VINOD NAIR

General: Apgar score (newborn) Apgar score was 8 at one minute and 9 at five minutes arousable awake, alert and oriented awake, alert and oriented X 3 (times 1, 2 or 3) cachectic/cachexia Cheyne-Stokes breathing comatose cushingoid diaphoretic dyspnea...

ALZHEIMER DISEASE Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor Aricept® [US/Can] Cognex® [US] donepezil Exelon® [US/Can] rivastigmine tacrine Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor (Central) galantamine Reminyl® [US] Cholinergic Agent Exelon® [US/Can] rivastigmine Ergot Alkaloid...

Herniated Disk Repair Aesculap retractor system benzoin bipolar electrocautery Black Max drill Cobb periosteal dissector crystalloid diskectomy disk herniation disk space downbiting epineural herniated disk laminotomy ligamentum flavum Love nerve root...

A B Achilles' tendon Bartholin's gland Adam's apple Bowman's capsule Alderman's nerve B owman's membrane Aortic sinus Broca's area Artery of Adamkiewicz Brodmann area Auerbach's plexus Bundle of His C D Central sulcus Duct of Bellini Circle of Willis...

A Aarskog syndrome Aase syndrome Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome Achard-Thiers syndrome Addison 's disease Aicardi syndrome Alexander disease Alpers' disease Alice in Wonderland syndrome Alport syndrome Andersen's Disease Angelman syndrome Apert...

The ideal format for writing dates is in month, day, year format where the year is separated from month and day by a comma. For example: The patient will undergo repair on January 9, 2006. However, when military date format is used, i.e. date, month,...

A virgule is a punctuation mark “/”. It is also called a diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, stroke, slant, or forward slash. Ø In dates, the month, date, and year are separated by virgule, mostly in demographics. For example: ADMISSION DATE: 01/01/2006...

In general usage, the term acronym is commonly used to describe all abbreviations made from initial letters, regardless of pronunciation. Initialisms originally referred to abbreviations formed from initials, without reference to pronunciation. Many writers...

Capitalization has always been a nagging question especially for the early beginners of transcription. Here we discuss some basic rules of capitalization that are to be kept in mind when transcribing medical reports: v Capitalize all the proper nouns-...

Abbreviations An abbreviation is a shortened, contracted, or brief form of words or phrase. Physicians mostly use abbreviations while dictating in order to speed up communication. Sometimes, abbreviations can instead lead to confusion in the report or...