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Questions tagged [terminology]
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What does "2/2" mean in a patient note?
I am reading a few patient notes and see 2/2 used several times, e.g.:
Unclear if 2/2 to aspiration
Recurrent UTIs and hosp. for urosepsis - thought 2/2 to chronic indwelling Foley catheter for neurogenic bladder.
Trach was placed because was…
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What does "DM at RLSB" mean?
I read "DM at RLSB" in a note from the medical personnel on a patient in the ICU. I know that DM typically stands for diabetes mellitus, and that RLSB typically stands for right lower sternal border, but I am quite puzzled by the phrase "DM at…
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Difference between acute disease and chronic disease
An acute disease can sometimes recover naturally, but always with a cure.
A chronic disease can't recover naturally and there is no cure.
Is this the difference ?
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What is "retrosternal oppression" and "oppression biosynthesis"?
In my reading of the scientific and medical literature, I have come across the term “retrosternal oppression”.
Source: Jerjes-Sánchez, C. “Cardiology in the ER: A Practical Guide”, Springer Nature Switzerland (2019), p. 4, Table 1.2. Characteristic…
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What is the difference between “comorbidity” and “multimorbidity”?
I am doing a search on how the number of conditions can cause disease burden. I came across the terms comorbidity and multimorbidty in my search and I wanted to know the difference between the two.
Here are some definitions I found, and I was hoping…
Hannah Diaz
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What is the name of term for series of studies for the same patient?
If we have a series of assessment of lesion for some patient, how is it called in English? Looks like the study term is used for every single assessment(visit). How the whole series is called?
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What is the process called, when a doctor tries to figure out what is wrong with you?
I know that anamnesis is the process of asking potentially relevant questions for building a medical history of a patient. I think this involves:
Getting to know past illnesses of the patient
Getting to know which illnesses are in the patient's…
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What is the difference between EBM and EBP?
I'm struggling to understand in simple terms the difference between EBM (evidence-based medicine) and EBP(evidence-based practice).
After a bit of research, this is what I have understood.
Is it correct? Would you add something?
Evidence-Based…
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What does "c/f" mean in a hospital discharge summary?
I'm reading a discharge summary received from a hospital and cannot decipher the "c/f" abbreviation. Here is the text:
given c/f possible hepatic encephalopathy, started lactulose
I put "cf medical abbreviation" into my favorite search engine, but…
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Do "a joint sprain" and "a joint displacement" mean the same thing?
According to Cambridge Dictionary, "sprain" means
an injury to a joint (= a place where two bones are connected) caused by a sudden movement
Do "a joint sprain" and "a joint displacement" mean the same thing?
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What is the medical meaning of "course"?
From the Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of course: the often gradual development of something, or the way something happens, or a way of doing something
Did the scandal have any effect on the course of the election?
From a post
Although there is…
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Meaning of "terminal" in "terminal necropsy"
From a clinical study report:
At scheduled terminal necropsy after 52 weeks of dosing there limited gross necropsy findings were noted.
What is the meaning of "terminal" here? I need to translate the sentence into Russian. I found the phrase…
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Meaning of "sib of 20" in a by-patient case description table
A table from from Cerebral folate deficiency: Analytical tests and differential diagnosis:
The first column contains patient numbers.
I thought that sib of .. meant "sibship of .." - that is, "in the patient's family, there is a total of NUMBER…
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What would a surgeon write about a non-complicated scar in a post-surgery inspection report?
I have a short post-surgery inspection report in Russian:
Осмотр после операции. Рубец спокойный.
Verbatim translation:
Post-surgery examination. The scar is calm.
This calm denotes that the scar is not inflamed and is healing in a "calm",…
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Why was 'strabismus' chosen to mean 'any misalignment of the eyes'?
The AAO and AAPOS don't associate strabismus with squinting. So why was a word etymologically meaning 'squinting' adopted to describe this muscle condition?
"a squinting," 1680s, medical Latin,
from Greek strabismos,
from strabizein "to…
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