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This is a shortlist of common abbreviations you may have seen on a doctor's notepad; a prescription drug package or bottle; lab or other test results; or in your doctor's notes.
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The bones of the skull fail to close. 431.9824
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Medical terms are built from Greek and Latin word parts and in addition include acronyms, such as laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), eponyms, such as West Nile Virus (named after a geographical location where the virus was identified) or Alzheimer disease (named after the person who discovered it) and modern-day language terms, such as nuclear medicine scanner, which is derived from the English language.
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A person may be unfamiliar with the word ''ophthalmologist'' but knowing that ''ophthalm/o'' refers to the eye and that ''-ologist'' is a specialist leads the reader to know an ophthalmologist is an eye specialist.
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blood vessels contract involuntarily (vasoconstriction) resulting in restricted blood flow, the process by which the body seals a ruptured blood vessel to prevent further blood loss, creation of artificial opening between the kidney and the skin, surgical crushing of stones in the common bile duct, excessive development; increase in the size of cells but not the number of cells.
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