Medical Acronyms

Recognizing Acronyms and their Definitions in Swedish Medical Texts

This paper addresses the task of recognizing acronym-definition pairs in Swedish (medical) texts as well as the compilation of a freely available sample of such manually annotated pairs. A material suitable not only for supervised learning experiments, but also as a testbed for the evaluation of the quality of future acronym-definition recognition systems. There are a number of approaches to th...

Glossary of medical devices and procedures: abbreviations, acronyms, and definitions.

The abbreviations, acronyms, and words included in this glossary represent medical device and procedure terminology found in everyday practice. Also included are many colloquial terms and abbreviations frequently encountered on requisitions for radiologic services or in daily conversation. These terms were purposely included because they are often not defined in standard medical texts or dictio...

A (acronyms)

Acronyms are a significant and the most dynamic area of the lexicon of many languages. Building automated acronym systems poses two problems: acquisition and disambiguation. Acronym acquisition is based on the identification of anaphoric or cataphoric expressions which introduce the meaning of an acronym in text; acronym disambiguation is a word sense disambiguation task, with expansions of an ...

Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AAMI American Association of Medical Instrumentation ACCP American College of Chest Physicians ACD-A Anticoagulant dextrose solution A ACE-I Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor(s) ADQI Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AKD Acute kidney diseases and disorders AKI Acute kidney injury AKIN Acute Kidney Injury Network ANP Atrial natriuretic pepti...