| abbreviate | 1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. "It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off." 2. <mathematics> To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. 3. <biology> Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. See: abridge. Origin: L. Abbreviatus, p.p. Of abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. Brevis short. (11 Mar 1998) |
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| abbreviated injury scale | Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the american association for automotive medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include maximum ais (mais), injury severity score (iss), and probability of death score (pods). (12 Dec 1998) |
| abbreviations | Shortened forms of written words or phrases used for brevity. (12 Dec 1998) |