Lab test abbreviations
Surgery
Disease Abbreviations
Time
Electrolyte & Mineral Abbreviations
100

CBC

What is complete blood count?

100

The removal of the tonsils.

What is a tonsillectomy?

100

HIV

What is human immunodeficiency virus?

100

AM

What is morning?

100

Mg

What is magnesium?
200

H & H

What is hemoglobin and hematocrit?
200

The removal of the appendix.

What is appendectomy?

200

CAD

What is coronary artery disease?

200

PM

What is afternoon?

200

Ca

What is calcium?

300

BMP

What is basic metabolic panel?

300

The birth of a baby through an incision on the stomach.

What is a cesarean section/C-section?

300

CHF

What is congestive/chronic heart failure?

300

BID

What is twice a day?

300

Fe

What is iron?

400

UA

What is urinalysis?

400

The surgical opening of the skull.

What is a craniotomy?

400

TB

What is tuberculosis?
400

Q2h

What is every 2 hours?
400

Na

What is sodium?

500

BUN

What is blood urea nitrogen?

500

The grafting of veins to the outside of the heart to bypass blockages in the coronary arteries. 

What is a coronary artery bypass graft/CABG?

500
HBV

What is hepatitis B virus?

500

QID

What is 4 times a day?

500

K

What is potassium?

M
e
n
u