Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

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• HPPK  6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin pyrophosphokinase
• HPPO  high partial pressure of oxygen; hydroxyphenyl pyruvate oxidase
• HPQ  Health Perceptions Questionnaire
• HPR  haptoglobin-related gene; health practices research
• HPr  human prolactin
• hPRL  human prolactin
• HPRP  human platelet-rich plasma
• HPRT  hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase
• HpRz  hairpin ribozyme
• HPS  Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; [Simvastatin] Heart Protection Study; Helsinki Policemen Study; hematoxylin, phloxin, and saffron; Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome; high-protein supplement; His-Purkinje system; Hopkins Precursors Study; human platelet suspension; hypertrophic pyloric stenosis; hypothalamic pubertal syndrome
• HPSA  health professional shortage area
• HPSL  health professions student loan
• HPSS  high-performance storage system
• HPT  histamine provocation test; human placental thyrotropin; hyperparathyroidism; Hypertension Prevention Trial; hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid [system]
• 1°HPT  primary hyperparathyroidism
• 2°HPT  secondary hyperparathyroidism
• HPTH  hyperparathyroid hormone
• HPTIN  human pancreatic trypsin inhibitor
• HPTLC  high-performance thin-layer chromatography
• HPU  heater probe unit
• HPV  Hemophilus pertussis vaccine; hepatic portal vein; human papillomavirus; human parvovirus; hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
• HPVD  hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease
• HPV-DE  high-passage virus-duck embryo
• HPV-DK  high-passage virus-dog kidney
• HPVG  hepatic portal venous gas
• HPVM  high-performance virtual machine
• HPW  hypergammaglobulinemic purpura of Waldenström
• HP/W  health promotion/wellness [program]
• HPX  high peroxidase [content]; hypophysectomized
• Hpx  hemopexin
• HPZ  high pressure zone
• [3H] QNB  (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate
• HQSAR  hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship
• HR  hairpin ribozyme; hallux rigidus; handwriting recognition [algorithm]; hazard ratio; heart rate; hematopoietic reconstitution; hematopoietic resistance; hemorrhagic retinopathy; hepatorenal; higher rate; high resolution; high risk; histamine receptor; histamine release; hormonal response; hospital record; hospital report; hospitalization rate; human resources; hydroxyethylrutoiside; hyperimmune reaction; hypersensitive response; hypertensive rat; hypophosphatemic rickets; hypoxic reaction
• H&R  hysterectomy and radiation
• hr  hairless [mouse]; homologous repeat; host-range [mutant]; hour
• HRA  health record analyst; health risk appraisal; heart rate audiometry; heart-reactive antibody; hereditary renal adysplasia; high right atrium; histamine release activity; Human Resources Administration
• HRAE  high right atrium electrogram
• HRBC  horse red blood cell
• HRC  health reference center; hereditary renal cancer; high-resolution chromatography; horse red cell; human rights committee
• h/rCRF  human recombinant corticotropin-releasing factor
• HRCT, HR-CT  high-resolution computed tomography
• HRE  hepatic reticuloendothelial [cell]; high-resolution electrocardiography; hormone receptor enzyme; hormone response element
• HR-EEG  high resolution electroencephalography
• HREH  high-renin essential hypertension
• HREM  high-resolution electron microscopy
• HRF  health-related facility; heart rate fluctuations; histamine-releasing factor; homologous restriction factor [erythrocyte surface protein]; human readable format
• HRG  histidine-rich glycoprotein
• HRGP  histidine-rich glycoprotein
• HRH2  histamine receptor H2
• HR-HPV  high risk human papillomavirus [infection]
• HrHRF  human recombinant histamine-releasing factor
• HRI  high resolution imaging
• HRIG, HRIg  human rabies immunoglobulin
• HRL  head rotation to the left
• HRLA  human reovirus-like agent
• HRM  health risk management; Heidelberg Retracing Model
• HRmax  maximal heart rate
• HRMS  health records management system; high resolution multisweep [imaging]
• hRNA  heterogeneous ribonucleic acid
• HRNB  Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
• hROAT  human renal organic anion transporter
• HRP  high-risk patient; high-risk pregnancy; histidine-rich protein; horseradish peroxidase
• HRPC  hormone-resistant prostatic cancer
• HRPD  Hamburg Rating Scale for Psychiatric Disorders
• hr-PET  high-resolution positron emission tomography
• HRPT  hyperparathyroidism
• HRQOL  health-related quality of life
• HRR  Hardy-Rand-Rittler [color vision test]; head rotation to the right; heart rate range
• HRRI  heart rate retardation index
• HRS  Hamilton Rating Scale; Hamman-Rich syndrome; Haw River syndrome; health and rehabilitative services; Health and Retirement Study; hepatorenal syndrome; high rate of stimulation; hormone receptor site; humeroradial synostosis
• HRSA  Health Resources and Services Administration
• HRSD  Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; Hirschsprung disease
• HRSP  high-resolution storage phosphor
• HRSUB  submaximal heart rate
• HRT  heart rate; Heidelberg retinal tomography; hormone replacement therapy; Hormone Replacement Trial
• HRTE  human reverse transcriptase enzyme
• HRTEM  high-resolution transmission electron microscopy
• HRV  heart rate variability; human reovirus; human rhinovirus; human rotavirus
• HRV-A, B  human rhinoviruses A and B
• HS  Haber syndrome; half-scan; half strength [JCAHO unapproved abbreviation]; Hallopeau-Siemens [syndrome]; hamstring; hand surgery; harmonic scalpel; Hartmann solution; head sling; health services; health statistics; healthy subject; heart sounds; heat-stable; heavy smoker; Hegglin syndrome; heme synthetase; hemorrhagic septicemia; hemorrhagic shock; Henoch-Schönlein [purpura]; heparan sulfate; hereditary spherocytosis; herpes simplex; hidradenitis suppurativa; hippocampal system; home surgeon; homologous serum; horizontally selective; Horner syndrome; horse serum; hospital ship; hospital staff; hospital stay; hours of sleep; house surgeon; human serum; Hurler syndrome; hybrid sign; hypereosinophilic syndrome; hypersensitive site; hypersensitivity; hypertonic saline; hypothalamic syndrome
• H/S  helper-suppressor [ratio]; hysterosalpingography
• H&S  hemorrhage and shock; hysterectomy and sterilization
• hs  history; hospitalization
• HSA  Hazardous Substances Act; Health Services Administration; Health Services Australia; health systems agency; hereditary sideroblastic anemia; horse serum albumin; human serum albumin; hypersomnia-sleep apnea
• HSAG  N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N- 2-ethanesulfonate-saline-albumin-gelatin
• HSAM  highly selective affinity modification
• HSAN  hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy
• HSAP  heat-stable alkaline phosphatase
• HSAS  hydrocephalus due to stenosis of aqueduct of Sylvius; hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
• HSC  Hand-Schüller-Christian [syndrome]; Health and Safety Commission; health sciences center; health screening center; hematopoietic stem cell; human skin collagenase
• HSCD  Hand-Schüller-Christian disease
• HSCL  Hopkins Symptom Check List
• HS-CoA  reduced coenzyme A
• HSCR  Hirschsprung disease
• HSCS  health state classification system; Hypertension-Stroke Cooperative Study
• HSCSG  Hypertension-Stroke Cooperative Study Group [trial]
• HSCT  hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• HSD  Hallervorden-Spatz disease; high speed data; highly sulfated domain; honestly significant difference; hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase; hypertonic saline and dextran
• H(SD)  Holtzman Sprague-Dawley [rat]
• HSDB  Hazardous Substances Database [NLM]
• HSDD  hypoactive sexual desire disorder
• HSDO  health services delivery organization
• HSE  health, safety, and environment; heat stress element; hemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy; herpes simplex encephalitis; human serum esterase
• hSEAP  human secreted alkaline phosphatase
• HSEES  Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance [system]
• HSEP  heart synchronized evoked potential
• HSES  hemorrhagic shock-encephalopathy syndrome
• HSF  heat shock factor; hepatocyte stimulatory factor; histamine sensitizing factor; hypothalamic secretory factor
• HSG  Health Service Guideline [UK]; herpes simplex genitalis; human salivary gland; hysterosalpingogram, hysterosalpingography
• hSGF  human skeletal growth factor
• HSGP  human sialoglycoprotein
• HSH  Health Smart Home [database]; hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia
• HSHC  hydrocortisone hemisuccinate
• HSI  health service indicator; health supervision index; heat stress index; hue saturation intensity [imaging]; human seminal plasma inhibitor
• HSIL  high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion
• HSIL/CA  high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion/cancer
• HSIS  Health Services Information System
• HSK  herpes simplex keratitis
• HSL  hormone-sensitive lipase
• HSLC  high-speed liquid chromatography
• HSM  health system model; heparin surface-modified [intra-ocular lens]; hepatosplenomegaly; hierarchical storage management; holosystolic murmur
• HSMHA  Health Services and Mental Health Administration
• HSN  hereditary sensory neuropathy; hospital satellite network
• HSO  health service organization
• hSOD  human superoxide dismutase
• HSP  Health Systems Plan; healthcare security policy; heat shock protein; Hemorrhagic Stroke Project; hemostatic screening profile; Henoch-Schönlein purpura; high scoring segment pair [molecular genetics database searching algorithm]; hereditary spastic paraparesis; Hospital Service Plan; human serum prealbumin; human serum protein
• hsp  heat shock protein [gene]
• HS PACS  high-speed picture archive and communication system
• HSPG, HS-PG  heparan sulfate-proteoglycan
• HSPM  hippocampal synaptic plasma membrane
• HSPN  Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis
• HSP_p  heat shock protein promoter
• HSQ  health status questionnaire; home screening questionnaire
• HSQB  Health Standards and Quality Bureau
• HSQC  heteronuclear single-quantum correlation
• HSR  Harleco synthetic resin; health services research; heated serum reagin; homogeneously staining region; hypersensitivity reaction
• HSRC  Health Services Research Center; Human Subjects Review Committee
• HSRCCT  high spatial resolution cine computed tomography
• HSRD  hypertension secondary to renal disease
• HSR&D  health services research and development
• HS-RDEB  recessively inherited dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa of Hallopeau and Siemens
• HSRI  Health Systems Research Institute
• HSRPROJ  Health Services Research Project in Progress [NLM database]
• HSRS  Health-Sickness Rating Scale
• HSRV  human spuma retrovirus
• HSS  Hallermann-Streiff syndrome; Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome; health services support; Henoch-Schönlein syndrome; high-speed supernatant; hyperstimulation syndrome; hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
• HSSCC  hereditary site-specific colon cancer
• HSSD  hospital sterile supply department
• HSSU  hospital sterile supply unit
• HST  health sciences and technology
• HSTAR  health services and technology assessment research
• HSTAT  Health Science/Technology Assessment Text [NLM database]
• HSTF  heat shock transcription factor; heat stress transferring factor; human serum thymus factor
• HSTM  health state transition matrix
• HSUS  Health Services Utilization Study
• HSV  herpes simplex virus; high selective vagotomy; hop stunt viroid; hyperviscosity syndrome
• HSV-1  herpes simplex virus type 1
• HSV-2  herpes simplex virus type 2
• HSVd  hop stunt viroid
• HSVE  herpes simplex virus encephalitis
• HSVT  high speed valve tester
• HSVTK, HSVtk  herpes simplex virus [HSV] thymidine kinase
• HSyn  heme synthase
• HT  Hashimoto thyroiditis; head trauma; hearing test; hearing threshold; heart; heart transplantation, heart transplant; hemagglutination titer; hereditary tyrosinemia; hierarchical term [UMLS]; high-frequency transduction; high temperature; high tension; high threshold; histologic technician; home treatment; hospital treatment; Hough transform; Hubbard tank; human thrombin; hydrocortisone test; hydrotherapy; hydroxytryptamine; hypermetropia, total; hypertension; hypertensive; hypertext; hyperthyroidism; hypertransfusion; hypodermic tablet; hypothalamus; hypothyroidism
• H&T  hospitalization and treatment
• ³HT  tritiated thymidine
• 5-HT  5-hydroxytryptamine [serotonin]
• Ht  height of heart; heterozygote; hyperopia, total; hypothalamus
• H_t  dose equivalent to individual tissues
• hT  human telomerase
• ht  heart; heart tones; height; high tension
• HTA  health technology assessment; heterophil transplantation antigen; human thymocyte antigen; hydroxytryptamine; hypophysiotropic area
• HTACS  human thyroid adenyl-cyclase stimulator
• ht aer  heated aerosol
• HT(ASCP)  Histologic Technician certified by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists
• HTB  house tube feeding; human tumor bank
• HTC  hepatoma cell; hepatoma tissue culture; home telecare; homozygous typing cell
• Htc  hematocrit
• HTCMS  home telecare management system
• HTCVD  hypertensive cardiovascular disease
• HTD  human therapeutic dose
• HTDW  heterosexual development of women
• HTF  heterothyrotropic factor; house tube feeding; HpaII tiny fragment
• HTG  hypertriglyceridemia
• HTGL  hepatic triglyceride lipase
• HTGS  high-throughput genomic sequence
• HTH  helix-turn-helix; high-test hypochlorite; homeostatic thymus hormone; hypothalamus
• Hth  hypothermic
• HTHD  hypertensive heart disease
• HTIG  human tetanus immune globulin
• HTK  heel to knee
• HTL  hamster tumor line; hearing threshold level; histotechnologist; human T-cell leukemia; human thymic leukemia
• HTLA  high-titer, low avidity [antibody]; human T-lymphocyte antigen
• HTL(ASCP)  Histotechnologist certified by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists
• HTLF  human T-cell leukemia virus enhancer factor
• HTLV  human T-lymphotropic virus
• HTLV 1, 2  human T-lymphotropic viruses 1 and 2
• HTLV-III  human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type III
• HTLV-MA  cell membrane antigen associated with human T-lymphotropic virus