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This list contains acronyms for medical disorders and diseases (infectious or non-infectious).


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A

AAA - Abdominal aortic aneurysm
AAS - Aarskog-Scott syndrome
ABCD syndrome - Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder
ACC - Agenesis of the corpus callosum
ACS - Acute coronary syndrome
ACTH deficiency - Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency
AD - Alzheimer's Disease
AD - Attachment disorder
ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder
ADD-RT - Attention Deficit Disorder-Residual Type
ADEM - Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AF - Atrial fibrillation
AGS - Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
AHC - Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ALI - Acute lung injury
ALS - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
AMD - Age-related Macular Degeneration
AOS - Apraxia of speech
APA - Aldosterone Producing Adenoma
APS - Antiphospholipid syndrome
ARBD - Alcohol-Related Birth Defects
ARD - Adult Refsum disease
ARDS - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
ARND - Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder
AS - Ankylosing Spondylitis
AS - Asperger syndrome
ASDs - Autism spectrum disorders
A-T - Ataxia-telangiectasia
AVMs - Arteriovenous malformations

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B

BBS - Bashful Bladder Syndrome
BEB - Benign essential blepharospasm
BD - Binswanger's disease
BEH - Behaviorally/Emotionally Handicapped
BH - Behaviorally Handicapped
BMD - Becker's muscular dystrophy
BPH - Benign prostatic hyperplasia
BS - Bloom's syndrome
BSE - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
BSS - Brown-Sequard syndrome
BV - Bacterial Vaginosis

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C

CACH - Central Nervous System Hypomyelination
CAD - Coronary artery disease
CADASIL - Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy
CAPD - Central Auditory Processing Disorder
CCD - Considerable Conduct Disorder
CCHF - Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
CCHS - Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
CCM - Cerebral cavernous malformation
CDG - Congenital disorder of glycosylation
CDGS - Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome
CESD - Cholesteryl ester storage disease
CF - Cystic Fibrosis
CFIDS - Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
CFS - Chronic fatigue syndrome
CGBD - Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration
CH - Cluster headache
CHARGE syndrome -
CHARGE syndrome - Coloboma of the eye, Heart defects, Atresia of the nasal choanae, Retarded growth & or development, Genital abnormalities, Ear abnormalities
CHD - Congenital Heart Disease
CHD - Congenital hip dysplasia
CHD - Coronary heart disease
CHF - Congestive heart failure
CIDP - Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
CIPA - Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
CMs - Chiari malformations
CMT disease - Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
COFS - Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome
COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
CP - Cerebral Palsy
CP/CPPS - Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
CPDD - Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease
CPM - Central pontine myelinolysis
CPPS - Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
CRF - Chronic Renal Failure
CRKP - Carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumonia
CRPS - Complex regional pain syndrome
CSA - Central sleep apnea
CSD - Cat scratch disease
CVD - Cardiovascular disease

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D

DAS - Developmental apraxia of speech
DBA - Diamond Blackfan anemia
DBMD - Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy
DD - Developmental disability
DEF - Deaf
DF - Dengue Fever
DH - Developmentally handicapped
DHF - Dengue hemorrhagic fever
DiG - DiGeorge syndrome
DLB - Dementia with Lewy bodies
DM - Diabetes mellitus
DMD - Duchenne muscular dystrophy
DRSP disease - Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease
DS - Down syndrome
DSPS - Delayed sleep phase syndrome
DTs - Delirium tremens
DVD - Developmental verbal dyspraxia

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E

ED - Emotionally disturbed
EDS - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
EDS - Excessive daytime sleepiness
EEE - Eastern equine encephalitis
EHK - Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis
EMH - Educable mentally handicapped
EMR - Educable mentally retarded
ENS - Epidermal nevus syndrome
EPM - Extrapontine myelinolysis
ESRD - End Stage Renal Disease
ESS - Empty Sella Syndrome

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F

FAE - Fetal Alcohol Effects
FAS - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
FASDs - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
FFI - Fatal familial insomnia
FMA - Focal Muscular Atrophies
FMD - Fibromuscular dysplasia
FMS - Fibromyalgia Syndrome
FSP - Familial spastic paraparesis
FTD - Frontotemporal dementia
FVS - Fetal Valproate Syndrome
FXS - Fragile X syndrome

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G

GAD - Generalized anxiety disorder
GAN - Giant axonal neuropathy
GAS disease - Group A Streptococcal disease
GBS - Guillain-Barré Syndrome
GBS disease - Group B Streptococcal disease
GCE - Glycine encephalopathy
GD - Gestational diabetes
GERD - Gastroesophageal reflux disease
GI - Gastrointestinal
GIB - Gastro-intestinal bleeding
GN - Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
GSS disease - Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease
GT/LD - Gifted and learning disabled
GVHD - Graft-versus-host disease
GWD - Guinea worm disease

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H

HAS - Holmes-Adie syndrome
HD - Huntington's Disease
HDL2 - Huntington's disease-like 2
HELLP syndrome - Hemolytic anemia, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet count syndrome
HFA - High Functioning Autism
HFMD - Hand, foot, and mouth disease
HFRS - Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
HI - Hearing impaired
HiB disease - Idiopathic Hyperaldosteronism
HMSN Type III - Hereditary Motor and Sensory Polyneuropathy Type III
HOH - Hard of hearing
HPN - Hypertension
HPRT deficiency - Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase deficiency
HPS - Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
HPV Infection - Human Papillomavirus Infection
HSP - Hereditary spastic paraplegia

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I

IBD - Inflammatory bowel disease
IBIDS syndrome - Ichthyosis, brittle hair, intellectual impairment, decreased fertility, and short stature syndrome
IBM - Inclusion body myositis
IBS - Ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens
IBS - Irritable bowel syndrome
IC/PBS - Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome
ICF syndrome - Immunodeficiency, Centromere instability and Facial anomalies syndrome
IHA - Idiopathic Hyperaldosteronism
IED - Intermittent Explosive Disorder
IFAP syndrome - Ichthyosis follicularis, alopecia, and photophobia syndrome
INAD - Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy
IP - Incontinentia pigmenti
IRD - Infantile Refsum disease
IS - Infantile spasm
ITP - Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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J

JAS - Juvenile Anklosing Spondylitis
JE - Japanese encephalitis
JHD - Juvenile Huntington's disease
JRA - Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

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K

KS - Kawasaki syndrome
KSS - Kearns-Sayre syndrome
KTS - Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome
KTW Syndrome - Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome

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L

LCM - Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
LD - Learning Disabilities/Differences
LD - Legionnaires' Disease
LEMS - Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
LFA - Low Functioning Autism
LGV - Lymphogranuloma venereum
LKS - Landau-Kleffner syndrome
LNS - Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
LP - Lipoid proteinosis
LP - Little person/people

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M

MAC - Mycobacterium avium complex
MBD - Minimal brain dysfunction
MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
MD - Muscular dystrophy
MDR TB - Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis
MID - Multi-infarct dementia
MJD - Machado-Joseph disease
ML - Mucolipidoses
MLD - Metachromatic leukodystrophy
MMA - Monomelic amyotrophy
MMR - Measles, mumps, rubella
MMRV - Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
MND - Motor neuron disease
MOH - Medication overuse headaches
MPD - Myeloproliferative disorders
MPS I - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type I
MPS II - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type II
MPS III - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type III
MPS IV - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type IV
MPS VI - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type VI
MPS VII - Mucopolysaccharoidosis Type VII
MR/DD - Mentally retarded/Developmentally disabled
MS - Multiple Sclerosis
MSDD - Multi-Sensory Developmental Delays

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N

NAS - Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
NBIA - Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
NCL - Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
NF1 - Neurofibromatosis type 1
NF2 - Neurofibromatosis type 2
NKH - Nonketotic hyperglycinemia
NLD - Nonverbal learning disability
NMDs - Neuronal migration disorders
NMO - Neuromyelitis optica
NMS - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
NP - Niemann-Pick disease
NPC1 - Niemann-Pick disease, type C1
NPH - Normal pressure hydrocephalus
NTD - Neural Tube Defect
NTDs - Neural tube defects

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O

OA - Osteoarthritis
OCD - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
ODD - Oppositional Defiant Disorder
OMA - Ocular Motor Apraxia
ON - Osteonecrosis
OPC - Oropharyngeal Candidiasis
OPCA - Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
OSA - Obstructive sleep apnea

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P

PBC - Primary biliary cirrhosis
PBD - Peroxisome biogenesis disorders
PCOS - Polycystic ovarian syndrome
PD - Parkinson's disease
PDD - Pervasive Developmental Disorder
PDD-NOS - Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
PDD/NOS - Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
PKAN - Panthothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
PLMD - Periodic limb movement disorder
PLS - Primary lateral sclerosis
PMD - Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
PML - Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome
POTS - Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
PPMA - Postpolio Progressive Muscular Atrophy
PPS - Post-polio syndrome
PSC - Primary sclerosing cholangitis
PSP - Progressive supranuclear palsy
PVL - Periventricular leukomalacia
PW - Port-wine stain

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Q

Q fever - Query fever

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R

RA - Rheumatoid Arthritis
RAD - Reactive Airway Disease
RIND - Reversible ischemic neurologic deficit
RLF - Retrolental fibroplasia
RLS - Restless legs syndrome
RMDs - Repetitive motion disorders
ROP - Retinopathy of prematurity
RS - Reye's syndrome
RSD - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
RTI - Respiratory Tract Infection

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S

SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SB - Spina bifida
SBS - Shaken Baby Syndrome
SC - Sydenham chorea
SD - Saint Vitus's dance
SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
SIS - Shaken infant syndrome
SLE - Systemic lupus erythematosus
SMA - Spinal Muscular Atrophy
SMEI - Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
SMS - Smith-Magenis Syndrome
SOD - Septo-optic dysplasia
SPS - Stiff person syndrome
SSPE - Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease
SUNCT Headache - Short-lasting, Unilateral, Neuralgiform headache
SWS - Sturge-Weber syndrome

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T

TAC - Trigeminal autonomic cephalgia
TB - Tuberculosis
TBI - Traumatic brain injury
TCS - Tethered cord syndrome
TEF - Tracheoesophageal fistula
TIA - Transient ischemic attack
TMH - Trainable mentally handicapped
TMJ/TMD - Temporomandibular joint disorder
TMR - Trainable mentally retarded
TN - Trigeminal neuralgia
TOS - Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
TS - Tourette syndrome
TS - Tuberous sclerosis
TSC - Tuberous sclerosis
TSEs - Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
TSP - Tropical spastic paraparesis
TTH - Tension type headache
TTP - Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

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U

UCPPS - Urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome
UDA - Urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis
UTIs - Urinary Tract Infections

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V

VCFS - Velo cardio facial syndrome
vCJD - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
VD - Venereal disease
VHF - Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
VHL - Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
VSD - Ventricular septal defect
VVC - Volvovaginal Candidiasis
VWM disease - Vanishing White Matter disease

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W

WAGR syndrome - Wilms tumor, Aniridia, Genitourinary anomalies, and mental Retardation syndrome
WD - Wilson's disease
WEE - Western equine encephalitis
WS - Williams Syndrome

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X

XDR TB - Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
XP - Xeroderma pigmentosa

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Y

YSS - Young Simpson syndrome
YVS - Yunis-Varon syndrome

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Z

ZBLS - Zadik Barak Levin syndrome

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