| Dpt | house dust mite |
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| HC | hair cell; hairy cell; handicapped; head circumference; head compression; health care; healthy contr... |
| HD | Haab-Dimmer [syndrome]; Hajna-Damon [broth]; Hansen disease; hearing distance; heart disease; helix ... |
| HO | hand orthosis; heterotopic ossification; high oxygen; hip orthosis; history of; Holt-Oram [syndrome]... |
| HP | halogen phosphorus; handicapped person; haptoglobin; hard palate; Harvard pump; health profession(al... |
| PRHO | Preregistration house officer |
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| SHO | Senior House Officer |
| 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) |
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| 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) |