CHF

CHF is the medical abbreviation for Congestive Heart Failure.

Heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain adequate circulation of blood in the tissues of the body or pump out the venous blood returned to it by the venous circulation.

BM is the medical abbreviation for Bowl Movement.

Bowel is defined as one of the division of the intestine.

SOB is the medical abbreviation for Shortness of Breath. 

Shortness of breath is defined as the difficulty in drawing sufficient breath; labored breathing.

Ischemic is the adjective of ischemia. Ischemia is defined as deficient supply of blood to the a body part (as the heart or brain) that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blodd (as by narrowing of arteries by spasm or disease).

Cardiomyopathy: cardi/o means heart. Cardiomyopathy is defined as  any structural or functional disease of heart muscle that is marked especially by enlargement of the heart, by hypertrophy of cardiac muscl, or by rigidity and loss of flexibility of the heart walls and that may be idiopathic or attributable to a specific cause (as heart valve disease, untreated high blood pressure, or viral infection.

GI is the medical abbrevation for gastrointestinal.

gastr/o means stomach

Gastrointestinal is defined as relating to, or affecting both stomach and intestine.

UTI is the medical abbrevation for urinary tract infection.

Urinary tract is defined as the tract through which urine passes and which consists of the renal tubules and renal pelvis, the ureters, the bladder, and the urethra.

Infection is defined as an infective agent or material contaminated with an infective agent; the state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host; a disease resulting from infection.

UA is the medical abbrevation for urinalysis.

Urin/o means urine.

-lysis means dissolution, breakdown.

Urinalysis is defined as the chemical analysis of urine,

OT is the medical abbrevation for Occupational therapy.

Occupational therapy is defined as therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life (as self-care skills, education work, or social interaction) especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities despite impairments or limitations in physical or mental functioning.

N/G is the medical abbrevation for nasogastric.

Nas/o means nose.

Gastr/o means stomach.

Nasogastric is defined as related to, being, or performed by intubation of the stomach by the way of the nasal passage (tube: a piece of laboratory or technical apparatus usually serving to isolate or convey a product of reaction; or hollow cylindrical device (as a cannula) used for insertion into bodily passages or hollow organs for removal or injection of materials.

T is the medical abbreviation for temperature.

Temperature is defined as a degree of hotness or coldness measured on a scale (thermometer); also the degree of heat that is natural to a living body; a condition of abnormally high heat.

R is the medical abbreviation for respiration. 

Respiration is defined as a movement of respiratory gases (as oxygen and carbon dioxide) into and out of the lungs; a single complete act of breathing; the physical and chemical processes by which an organism supplies its cells and tissues with the oxygen needed for metabolism and relieves them of the carbon dioxide formed in energy-producing reactions.

P is the medical abbreviation for pulse.

Pulse is defined as a regularly recurrent wave of distention in arteries that results from the progress through an artery of blood injected into  the arterial system at each contractions of the ventricles of the heart; the palpable beat resulting from such pulse as detected in superficial artery (as radial artery); also the number of such beats in a specified period of time (as one minute)

BP is the medical abbreviation for blood pressure.

Blood pressure is defined as presure exerted by the blood upon the walls of the blood vessels and especially arteries usually measured on the radial artery by means of a sphygmomanometer and expressed in millimeters of mercury-either as a fraction having as numerator the maximum pressure that follows systole of the left ventricular of the heart at the denominator the minimum pressure that accompanies cardiac distole or as a whole number respresenting the first value only.

Dia- means through, throughout.

Nos/o means disease

Diagnosis is defined as the art or act of indentifying a disease from its signs and symptoms; the decision reached by diagnosis