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Medical Glossaries

Instant Text includes the richest set of medical glossaries — with around 40,000 phrases.

All provided glossaries have been reviewed by Sharon Allred, CMT, and are conform to the rules of AAMT Book of Style for Medical Transcription, 2nd edition. In particular, they provide correct hyphenation, punctuation, and capitalization of brand names.

A first set of medical glossaries include the following:

In addition, the following glossaries have been contributed by practicing medical transcriptionists to the Glossary Exchange:

 

Ages

This glossary contains abbreviations for age-related terms. It is intended to be included in or merged with other glossaries.

Tips:

• Spelled out versions are listed in [Words]
  For the "eighty" series start with the letter "e" and add...
  For example, esy produces "eighty-seven-year-old"
• Numbered versions are in [Phrases]
  For example, y20 produces "20-year-old"
• Generic endings "-year-old" etc. are in [Phrases]
  For example, y4 produces "four-year-old"

 

Degrees

This glossary contains approximately 900 phrase entries and can be included in or merged with your working glossaries.

Examples:
d97 produces "97° F"
d974 produces "97.4° F"
d5 can be expanded to "5 degrees" or "5º"

 

Decimals and QDecimals

The Decimals and QDecimals glossaries contain 11000 abbreviations for decimal expansions from 0.01 to 99.99. They are intended to be included in your working glossaries or merged.

Two versions are included: Short forms start with n in Decimals. They start with q in QDecimals.

Examples:

Decimals:	Qdecimals:
n08 = 0.8	q08 = 0.8
n099 = 0.99	q099 = 0.99
n1013 = 10.13	q1013 = 10.13
n9993 = 99.93	q9993 = 99.93

 

Drugs

This glossary contains a list of drug names; no phrases. The [Words] section also includes strings like q.i.d. and p.r.n and many others. The need to override automatic spacing may thus be eliminated.

Given the nature of this list, it will always be a work in progress. Kindly report any errors and suggestions to support@textware.com

 

Emergency - ER

These two glossaries differ in size. They were compiled from hundreds of Emergency Room reports with different minimum word frequencies. These glossaries represent a good sample of the most frequent situations encountered in the Emergency Room and provide numerous sentence continuations.

 

GenMed

The General Medical glossary contains about 9000 phrases and 4000 long medical words that have been found to be most frequent in general medical transcription reports.

 

Headers

This is a list of all-caps headers followed by colons. They appear in the [Words] section or the [Phrases] section, as appropriate.

Example: ad produces: "ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS:"

This glossary is intended to be included in or merged with your working glossaries.

 

Medabbrv

The Medabbrv glossary contains some frequently used abbreviations. It allows you to type them by using an even shorter abbreviation. No need to type the dots in b.i.d. and similar abbreviations!

MedPhras1

This glossary contains 1000 very frequently used phrases like "auscultation and percussion" or "no masses, tenderness or organomegaly noted" that can be included into your working glossary.

 

MedPhras3 - MedPhras5

These glossaries differ in size - MedPhras3 offers more than 3000 and MedPhras5 more than 5000 frequent phrases. You can include these frequently used phrases in your personal glossary or the glossaries you compile with Instant Text. The choice depends on how much visual information you want to see in the advisories.

 

MedSampl

The MedSampl glossary contains medical language and may give you an idea of how words and phrases can be typed with only a few keystrokes. It also shows you how phrases are continued automatically with Instant Text.

Try tph;;; and you will get "The patient has a history of hypertension".

 

MedStart

MedStart is a recommended base glossary when starting work in Medical Transcription. It combines the 4000 words of MedWords4 with the 5000 phrases of MedPhras5.

 

MedWords4

This glossary contains approximately 4000 very frequently used words of 7 letters or mostly longer. It can be included into your personal glossary (imported or created with Instant Text) or into one of the MedPhras glossaries of your choice. Most of these words can be abbreviated with just 3 or 4 letters.

 

MT_Words

This glossary contains a list of more than 8,000 words of seven letters or more. The only entries in the [Phrases] section are for numerical conventions. (Refer to tips under Numbers.glo.)

MT_Words.glo is intended for use only as a reference material. For best results, compile your own glossaries and use MT_Words.glo as a supplement. A version containing 11,000 words of four letters or more can be downloaded from the Glossary Exchange at www.textware.com.

 

MT_Phrases

This is a glossary of about 3000 phrases intended for use as a reference material and finding names of instruments, procedures, and stock phrases.

MT_Phrases also contains 150 hyphenated words in the [Words] section.
Example: under a you will find "above-the-knee".

For best results, compile your own glossaries to get more sentence continuations. Then use MT_Phrases.glo as a supplement that is included or merged.

 

NDME&P

New drugs, medical procedures and equipment - 1995. Based on Mary Morken's list on MT Daily and adapted to Instant Text by Robert T. Hill. Copyright retained by original holder. Used by permission of Mary Morken.

Tips: To see alternate names of drugs in the phrase advisory, type the first two letters. For example:

• Typing at displays: Atron (ketoprofen)
• Typing va displays: valaciclovir (Valtrex)

 

Numbers

This glossary contains commonly used numbers and numerical conventions. This is useful because the # and / characters are treated as markers by Instant Text and # is difficult to reach.

Numbers.glo is intended to be included in or merged with other glossaries. All entries appear in the Phrase Advisory.

Tips:

• Numbers series.
  For example: n1 = #1 and n15 = #15
  Contains #1 through #40 plus #69 and #72
• French series.
  For example: f28 = #28 French
  Contains #1 French through #40 French.
• Grade series.
  For example: g34 = grade III/IV
• Vertebrae series.
  For example: t34 = T3-T4 and c67 = C6-C7
• O'clock series.
  For example: o1 = one o'clock
  Contains one o'clock through twelve o'clock.
  Includes all half hours:
  o1t = one thirty o'clock
  o7t = seven thirty o'clock

 

Sutures

This glossary contains 55 phrases of common suture materials and is intended to be included in or merged with your working glossaries. They appear in the [Phrases] section.

Examples:
n4d = #4-0 Dexon
n0p = #0 Prolene.

 

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