Medical acronyms
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List of medical abbreviations and acronyms
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Diseases and disorders
- - ABCD syndrome Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder
- ADD-RT Attention deficit disorder – residual type
- ALA DD - Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase deficiency porphyria (the disease is known by multiple names)
- ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia
- ASHF Acute systolic heart failure
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- BBS Bashful bladder syndrome (see paruresis)
- BEH Behaviorally/emotionally handicapped
- BH Behaviorally handicapped
- BPD - Borderline personality disorder (often misattributed to bipolar disorder)
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- CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease)
- - CADASIL Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy
- CDHF Chronic diastolic heart failure
- - CHARGE syndrome Coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retarded growth & or development, genital abnormalities, ear abnormalities
- CMT1A Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1A
- CMT1B Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1B
- CMT1C Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1C
- CMT1D Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1D
- CMT1E Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1E
- CMT1F Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1F
- CMT1X Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1X
- CMT2 Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 2
- CPPS - Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (see UCPPS)
- CRKP - Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
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- DP - Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names)
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- EPM Extrapontine myelinolysis (see central pontine myelinolysis)
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- - H1N1 flu Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1 influenza
- - HELLP syndrome Hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count syndrome
- HHC or GHC(Haemochromatotis<br> Also Hemochromatosis) HI]] - Hearing impaired
- HMSN Type III Hereditary motor and sensory polyneuropathy type III (see Dejerine–Sottas syndrome)
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- - IBIDS syndrome Ichthyosis, brittle hair, intellectual impairment, decreased fertility, and short stature syndrome
- - ICF syndrome Immunodeficiency, centromere instability and facial anomalies syndrome
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- JAS Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis
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- LD - Learning disabilities/differences
- LP Little person/people (see dwarfism)
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- MMRV Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
- MPS I Mucopolysaccharoidosis type I (see Hurler syndrome)
- MPS II Mucopolysaccharoidosis type II (see Hunter syndrome)
- MPS III Mucopolysaccharoidosis type III (see Sanfilippo syndrome)
- MPS IV Mucopolysaccharoidosis type IV (see Morquio syndrome)
- MPS VI Mucopolysaccharoidosis type VI (see Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome)
- MPS VII Mucopolysaccharoidosis type VII (see Sly syndrome)
- NPC1 Niemann–Pick disease, type C1
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- QPS Quebec platelet syndrome
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- SD Saint Vitus's dance (see Sydenham chorea)
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- URI - Upper respiratory infection
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- X-CALD X-linked cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy
- XDH and AOX dual deficiency Xanthine dehydrogenase and aldehyde oxidase combined deficiency
- XDH deficiency Xanthine dehydrogenase deficiency
- XMEN X-linked immunodeficiency with magnesium defect, Epstein-Barr virus infection and neoplasia
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