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1. Medical Dictionary -- Definitions
   This is a nice abbreviations dictionary for both medical and pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations. It includes over 70,000 and ... has up-to-date medical and health care news. Search by definition, acronym, or abbreviation. Also provides search capability for the Merck Manual, a medical dictionary, and other source material for health care professionals and the consumer.
2. Abbreviation -- Letters
   Plurals are often formed by doubling the last letter of the abbreviation. Most of these deal with writing and publishing: MS=manuscript, MSS=manuscripts; l=line, ll=lines; p=page, pp=pages; s=section, ss=sections; op.=opus, opp.=opera. This form, derived from Latin is used in Europe in many places: dd=didots. "The following (lines or pages)" is denoted by "ff". One example that does not concern printing is hh=hands.
3. Sarcoidosis -- Persons
   Despite a century of research, little is known about sarcoidosis. Research has discovered what it is not. Among other things, it is not a cancer or tuberculosis or AIDS-related. It is not caused by pine pollen or other identifiable agents like pollution, airborne or otherwise. It is not progressive or contagious. You did not get it from someone else and you cannot give it to another person.
4. Personal Ad -- People
   Personal ads have a long and venerable, even stodgy tradition. At one time, professional matchmakers and marriage brokers regularly placed ads and announcements for their clients in ethnic and foreign language newspapers. The personals fell into disrepute around midcentury, as a more modern, urbanized generation no longer felt the need to resort to indirect methods of meeting, dating, and mating. Since the 1980s, personal ads have made a comeback, regaining respectability by virtue of their ability to connect people who might otherwise never meet.
5. Definitions -- References
   Abbreviations.com is a unique reference resource which focuses primarily on definitions and classifications of short hands such as acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. It is backed up by a large community of volunteering editors that maintain a massive directory of acronyms and abbreviations in diverse disciplines, an online conversion tool, zip codes lookup and more.
6. Abbreviation -- Words
   In American English, the period is usually added if the abbreviation may be interpreted as a word, though some American writers do not use a period here. Sometimes, periods are used for certain acronyms but not others; a notable instance in American English is to write United States, European Union, and United Nations as U.S., EU, and UN respectively. There is no stop/period between letters of the same word, for example St. and not S.t. for Saint. While users of British English often abbreviate in the same manner, it is more common in formal writing that abbreviations are written with full stops if the word has been cut at the point of abbreviation (e.g., "Street" – "St[reet]" – becomes "St."), but not otherwise (e.g., "Saint" – "S[ain]t" – becomes "St"); a third standard removes the full stops from all abbreviations (e.g., both "Saint" and "Street" become "St"). Thus in the United Kingdom, titles such as "Doctor", "Mister" and "Mis'ess" are commonly abbreviated as "Dr", "Mr", and "Mrs" respectively, but they are ... frequently written, as in Canada and the U.S., as "Dr.", "Mr." and "Mrs."
7. Euphrates -- Euphrates Dam
   The headwaters of the Euphrates are the Murat and the Karasu rivers in the Armenian Highland of northeastern Turkey. Considerably altered in the 20th century by water-control projects, they join to form the Euphrates at Keban, near Elazig, where the Keban Dam, completed in 1974, spans a deep gorge.
8. Nato Phonetic Alphabet -- Letters
   It did not start off like this - over time, the phonetic alphabet has evolved. The phonetic alphabet is a system created by the NATO allies in the 1950s that would be intelligible and pronounceable to all NATO allies in the heat of battle. It has another name - the radiotelephony spelling alphabet. It requires words to be spelt out by their letters; for example, arm becomes Alpha Romeo Mike, and south becomes Sierra Oscar Uniform Tango Hotel. All the letters sound different, so there is no confusion over long distances over what people are saying. The reason that any phonetic alphabet is (or was) used is because telephone, radio and walkie-talkie communications had the habit of crackling over long distances, blotting out whole words or even sentences.
9. Manhattan -- North American
   Manhattan's many neighborhoods are not named according to any particular convention. Some are geographical (the Upper East Side), or ethnically descriptive (Chinatown). Others are acronyms, such as TriBeCa (for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street") or SoHo ("SOuth of HOuston"), or the far more recent vintage NoLIta ("NOrth of Little ITaly") .[50][51] Harlem is a name from the Dutch colonial era after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.[52]
10. Maimonides, Moses -- Egypt
    Maimonides's full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect — which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death — Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time.

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