Common Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. ODaPA
   Organization of Department and Program Advisors
2. OHTN
   Ocular Hypertension
3. Ophthmlgy
   Ophthamology
4. Orgnal
   Organizational
5. Outrch
   Outreach
6. P-Y
   Pack-Years
7. PAPP-A
   pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A
8. PARA I
   indicating a woman with one child (partus = birth
9. PARA II
   indicating a woman with two children (partus = birth
10. Patho
    Pathology
11. PAWP
    Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure
12. PCVC
    percutaneous central vein catheter
13. PCYNH
    Pepper Canyon Hall
14. PERRLAC
    Pupils Equal, Round, Reactive to Light and Accommodation Consensually
15. PGSOP
    Professional & Graduate Opportunity Program
16. Phycs
    Physics
17. Physcl
    Physical
18. Physct
    Physicist
19. PLOV
    painless, progressive loss of vision
20. Procto
    Proctoscopy

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