[ S ]

• 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

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