Talk:ā

RFV discussion: December 2018

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ā

Supposed to be a medical abbreviation for ante - which doesn't have an English medicine definition. --Pious Eterino (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Ante occurs in the medical term ante cibum, abbreviated in prescriptions as a.c.. The Wikipedia article Overline claims, without giving a source, that in medicine ā (a overbar) stands for Latin ante. Apart from that, I have seen no references to “ā” being used as an abbreviation of ante in a medical or any other context. The Wikipedia article List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions does not mention such a use, but states that “āā” stands for “of each”. This is supposed to be from Latin ana, but I know of no such Latin word. Perhaps the distributive use of Ancient Greek ἀνὰ (anà) is meant. In any case, this has nothing to do with ante.  --Lambiam 20:18, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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