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 Wound |
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| 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 |
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