Medical Abbreviations

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

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

RMSG Stands For : Risk Management Steering Group.

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

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 Stands For : registered nursing care contribution.

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

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

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 Stands For : Review of Central Returns Steering Committee.

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

ROHFT Stands For : Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust.

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

ROSE XX Stands For : Refugees and Overseas health professionals.

RPGD Stands For : Regional Postgraduate Dean.

RPST Stands For : Risk Pooling Scheme for Trusts.

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 Stands For : Regional Policy Unit.

RRASOR Stands For : Rapid Risk Assessment for Sex Offense Recidivism.

RRL Stands For : Revenue Resource Limit | righting reflex latency.

RRSO Stands For : Risk reducing salpingo-ooporectomy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

RtTT Stands For : Referral to Treatment Target.

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

S4BH Stands For : Standards for Better Health.

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 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.

SAD missing block Stands For : Self-assessment depression‰ÛÒscale.

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

SaFF Stands For : Service and Financial Framework.

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

SAGNIS Stands For : Strategic Advisory Group for Nursing Information Systems.

SAHC Stands For : Scottish Association of Health Councils.

SAHEM Stands For : self-applied health enhancement method.

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

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

SANDO Stands For : sensory ataxia neuropathy dysarthria and ophthalmoplegia.

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 | Slam Associated Protein | Serum Amyloid P.

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

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

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 Stands For : selective androgen receptor modulator.

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