Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Acronyms and Initialisms
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The idea
An acronym or initialism is a medical term formed from the first letters of a longer phrase.
In practice
C A B G, spoken as cabbage, stands for coronary artery bypass graft.
Where people slip
The same letters can stand for different phrases in different departments. Context decides.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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