| ACOP | American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians; approved code of practice |
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| ANSCII | American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Introduction Code |
| CAC | cardiac-accelerator center; cardiac arrest code; circulating anticoagulant |
| ME | Mechanical efficiency |
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| MHV | Mechanical heart valve |
| MV | Mechanical ventilation |
| NIMV | Noninvasive mechanical ventilation |
| tubelength mechanical | <microscopy> This distance is measured from where the objective screws on to where the eyepiece fits in. The American standard mechanical tubelength is 160 mm. For Leitz objectives it was once 170 mm. (05 Aug 1998) |
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