Ophthalmology acronyms

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:10:13 GMT

Using unintelliglble acronyms is bad-mannered - end of.

Wynne

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:03:24 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

Sorry that one member of our profession is so bad-mannered.

Wynne

[/quote]Assuming you me that is not bad manners but black humour. I'm sure Hannah 2 realised that Hannah 1, erm...Wynne.

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:58:55 GMT

Sorry that one member of our profession is so bad-mannered.

Wynne

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah May — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:57:19 GMT

Haha yep definately asking for an actual friend, not a "friend"!!!

Context is it was written by a vet in answer to something on a questionnaire. I don't really want to say more as need to preserve confidentiality. (My friend is aware I have asked for help translating the acronym on this forum and of what I've written!)

Thanks for all the input, we'll look into the Irrigation Aspiration Handpiece thing. If we ever get to the bottom of this IAH thing conclusively I'll let you know!!

Thanks all

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:31:02 GMT

It is posible they're thinking "poor old dear".

Now if you and I atteded the same meeting??????????????????

Wynne

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:17:22 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

No need at all to be embarrassed. At lots of CPD meetings, I ask the DSP (help, I've got AD - it must be a CV to be infective via vetsurgeon!) for an explanation and lots of others smile at me gratefully.

Wynne

[/quote] You might be mistaking that smile for one of pity Wynne. Only I am also the one who asks all the annoying questions and assume everyone is grateful for me being the one who shows himself up. In reality they just want us to shut up so they can go home/to the bar!

I was about to go back to my last post and add that it wasn't a stupid question anyway because we're all so stupid we didn't know the answer but you did it for me..

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:53:33 GMT

Wynne

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:48:41 GMT

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]Hannah is asking for a friend [/quote]OK so I don't read posts fully before I make a smart Alec reply but it could be 'the friend' that asks when people are too embarrassed to admit they're asking the question.

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Niall Taylor — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:32:25 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Forgive me for asking the bleedin' obvious but where did you come across this acronym then?[/quote]

Hannah is asking for a friend - http://www.vetsurgeon.org/forums/p/22998/139327.aspx#139327

She may also be hearing voices of course but that would be a seperate issue.

Niall

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:20:54 GMT

[quote user="Hannah May"]I'm not certain on context [/quote]Forgive me for asking the bleedin' obvious but where did you come across this acronym then? Unless you are hearing voices (in which case this may not be the best forum to help) you must have read it from somewhere or been told by someone so there has to be some context.

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

bob lehner — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:02:22 GMT

Distichiasis - 'It's Awfully Hairy' ??

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:54:36 GMT

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]

ETA - here's a possibility, an Irrigation Aspiration Handpiece (http://rumex.net/en/ophthalmic/irrigation_and_aspiration_handpiece/7_080__IAH-irrigation_aspiration_handpiece)

[/quote]

Looks like a grenade-tipped crossbow bolt!

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Niall Taylor — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:56:42 GMT

LMGTFY -

http://www.abbreviations.com/IAH -

Iah is a god of the moon in ancient Egyptian religion. His name simply means moon. By the New Kingdom he was less prominent as a moon deity than the other gods with lunar connections, Thoth and Khonsu. As a result of the functional connection between them he could be identified with either of those deities. He was sometimes considered an adult form of Khonsu, and was increasingly absorbed by him. Iah continued to appear in amulets and occasional other representations, similar to Khonsu in appearance, with the same lunar symbols on his head and occasionally the same tight garments. He differed in usually wearing a full wig instead of a child's sidelock, and sometimes an Atef crown topped by another symbol. As time went on, Iah also became Iah-Djuhty, meaning "god of the new moon." Iah was also assimilated with Osiris, god of the dead, perhaps because, in its monthly cycle, the moon appears to renew itself. Iah also seems to have assumed the lunar aspect of Thoth, god of knowledge, writing and calculation; the segments of the moon were used as fractional symbols in writing. One queen was called Iah.

LOL!

Medical uses: http://www.allacronyms.com/_medical/IAH - Intra-Abdominal Hypertension, Idiopathic Adrenal Hyperplasia

Most likely in a veterinary medical context - Institute for Animal Health, now Pirbright - http://www.pirbright.ac.uk/

Couldn't come up with anything specifically ophthalmological though.

Let me know if any of those make sense to your friend - my curiosity is piqued.

TTFN,

Niall

ETA - here's a possibility, an Irrigation Aspiration Handpiece (http://rumex.net/en/ophthalmic/irrigation_and_aspiration_handpiece/7_080__IAH-irrigation_aspiration_handpiece)

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Robert Lowe — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:55:02 GMT

Please post answer as I have no idea either

Thanks!

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah May — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:47:17 GMT

Thanks for the entertaining answers I'm afraid I'm not certain on context as asking for a friend. At least I know its not something obvious I'm missing!!

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Utlendigur — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:02:06 GMT

Ulcer? --- It's A Hole

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Rob Loxley — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:01:24 GMT

it aint happy?

inside all haemorrhagic?

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:38:30 GMT

I.... ah.... I.... ah... I... ah.... I ..... ahhh.....I think we need some tests (I've no idea what's wrong with this animal)

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

grumpyoldman — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:09:11 GMT

Incidental Asteroid Hyalosis ?

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:46:03 GMT

How about insane acronym hypomental?

Wynne

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:36:04 GMT

Using an acronym without, at first use, stating the full name in words is wrong procedure for scientific writing. It's also damned bad manners.

I've no idea what IAH stands for.

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Alex Gough — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:03:11 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]I think ophthalmologists and neurologists deliberately conjure up terminology and acronyms designed to make other vets feel inadequate and to further increase the mystique of their subject.[/quote]

Ask an economist, and they will say all professions do this to create barriers of entry to those not in the know. Think I read that in Freakonomics or The Undercover Economist. Good reads if you haven't read them. The Undercover Economist explains the purpose of the greenbelt, and it's nothing to do with preserving rural land!

Alex

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Martin Atkinson — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:46:17 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

Yet another demented scrabble player!

Wynne

[/quote]No that would be YADSP! I think ophthalmologists and neurologists deliberately conjure up terminology and acronyms designed to make other vets feel inadequate and to further increase the mystique of their subject.

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Rob Loxley — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:29:33 GMT

[quote user="Hannah May"]Does anyone know what the acronym "IAH" stands for in ophthalmology?[/quote]

some context might help?

Re: Ophthalmology acronyms

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:27:41 GMT

Yet another demented scrabble player!

Wynne