| NHSAS | National Health Service Audit Staff |
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| NOS | network operating system; nitric oxide synthetase; non-organ-specific; not on staff; not otherwise s... |
| RHJSC | Regional Hospital Junior Staff Committee |
| SN | sclerema neonatorum; scrub nurse; sensorineural; sensory neuron; serum neutralization; sinus node; s... |
| AFDH | American Fund for Dental Health |
| ICD 10 | International Classification of Disease |
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| ICD-9 | International Classification of Disease 9 |
| ICD-O | International Classification of Disease for Oncology |
| ICD-9 | International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision |
| ICD9CM | International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision Clinical Modification |
| international normalised ratio | System established by the world health organization and the international committee on thrombosis and haemostasis for monitoring and reporting blood coagulation tests. Under this system, results are standardised using the international sensitivity index for the particular test reagent/instrument combination used. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| international system of units | A system of physical units in which the fundamental quantities are length, time, mass, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, and amount of substance, and the corresponding units are the meter, second, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole. The system has been given official status and recommended for universal use by the general conference on weights and measures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| international unit | The amount of a substance, such as a drug, hormone, vitamin, enzyme, etc., that produces a specific effect as defined by an international body and accepted internationally; e.g., for an enzyme it is umole of product formed (or substrate consumed) per minute. Synonym: unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Leiter International Performance Scale | A nonverbal (performance) test for measuring intelligence which contains norms for each age between 2 and 18; originally developed as a method of assessing the comparative intellectual abilities of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese children, but now occasionally used for assessing slow learners and those who are blind, deaf, or verbally handicapped. (05 Mar 2000) |