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• CoMFA  comparative molecular field analysis
• COMLEX  Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination
• comm, commun  communicable
• CoMMA  comparative molecular moment analysis
• COMMIT  Community Intervention Trial [for Smoking Cessation]; Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Interventional Trial [for Regression of Coronary Heart Disease]
• COMP  cartilage oligomeric matrix protein; cells outside the main population; complication; cyclophosphamide, vincristine, methotrexate, prednisone
• comp  comparative; compensation, compensated; complaint; complete; composition; compound, compounded; comprehension; compress; computer
• COMPACCS  Committee on Manpower for the Critical Care Societies
• COMPACT  computer optimized parametric analysis for chemical toxicity
• COMPASS  Comparative Trial of Saruplase vs Streptokinase; Computerized Online Medicaid Pharmaceutical Analysis and Surveillance System
• compd  compound, compounded
• compl  complaint; complete, completed, completion; complication, complicated
• complic  complication, complicated
• compn  composition
• compr  compression
• comp stud  comparative study
• COMS  cerebrooculomuscular syndrome
• CoMSIA  comparative molecular similarity index analysis
• COMT  catecholamine O-methyl transferase; certified ophthalmic medical technologist
• COMTRAC  computer-based case tracing
• COMUL  complement fixation murine leukosis [test]
• COMY  catechol-O-methyltransferase
• CON  certificate of need; cortisone
• Con  concanavalin
• con  against [Lat. contra]; continuation, continue
• CONA  cortisone acetate
• CON A, Con A  concanavalin A
• Con A-HRP  concanavalin A-horseradish peroxidase
• CONC  conceptual entity [UMLS]
• conc, concentr  concentrate, concentrated, concentration
• c-onc  cellular oncogene
• COND  cerebro-osteo-nephrodysplasia
• cond  condensation, condensed; condition, conditioned; conductivity; conductor
• conf  conference; confined; confinement; confusion
• cong  congested, congestion; gallon [Lat. congius]
• congen  congenital
• CongHD  congenital heart disease
• coniz  conization
• conj  conjunctiva, conjunctival
• conjug  conjugated, conjugation
• CONPA-DRI I  vincristine, doxorubicin, and melphalan
• CONPA-DRI III  CONPA-DRI I plus intensified doxorubicin
• CONQUEST  Computerized Needs-Oriented Quality Measurement Evaluation System
• CONS  coagulase-negative Staphylococcus; consultant, consultation
• cons  conservation; conservative; consultation
• CONSENSUS  Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study
• CONSORT  Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
• const  constant
• constit  constituent
• consult  consultant, consultation
• CONSUME  Compliance of National Supplements Using Multiform Energy Sources [study]
• cont  against [Lat. contra]; bruised [Lat. contusus]; contains, contents; continue, continuation
• contag  contagion, contagious
• contr  contracted, contraction
• contra  contraindicated
• contralat  contralateral
• contrib  contributory
• CoNV  cocoa necrosis virus
• conv  convalescence, convalescent, convalescing; convergence, convergent; convulsions, convulsive
• converg  convergence, convergent
• CONVINCE  Controlled Onset Verapamil Investigation for Cardiovascular Endpoints [study]; Controlled Onset Verapamil Investigation of Clinical Endpoints [study]
• COO  chief operating officer; cost of ownership [analysis]
• COOD  chronic obstructive outflow disease
• COOH  carboxy group; carboxy terminus
• COOHTA  Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment
• COOP  charts for primary care practices; cooperative
• coord  coordination, coordinated
• COP  capillary osmotic pressure; change of plaster; coefficient of performance; colloid oncotic pressure; colloid osmotic pressure; competitive oligonucleotide priming; cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis; cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, and prednisone
• COPA  Council on Postsecondary Accreditation
• COPAD  cyclophosphamide, vincristine, Adriamycin, prednisone, cytarabine, asparagine, intrathecal methotrexate
• COPC  community oriented primary care
• COPD  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• COPE  chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema
• COPEM  Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• COPERNICUS  Carvedilol Prospective Randomized Cumulative Survival [trial]
• COP_i  colloid osmotic pressure in interstitial fluid
• CO/PLL/CG  crystal oscillator/phase lock loop/clock generator [telemedicine]
• COPMED  Council for Postgraduate Medical Deans [UK]
• COPP  cyclophosphamide, vincristine [Oncovin], procarbazine, prednisone
• COP_p  colloid osmotic pressure in plasma
• COPRO  coproporphyrin; coproporphyrinogen
• COPS  constrained optimal parameter search
• COPT  circumoval precipitin reaction test; computerized oxygen therapy protocol
• COPV  canine oral papillomavirus
• CoQ  coenzyme Q
• COR  cardiac output recorder; center of rotation; comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation; conditional origin of replication; conditioned orientation reflex; consensual ophthalmotonic reaction; corrosion, corrosive; cortisone; cortex; crude odds ratio; custodian of records
• CoR  Congo red
• cor  body [Lat. corpus]; coronary; correction, corrected
• CORA  conditioned orientation reflex audiometry
• CORALI  coronarography and alimentation
• CORAMI  Cohort of Rescue Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction
• CORBA  Common Object Request Broker Architecture
• CORD  Commissioned Officer Residency Deferment; Council of [Emergency Medicine] Residency Directors
• CORDIS  Cardiovascular Occupational Risk Factor Determination in Israel [study]
• CORE  Center for Organ Recovery and Education; Collaborative Organization for RheothRx Evaluation; comprehensive assessment and referral evaluation; concept reference
• CORGENE  Coronary Disease and Angiotensin Converting Enzyme I/D Genotype [study]
• CORIS  Coronary Risk Factor Study
• CorPP  coronary perfusion pressure
• corr  correspondence, corresponding
• CORRECT  Complete vs Restrictive Revascularization by Coronary Angioplasty Trial
• CORSICA  Chronic Occlusion Revascularization with Stent Implantation vs Coronary Angioplasty [study]
• CoRSV  coffee ringspot virus
• CORT  corticosterone
• cort  bark [Lat. cortex]; cortex
• CORTES  Clivarin Assessment of Regression of Thrombus: Efficacy and Safety [study]; coordinate reduction time encoding system [ECG]
• CORV  Corriparta virus
• COS  carbon oxysulfide; cheiro-oral syndrome; chief of staff; clinically observed seizures; Clinical Orthopaedic Society
• CoS  class of service
• CoSA  comparative spectra analysis
• COSATI  Committee on Scientific and Technical Information
• COSHH  Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations [UK]
• COSMIS  Computer System for Medical Information Systems
• COSSMHO  [National] Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations
• COST  Cardiac Output Study Technology
• COSTAR  Computer-Stored Ambulatory Record
• COSTART  Common Standard Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms
• COSTED  Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries
• COSTEP  Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program
• COSY  correlated spectroscopy
• COT  colony overlay test; committee on trauma; content of thought; contralateral optic tectum; critical off-time
• COTA  Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant; colon-ovary tumor antigen
• COTAIM  Continuation of Trial Antihypertensive Interventions and Management
• COTD  cardiac output by thermodilution
• COTe  cathodal opening tetanus
• COTH  Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems
• COTRANS  Coordinated Transfer Application System
• COTS  commercial off-the-shelf [software or hardware]
• COU  cardiac observation unit
• coul  coulomb
• COURAGE  Clinical Outcomes Using Revascularization vs Aggressive Strategies; Clinical Outcomes Utilization Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation
• COURT  Contrast Media Utilization in High-Risk Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty [trial]
• C_out  outgoing concentration [of blood]
• COV  covariance; cross-over value
• CoV  coronavirus
• COVER  Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly [UK]
• COVESDEM  costovertebral segmentation defect with mesomelia [syndrome]
• CoVF  cobra venom factor
• COVISE  Collaborative Visualization and Simulation Environment [software]
• COVRA  Computer Vision in Radiology
• COWS  cold to opposite and warm to same side
• COX  cytochrome oxidase; cyclooxygenase
• COYV  colony virus
• CP  candle power; capillary pressure; capsid protein; cardiac pacing; cardiac performance; cardiopulmonary; caudate putamen; cell passage; center of pressure; central pit; cephalic presentation; cerebellopontine; cerebral palsy; ceruloplasmin; chemically pure; chemical protection; chest pain; child psychiatry; child psychology; Chlamydia pneumoniae; chloropurine; chloroquine-primaquine; chondrodysplasia punctata; choroid plexus; chronic pain; chronic pancreatitis; chronic polyarthritis; chronic pyelonephritis; cicatricial pemphigoid; cleft palate; clinical pathology; clock pulse; closing pressure; cochlear potential; code of practice; cold pressor; color perception; combining power; compound; compressed; congenital porphyria; constant predictor; constant pressure; constrictive pericarditis; coproporphyrin; cor pulmonale; coracoid process; cosine packet; counter propagation [algorithm]; coverage probability [radiotherapy]; C peptide; creatine phosphate; creatine phosphokinase; critical pressure; cross-linked protein; crude protein; current practice; cyclophosphamide; cyclophosphamide and prednisone; cytosol protein; [viral] coat protein
• C&P  compensation and pension; complete and pain free [joint movement]; cystoscopy and pyelography
• C/P  cholesterol-phospholipid [ratio]
• C+P  cryotherapy with pressure
• 4-CP  chlorophenoxyacetic acid
• Cp  ceruloplasmin; chickenpox; Corynebacterium parvum; peak concentration
• C_p  concentration in plasma; constant pressure; phosphate clearance
• cP  centipoise
• cp  candle power; centipoise; chemically pure; circular plasmid; compare
• c_p  constant pressure
• CPA  Canadian Physiotherapy Association; Canadian Psychiatric Association; carboxypeptidase A; cardiophrenic angle; cardiopulmonary arrest; carotid phonoangiography; cerebellopontine angle; chlorophenoxyacetic acid; chlorophenylalanine; chronic pyrophosphate arthropathy; circulating platelet aggregate; complement proactivator; control, preoccupation, and addiction; costophrenic angle; cyclophosphamide; cyclopiazonic acid; cyproterone acetate
• C3PA  complement-3 proactivator
• C_pa  cardiac peak amplitude
• CPAD  chronic peripheral arterial disease
• CPAF  chlorpropamide-alcohol flushing
• C_pah  para-aminohippurate clearance
• CP-ANN  counterpropagation artificial neural network
• CPAP  continuous positive airway pressure
• CPAS  Canadian Prinivil Atenolol Study
• CPB  carboxypeptidase B; cardiopulmonary bypass; cetylpyridinium bromide; competitive protein binding
• CPBA  competitive protein-binding analysis
• CpBDV  chickpea bushy dwarf virus
• CPBV  cardiopulmonary blood volume
• CPC  central posterior curve; cerebellar Purkinje cell; cerebral palsy clinic; cerebral performance category; cetylpyridinium chloride; chemical protective clothing; chest pain center; child protection center; chronic passive congestion; circumferential pneumatic compression; clinicopathological conference
• CpCDV  chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus
• CPCL  congenital pulmonary cystic lymphangiectasia
• CPCP  chronic progressive coccidioidal pneumonitis
• CPCR  cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation; Center for Primary Care Research
• CPCS  circumferential pneumatic compression suit; computer-based patient case simulation system
• CPCV  Cacipacore virus
• CPD  calcium pyrophosphate deposition; cephalopelvic disproportion; cerebelloparenchymal disorder; childhood or congenital polycystic disease; chorioretinopathy and pituitary dysfunction; chronic peritoneal dialysis; chronic protein deprivation; citrate-phosphate-dextrose; contact potential difference; contagious pustular dermatitis; critical point drying; cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer; cyclopentadiene
• cpd  cigarettes per day; compound; cycles per degree
• CPDA  citrate-phosphate-dextrose-adenine
• CPDD  calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease; cis-platinum-diamine dichloride
• cpd E  compound E
• CP DEPMEDS  chemically protected deployable medical system
• cpd F  compound F
• CPDL  cumulative population doubling level
• CPDX  cefpodoxime
• CPDX-PR  cefpodoxime proxetil
• CPE  capillary parenchymal element; carbon paste electrode; cardiac pulmonary edema; chronic pulmonary emphysema; clinical progress exercise; Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin; collective protection equipment; compensation, pension, and education; complete physical examination; complicated pleural effusion; corona-penetrating enzyme; cryptogenic partial epilepsy; cytopathogenic effect
• CPEO  chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia
• CPEP  Chicago Coronary Prevention Evaluation Program; clinical practice enhancement project
• CPE-R  Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin receptor
• CPEV  Chironomus plumosus entomopoxvirus
• CPF  center point of force; clot-promoting factor; complication probability factor; contraction peak force; current patient file
• C_pf  cardiac peak frequency
• CPFC  chemically protective footgear cover
• CpFV  chickpea filiform virus
• CPG  capillary blood gases; cardiopneumographic recording; carotid phonoangiogram; central pattern generator; clinical practice guidelines; computerized pattern generator
• CPGMV  cowpea golden mosaic virus
• CPGN  chronic proliferative glomerulonephritis
• CPGs  clinical practice guidelines
• CPH  Certificate in Public Health; chronic paroxysmal hemicrania; chronic persistent hepatitis; chronic primary headache
• CPHA  Canadian Public Health Association; Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities
• CPHA-PAS  Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities-Professional Activity Study
• CPHL  Central Public Health Laboratory [UK]
• CPHQ  certified professional in healthcare quality

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