New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
Glossary
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Glossary
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 |
ADOS | Assistant Director of Ordnance Services |
ADS | Advanced Dressing Station |
AFHQ | Allied Force Headquarters |
AFS | American Field Service |
AI | Accidental Injury |
AIF | Australian Imperial Force |
AMCU | Anti-malaria Control Unit |
AMD | Army Medical Department |
AMGOT | Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory |
APM | Assistant Provost Marshal |
ASC | Army Service Corps |
ATS | Anti-tetanus Serum |
BC | Battle Casualty |
BCOF | British Commonwealth Occupation Force |
BID | Brought in Dead |
BMA | British Medical Association |
BNA | British North Africa |
BP | Blood Pressure |
BT | Benign Tertian (malaria) |
BTE | British Troops in Egypt |
CCS | Casualty Clearing Station |
CD | Contagious Disease |
CMF | Central Mediterranean Force |
CNS | Central Nervous System |
CO | Commanding Officer |
DAAG | Deputy Assistant Adjutant General |
DADH | Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene |
DADMS | Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services |
DAPM | Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal |
DDMS | Deputy Director of Medical Services |
DDP | Deputy Director of Pathology |
DDS | Director of Dental Services |
DDT | Dichlor-Diphenyl-Trichlorethanepage 697 |
DGMS | Director-General of Medical Services |
DJAG | Deputy Judge Advocate General |
DMS | Director of Medical Services |
EMS | Emergency Medical Service |
ENT | Ear, Nose, and Throat |
EPIP | European Privates, Indian Pattern (tent) |
FDS | Field Dressing Station |
FGCM | Field General Court Martial |
FSU | Field Surgical Unit |
FTU | Field Transfusion Unit |
GHQ | General Headquarters |
GOC | General Officer Commanding |
GS | General Service |
GSW | Gunshot Wound |
HMT | His Majesty's Troopship (Transport) |
HP | High Pressure |
HP | Hospital Pattern |
HQ | Headquarters |
HS | Hospital Ship |
IAT | Inflammation Areolar Tissue |
KLB | Klebs Loeffler Bacillus |
L of C | Line of Communication |
LG | Landing Ground |
LRDG | Long Range Desert Group |
MAC | Motor Ambulance Column (Convoy) |
MDS | Main Dressing Station |
MEF | Middle East Force |
MI Room | Medical Inspection Room |
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 |
NYD (N) | Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) |
NZEF | New Zealand Expeditionary Force |
NZEF (IP) | New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in Pacific) |
NZEF (UK) | New Zealand Expeditionary Force (United Kingdom) |
NZGH | New Zealand General Hospital |
NZMC | New Zealand Medical Corps |
OC | Officer Commanding |
OCTU | Officer Cadet Training Unitpage 698 |
ONS | Organisation for National Security |
ORA | Operation Room Assistant |
ORs | Other Ranks |
OUMC | Otago University Medical Company |
PA | Prophylactic Ablution |
PAD | Passive Air Defence |
PMO | Principal Medical Officer |
PUO | Pyrexia of Unknown Origin |
PW | Prisoner of War |
QAIMNS | Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service |
QM | Quartermaster |
RAMC | Royal Army Medical Corps |
RAP | Regimental Aid Post |
RMO | Regimental Medical Officer |
RMT | Reserve Mechanical Transport |
RNZAF | Royal New Zealand Air Force |
RNZN | Royal New Zealand Navy |
RTU | Reinforcement Transit Unit |
SMO | Senior Medical Officer |
Stalag | Prison Camp, Other Ranks (in Germany) |
TAB | Typhoid, Paratyphoid A and B (vaccine) |
TANS | Territorial Army Nursing Service (British) |
Tb | Tuberculosis |
UDF | Union Defence Force (South Africa) |
VAD | Voluntary Aid Detachment |
VD | Venereal Disease |
VDTC | Venereal Disease Treatment Centre |
WAAC | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
WE | War Establishment |
WO | Warrant Officer |
WSP | Water Softening Powder |
WWSA | Women's War Service Auxiliary |