Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

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SEWHO shoulder-elbow-wrist-hand orthosis
SE() standard error of the mean [statistics]
SF Sabin-Feldman [test]; safety factor; salt-free; scarlet fever; scatter factor; screen film; seminal fluid; serosal fluid; serum factor; serum ferritin; serum fibrinogen; sham feeding; shell fragment; shunt flow; sickle cell-hemoglobin F [disease]; simian foam-virus; skin fibroblast; skinfold; soft feces; spinal fluid; spontaneous fibrillation; stable factor; Steel factor; sterile female; steroidogenic factor; stress formula; sugar-free; superior facet; suppressor factor; suprasternal fossa; surviving fraction; Svedberg flotation [unit]; swine fever; symptom-free; synovial fluid
S1F Steel factor
SF-36 short-form health survey [36 items]
Sf spinal fluid; Streptococcus faecalis
S_f Svedberg flotation unit
SFA saturated fatty acid; seminal fluid assay; serum folic acid; skinfold anthropometry; stimulated fibrinolytic activity; superior femoral artery
SFAP single-fiber action potential
SFB Sanfilippo syndrome type B; saphenofemoral bypass; surgical foreign body
SFBL self-filling blind loop
SFC soluble fibrin complex; soluble fibrin-fibrinogen complex; spinal fluid count
SFCP Stanford Five City Project
SFD silo filler's disease; skin-film distance; small for dates; source-film distance; spectral frequency distribution
SFE slipped femoral epiphysis
SFEMG single fiber electromyography
SFFA serum free fatty acid
SFFF sedimentation field flow fractionation
SFFV spleen focus-forming virus
SFG spotted fever group; subglottic foreign body
SFH schizophrenia family history; serum-free hemoglobin; stroma-free hemoglobin
SF/HGF scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor
SFI Sexual Function Index; Social Function Index
SFIS structural family interaction scale
SFJT saphenofemoral junction thrombophlebitis
SFL scalar fuzzy logic; synovial fluid lymphocyte
SFM scanning force microscopy; Schimmelpenning-Fuerstein-Mims [syndrome]; self-fitting face mask; serum-free medium; solution-focused management; streptozocin, 5-fluorouracil, and mitomycin C
SFMC soluble fibrin monomer complex
SFMS Smith-Fineman-Myers syndrome
SFNM standard finite normal mixture
SFNV Sabin virus; Sandfly fever Naples virus
SFO subfornical organ
SFP screen filtration pressure; simultaneous foveal perception; spinal fluid pressure; stopped flow pressure
SFR screen filtration resistance; stenosis flow reserve; stroke with full recovery
SFS serial foveal seizures; skin and fascia stapler; social functioning schedule; sodium formaldehydesulfoxylate; spatial frequency spectrum; split function study
SFSV Sandfly fever Sicilian virus
SFT Sabin-Feldman test; second field tumor; sensory feedback therapy; skinfold thickness
SFTP secure file transfer protocol [telemedicine]
SFU surgical follow-up
SFV Semliki Forest virus; shipping fever virus; Shope fibroma virus; simian foamy virus; squirrel fibroma virus; swine fever virus
SFV 1, 3 simian foamy virus 1, 3
SFW sexual function of women; shell fragment wound; slow-filling wave
SG Sachs-Georgi [test]; salivary gland; serum globulin; serum glucose; signs; skin graft; soluble gelatin; specific gravity; subgluteal; substantia gelatinosa; succinimidyl glutamate; Surgeon General
sg specific gravity; subgenomic
SGA small for gestational age
sGAG sulfated glycosaminoglycan
SGAP superior gluteal artery perforator [flap]
SG_AW specific airway conductance
SGB Simpson-Golabi-Behmel [syndrome]; sparsely granulated basophil
SGBS Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
SGC soluble guanylate cyclase; spermicide-germicide compound; Swan-Ganz catheter
SGCA subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
SGCRC German Study Group on Colo-Rectal Carcinoma
SGD Saccharomyces Genome Database; specific granule deficiency
SGE secondary generalized epilepsy
SGF sarcoma growth factor; skeletal growth factor
SGH subgluteal hematoma
SGL salivary gland lymphocyte; supraglottic laryngectomy
sgl sugarless
SGLD spatial gray level dependence
SGLT sodium-dependent glucose transporter
SGM Society for General Microbiology
SGML standard generalized markup language
SGNE secretory granule neuroendocrine [protein]
SGO Surgeon General's Office; surgery, gynecology, and obstetrics
SGOT serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (aspartate aminotransferase)
SGP scaled gradient projection [radiotherapy]; serine glycerophosphatide; sialoglycoprotein; Society of General Physiologists; soluble glycoprotein; sulfated glycoprotein
SGPA salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma
SGPT serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (alanine aminotransferase)
SGR Sachs-Georgi reaction; Shwartzman generalized reaction; skin galvanic reflex; submandibular gland renin; substantia gelatinosa Rolandi
sgRNA subgenomic ribonucleic acid [RNA]
SGS Schinzel-Giedion syndrome
SGSG Scandinavian Glioma Study Group
S-Gt Sachs-Georgi test
SGTT standard glucose tolerance test
SGTX surugatoxin; Scodra griseipes toxin
SGV salivary gland virus; selective gastric vagotomy; short gastric vessel
SGVHD syngeneic graft-versus-host disease
SH Salter-Harris [fracture]; Schönlein-Henoch [purpura]; self-help; serum hepatitis; sexual harassment; sex hormone; Sherman [rat]; sick in hospital; sinus histiocytosis; social history; somatotropic hormone; spontaneously hypertensive [rat]; standard heparin; state hospital; sulfhydryl; surgical history; symptomatic hypoglycemia; syndrome of hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism; systemic hyperthermia
S/H sample and hold
S&H speech and hearing
Sh sheep; Sherwood number; Shigella; shoulder
sh shoulder
SHA secure hashing algorithm; simple highest avidity; Southern hybridization analysis; staphylococcal hemagglutinating antibody; strategic hospital alliance
sHa suckling hamster
SHAA serum hepatitis associated antigen; Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists
SHAA-Ab serum hepatitis associated antigen antibody
SHAFT sad, hostile, anxious, frustrating, tenacious [patient]
SHAp stoichiometric hydroxyapatite
SHAPE Screening Health Assessment and Preventive Education [program]; Stress, Health and Physical Evaluation [program]; Study of Heparin and Actilyse Processed Electronically
SHARE source of help in airing and resolving experiences; Study of Heart Assessment and Risk in Ethnic Groups
SHARK Stroke, Hypertension and Recurrence in Kyushu [study]
SHARP school health additional referral program; Scottish Heart and Arterial Disease Risk Prevention [program]; Subcutaneous Heparin in Angioplasty Restenosis Prevention [trial]
SHAV Shamonda virus
SHAVE Steerable Housing for Athero-vascular Excision
SHB sequential hemibody [irradiation]
S-Hb sulfhemoglobin
SHBD serum hydroxybutyric dehydrogenase
SHBG sex hormone binding globulin
SHC self-help class
SHCC State Health Coordinating Council
SHCO sulfated hydrogenated castor oil
SHD satellite hemodialysis [telemedicine]; sudden heart death
SHE Syrian hamster embryo
SHEA Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America
SHEENT skin, head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat
SHEP Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program
SHF simian hemorrhagic fever; subfulminant hepatic failure; superhigh frequency
shf super-high frequency
SHFD split hand/foot deformity
ShFM shear force microscopy
SHFV Simian hemorrhagic fever virus
SHG sonohysterography; synthetic human gastrin
SHH sonic hedgehog [gene]; syndrome of hyporeninemic hypoaldosternonism
Shh sonic hedgehog
SHHD Scottish Home and Health Department
SHHH self-help for hard of hearing
SHHS Scottish Heart Health Study; Sleep Heart Health Study
SHHV Society for Health and Human Values
SHI severe head injury
Shig Shigella
SHIN skilled home health nursing
SHINE Strategic Health Informatics Network in Europe
SHIPS Shiga Pravastatin Study
SHIV Shiant Islands virus
SHL sensorineural hearing loss
SHLA soluble human lymphocyte antigen
SHLD shoulder
SHML sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy
SHMO Senior Hospital Medical Officer
SHMO, S/HMO social health maintenance organization
SHMT serine-hydroxymethyl transferase
SHN spontaneous hemorrhagic necrosis; subacute hepatic necrosis
SHO secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy; Senior House Officer; simple harmonic oscillator
SHOCK Should We Emergently Revascularize Occluded Coronaries for Cardiogenic Shock? [international randomized trial]
SHOP State Hospital Data Project
SHORT, S-H-O-R-T short stature, hyperextensibility of joints or hernia or both, ocular depression, Rieger anomaly, teething delayed
short-FRAME short stature-facial anomalies-Rieger anomaly-midline anomalies-enamel defects [syndrome]
SHOT serious hazards of transfusion; Shunt Occlusion Trial
SHOV Shokwe virus
SHP Schönlein-Henoch purpura; secondary hyperparathyroidism; Skaraborg Hypertension Project; state health plan
SHPDA State Health Planning and Development Agency
sHPT secondary hyperparathyroidism
SHR spontaneously hypertensive rat
SHRED Sedatives and Hemodynamics During Rapid-Sequence Intubation in the Emergency Department [trial]
SHRS scanned handwritten record system
SHRSP stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat
SHS Sayre head sling; sheep hemolysate supernatant; Strong Heart Study; Sutterland-Haan syndrome
SHSF split hand-split foot [malformation]
SHSP spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone [rat]
SHSS Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale
SHT simple hypocalcemic tetany; subcutaneous histamine test
SHTTP secure hypertext transport protocol
SHUA System for Hospital Uniform Accounting
SHUR System for Hospital Uniform Reporting
SHUV Shuni virus
SHV simian herpes virus; Southampton virus
SHVRC Shiley Heart Valve Research Center [project]
SI International System of Units [Fr. Systeme International d'Unites]; sacroiliac; saline infusion; saline injection; saturation index; self-inflicted; sensory integration; septic inflammation; serious illness; serum iron; severity index; sex inventory; shock index; signal intensity; Singh Index; single injection; sinus irregularities; small intestine; social interaction; soluble insulin; special intervention; spirochetosis icterohaemorrhagica; stability index; stimulation index; stress incontinence; stroke index; structured interview; sucrase isomaltase; sulfoxidation index; superior-inferior; suppression index; syncytium-inducer
S/I superior/inferior
S&I suction and irrigation
Si the most anterior point on the lower contour of the sella turcica [point]; silicon
SIA serum inhibitory activity; small intestine atresia; stress-induced analgesia; stress-induced anesthesia; stretch-induced arrhythmia; subacute infectious arthritis
SIADH syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone
SIAM Streptokinase in Acute Myocardial Infarction [study]
SIB self-inflating bulb; self-injurious behavior; sibling in semantic hierarchy [UMLS]; Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics
sib, sibs sibling, siblings
SIB X, SIB_X extended siblings in semantic hierarchy [UMLS]
SIC serum insulin concentration; Standard Industrial Classification
SICCO Stenting in Chronic Coronary Occlusion [study]
SICD serum isocitrate dehydrogenase
SICU spinal intensive care unit; surgical intensive care unit
SID focal spot to imaging-plane distance; selective intestinal decontamination; single intradermal [test]; Society for Investigative Dermatology; source-image distance; source-isocenter distance; standard imaging display; state inpatient database; stress-induced [heart] depolarization; strong ion difference; sucrase-isomaltase deficiency; sudden inexplicable death; sudden infant death; suggested indication of diagnosis; systemic inflammatory disease
SIDAM Structured Interview for the Diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type, Multiinfarct Dementia, and Dementias of Other Etiology
SIDS sudden infant death syndrome; sulfo-iduronate sulfatase
SIE sis-inducible element; stroke in evolution
SIEA superficial inferior epigastric artery
SIEB Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine [SNOMED] International Editorial Board
SIECUS Sex Information and Education Council of the United States
SIESTA Snooze-induced Excitation of Sympathetically Triggered Activity [study]
SIF sacral insufficiency fracture; serum-inhibition factor
SIFT selector ion flow tube
SIG small inducible gene
SIg, sIg surface immunoglobulin
sig sigmoidoscopy; significant
SIgA, S-IgA secretory immunoglobulin A
SIGH-D Structured Interview for the Hamilton Depression Scale
SIgM, S-IgM secretory immunoglobulin M
SigInt signal intelligence
Σ Greek capital letter sigma; syphilis; summation of series
σ Greek lowercase letter sigma; conductivity; cross section; millisecond; molecular type or bond; population standard deviation; stress; surface tension; wave number
SIGMAV Sigma virus
sigmo sigmoidoscope or sigmoidoscopy
SIGN Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network
SIH stimulation-induced hypalgesia; stress-induced hyperthermia; suction-induced hypoxemia
SIHDSPS Stockholm Ischemic Heart Disease Secondary Prevention Study
SIHE spontaneous intramural hematoma of the esophagus
SI-HRDS structured interview Hamilton rating scale for depression
SII self-inflicted injury
SIJ sacroiliac joint