What is the medical abbreviation ABI?
Sometime, there may be more than one meaning of ABI abbreviation. However, what does the ABI medical term stand for?
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What does ABI medical abbreviation stand for?
In science & medicine, it is Ankle Brachial Index the medical abbreviation ABI stands for.
ABI: Ankle Brachial Index
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| CMP | Cardiomyopathy |
| CTPA | computed tomography pulmonary angiogram |
| Cal | Calorie (kilocalorie) |
| D/NS | dextrose in normal saline |
| EBF | exclusively breastfed |
| ECRB | extensor carpi radialis brevis |
| EENT | eye, ear, nose, and throat |
| EMR | electronic medical record |
| EOA | esophageal obturator airway |
| EPI | echo planar imaging; epidemiology or epidemiologist |
| FHC | family health center |
| FNA | Fine Needle Aspiration |
| GnRF | gonadotropin-releasing factor |
| GvHD | Graft vs. host disease. It is complicated by the syndromes of acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). |
| Gy | Gray (unit of ionizing radiation) |
| HDT | home dialysis training |
| HEME/ONC | Hematology/Oncology |
| ICU | Intensive care unit. The patient was moved to the intensive care unit. |
| IF | immunofluorescence; infertility; interferon; intrinsic factor |
| IPPB | intermittent positive pressure breathing |
| IRS | identical, related, or similar |
| IVPB | intravenous piggyback |
| L&U | lower and upper |
| MODS | multiple organ dysfunction syndrome |
| MSA | multiple system atrophy |
| NHL | Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma |
| NMJ | neuromuscular junction |
| NOS | Not Otherwise Specified |
| NST | non-stress test |
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| NVA | neurovascular assessment |
| OOT | out of town |
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| PGM | paternal grandmother |
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| PaO2 | arterial oxygen partial pressure [case sensitive] |
| PetCO2 | partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide |
| R/O | Rule Out |
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| SCI | spinal cord injury |
| SJT | situational judgement test |
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