AA & QMG A/Q |
Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General |
AAMC |
Australian Army Medical Corps |
A & D |
Admission and Discharge |
ADH |
Assistant Director of Hygiene |
ADMS |
Assistant Director of Medical Services |
ADS |
Advanced Dressing Station |
A (Farauti) |
Anopheles (mosquito) |
AI |
Accidental Injury |
AIF |
Australian Imperial Force
|
AL 63 |
Anti-louse powder with derris and naphthalene |
AMCU |
Anti-malaria Control Unit |
AMD |
Army Medical Department |
AMGOT |
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory |
APT |
Artificial Pneumothorax |
ASC |
Army Service Corps |
ATS |
Anti-tetanus Serum |
BC |
Battle Casualty |
BCC |
Bacillus Coli Communis |
BCOF |
British Commonwealth Occupation Force |
BID |
Brought in Dead |
BIPP |
Bismuth Iodine Paraffin Paste |
BNA |
British North Africa |
BP |
Blood Pressure |
BT |
Benign Tertian (malaria) |
BTE |
British Troops in Egypt |
CCS |
Casualty Clearing Station |
CMF |
Central Mediterranean Force |
CNS |
Central Nervous System |
CO |
Commanding Officer |
DADH |
Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene |
DADMS |
Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services |
DAH |
Disordered Action of the Heart |
DAPM |
Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal |
DDMS |
Deputy Director of Medical Services |
DDP |
Deputy Director of Pathology |
DDT |
Dichlor-Diphenyl-Trichlorethane |
DGMS |
Director-General of Medical Services |
DI |
Dangerously I11 |
DMS |
Director of Medical Services |
ENT |
Ear, Nose, and Throat |
EPIP |
European Privates, Indian Pattern (tent) |
FB |
Foreign Body |
FDS |
Field Dressing Station |
FGCM |
Field General Court Martial |
FSU |
Field Surgical Unit |
FTU |
Field Transfusion Unit |
GHQ |
General Headquarters |
GOC |
General Officer Commanding |
GSW |
Gunshot Wound
|
HP |
High Pressure |
HQ |
Headquarters |
IAT |
Inflammation Areolar Tissue |
L of C |
Line of Communication |
MAC |
Motor Ambulance Column (Convoy) |
MDS |
Main Dressing Station |
MEF |
Middle East Force |
MO |
Medical Officer |
MRC |
Medical Research Council
|
MSU |
Mobile Surgical Unit |
MT |
Malignant Tertian (malaria) |
NAAFI
|
Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes |
NAB |
Nov-Arseno-Benzol |
NCO |
Non-commissioned Officer |
NL |
Nipple Line |
NYD (N) |
Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) |
NZEF |
New Zealand Expeditionary Force |
NZEF (IP) |
New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in
Pacific) |
NZGH |
New Zealand General Hospital |
NZMC
|
New Zealand Medical Corps |
OC |
Officer Commanding |
OCTU |
Officer Cadet Training Unit |
ORA |
Operation Room Assistant |
ORs |
Other Ranks |
PA |
Preventive Ablution |
PR |
Pulse Rate |
PUO |
Pyrexia of Unknown Origin |
P(vivax, etc.) |
Plasmodium (malaria parasite) |
PW |
Prisoner of War |
QM |
Quartermaster |
RAMC |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
RAP |
Regimental Aid Post |
RIH |
Right Inguinal Hernia |
RMO |
Regimental Medical Officer |
RNZAF
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force |
RNZN
|
Royal New Zealand Navy |
SI |
Seriously Ill |
SMO |
Senior Medical Officer |
SMR |
Submucous Resection |
Stalag |
Prison Camp, Other Ranks (in
Germany) |
SW |
Shell Wound |
TAB |
Typhoid, Paratyphoid A and B (vaccine) |
TB |
Tuberculosis |
VB |
Voluntary Boarder |
VD |
Venereal Disease |
VDTC |
Venereal Disease Treatment Centre |
WAAC
|
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
WE |
War Establishment |
WO |
Warrant Officer |