Abbreviations
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The following are some common abbreviations from pulmonary function testing; they should always be expanded at first mention: |
Apgar Score
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
,This score is an assessment of a newborn’s physical well-being based on the 5 parameters of heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color, each of which is rated 0, 1, or 2; the ...
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Bacteria: Additional Terminology
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
There is no “official” classification of bacteria… [B]acterial classifications are devised for micro- biologists, not for the entities being classified. Bacteria show little interest in the matter of ...
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Bethesda System
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology, dating to 1988, is a standardized, systematic means of reporting Papanicolaou test results. Resources are the published handbook (the “blue book”) ...
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Biological Nomenclature
AMA Manual of Style Committee
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Scientific names are labels used in place of lengthy descriptions. A scientific name corresponds to a set of formally defined attributes. The meanings of scientific names are internationally ...
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Blood Groups
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Blood groups are characterized by erythrocyte (red blood cell) antigens with common immunologic properties (eg, group A). Blood group systems are series of such antigens encoded by a single gene or ...
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Blood Groups, Platelet Antigens, and Granulocyte Antigens
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
[A]lthough erythrocytes have traditionally been considered relatively inert cellular containers of hemoglobin, they are in fact active in a variety of physiologic processes. L. Calhoun and L. D. ...
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Cancer Stage
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Cancer stages are expressed with the use of capital roman numerals: stage I stage II stage III stage IV The term “stage 0” usually indicates carcinoma in situ. Histologic grades are expressed with ...
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Cardiology
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Several areas of cardiology use simple letter terms and alphanumeric terms that need not be expanded at first mention. | International standardization of electrocardiographic nomenclature dates back ...
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CD Cell Markers
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Clusters of differentiation (CDs) are a system for identifying cellular surface markers, a number of which define lymphocyte subsets (see , Lymphocytes). The system and its nomenclature were ...
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