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TABLE 1.3
Abbreviations Used For Giving Medications or Treatments to Certain Areas of the Body
Abbreviation Meaning
SQ, SubQ subcutaneous – injection given under the skin
IM intramuscular – injection given into the muscle
IN intranasal – liquid squirted into a nostril
IV intravenous – injection or catheter placed into a vein
PO, po per os – by mouth or orally
PR, pr per rectum – rectal medications
as, AS left ear
as, AD right ear
au, AU each or both ears
os, OS left eye
od, OD right eye
ou, OU each or both eyes

abbreviations will crop up in the rest of this textbook. It
is suggested that you keep a small notebook in your Chapter Reflection
pocket and when you see an abbreviation or acronym
that you don’t know the mean of, write it down and look Think about all of the information in this chapter.
it up. What was the easiest to learn? What was the
hardest? What will you need to practice the most?

Information Exercise

One of the best ways to learn these root words,
suffixes and prefixes, and abbreviations is to write
them on flash cards to test yourself and practice
using them every day in a sentence.