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Medical Abbreviations: 32,000 Conveniences at the Expense of Communication and Safety (15th ed.). Alignment-HMM-based Extraction of Abbreviations from Biomedical Text. Movshovitz-Attias, Dana Cohen, William W.
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^ The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 28th Ed., page xi, Merck Research Laboratories, Whitehouse Station, NJ, 2006.^ "Stedman's Online | Reference" (PDF).^ The AAMT Book of Style for Medical Transcription, 2nd Ed., Peg Hughes, CMT, American Association for Medical Transcription, ISBN 0-93, copyright 2002.^ Vera Pyle’s Current Medical Terminology, 11th Ed., Health Professions Institute, Modesto, California, 2007, p.Acronym and initialism#Orthographic styling.Abbreviation#Style conventions in English.List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes.List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions.Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentrationīillionth of a gram also known as millimicrogramīillionth of a meter also known as millimicronĪlso referred to as nanometers/nanometres Required in some regions to avoid the confusion of 'μ' with 'm' ('milli-').

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The prevalent way to represent plurals for medical acronyms and initialisms is simply to affix a lowercase s (no apostrophe). Less common: The diagnosis was C.O.P.D.Prevalent practice in medicine today is often to forego them as unnecessary. Periods (stops) are often used in styling abbreviations.
