Medical Abbreviation

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

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

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

SHRUGS XX Stands For : Scottish Health Resource Utilisation Groups

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

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 index | systolic index | SacroIliac | Saline Injection | Self Insertion | Secondary Infertility | Syst̬me International dunit̩s (International System of Units) | SacroIliac | Self Inflicted | Self Injury | Self Inserted | Small Intestine | Speech Impaired

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

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

SIGN XX Stands For : Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

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

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

SIRO Stands For : Senior Information Risk Owner

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

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

SITF Stands For : Social Investment Task Force (final report

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

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

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

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

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

SLTS Stands For : Speech and Language Therapy Service

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 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 | Subconscious Motivation And Accelerated Reprogramming Techniques | Sensitive Membrane Antigen Rapid Test | Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique | Serving Meals At the Right Time

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

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 Stands For : specialist multi-disciplinary team

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

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

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 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 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 Stands For : situation normal

SNMAC Stands For : Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee

SNMT Stands For : systematic nutritional muscle testing

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

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 Stands For : signal to noise ratio

SNTN Stands For : Scottish National Training Number

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 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 Stands For : second opinion appointed doctor