This glossary contains abbreviations for age-related terms. It is intended to be included in or merged with other glossaries.

Tips:

• Spelled out versions are listed in [Words]
  For "eighty" series start with letter "e" and add.
  For example, "e---" produces "eighty-seven-year-old"
   
• Numbered versions are in [Phrases]
  For example, "y20" produces "20-year-old"
   
• Generic endings "-year-old" etc. are in [Phrases]
  For example, "y4" produces "four-year-old"
   

This glossary contains a list of drug names; no phrases. It also includes strings like "q.i.d." , "p.r.n." etc. in the [Words] section. The need to override automatic spacing may thus be eliminated.

Given the nature of this list, it will always be a work in progress. Kindly report any errors and suggestions to support@textware.com

This is a list of all-caps headers followed by colons. They appear in the [Words] section or the [Phrases] section, as appropriate.

Example: "ad" for "ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS:"

This glossary is intended to be included in or merged with your working glossaries.

This glossary contains a list of more than 8,000 words of seven letters or more. The only entries in the [Phrases] section are for numerical conventions. (Refer to tips under Numbers.glo.)

MT_Words.glo is intended for use only as a reference material. For best results, compile your own glossaries and use MT_Words.glo as a supplement. A version containing 11,000 words of four letters or more can be downloaded from the Glossary Exchange at www.textware.com.

This is a glossary of about 3000 phrases intended for use as a reference material and finding names of instruments, procedures, and stock phrases.

MT_Phrases also contains 150 hyphenated words in the [Words] section.
Example: under "a" you will find "above-the-knee".

For best results, compile your own glossaries to get more sentence continuations. Then use MT_Phrases.glo as a supplement that is included or merged.

New drugs, medical procedures and equipment - 1995. Based on Mary Morken's list on MT Daily and adapted to Instant Text by Robert T. Hill. Copyright retained by original holder. Used by permission of Mary Morken.

Tips:

To see alternate names of drugs in the phrase advisory, type the first two letters. For example:

• Typing "at" gives "Atron (ketoprofen)"
   
• Typing "va" gives "valaciclovir (Valtrex)"
   

This glossary contains commonly used numbers and numerical conventions. This is useful because the "#" and "/" characters are treated as markers by Instant Text and "#" is difficult to reach.

Numbers.glo is intended to be included in or merged with other glossaries. All entries appear in the Phrase Advisory.

Tips:

• Numbers series. For example: "n1" = "#1"; "n15" = "#15"
  Contains #1 through #40 plus #69 and #72
   
• French series. For example: "f28" = #28 French".
  Contains #1 French through #40 French.

 
• Grade series. For example: "g34" = "grade III/IV"
   
• Vertebrae series. For example: "t34" = "T3-T4"; "c67" = "C6-C7"
   
• O'clock series. For example: "o1" = "one o'clock"
  Contains "one o'clock" through "twelve o'clock"
  Includes all half hours: "o1t" = "one thirty o'clock"
  "o7t" = "seven thirty o'clock"
   

This glossary contains 55 phrases of common suture materials and is intended to be included in or merged with your working glossaries.

Examples: "n4d" = "#4-0 Dexon"; "n0p" = "#0 Prolene".
They appear in the [Phrases] section.

This glossary contains approximately 900 phrase entries and can be included in or merged with your working glossaries.

Examples: "d97" = "97° F", "d974" = "97.4° F"
and "d5" can be expanded to "5 degrees" or "5º".

The Decimals and QDecimals glossaries contain 11000 abbreviations for decimal expansions from 0.01 to 99.99. They are intended to be included in your working glossaries or merged.

Two versions are included. In the Decimals version, short forms start with an n:

Examples:

   n08 = 0.8
   n099 = 0.99
   n1013 = 10.13
   n9993 = 99.93

In the QDecimals version, short forms start with q:

   q08 = 0.8
   q099 = 0.99
   q1013 = 10.13
   q9993 = 99.93