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Article: Abbreviations, acronyms, and alphabet soup: a glossary for the laboratory. (glossary)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 Nelson Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Here are commonly used laboratory abbreviations and acronyms in a list completely revised and updated from the one published by MLO in June 1981. If there's one thing health care professionals love, it's a handy abbreviation. Literally hundreds of combinations of initials crop up in day-to-day labspeak. Some acronyms are so convenient to use that they have become part of the American or even worldwide vernacular. Sadly, AIDS is probably the most outstanding example of this phenomenon in recent years. And it has made an earlier one, AID, harder to use clearly.
Many an abbreviation seems to be merely a jumble of letters created by health care workerstoo ...
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