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Welcome to the MTWorld free resource on medical abbreviations. We have gathered the most common medical abbreviations and made them available for your use on our website. Although these standard medical abbreviations have been designed with medical transcription in mind, they can also benefit non medical transcriptionists and anyone else in a healthcare or medical career field who would find this information useful.

Abbreviation	Meaning
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S&S	Signs and symptoms
s*	Without
S.C., SQ, subq	Subcutaneous
SAB	Spontaneous abortion
SAH	Subarachnoid hemorrhage
SaO2	Systemic arterial oxygen saturation (%)
SBE	Subacute bacterial endocarditis
SBP	Systolic blood pressure
sec	Second
sed rate	Sedimentation rate
SG	Swan-Ganz (catheter)
SGA	Small for gestational age
SGOT	Serum glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase (see AST)
SGPT	Serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (see ALT)
SHEENT	Skin, head, eyes, ears, nose, & throat
SI	Sacroiliac
SI	International System of Units
SIADH	Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone
SICU	Surgical intensive care unit
SIDS	Sudden infant death syndrome
SK	Streptokinase
SL	Sublingual
SLE	Systemic lupus erythmatosus
SOB	Short of breath
sp gr	Specific gravity
spec	Specimen
SQ	Subcutaneous
SR	Slow release
SS	Single strength
ss*	One-half
stat	Immediately
STD	Sexually transmitted disease
subq	Subcutaneous
SVC	Superior vena cava
sx	Symptoms

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