPE Stands For : Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Executive | This term got 6 hits on 10112011

TPQ

TPQ Stands For : Three-dimensional Personality Questionnaire | Threshold Planning Quanity | Tox Poacher Quest

TPR

TPR Stands For : Temperature | Tubular phosphate reabsorption | Tissue-Phantom Ratio | TEMPERATURE | Temperature Pulse Respiration | Temperature | Total Peripheral Resistance

TPT

TPT Stands For : Teenage Pregnancy Team | Thrombosis Prevention Trial | tibialis posterior tendon | time-to-peak tension | topotecan | triphalangeal thumb | triphenyltin

TPU

TPU Stands For : Teenage Pregnancy Unit | tissue perfusion unit

TR

TR Stands For : repetition time | Technical Release (term used by Audit Commission) | Taste Receptor | Temperature | Tincture | Trace | Trauma | tumor response

TRALI

TRALI Stands For : Transfusion related Acute Lung Injury

TraMS

TraMS Stands For : Training Messaging Service

TRBL

TRBL Stands For : Temporary Revenue Borrowing Limit (part of capital control framework) | Temporary Revenue-Borrowing Limit

TRC

TRC Stands For : tanned red cells | total renin concentration | Training Resource Centre | transplant-related complications

TRIP

TRIP Stands For : Transforming the Radiological imaging Process | TAR RNA Interacting Protein | Travel-Related Immunization Program | turning research into practice

TRIPS

TRIPS Stands For : Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights

TRO

TRO Stands For : thyroid-related orbitopathy | time ran out | Time Ran Outor | Traffic Regulation Order | transtrochanteric rotational osteotomy | To Rule Out | To return to office

TRP

TRP Stands For : Trust Recovery Plan | Transient Receptor Potential | Transient Receptor Potential | Tumor Repressor Protein

TRS

TRS Stands For : Trust Reconfiguration Strategy | Treatment Recovery System | Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia

TRUD

TRUD Stands For : Technology Reference data Update Distribution

TRUD Service

TRUD Service Stands For : Terminology Reference-data Update Distribution Service

TSC

TSC Stands For : Technical Sub-Committeeor | technical subcommittee | tethered spinal cord | thiazide-sensitive cotransporter | thymic stromal cells | total serum cholesterol | total symptom complex | Transforming Social Care | trauma symptom checklist | Tuberous sclerosis complex | Thermal Shock Chamber | Triage Station Controller | Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

TSE

TSE Stands For : testicular self-examination | total skin examination | tESTICULAR SELF-EXAM | TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION | Testicular Self Examination | Transcutaneous Spinal Electroanalgesia | Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy

TSG

TSG Stands For : Technical Specification Group | Terminology Steering Group | The Surgeon General (US) | Transition Steering Group | Transport Supplementary Grant | tumour suppressor gene | tumour-specific glycoprotein | Tumor Suppressor Gene

TSO

TSO Stands For : The Stationery Office (formerly Her Majestys Stationery Office) | The Stationery Office‰ÛÒformerly | transient spastic occlusion

TSP

TSP Stands For : thermosensitive period | total serum protein | total sleep period | Training Support Programme | transcription start point | tropical spastic paraparesis | Truncated Signal Peptide | Total Suspended Particulate | TeaSPoon (5 mL) | Thoracic SPine | Team Sick Puppy

TSS

TSS Stands For : Total Standard Spending | transphenoidal surgery | tropical splenomegaly syndrome | Therapeutic Staff Support | Transcription Start Site | toxic shock syndrome | Therapeutic Staff Support | Toxic Shock Syndrome

TSST

TSST Stands For : Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin

TSSU

TSSU Stands For : Theatre Sterile Supplies Unit

TTA

TTA Stands For : tablets to take away | Teacher Training Agencyor To Take Away | tetanus toxoid antigen | total toe arthroplasty | transtibial amputation | transtracheal aspiration

TTBT

TTBT Stands For : Towards the Best Together

TTFO

TTFO Stands For : Told to F%$# Off

TTO

TTO Stands For : To take home - 5 days supply of medication | TransTracheal Oxygen

TTPO

TTPO Stands For : Told to Piss Off | Tone Temperature and Pulse OK

TTS

TTS Stands For : Trust Transformation Strategy | Transdermal Therapeutic System | Tumour Targeted Superantigens | Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome | Transdermal Therapeutic Safety

TTT

TTT Stands For : train the trainers | Transpupillary ThermoTheraphy | Twin to Twin Transfusion | Tibial Tubercle Transfer | Tibial Tendon Transfer | tripartite tricarboxylate transporters | The Tortoise Trust

TTWA

TTWA Stands For : Travel To Work Area

TUBE

TUBE Stands For : Totally Unnecessary Breast Examination

TUBS

TUBS Stands For : Traumatic Unilateral lesion with Bankart lesion and usually requiring surgery

TUC

TUC Stands For : Trades Union Congress | transurethral coagulation | Time Of Useful Consciousness

TUPE

TUPE Stands For : Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) | Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981

TV

TV Stands For : Transfer Value | Total Vagotomy | Truncal Vagotomy | Total Volume | Target Volume | Tumor Volume | Tinea Versicolor | Total Volume | Trans-Vaginal | Trichomonas Vaginalis | Tricuspid Valve

TVD

TVD Stands For : Total Virus Defense | Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia

TVF

TVF Stands For : Team | The Viral Factory | The Viral Factory

TWES

TWES Stands For : Training and Work Experience Scheme

TWES Permit

TWES Permit Stands For : Training Work Experience Scheme Permit

TWG

TWG Stands For : total weight gain

TWOC

TWOC Stands For : Taking Without Consent (of cars) | Trial WithOut Catheter A patient who has been catheterised because he or she (but usually he) cannot pass urine | Trial WithOut Catheter

Txp

Txp Stands For : Transport

U&E

U&E Stands For : Urea & Electrolytes - blood test

UA

UA Stands For : Unitary Authority (Unitary Council) | Ultrasonic Arteriography | Unitary Authority | Upper Airway | Uterine Activity | UrinAlysis | Urinary Albumin | UrinAnalysis | Umbilical Artery | under anesthesia | Unicystic Ameloblastoma | Unstable Angina | Upper Arm | Uric Acid | Urinalysis | Uterine Artery | Uterine Aspiration

UAP

UAP Stands For : unified assessment process | unstable angina pectoris | urban air particles | urinary acid phosphatase | urinary alkaline phosphatase | Ubiquitin Associated Protein

UASC

UASC Stands For : Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children | unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

UASSG

UASSG Stands For : Unlinked Anonymous Surveys Steering Group

UB

UB Stands For : ultimobranchial body | umbilical blood | unbound bilirubin | unconjugated bilirubin | Unemployment Benefit (JSA‰ÛÒjob seekers‰Ûª allowance) | Unemployment Benefit (now JSA) | Unna boot | upper back | ureteric bud | urinary bladder

UBC

UBC Stands For : ubiquitin C | ubiquitin-conjugating | unilateral breast cancer | United Birmingham Consortium | urinary bladder cancer | Ustilago Bypass of Cyclase

UBHT

UBHT Stands For : United Bristol Healthcare Trust

UBRN

UBRN Stands For : Unique Booking Reference Number

UC

UC Stands For : unitary council | Urgent Care | University of California | Usual Conditions | ulcerative colitis | Ulcerative colitis | Unassisted Childbirth | Unchanged | Unconscious | Uterine Contractions

UCA

UCA Stands For : Urgent Care Administrator | User Created Animal

UCAS

UCAS Stands For : Universities College Admission Service

UCAS XX

UCAS XX Stands For : Universities and Colleges Admission Service

UCC

UCC Stands For : University College Corkor Urgent Care Centre | Urgent Care Center | urgent care clinic

UCCT

UCCT Stands For : Urgent Care Call Taker

UCH

UCH Stands For : ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase | University College Hospital | University College of Hammersmith | University of Chicago Hospital | University of Colorado Hospital

UCL

UCL Stands For : unilateral cleft lip | University College of London | upper collateral ligament | Ulnar Collateral Ligament

UCLH

UCLH Stands For : University College London Hospitals

UCRG

UCRG Stands For : User and Carer Reference Group

UCS

UCS Stands For : Urgent Care Strategy | Unconditioned stimulus | Unconscious

UDA

UDA Stands For : undecanoic acid | Unit of Dental Activity

UDC

UDC Stands For : Urban District Council (obsolete except in Ireland) now replaced by MBCsor Urban Development Corporation | usual diseases of childhood

UECA

UECA Stands For : Urgent & Emergency Care Assessment

UEMS

UEMS Stands For : EUROPEAN UNION OF MEDICAL SPECIALISTS

UGM

UGM Stands For : Unit General Manager

UHB

UHB Stands For : University Hospitals Birmingham | upstream homology box | University Hospital Birmingham | University Hospital of Brooklyn

UHBFT

UHBFT Stands For : University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust | University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust

UHBT

UHBT Stands For : University Hospital Birmingham Trust

UICC

UICC Stands For : Union Internationale Contre le Cancer | Union Internationale Contre le Cancer - International Union Against Cancer

UK ADCU

UK ADCU Stands For : UK Anti-Drugs Coordination Unit

UK AN

UK AN Stands For : UK Advocacy Network

UK BA

UK BA Stands For : UK Border Agency

UK CC

UK CC Stands For : United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing

UK CEA XX

UK CEA XX Stands For : UK Conference of Postgraduate Education Advisers in General Practice

UK CHHO

UK CHHO Stands For : UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes (in operation from 1992 to 1996)

UK CHIP

UK CHIP Stands For : UK Council for Health Informatics Professions

UK CRC

UK CRC Stands For : UK Clinical Research Collaboration

UK CRN

UK CRN Stands For : UK Clinical Research Network

UK ECA

UK ECA Stands For : UK Ethics Committee Authority

UK FPO XX

UK FPO XX Stands For : UK Foundation Programme Office

UK HfaN

UK HfaN Stands For : UK Health for all Network

UK OLN

UK OLN Stands For : UK Office for Library and Information Networking

UK PHA

UK PHA Stands For : UK Public Health Association

UK TC

UK TC Stands For : UK Terminology Centre

UK TSSA

UK TSSA Stands For : United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority

UK XIRA

UK XIRA Stands For : UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority (extinct as of 2006)

UKADCU

UKADCU Stands For : UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit (formerly Drugs Co-ordination Unit)

UKAN

UKAN Stands For : United Kingdom Advocacy Network

UKCC

UKCC Stands For : United Kingdom Central Council | United Kingdom Cochrane Centre | United Kingdom Central Council (for nursing

UKDIPG

UKDIPG Stands For : United Kingdom Drug Information Pharmacists Group

UKHFAN

UKHFAN Stands For : United Kingdom Health for All Network

UKOLN

UKOLN Stands For : The UK Office for Library and Information Networking

UKPHA

UKPHA Stands For : United Kingdom Public Health Alliance

UKPHLS

UKPHLS Stands For : UK Public Health Link System

UKTSSA

UKTSSA Stands For : United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority

ULC

ULC Stands For : unit labour cost | Unit Labour Cost - Staff cost required to provide a given unit of activity

ULF

ULF Stands For : Union Learning Fund

ULTRA

ULTRA Stands For : Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority | Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority (obs)

UMIST

UMIST Stands For : University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (obs)

UNHS

UNHS Stands For : Universal Neonatal Health Screening

UNICEF

UNICEF Stands For : United Nations Childrens Fund

UNISON

UNISON Stands For : Trades Union for public sector workers

UPA

UPA Stands For : Underpriviledged Area - a measure of deprivation 0 is the mean for England | underprivileged area | Urokinase Plasminogen Activator

URAS

URAS Stands For : unilateral renal artery stenosis | Universal Resource Allocation System

URC

URC Stands For : Urban Regeneration Companyor | Utilization Review Committee

URG

URG Stands For : Use of Resources Group | Urgent

URL

URL Stands For : Universal/Uniform Resource locator | upper range limit | upper rate limit | upper reference limit

URTT

URTT Stands For : Urgent Referral to Treatment

US

US Stands For : Ultra sound | UltraSound | Unit Standard | UltaSound | UltraSound | Unconditioned Stimulus | Uterine Suspension

USS

USS Stands For : universal spine system | Upshaw-Schulman syndrome | uptake signal sequence | ureterosigmoidostomy | ultrasound scan

UST

UST Stands For : user site testing | Unresolved Sexual Tension

UTD

UTD Stands For : Unit Training Director

UTF

UTF Stands For : Urban Task Force | Undifferentiated embryonic cell Transcription Factor

UTG

UTG Stands For : Most of the hits are pre-Modernising Medical Careers (2007) UTG may be equivalent to the current run-through training schemes | Unified Training Grade

UV

UV Stands For : ultra violetor | Ultra Vires | Ultraviolet | Urinary Volume

VA

VA Stands For : valproic acid | vanillic acid | variant angina | vascular access | vasodilating agent | vasospastic angina | ventricular aneurysm | ventricular arrhythmia | Veteran‰Ûªs Administration | voluntary action | voluntary aided | Vote Account | visual acuity | Vacuum aspiration | Ventriculo Atrial | Vertebral Artery | Visual Acuity | Volume Of Alveolar

VAD

VAD Stands For : Ventricular Assist Device | Ventricular Access Device | Vertebral Artery Dissection | Vitamin A Deficiency

VAERS

VAERS Stands For : Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System

VAM

VAM Stands For : Voluntary Action Manchester - gives advice | Vesicle Arbuscular Mycorrhizae | Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae | Virtual Anesthesia Machine

VAMP

VAMP Stands For : A GP information system supplier group | Note This term and appears in White‰Ûªs NHS Jargon Explained With 28 (!) hits (18102011) | Vesicle Associated Membrane Protein

VB

VB Stands For : vacuum biopsy | venous blood | vertebral body | vinblastine | voided bladder | Vaginal Backwash | Vitamin B

VBAC

VBAC Stands For : vaginal birth after caesarean | Vaginal Birth After Ceasarean | Vaginal Birth After Cesarean | Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

VBS

VBS Stands For : Vetting & Barring Scheme

VC

VC Stands For : valid completer | variable coefficient | variable cost | varicocoele | vena cava | ventilatory capacity | vinyl chloride | visual cortex | vitamin C | voluntary controlled | Voluntary-Controlledor Variable Cost | Ventricular Contraction | Verbal Complex | Vital Capacity | Vocal Cord

VCC

VCC Stands For : Violent Crime Coordinator | Vista Community Clinic

VCFR

VCFR Stands For : Voluntary Community First Responder

VCO

VCO Stands For : vena cava occlusion | voluntary and community organisations

VCO(s)

VCO(s) Stands For : Voluntary and Community Organisation(s)

VCPPIH

VCPPIH Stands For : Voice: Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health

VCS

VCS Stands For : vascular closure system | Voluntary and Community Sector | Veterinary Cancer Society | Veterinary Cancer Society

VCT

VCT Stands For : venous clotting time | villous cytotrophoblast | voluntary (HIV) counselling and testing | Voluntary Competitive Tendering | Voluntary Counselling and Testing

VD

VD Stands For : Venereal disease - now usually called STD | Vaccine Dependent | Venereal Disease | Venereal Disease | Vaginal Discharge | Venereal Disease | Venous Dilation | Ventrodorsal | Visual Discrimination

VDRFAMP

VDRFAMP Stands For : Note This term and the abbreviation appears in White‰Ûªs NHS Jargon Explained With 2 (!) hits (18102011) | Vascular Disease Risk Factor Assessment and Management Process

VENC

VENC Stands For : velocity encoding

VESA

VESA Stands For : Video Electronic Standard Association | Very Early Surgical Abortion | Very Early Surgical Abortion

VFMU

VFMU Stands For : value for money unit

VHI

VHI Stands For : voluntary health insurance | Voluntary Health Insurance (Ireland) | Veterinary Heart Institute | Veterinary Heart Institute

VHIU

VHIU Stands For : very high intensity user

VIAN

VIAN Stands For : Voices for Improvement Action Network

VLCAD

VLCAD Stands For : Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase | Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency

VMA

VMA Stands For : vanilmandelic acid | Vanillylmandelic Acid | VanillylMandelic Acid | Vacuolar Membrane Arc | Vitesse Maximale AÌ©robie

VOCOSE

VOCOSE Stands For : Note This term appears in White‰Ûªs NHS Jargon Explained With 25 hits (25102011) | Voluntary

VPC

VPC Stands For : Ventricular Premature Contraction | Vein Pressure Controller | Vein Pressure Converter | Ventricular premature contractions | Vision Plus Comfort | Veterinary Products Committee (of Veterinary Medicines Directorate)

VPE

VPE Stands For : Virtual Private Exchange | Virtual Private Exchange (type of internal telephone network)

VPG

VPG Stands For : Vulnerable People & Groups | Veterinary Policy Group (of BVA)

VPX

VPX Stands For : Virtual Private Exchange

VRAG

VRAG Stands For : Violence Risk Appraisal Guide

VRSA

VRSA Stands For : Vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus | Vancomycin-resistant (VRSA) infection | Vancomycin Resistant Staph Aureus

VS

VS Stands For : vaccine serotype | vagal stimulation | vaginal stimulation | vaginal swab | vegetative state | ventilatory support | ventricular septum | vestibular schwannoma | Veterinary Surgeon | vibration sense | vibration syndrome | viridans streptococci | vital sign | voluntary sterilisation | Vesicular Sounds | Vital Signs | Venusian Slug

VSA

VSA Stands For : vasospastic angina | Vital Signs Absentor Volatile Substance Abuse | Vital Sign‰ÛÒNational Operating Framework targets | volatile substance abuse | Vital Signs Absent

VSB

VSB Stands For : Veterinary Surgeons Board | Vital Sign‰ÛÒNational priorities for local action | Veterinary Surgeons Board (Hong Kong)

VSC

VSC Stands For : ventral spinal cord | Vital Sign‰ÛÒTargets for local action | Voluntary Service Co-ordinator | voluntary service coordinator | voluntary surgical contraception | Vertebral Subluxation Complex

VSF

VSF Stands For : Voluntary Sector Forum

VSNAG

VSNAG Stands For : Voluntary Sector National Advisory Group

VSNTO

VSNTO Stands For : Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation

VSO

VSO Stands For : Voluntary Sector Option | Voluntary Sector Option (New Deal)or Voluntary Service Overseas | voluntary sector organisation | voluntary service organisation | Voluntary Services Overseas | Voluntary Service Overseas

VSPG

VSPG Stands For : Voluntary Sector Policy and Grants

VSpR

VSpR Stands For : Visiting Specialist Registrar (not quite

VTE

VTE Stands For : ventricular tachycardic event | venous thromboembolic events | venous thromboembolism | Venous ThromboEmbolism

VTN

VTN Stands For : Vaccine Trials Network | Visiting Training Number | Visiting Training Number (VTN) | vitronectin

VTR

VTR Stands For : variable tandem repeat | vertical transmission rate | vesicular transport system | Vocational Training Record

VZV

VZV Stands For : Varicella-Zoster Virus | Varicella Zoster Virus | Varicella Zoster Virus

W3C Guidelines

W3C Guidelines Stands For : World Wide Web Consortium Guidelines

WAA

WAA Stands For : Working Age Agency

WADEM

WADEM Stands For : World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine

WAG

WAG Stands For : Welsh Assembly Governmentor

WAHAT

WAHAT Stands For : Given the paucity of hits‰ÛÒ58 on 25102011 | Welsh Association of Health Authorities and Trusts

WAIS

WAIS Stands For : Given the paucity of hits‰ÛÒ8 on 19102011 | Workplace Advocacy Information System | Wechslers Adult Intelligence Scale

WAP

WAP Stands For : Welfare Advice Partnership

WAST

WAST Stands For : Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust

WAT

WAT Stands For : work adjustment training | Workforce Action Team

WBA

WBA Stands For : western blot analysis | whole body autoradiography | workplace based assessment

WBC

WBC Stands For : White Blood Corpuscle or leukocyte | White Blood Cells | White Blood Cell | White Blood Cell | White Blood Cell count | White Blood Cell | White Blood Cell count

WCA

WCA Stands For : Waste Collection Authority

WCC

WCC Stands For : white collar complex | World Class Commissioning | White Cell Count | World Cornea Congress

WCCC

WCCC Stands For : Wales Civil Contingencies Committee

WCF

WCF Stands For : Weighted Capitation Formula

WCH

WCH Stands For : Wales Centre for Health | West Cornwall Hospital | white coate hypertension | Women‰Ûªs and Children‰Ûªs Hospital | Women‰Ûªs College Hospital | Washington County Hospital | Winnipeg Childrens Hospital | Womens and Childrens Hospital | Wood County Hospital

WCT

WCT Stands For : Weighted Capitation Targets | Wilson Central Terminal

WCVA

WCVA Stands For : Wales Council for Voluntary Action | World Congress of Veterinary Anesthesia

WD

WD Stands For : Warm/Dry | Wilson disease | wrist disarticulation | Well Developed | Wilson Disease | Wound | Water Dragon

WDC

WDC Stands For : Warwick Diabetes Centre | weighted diagnostic cover | Workforce Development Confederation

WDGH

WDGH Stands For : West Dorset General Hospitals

WDS

WDS Stands For : watery diarrhoea syndrome | Welsh Demographic Services

WeBNF

WeBNF Stands For : Web accessible BNF | web-based BNF‰ÛÒBritish National Formulary

WECIL

WECIL Stands For : West of England Centre for Independent Living

WEEER

WEEER Stands For : Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment Regulations

WEETU

WEETU Stands For : Womens Employment Enterprise and Training Unit

WEHCT

WEHCT Stands For : Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust

WEN

WEN Stands For : Womens Environment Network

WEP

WEP Stands For : West of England Partnership

WEST

WEST Stands For : Western European Stent Trial | Winter and Emergency Services Team | Womens Estrogen for Stroke Trial

WEWG

WEWG Stands For : Wales Emergencies Working Group

WF

WF Stands For : walking frame | warfarin | Weil-Felix | wheat flour | white finger | Willebrand factor | Work Foundation | Work Foundation (formerly Industrial Society) | Working Formulation | Wound Fluid | Wedge Factor | Well Formed | White Female | With Food

WFP

WFP Stands For : Working for Patients | World Federation of Parasitologists

WFTC

WFTC Stands For : Working Families Tax Credit now replaced by Tax Credits

WGLGFS

WGLGFS Stands For : Working Group on Local Government Financial Statistics (pronounced wugfluss)

WGSMT

WGSMT Stands For : Working Group on Specialist Medical Training

WHCSA

WHCSA Stands For : Welsh Health Common Services Agency (obsolete) Now part of Welsh Health Estates | Welsh Health Common Services Agency; extinct

WHDI

WHDI Stands For : This term got 20 hits on 25102011 It seems reasonable to assume this body is defunct | Welsh Health Development International

WHE

WHE Stands For : Welsh Health Estate | Welsh Health EstatesWHO World Health Organisation

WHH

WHH Stands For : West Heath Hospital | Humpback Whale | Welsh Hedgehog Hospital

WHIM

WHIM Stands For : warts

WHIN

WHIN Stands For : Womens Health Information Service | Western Healthcare Improvement Network | Wisconsin Health Information Network

WHP

WHP Stands For : Working Hours Policy | Whirlpool | Working Hunter Pony

WIC

WIC Stands For : Walk In Centre | walk-in centre | women

WIGS

WIGS Stands For : Women in Grey Suits | women in grey suits (!)

WIH

WIH Stands For : war is hell | Work in Hand | Western Isles Hospital

WIMS

WIMS Stands For : Works Information Management Scheme

WIS

WIS Stands For : Waiting-room Information Service

WIsH

WIsH Stands For : Welsh Innovations in Healthcare

WIST

WIST Stands For : Women in Surgical Training Scheme

WIST Scheme

WIST Scheme Stands For : Women In Surgical Training Scheme

WLBP

WLBP Stands For : Work ‰ÛÒ Life Balance Policy

WLGA

WLGA Stands For : Welsh Local Government Association

WM

WM Stands For : Waldenstr̦m macroglobulinaemia | ward manager | Western medicine | wet mount | white matter | white muscle | whole milk | working memory | workload measure | Workload Measure (eg OBD | White Mouse | white male | Waldenstroms Macroglobulinaemia | White Male

WMA

WMA Stands For : warm moist air | Wall Motion Abnormality

WMAS

WMAS Stands For : West Midland Ambulance Service | West Midlands Ambulance Service

WMCIU

WMCIU Stands For : West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit

WMEF

WMEF Stands For : Welsh Media Emergency Forum

WMHTAC

WMHTAC Stands For : West Midlands Health Technology Advisory Committee | West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration | With 7 hits on 31102011

WMPHO

WMPHO Stands For : West Midlands Public Health Observatory

WMPI

WMPI Stands For : West Midlands Perinatal Institute

WMQO

WMQO Stands For : One would think that it should be WMQO‰Û?but it‰Ûªs not | West Midlands Quality Observatory

WMQRS

WMQRS Stands For : West Midlands Quality Review Service

WMRC

WMRC Stands For : West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre

WMSCG

WMSCG Stands For : West Midlands Specialist Commissioning Group | West Midlands Strategic Commissioning Group

WMSCT

WMSCT Stands For : West Midlands Specialist Commissioning Team | West Midlands Strategic Commissioning Team

WMSSA

WMSSA Stands For : West Midlands Specialist Services Agency

WNAB

WNAB Stands For : Workforce Numbers Advisory Board

WNC

WNC Stands For : well-nourished child | Womens National Commission | Women‰Ûªs National Commission | Website Nature Center

WNF

WNF Stands For : well-nourished female | Working Neighbourhood Fund | West Nile Fever

WO

WO Stands For : week of | weeks old | Welsh office | wife of | Wound Ostomy

WoCPCT

WoCPCT Stands For : West of Cornwall Primary Care Trust

WONCA

WONCA Stands For : World Organisation of National Colleges Academies (and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians; the short form is World Organization of Family Doctors) | World Organisation of National Colleges Academies and academic associations of general practitioners / family physicians

WP

WP Stands For : weakly positive | wedge pressure | Weibel-Pelade body | window period | workplace | Wet Pack | WhirlPool

WPA

WPA Stands For : Western Provident Association | World Psychiatric Association | Western Psychological Association

WPBA

WPBA Stands For : workplace based assessment

WPD

WPD Stands For : Warm

WPI

WPI Stands For : Wales Programme for Improvement | Wellness Prevention Intervention | Wisconsin Pain Initiative

WRA

WRA Stands For : Waste Regulation Authority (now part of the Environment Agency)

WRC

WRC Stands For : Womens Resource Centre | Women‰Ûªs Resource Centre | Working Retriever Central

WRL

WRL Stands For : Weighted Road Length (part of SSA)

WRT

WRT Stands For : with regard to | with relation to | with respect to | Workforce Review Team | Wildlife Rehabilitation Today

WRVS

WRVS Stands For : Women‰Ûªs Royal Voluntary Service

WSD

WSD Stands For : Work System Demonstrator

WTC

WTC Stands For : Working Tax Credit | Wound Treatment Center

WTD

WTD Stands For : Working Time Directive | Working Time Directivewte Whole Time Equivalent

WTEP

WTEP Stands For : whole time equivalent post | Whole Time Equivalent Posts

WTI

WTI Stands For : Waiting Time Initiative | wall thickening index | Working Toward Independence

WTR

WTR Stands For : waist-to-thigh ratio | Working Time Regulations | Water | Water

WU

WU Stands For : Women‰Ûªs Unit

WWTH

WWTH Stands For : Walking Way to Health

WWW

WWW Stands For : World-Wide Web

#

# Stands For : Bone Fracture | Fracture

2HPP

2HPP Stands For : 2 Hour PostPrandial

4WK

4WK Stands For : Four-Week Checkup

A&E

A&E Stands For : Accident & Emergency | Accident & Emergency (UK) | accident and emergency

A-V

A-V Stands For : ArterioVenous

A-VO2

A-VO2 Stands For : ArterioVenous Oxygen

ATS

ATS Stands For : anti-tetanus serum

A/OX

A/OX Stands For : Alert and Oriented Times 3

AAAASF

AAAASF Stands For : American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities | American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities

AAD

AAD Stands For : Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea | Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea

AAHC

AAHC Stands For : African American Health Coalition | American Accreditation Healthcare Commission | Australian Animal Health Council

AAMAP

AAMAP Stands For : AIDS Agency Management Assistance Project

AAMC

AAMC Stands For : Anne Arundel Medical Center

AAMRO

AAMRO Stands For : American Association For Medical Review Officers | American Association Of Medical Review Officers

AAMX

AAMX Stands For : AcetoAcet M Xylidide | Aceto Acet M Xylidine

AANP

AANP Stands For : American Academy of Nurse Practitioners | Alberta Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (renamed CNDA August 1st

AAPP

AAPP Stands For : All Alaska Pediatric Partnership

AAPPO

AAPPO Stands For : American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations

AARC

AARC Stands For : Alberta Association of Rehabilitation Centres

AART

AART Stands For : Anticipation Availability Responsiveness and Transitions

AASM

AASM Stands For : American Academy of Sleep Medicine

AAT

AAT Stands For : Activities As Tolerated | Alpha1-AntiTrypsin | Activities As Tolerated | Animal- Assisted Therapy

AATD

AATD Stands For : Association Of Agencies For Treatment And Development | Alpha Anti Trypsin Deficiency

AATS

AATS Stands For : Air Ambulance Transfer System | Animal- Assisted Therapy Services | Automated Animal Tracking System

AAU

AAU Stands For : Acute Assessment Unit

AAV

AAV Stands For : Adeno Associated Virus | Adeno Associated Virus | Adeno Associated Virus | Association of Avian Veterinarians

AAWC

AAWC Stands For : Armenian American Wellness Center | Automobile Accident With Casualties

ABA

ABA Stands For : Arrived By Ambulance | Applied Behavior Analysis | American Board of Anesthesiology | Applied Behavioral Analysis

ABBI

ABBI Stands For : Acute Breast Biopsy Instrumentation | Acute Breast Biopsy Instrumentation

ABEP

ABEP Stands For : Accreditation Body Evaluation Program | Auditory Brainstem-- Evoked Potential

ABHR

ABHR Stands For : Alcohol-Based Hand Rub

ABIP

ABIP Stands For : Acquired Brain Injury Program

ABMC

ABMC Stands For : Alexian Brothers Medical Center

ABMS

ABMS Stands For : American Board of Medical Specialties

ABMT

ABMT Stands For : Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation | Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation | Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplantation

ABPI

ABPI Stands For : Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry | Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry | Ankle Brachial Pressure Index | Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

ABPM

ABPM Stands For : Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

ABPN

ABPN Stands For : American Board of Professional Neuropsychology

ABT

ABT Stands For : Anti-Biotic Therapy | Applied Biological Technology

ABX

ABX Stands For : AntiBiotics

ACBT

ACBT Stands For : Active Cycle of Breathing Technique

ACCI

ACCI Stands For : Addenbrookes Centre For Clinical Investigation

ACDS

ACDS Stands For : Apprenticeship for Child Development Specialists | Australian Centre for Diabetes Strategy | Acetyl Coenzyme-A Decarboxylase Synthase | Acetyl Coenzyme-A Decarboxylase Synthase

ACEP

ACEP Stands For : Arizona Comprehensive Epilepsy Program | American College of Emergency Physicians

ACFP

ACFP Stands For : Anterior Cervical Fusion And Plating | Anterior Cervical Fusion and Plate | Animal Confinement Facilities Plan

ACHA

ACHA Stands For : Accrediation Complaince of Hospitals in America

ACHP

ACHP Stands For : Alliance Of Community Health Plans

ACHS

ACHS Stands For : Ammonoosuc Community Health Services

ACIC

ACIC Stands For : Assessment of Chronic Illness Care

ACIS

ACIS Stands For : Automated Cellular Imaging System

ACMC

ACMC Stands For : Alameda County Medical Center | Atlantic City Medical Center

ACMS

ACMS Stands For : Alachua County Medical Society | Allegheny County Medical Society | Alternative Care Management System | Animal Cruelty Must Stop

ACN

ACN Stands For : Associated and Comprehensive Neurotherapy

ACO

ACO Stands For : Accountable Care Organization | Action Cancer Ontario (French title of Cancer Care Ontario) | Alert

ACOP

ACOP Stands For : Approved Codes Of Practice

ACoRN

ACoRN Stands For : Acute Care of at Risk Newborn | Accelerated Community Oncology Research Network

ACPE

ACPE Stands For : Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education | American College of Physician Executives

ACRB

ACRB Stands For : American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board

ACRH

ACRH Stands For : Acupuncture Center for Reproductive Health

ACRM

ACRM Stands For : Advanced Center for Rehabilitation Medicine | Anaesthesia Crisis Resource Management

ACSC

ACSC Stands For : Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

ACT

ACT Stands For : Abuse Counseling and Treatment | Appointment Change and Termination | Activated Clotting Time | Alcor Cryotransport Technician | Active Motion | Adaptive Control of Thought | AntiCoagulant Therapy | airway clearance therapy | American College of Theriogenologists

ACTFAST

ACTFAST Stands For : Agent Characteristics

ACTT

ACTT Stands For : Assertive Community Treatment Team

ACU

ACU Stands For : Ambulatory Care Unit | Annihilation Cell Units | Acupuncture

ACWH

ACWH Stands For : Aspen Center for Womens Health