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by the Internet Archivein 2012  \nB  \nhttp://archive.org/details/medicalabbreviat00sloa  \n# MEDICALABBREVIATIONSEPONYMS\n\n2nd Edition  \nMEDICALABBREVIATIONSEPONYMS  \n2nd Edition  \nSHEILA B.SLOANE  \nFormerly President,Medi-Phone,Inc.Author,The Medical Word Book,3rd Edition;A Word Book in Radiology;andA Word Book in Laboratory Medicine,2nd Edition  \nW.B.SAUNDERS COMPANY  \nA Division of Harcourt Brace Company  \nPhiladelphia London Toronto MontrealSydneyTokyo  \nW.B.SAUNDERS COMPANY  \nA Division of Harcourt Brace G Company  \nThe Curtis Center  \nIndependence Square WestPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania 19106  \n\n| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \u003Cbr>Sloane,Sheila B.  \u003Cbr>Medical abbreviations &eponyms/Sheila B.Sloane—2nd ed.  \u003Cbr>cm.  \u003Cbr>p.  \u003Cbr>ISBN 0-7216-7088-1  \u003Cbr>1.Medicine—Abbreviations.  \u003Cbr>I.Title.  \u003Cbr>2.Eponyms—Dictionaries.  \u003Cbr>R123.S5691997  \u003Cbr>96-28595  \u003Cbr>610'.148—DC20   |\n| --- |\n\nISBN 0-7216-7088-1  \nMEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS&EPONYMS,2nd Edition  \nCopyright C1997,1985 by W.B.Saunders Company.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in anyform or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording,or anyinformation storage and retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nPrinted in the United States of America.  \n9  \n8  \n3   2  1  \nLast digit is the print number:  \n7  \n4  \n6  \n5  \nDedicated  \nto  \nJohn,  \nmy friend,mentor,and supporter  \nPreface to the Second Edition  \nDon't never look back:something may be gaining on you.Satchel Paige  \nWriting a preface is,however ill-advisedly,simply looking back.Thereader will want to know what was done and why;the writer will wonderwhether deletion has been wise,addition precise,and purpose fulfilled.  \nIn the eighteenth century linguistic purists frowned on use of abbrevia-tions and even eponyms.They regarded both as inelegant shortcuts in theart of discourse;but now stark necessity in science—especially in bioscienceand its sister art,clinical medicine—has brought new and extensive use tothe abbreviation.The immense proliferation of polysyllabic terms andmind-bending phrases enforces its need.Flesch,in his The ABC of Style,put the matter to rest:\"It's a superstition that abbreviations shouldn’t beused in serious writing.Nonsense:use abbreviations wherever they arecustomary and needed.\"They are needed especially in the research reportthat frequently reuses a customary phrase.Why repeat\"superconductingquantum interference device”when SQUID will do,even though it maybe confused with a ten-armed cephalopod?  \nSo,too,eponyms have come into favor.Like the computer they savetime and space,but they also evoke the names of physicians,patients,andplaces that have played a role in the ongoing development of medicine.The very name Addison's disease brings to mind the whole complex fieldof diseases of the ductless glands and the fact that Addison's pioneeringwork on their elucidation was regarded in its day as a medical curiosity.Similarly,O'nyong-nyong fever evokes the mosquito-infested African scenewhere this disease brings lymphadenitis,aching joints,and painful skin rashto thousands of people.  \nThe section on eponyms,which are often a source of misspelling andconfusion to the transcriptionist,medical secretary,record librarian,nurse,and physician,includes diseases,syndromes,operations,positions,instru-ments,stains,tests,signs,and pathological conditions named after thediscoverer,the patient,or even mythological characters.Definitions havebeen given for the more common diseases,syndromes,and operations,butfor those which are rarely seen only the eponymic names have been listed.No effort has been made to include all possible instruments under aneponymic entry;rather,emphasis has been placed on completeness of theeponyms themselves for the purpose of correct spelling and identification.  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