Medical Abbreviations

medical abbreviations
Which three letter medical abbreviation stands for something you wont find in the body?
veterinary terminology The choices are: CNS, DNA, RNA,NRC. Which is the correct answer out of those four abbreviations?

These are the terms that I am familiar with for these abbreviations”
CNS … central nervous system
DNA … deoxyribose nucleic acid
RNA … registered nursing assistant
NRC … neo red cells

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Shorthand Dictionary

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Although most people are aware of its silent presence in the room or rooms of deposit, few outside the field of stenography really understand what court reporters do. “They are of a type in those typewriters funny?” Not always. The occupation of court reporting goes back thousands of years, at least 63 a. C., when a former slave, working as a secretary in the philosopher Cicero uses its own method of shorthand to record a speech by Cato. Using a metal stylus, Marcus Tullius Tiro use abbreviations for frequently used words and missing words that could easily remember. He also created a pattern of symbolic shorthand could stand for a phrase. If you have trouble understanding the speaker, who would later compare notes with their students. The ampersand (&) is the only sign that shorthand is still shooting, but still has the same meaning in several hundred languages.

As technology evolved, so did the shorthand. John Tilbury, a monk, developed the first abbreviated writing system for English speaking people in 1180 – an innovation that maintains court reports ahead of the curve technology. Subsequently, in 1588, Dr. Timothie Bright invented a shorthand system that had no alphabet at all. It consists of hundreds of characters who had to be memorized. Over the next 300 years, became records of the Court more and more refined, and shortens the writing process and enables stenographers working with paper and pencil to easily hold fast speakers, speaking over 160 words per minute or more.

Court reporting technology took a major leap in 1879 when Miles Bartholomew received a patent for his typewriter he used a letter for each movement. While this would not be directly used in the shorthand, as it had proved too slow, the typewriter was later refined for Keys could represent sounds instead of letters. This advance was made by Ward Stone, and is considered the largest contribution to the promotion machine shorthand than any other. Your keyboard, still in use today, is based on a number minimum of keystrokes, reducing or eliminating the awkward to get to the keys that are not directly under the fingers. Using stone machine, even operators no experience were able to reach the speed of writing and record breaking championship.

As the shorthand machine design continued to evolve, something was needed to accelerate the conversion of the verbatim transcript as final. In the 1950s the military and IBM worked together to develop a computerized system that could translate foreign languages into English. IBM no longer work on the project, citing too small a market existed for the technology. But in the 1970s, a group of court reporters called NSRA, their association in time to help further the development of assisted transcription Computer – Software CAT.

Suddenly, a usable system was created, allowing an individualized dictionary for each court reporter. Thus, while a set of keystrokes can be a thing a journalist can have a totally different meaning to another. The reporter then writes the Steno machine, and a translation into English is decoded on a computer screen. This is the technology used today.

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A shortand outline for almost every word in the English language. The GREGG Shorthand Dictionary Simplified is divided into two parts: Part I contains 26,098 words most commonly used in notation with their official shorthand outlines. Also included are words that are frequently used in such fields as medicine, law, engineering, chemistry, and many others. These words represent a large range of voc…

Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting for faster note taking and dictation, an alternative to shorthand to help you take notes. Easy ... Free downloadable Dictionary and Workbook.


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Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting, a guide to faster note taking, an easy to learn alternative to shorthand Most people need a note taking system for work or study but few people have the time or inclination to spend a year or two learning shorthand. BakerWrite Speed Writing enables you to learn a new system in a matter of hours and become proficient within weeks. This book is la…

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