# Transcribing medical terms and measurements
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Amazon Transcribe Medical can transcribe medical terms and measurements. Amazon Transcribe Medical outputs abbreviations for spoken terms. For example, "blood pressure" is transcribed as BP. You can find a list of conventions that Amazon Transcribe Medical uses for medical terms and measurements in the table on this page. The *Spoken Term* column refers to the term spoken in the source audio. The *Output* column refers to the abbreviation you see in your transcription results.

You can see how the terms spoken in source audio correspond to the transcription output here.


| Term spoken in source audio | Abbreviation used in output | Example output | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| Centigrade | C | The patient's temperature is 37.4 C. | 
| Celsius | C | The patient's temperature is 37.4 C. | 
| Fahrenheit | F | The patient's temperature is 101 F. | 
| grams | g | A mass of 100 g was extracted from the patient. | 
| meters | m | The patient is 1.8 m tall. | 
| feet | ft | The patient is 6 ft tall. | 
| kilos | kg | The patient weighs 80 kg. | 
| kilograms | kg | The patient weighs 80 kg. | 
| c c | cc | Patient received 100 cc of saline solution. | 
| cubic centimeter | cc | Patient received 100 cc of saline solution. | 
| milliliter | mL | Patient excreted 100 mL urine. | 
| blood pressure | BP | Patient BP was elevated. | 
| b p | BP | Patient BP was elevated. | 
| X over Y | X/Y | Patient BP was 120/80. | 
| beats per min | BPM | Patient had atrial fibrillation with heart rate of 160 BPM. | 
| beats per minute | BPM | Patient had atrial fibrillation with heart rate of 160 BPM. | 
| O 2 | O2 | Patient O2 saturation was 98%. | 
| CO2 | CO2 | Patient required respiratory support for elevated CO2. | 
| post operation | POSTOP | Patient came for POSTOP evaluation. | 
| post op | POSTOP | Patient came for POSTOP evaluation. | 
| cat scan | CT Scan | Patient indication of cerebral hemorrhage required use of CT Scan. | 
| Pulse 80 | P 80 | Patient vitals were P 80, R 17,... | 
| Respiration 17 | R 17 | Patient vitals were P 80, R 17,... | 
| in and out | I/O | Patient was I/O sinus rhythm | 
| L five | L5 | Lumbar puncture was performed between L4 and L5 |