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Abbreviations (Including Medical)

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Abbreviations.com is a nifty site for looking up the meanings of (appropriately enough) abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms.

Because people working in a medical environment have great need of this sort of service, the site has a section just for medical abbreviations in 6 categories: Hospitals (939 entries), Human Genome (941 entries), Laboratory (1002 entries), Oncology (743 entries), Physiology (6402 entries) and Veterinary (1835 entries).

And because we live in a Web 2.0 world, you can add new items to the site and get Mac widgets or browser plugins for it.

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March 1st, 2007 | Category: "Social Software", For Medical Libraryfolk, Reference, Search, Technology | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed

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May 24th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
[...] I’ve previously mentioned Abbreviations.com (particularly its medical abbreviations section) as a resource for looking up medical abbreviations, acronyms, or initialisms and I’ve posted about KMLE – but I’ve encountered a few more lately that appear worth noting: [...]

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