书目名称 | Dictionary of Abbreviations in Medical Sciences | 副标题 | With a list of the m | 编辑 | Rolf Heister | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Not everyone is a friend of the manifold abbreviations that have by now beCome a part of the scientific language of medicine. In order to avoid misunderstanding these abbreviations, it is wise to refer to a reliable dic tionary, such as this one prepared by Heister. The abbreviation ED means, for instance, effective dose to the pharmacologist. However, it might also stand for emetic dose. Radiologists use the same abbreviation for erythema dose, and ED could also mean ethyl dichlorarsine. A com mon meaning of ECU is European currency unit, a meaning that might not be very often in scientific medical publications. ECU, however, also means environmental control unit or European Chiropractic Union. Hopefully, those making inventions and discoveries will make use of Heister‘s dictionary before creating new abbreviations when preparing manuscripts for scientific publications. It is a very worthwhile goal not to use the same abbreviation for several different terms, especially if it is already widely accepted to mean only one of them. It may be impossible, however, to achieve this goal in different scientific disciplines. Therefore, although it is wise for the abbreviations used in a p | 出版日期 | Book 1989 | 关键词 | Abkürzungen; Akronyme; English literature; Wörterbuch; addition; literature | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74244-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-74246-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-74244-6 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989 |
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