New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Glossary

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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-Trichlorethane

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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 Unit

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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