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).
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L -M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z - misc
- V
- ventilation (in a VQ scan)
- voice (GCS)
- vanadium
- volt/voltage
- valine
- 5 (Roman numeral)
- trigeminal nerve
- 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, tracheoesophageal, renal, limb defects
- VAD: ventricular assistance device
- Val: valine
- VALI: ventilator-associated lung injury
- VAP: ventilator-acquired pneumonia
- VASARI: visually accessible Rembrandt images
- 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
- VCME: vicarious contrast material excretion
- VCU: venous compression ultrasound
- VD
- vascular dementia
- venereal disease
- vaginal delivery
- vas deferens
- VDRL: venereal disease research laboratory
- VEMP: vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials
- VENC: velocity encoding
- VF
- visual field
- ventricular fibrillation
- VGKC: voltage gated potassium channel
- VHL: von Hippel Lindau
- VI
:- six (Roman numeral)
- abducens nerve
- VIBE: volume interpolated breathhold examination (Siemens)
- VIBRANT: volume imaging for breast assessment (GE)
- VII
:- seven (Roman numeral)
- facial nerve
- VIII
:- eight (Roman numeral)
- vestibulocochlear nerve
- VISI: volar intercalated segmental instability
- VIT: vitamin
- VLCFA: very long chain fatty acids
- VLDL: very low density lipoprotein
- VNA: vendor
neutral-neutral archive - VOD: veno-occlusive disease
- VOG: vein of Galen
- VOI: volume of interest
- VOL: volume
- VOM: vein of Marshall
- VOMIT: victim of modern imaging technology
- Voxel: volume element
- VP: ventriculoperitoneal
- VPS: ventriculoperitoneal shunt
- VPSPr: variably protease-sensitive prionopathy
- VQ: ventilation perfusion (scan)
- VR
- vasectomy reversal
- voice recognition
- virtual reality
- VRE: vancomycin-resistant enterococci
- VRS: Virchow-Robin space
- VRT: volume
rendered-rendered transformation - VS: versus
- VSD: ventricular septal defect
- VSS: vital signs stable
- VT
- tidal volume
- ventricular tachycardia
- VTE: venous thromboembolism
- VUJ: vesicoureteric junction
- VV
- varicose veins
- venous varix
- varicella vaccine
- VWD: von Willebrand disease
- VZV: varicella zoster virus
- V1
- primary visual cortex
- ophthalmic nerve, first division of the trigeminal nerve
-<li>trigeminal nerve</li>- +<li><a title="Trigeminal nerve" href="/articles/trigeminal-nerve">trigeminal nerve</a></li>
-<li>VACTERL: <a title="VACTERL association" href="/articles/vacterl-association-1">vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophageal, renal, limb defects</a> </li>- +<li>VACTERL: <a href="/articles/vacterl-association-1">vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophageal, renal, limb defects</a>
- +</li>
-<li>VI: six (Roman numeral)</li>- +<li>VI<ul>
- +<li>six (Roman numeral)</li>
- +<li><a title="Abducens nerve" href="/articles/abducens-nerve">abducens nerve</a></li>
- +</ul>
- +</li>
-<li>VII: seven (Roman numeral)</li>-<li>VIII: eight (Roman numeral)</li>- +<li>VII<ul>
- +<li>seven (Roman numeral)</li>
- +<li><a title="Facial nerve" href="/articles/facial-nerve">facial nerve</a></li>
- +</ul>
- +</li>
- +<li>VIII<ul>
- +<li>eight (Roman numeral)</li>
- +<li><a title="Vestibulocochlear nerve" href="/articles/vestibulocochlear-nerve">vestibulocochlear nerve</a></li>
- +</ul>
- +</li>
-<li>VNA: vendor neutral archive</li>- +<li>VNA: vendor-neutral archive</li>
-<li>VPS: <a title="Ventriculoperitoneal shunt" href="/articles/ventriculoperitoneal-shunt">ventriculoperitoneal shunt</a>- +<li>VPS: <a href="/articles/ventriculoperitoneal-shunt">ventriculoperitoneal shunt</a>
-<li>VQ: <a title="VQ Scan" href="/articles/vq-scan-2">ventilation perfusion</a> (scan)</li>- +<li>VQ: <a href="/articles/vq-scan-2">ventilation perfusion</a> (scan)</li>
-<li>VRT: volume rendered transformation</li>- +<li>VRT: volume-rendered transformation</li>
-<li><a title="Varicose veins" href="/articles/varicose-veins">varicose veins</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/varicose-veins">varicose veins</a></li>
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