药品既有中文名也有外文名,两者并存、通用。外文名有的比较长,由十几个甚至几十个字母组成,书写、记忆都不容易:因此,有的药品外文名采用缩写:如Para-aminosalicy lic acid (对氨基水场酸)简写成PAS,既省时、又方便。可是在实际工作中,碰到一些缩写药名却常使人头痛,主要是缩写不统一,且不说各医疗单位的缩写五花八门,就是书籍、杂志上的缩写也不尽相同。药名的缩写,一般应在正式名称的基础上简缩。为了规范化,英国药典中对许多品种均附有缩写名称。例如insulin zinc suapension缩写为IZS等 Drugs have both Chinese name and foreign name, the two coexist, common. Some foreign names are relatively long, composed of more than a dozen or even dozens of letters, writing, memory is not easy: Therefore, the use of foreign abbreviations for some drugs: such as Para-aminosalicylic acid PAS, both time-saving and convenient. However, in practical work, it is often a headache to encounter some abbreviated drug names. The main abbreviations are not uniform. Not to mention the various acronyms in various medical units, which are the abbreviations in books and magazines. Abbreviations for the name of a medicine should generally be abbreviated on the basis of the official name. For standardization, many varieties in the British Pharmacopoeia are accompanied by an abbreviated name. For example, insulin zinc suapension abbreviated as IZS and so on