| GU | gastric ulcer; genitourinary; glucose uptake; glycogenic unit; gonococcal urethritis; gravitational ... |
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| GUD | genitourinary dysplasia |
| WAGR | Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary abnormalities, and mental retardation |
| AHS | Academy of Health Sciences; African horse sickness; alveolar hypoventilation syndrome; American Hear... |
| ASG | advanced cell group; American Society for Genetics; Army Surgeon General; aspermiogenesis |
| surgeon general | The chief medical officer in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, or Public Health Service. In some foreign military services any member of the medical corps who has the rank of general, not necessarily the chief medical officer. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| surgeon's knot | The first loop of the knot has two throws rather than a single throw. The second loop has only one throw and that is placed in a square knot fashion leaving the free ends in the same plane as the first loop. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dental surgeon | A general practitioner of dentistry; a dentist with the D.D.S. Or D.M.D. Degree. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oral surgeon | <specialist> A physician specialist expert in the surgical treatment of the jaw, face, teeth and associated structures. (11 Jan 1998) |
| orthopaedic surgeon | <specialist> A medically qualified specialist in surgery who has subspecialised in the surgery of bones. Bone cancers are best treated by a TEAM of doctors which includes the orthopaedic surgeon, the medical and radiation oncologists, the radiologist and the pathologist. This has shown to give superior results in centres of excellence, but sadly, in many places, only fragmentary contribution is invited. (16 Dec 1997) |
| thoracic surgeon | <specialist> A physician specialist expert in the surgical treatment of diseases of the chest, heart and lungs. (27 Sep 1997) |