medical

healing, medicinal, curative, therapeutic, restorative, prophylactic, preventive, alleviating, medicating, pharmaceutical, salutary, sedative, narcotic, tonic, disinfectant, corrective, pathological, cathartic, health-bringing, peptic, corroborant, lenitive, demulcent, balsamic, depuritory, emollient; see also remedial.

Antonyms destructive*, disease-giving, harmful*. *

Commonly used medical terms and their abbreviations include: acute respiratory disease (ARD), anterior (A), barium enema (BE), basal body temperature (BBT), basal metabolic rate (BMR), blood pressure (BP), cancer (Ca), Celsius (C), central nervous system (CNS), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS), cubic centimeter (cc), dilation and curettage (D & C), dose*, ear, nose, and throat (ENT), electrocardiogram (EKG), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), electroencephalogram (EEG), Fahrenheit (F), fever of undetermined origin (FUO), gastrointestinal (GI), genitourinary (GU), gram (gm), hemoglobin (Hb), ideal body weight (IBW), immediately (stat), intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV), milliliter (ml), multiple sclerosis (MS), myocardial infarction (MI), normal (n), obstetrics (OB), physical examination (PE), pulse (P), respiration (R), red blood cell (rbc), shortness of breath (SOB), staphylococcus (staph), streptococcus (strep), temperature (T), unit (U), venereal disease (VD), weight (wt), white blood cell (wbc).