Talk:List of medical abbreviations

message: This page is full of improperly capitalized edit links -- I will have to go through it later. Any help would be greatly appreciated. --maveric149
Should acronyms such as AMA really go on this page? They're listed as American Medical Association etc but they could equally well be the Australian Medical Association. It seems a little umm overly specific to have them here - if we added the appropriate acronmyms for every country the list would be as long as my arm! IMO this list should stick to medical terminology, with a seperate one for medical organisations of various countries. ~ KJ
This page should be moved to: List of medical acronyms and abbreviations, as some of thease are no acronyms but are abbreviations, as an acronym makes a word eg POSH (Port Out Starbard Home) while an abbrevation does not made a word eg AD (Anno Dommini)..
: I believe an acronym arising as an abbreviation is still an abbreviation.  At any rate, the word "posh" did not arise as an abbreviation or acronym for "Port Outward Starboard Home".  You might do better with SCUBA, which really does stand for "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus." –Dan Hoey 23:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Early threads

message: I've removed "UDDHS UNITED HEALTH DISCHARGE DATA SET", both as the word order does not follow the abbreviation letters, and I have no idea of wjhat the "united" applies to - is this a standard system in any particular country, or just a locally termed expression for a specific hospital (in which case not [[WP:Notable]}) ? David Ruben  Talk  12:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Specific queries

message: One thing to be done in this list is to go through and Remove Some Of The Unnecessary Capitalization. I don't have time to really go over the whole thing, but this is a to-do item for anyone who can make time for it. Some recent edits have actually taken blue links and turned them red By Forcing Them To Have Capital Letters. Please note that the spell-outs (expansions) of acronyms and initialisms do not have to be capitalized, and the expanded terms are themselves Not Proper Nouns, which is why their article titles Do Not Use Title Case (WP:MOSCAP). Thanks. — ¾-10 17:59, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: I have pecked away at them; more when have time. — ¾-10 19:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding Unnecessary Capitalization

message: This article is getting really long and hence very slow to load on dialup. Suggest splitting this article into multiple small chunks.sarindam7 (talk) 18:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — ¾-10 22:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou59.93.207.119 (talk) 13:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Long 

message: Does EMT really stand only for Emergency Medical Technician. I think it stands also for Emergency Medical Transport. Am I right?  What stand D5 and D50 an D5W for? (kind of a solution for infusion?) --84.137.13.82 (talk) 21:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Emergency medical technician" is the most common meaning, but no doubt that some institution somewhere also uses it to mean "emergency medical transport". Very common to have variations in usage such as that. D5 aka D5W is dextrose 5% in water. For more info see main article Intravenous therapy at Intravenous therapy#IV fluids. — ¾-10 13:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  EMT 

message: Because the parent list was already too long, and still would have needed additional growth to be comprehensive, I split it into a series with a navbox (Template:MedAbbrev). — ¾-10 22:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page changed into a series with a navbox 

message: EGBUS  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.151.240.70 (talk) 21:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  add [[EGBUS]] 

message: This article series should still be verifiable against reliable sources.
I cannot find reference to a few of the listed abbreviations - eg. BBMF "Bone break Me Fix" anywhere online .
Is this article series an attractant for doctors and nurses playing WP:MADEUP?--ZayZayEM (talk) 04:39, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referencing 

message: The following request for additions was moved from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists. Dkriegls (talk) 17:34, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for additions 

message: Please consider adding
MDS = misce, da, signa (mix, give and sign)
Kind Regards,
Karl-Stephan Neufeldt (Statistical Programmer karl-stephan.neufeldt@ucb.com)
195.206.74.130 (talk) 08:03, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions/ List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations 

message: Why do both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronyms_in_healthcare and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations? 86.166.164.39 (talk) 16:49, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the original plan was that list of medical abbreviations is for biomedical terms (such as tissues, symptoms, and disorders) and that acronyms in healthcare is for the business-and-professional side (such as acronyms for organizations). However, it is true that that distinction is definitely not clearly conveyed by those titles. Perhaps the title of acronyms in healthcare would be better as acronyms in the healthcare industry? Quercus solaris (talk) 23:18, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: Would like to see the table have faint grid lines, possibly faded alternating background colors in the rows. I'll try and look into styling a table. Mathglot (talk) 00:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: K, made a start with it.  Top left header cell isn't correct bg color or bold captioned, not sure why not. I like the alt-row shading, but I think it's maybe two shades two dark; a very subtle bg color helps your eye line up the rows, but I think too dark is distracting.  I'm thinking maybe use "#f8ecf2" instead of "#e5d1cb;"—see last three shaded rows—what do you think? Mathglot (talk) 04:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Switched to #f8ecf2. Microcurie has a lighter shade, as a further test. Mathglot (talk) 18:37, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table style 

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message: The length of this list keeps coming up from the look of things.
When I viewed this article, I wondered why we're including standard SI abbreviations and other terms that don't specifically relate to health care.  Surely this can be found elsewhere (really, how many people accessing this list wouldn't already know that mL refers to millilitres, for example)?
This makes up a significant proportion of this list, and seems unnecessary, unless non-standard abbreviations are used in medical contexts.
Thoughts?
DrMAV81 (talk) 04:58, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete SI units?