War Surgery and Medicine
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 |
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 Woundpage 764 |
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 |