Abbreviations, contractions, acronyms, initialisms for medical writers

Medicine:

Medicine (general category)

Translation and Interpreting:

acronyms / abbreviations

Language:

[EN] English

Additional characteristics:

for translators and interpretersfor writers/copywriters

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Added by: Ekaterina Chashnikova

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A comprehensive post by Georgina Fradgley, a professional web editor, copyeditor and proofreader, based in Hampshire.

Georgina explains differenced between the terms abbreviations, contractions, acronyms and initialisms and gives examples of their correct and incorrect use.

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