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06:05 Aug 9, 2010 |
Latin to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical (general) / insect bite on leg | |||||||
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3 | condition following/after |
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condition following/after Explanation: Here's a "med friendly" website definition: http://www.medfriendly.com/statuspost.html Status post Means following or after. It is frequently abbreviated as s/p. For example, if a patient has recently had back surgery, the doctor may write in the medical chart that that "The patient is s/p back surgery." The term "status post" or "s/p" is used to alert others as to conditions or surgeries that the patient has had, usually recently. Status post comes from the Latin word "status" meaning "condition" and the Latin word "post" meaning "after." Put the two words together and you have "after condition." ---Or, according to this, it is the state or condition following an intervention. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/status/post status/post adjective Medtalk Clinical shorthand referring to a state that follows an intervention–eg, S/P CABG, S/P cholecystectomy S/P mastectomy, S/P orchiectomy, or condition–eg, S/P acute MI ----One more website I found here that says the word "stat" alone is short for "statim" and means "immediately." http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/72424 Stat' in medical parlance is actually not an acronym; it's short for statim, the Latin word for 'immediately.' |
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