Medical Abbreviations

EQ-5D Stands For : EuroQol five dimension scale.

EQA Stands For : external quality assessment | external quality assurance.

EQR Stands For : essential quality requirements.

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

ER Stands For : early referral | early relapse | early repolarisation | early response | ejection rate | electrorheology | elimination rate | embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma | emergency department | emotional reactivity | enantiomer ratio | endocardial resection | endoluminal repair | endoscopic resection | endovascular repair | endurance runner | energy restriction | enoyl reductase | environmental resistance | enzyme reactor | epigastric region | epiregulin | epoxy resin | ER alpha | error rate | erythrocyte rosette | esophageal rupture | estradiol | estrogen receptor status | estrogen receptor See ER | etoposide-resistant | eustachian ridge | evaporation rate | event-related | evoked response | excision repair | excretion rate | exertional rhabdomyolysis | expiratory reserve | expression of oestrogen receptor | extended-release | external resistance | extreme resistance | oestrogen receptor See ER | Emergency Room | Estrogen receptor | Electrical Resistance | exertional rhabdomyolysis | Eat Regularly | Endoplasmic Reticulum | Enhanced Response | Euthansia Run | External Rotation | extended release.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESMI Stands For : elderly severely mentally ill/infirm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EUTCD Stands For : European Union Tissue and Cells Directives.

EVS Stands For : Enterprise Vocabulary Services | Eastern Vascular Society.

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

EWTD Stands For : European Working Time Directive.

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

F&A Stands For : facilities & administration.

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

F2 Stands For : Foundation Year 2 (FY2).

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

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

FAEM Stands For : Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine.

FAQS Stands For : frequently-asked questions.

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

FAWN Stands For : funding advice workers‰Ûª network.

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

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

FCOphth Stands For : Fellow of The College of Ophthalmologists.

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

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

FENIB Stands For : familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies.

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

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

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

FFCE Stands For : first finished consultant episode.

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

FFPM Stands For : Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.

FGM Stands For : fibrogranulomatous material | Foundation for Genetic Medicine.

FHom Stands For : Faculty of Homeopathy.