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The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals, more commonly known by its abbreviation CPS, [1] is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healthcare professionals prescribe and use drugs safely and appropriately. A print version of CPS is released ...
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary .
every 1 hour (can replace 1 with other numbers) q4PM at 4:00 pm (can replace 4 with other numbers) mistaken to mean every 4 hours q.a.d. quaque alternis die: every other day q.a.m. quaque die ante meridiem: every morning (every day before noon) q.d./q.1.d. quaque die: every day mistaken for "QOD" or "qds," spell out "every day" or "daily".
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. Brand names and generic names are differentiated by capitalizing brand names. See also the list of the top 100 bestselling branded drugs, ranked by sales. Abbreviations are used in the list as follows: INN = International Nonproprietary Name
Also called primes congruent to d modulo a . The primes of the form 2 n +1 are the odd primes, including all primes other than 2. Some sequences have alternate names: 4 n +1 are Pythagorean primes, 4 n +3 are the integer Gaussian primes, and 6 n +5 are the Eisenstein primes (with 2 omitted).
Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. Brand names and generic names are differentiated by capitalizing brand names. See also the list of the top 100 bestselling branded drugs , ranked by sales.
Canadian (and other North American Numbering Plan) telephone numbers are usually written as (NPA) NXX-XXXX. For example, 250 555 0199, a fictional number, could be written as (250) 555-0199, 250-555-0199, 250-5550199, or 250/555-0199. The Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between groups; e.g. 250-555-0199. [4]