Example of Latin text with abbreviations. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase. It consists of a group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.
The patient, who was a former coal miner, developed black lung disease. He was diagnosed with an abnormal condition of dust in the lungs or:
Friday 24 June 2016 14.45 EDT Last modified on Friday 11 November 2016 06.47 EST. A Pennsylvania man who claimed for years to have escaped from Auschwitz, met track and field star Jesse Owens and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, confessed on Friday that he had fabricated the entire story.