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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

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