Symbols, abbreviations and units

Respiratory function measurements in infants: symbols, abbreviations and units.

Communication about infant lung function testing, as in any other field of science and medicine, requires the use of symbols, abbreviations, units, prefixes and suffixes. These should be unambiguous, and this is achieved by rigorous standardization by international scientific and medical bodies, and by governments. The present recommendations derive from the report of the European Community for...

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Symbols, abbreviations and units. Working Party Standardization of Lung Function Tests, European Community for Steel and Coal.

The recommendations in this 1993 update do not differ materially from those in the previous report of the EUROPEAN CoMMUNTIY R:JR STEEL AND CoAL [1]. However, the list of abbreviations has been extended with respect to the items covered; in addition the European Community has expanded since the previous report, and the ' report has accordingly been updated to cover the languages spoken in each ...

Standardization of symbols and units for environmental research.

A logical system of symbols to designate the widely accepted biological variables routinely measured in environmental research is described. Upper case letters are used for three major symbols of temperature, heat quantity, and rate of heat transfer. These are modified by upper case subscripts for physical variables and lower case subscripts for biological variables.

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