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What does *S* stand for?

What does *S* mean? We have 77 definitions. Read most used *S* meanings below.

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• BA S — Balloon angioplasty plus stenting
• JANITOR'S FRACTURE — a fracture so obvious that a janitor (cleaner) could diagnose it
• S I — Strains Were Inhibited
• S 100 — specific enolase, S-100 protein
• S DP — Stuttering and Disordered Phonology
• H→S — heel-to-shin test
• CHANDELIER'S SIGN — The result of any test or probing after which the patient must be removed from the chandelier
• OC'S — Optical centres
• 3P’S — Pill, Permissiveness and Promiscuity (relates to female patients with sexually transmitted disease)
• S — without (usually written with a bar on top of the 's')
• WOOLWORTH'S TEST — (UK anaesthesia) if you can imagine patient shopping in Woolies, it's safe to give a general anaesthetic
• GOD'S WAITING ROOM — intensive care unit and/or geriatric unit
• S — second (do NOT use 'sec' for 'second;' use 'sec' for 'secant')
• TURTLE'S HEAD — in severe constipation where the anus is dilated and a faecal mass is visible (aka 'shy turd') - the problem is, it starts to come out and then, like a turtle's head, it goes back in again!
• JOHN THOMAS SIGN (UK), JOHNSON'S SIGN (US) — according to tradition, the side that the penis (John Thomas, Johnson) points to (if visible on x-ray) will have an abnormality (see also Throckmorton sign).
• S — Short
• S — Sulfur
• S — Serine
• S — Student
• BRONZE JOHN'S LAW — (paediatrics) if the weight of the records exceeds the weight of the child, the prognosis is grim
• THROCKMORTON'S SIGN — in the unconscious male, the penis points to the injury
• OLD MAN'S FRIEND — (US) pneumonia, an illness which often carried off the elderly
• GOWN'S SIGN, POSITIVE — a patient who leaves (self-discharge ) without official discharge orders
• WILKINSON'S SYNDROME — a patient who has slashed their wrists with a razor blade (after a popular brand of razor)
• SWEET MILK/ MOTHER'S MILK — Propofol; a reference to its milky appearance and pain-relieving use
• S — Switch
• RV/LV S — Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle plus Septum
• C & S — Culture and Sensitivity
• S — Displacement
• ROTHMAN'S SIGN — tobacco staining of fingers
• S — Entropy
• S — Super
• S — Source
• S P — Supine and Prone
• S — Sphere
• S — Satellite
• S — Streptococcus
• S — Sin
• S — Stokes
• S — Spectacles
• S — Satisfactory
• S — Soldering
• S — Sinister
• S — US DoT tire speed rating
• S P — Salbutamol Plus Placebo
• JOPO S — Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
• LV S — Left Ventricle Septum
• S — Sacral Vertebra
• S — Streptomycin
• S — Systolic

• S — Silicaceous
• S — Sleep
• S — Subthreshold Swing
• MICHELIN'S DISEASE/DISORDER — multiple spare tyres (obese)
• S — S Sub-Shell
• S — Fresnel Sine Integral
• S — Onde Seconde
• S — Scholarly
• S — Scrubber
• S — Salinity
• S — Step
• S — Area of a geometric figure
• S — Sand
• S — Specialist
• SSC'S — Sudden Storm Commencements
• S — Continuous-time complex variable
• S — Superior
• S — Secondary Body Waves
• S — Spiral
• S — Fourth Heartbeat Wave
• S — Specimen
• S — sensation, sensitive, serum
• S — Suspension
• S — Sum
• S — Snail
• S — Spiral (for Galaxies)
• S — Stable

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