Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. PE tube
   pressure-equalizing tube
2. q24h
   Every 24 Hours
3. QAINS
   Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service
4. rtn(arrt)
   Registered Nuclear Medicine Technologist
5. rtr(arrt)
   registered radiography technologist
6. S-A node
   Sinoatrial Node
7. s.gl.
   without correction (without glasses)
8. S.Q.
   Subcutaneous
9. SAMBA
   Society of Ambulatory Anesthesiologists
10. SCI/D
    spinal cord injury and disorder
11. SINI
    Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics
12. SNOOP
    Systematic Nurses Observation of Psychopathology
13. T cells
    lymphocytes originating in the thymus gland
14. WF/BF
    white female/black female
15. WM/BM
    white male/black male
16. BF'ING
    Breastfeeding
17. CAOG
    Central Assoication of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
18. ISPOG
    International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology
19. alt sot
    Alternating Esotropia
20. ALT XOT
    Alternating Exotropia

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