Medical Abbreviations

RCDM Stands For : Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.

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

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

RCoA Stands For : Royal College of Anaesthetists.

RCOG Stands For : Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.

RCOphth Stands For : Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

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 Stands For : Royal College of Pathologists.

RCPCH Stands For : Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

RCPE Stands For : Royal College of Physicians of England.

RCPsych Stands For : Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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

RCRIM Stands For : Regulated Clinical Research and Information Management.

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 Stands For : Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

RCSLT Stands For : Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

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 Cracking Time | Root Canal Treatment.

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

RDPGPE Stands For : Regional Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education.

RDT Stands For : Registered Drama Therapist | Retinal Damage Threshold.

RDU Stands For : regional dialysis unit.

RDUK Stands For : Rare Disease UK.

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

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

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 Stands For : Race Equality Steering Group.

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

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

RFID Stands For : radiofrequency identification | Radio Frequency IDentification.

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

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

RFUCMS Stands For : Royal Free and University College Medical School.

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

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

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

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

RIDDOR Stands For : Reporting of Injuries.

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

RIMA Stands For : reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type A.

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

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 Stands For : Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene.

RITA XX Stands For : Record of Individual Training Assessment.

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.