Lap_Band system as per Vera Pyle Current Medical Terminology book.
Posted By: ss on 2008-02-02
In Reply to: Surgery word-3 versions pop up from Google, which is correct? - Getting Older
Subject: Lap_Band system as per Vera Pyle Current Medical Terminology book.
not sure about the other word. Is that a medication or a company for the Lap-Band?
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Accu-Vu catheter design that allows opacification of the aorta from distal vessels without obscuring the image by superior mesenteric artery filling.
per Vera Pyle's Current Medical Terminology
Subject: per Vera Pyle's Current Medical Terminology
It is not capitalized. Have to say it again, there is no substitute for good reference books!
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Subject: Found Versaport in Vera Pyle Current Medical Terminology. See inside
a trocar system requiring a smaller incision site, reducing risk of hernation and improving cosmetic results. May be he is making up his own word. They do that a lot.
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Subject: Also, in Vera Pyle Medical Terminology it has
Endo Clip applier - laparoscopic clip applier.
End point as in Vera Pyle Medical Terminology
Subject: End point as in Vera Pyle Medical Terminology
it says - "the point in an an analysis at which the chemical reaction is complete, or at which the reading or intrepretation of test results is feasible".
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I do not type Radiology, but in my Vera Pyle Medical Terminology
Subject: I do not type Radiology, but in my Vera Pyle Medical Terminology
and Saunders Pharmaceutical Drug Book,2008 Entero Vu is shown. There is no Enteroview. So I would say QA is wrong here.
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Subject: also known as Dextrostix, which I found in my Vera Pyle Terminology book
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Subject: Neurapraxia. My Sloane Medical Word Book and Vera Pyle's
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Subject: it is ankle-brachial index or ABI. As in Current Med. Terminology Book
and also on Google. Not indexes.
as per Vera Pyle's CMT... sm
Subject: as per Vera Pyle's CMT... sm
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It's ostiomeatal. See Vera Pyle.
Subject: It's ostiomeatal. See Vera Pyle.
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Subject: I checked my old Vera Pyle, and
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Subject: It's per primam (per Dorland's and Vera Pyle). nm
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Per Vera Pyle--transcutaneous oxygen level is TcPO2 (the 2 is subscripted). nm
Subject: Per Vera Pyle--transcutaneous oxygen level is TcPO2 (the 2 is subscripted). nm
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Medical Terminology
Subject: Medical Terminology
You either were taught wrong or misunderstood what your instructor was trying to tell you.
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http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/misc/dmd-a-b-000.htm
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Subject: Stedman's Medical Equipment terms book or the Ortho terms book would help. nm
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Subject: I don't have the GI/GU book, but it's not in either of my medical dictionaries or my SM
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Go get 'em!
This is how my medical abbreviations book has it
Subject: This is how my medical abbreviations book has it
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Thanks. Just found it in my Medical Word Book.
Subject: Thanks. Just found it in my Medical Word Book.
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Subject: I have the same book as MT50 - along with 10 other Stedman books, and I use the medical & surgical book the most too!
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Subject: Thanks, must be a made up combination word, as not in any medical book or on onelook and only 195 sm
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Subject: Pyle lists both as acceptable, same product
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Subject: Thanks! Saw it in Equip book, but not cardiac book.
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Subject: I was told by my QA T-current and T-max,
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Subject: current not an issue?
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Subject: That is my current guess.
About to turn it in blank.
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Subject: The current trend seems to be to do away with hyphens when possible
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thanks for the pick me up. I just had to quit my current job...sm
Subject: thanks for the pick me up. I just had to quit my current job...sm
because my family was getting fed up with my long hours ( and myself)and I had a very,very good dictator. I hated to do it but I was under the impression that there were companies out there where p/t was 500-600 lines a day. THat is the amount of work that I can handle right now.
On my current account we cannot use slang and
Subject: On my current account we cannot use slang and
were told to use saturating.
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