Medical abbreviations and acronyms (V)
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This article contains a list of commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms that start with the letter V and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep in alphabetic order).
- V
- ventilation (in a VQ scan)
- voice (GCS)
- vanadium
- v: version (e.g. v1.0)
- VA
- department of veterans affairs (Federal agency of USA)
- vertebral artery
- visual acuity
- VAC: vacuum assisted closure (wounds)
- VACTERL: vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophogeal, renal, limb defects
- VAD: ventricular assistance device
- VALI: ventilator-associated lung injury
- VAP: ventilator-acquired pneumonia
- VAST: variable sampling in time (GE)
- VAT: view angle tilting
- VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
- VB: vertebral body
- VBAC: vaginal birth after caesarean section
- VBG: venous blood gas
- VC
- vital capacity
- virtual colonoscopy
- vCJD: variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
- VCU: venous compression ultrasound
- VD
- vascular dementia
- venereal disease
- vaginal delivery
- vas deferens
- VEMP: vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials
- VENC: velocity encoding
- VF
- visual field
- ventricular fibrillation
- VHL: von Hippel Lindau
- VIBE: volume interpolated breathhold examination (Siemens)
- VIBRANT: volume imaging for breast assessment (GE)
- VISI: volar intercalated segmental instability
- VIT: vitamin
- VLCFA: very long chain fatty acids
- VLDL: very low density lipoprotein
- VNA: vendor neutral archive
- VOD: veno-occlusive disease
- VOG: vein of Galen
- VOI: volume of interest
- VOM: vein of Marshall
- VOMIT: victim of modern imaging technology
- VPS: ventricular peritoneal shunt
- VQ: ventilation perfusion (scan)
- VR
- vasectomy reversal
- voice recognition
- VRE: vancomycin-resistant enterococci
- VRS: Virchow-Robin space
- VRT: volume rendered transformation
- VSD: ventricular septal defect
- VSS: vital signs stable
- VF: ventricular fibrillation
- VT
- tidal volume
- ventricular tachycardia
- VTE: venous thromboembolism
- VUJ: vesicoureteric junction
- VV
- varicose veins
- venous varix
- VZV: varicella zoster virus
-<ul>- +<p>This article contains a list of commonly used <strong>medical abbreviations and acronyms</strong> that start with the letter <strong>V </strong>and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep in alphabetic order).</p><ul>
- +<li>VAST: variable sampling in time (GE)</li>
- +<li>VENC: velocity encoding</li>
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