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:
coal-miners' dust disease. Froma study of78 coal-minerswithlungcancer, agoodproportionofwhom have been operated on, two points for discussion arise: one, the difficulty in reaching the correct diagnosis at a stage when surgical removal of the lung tumour is possible; the other, the high pro-portion ofcoal-miners surviving two or moreyears after resection compared with the proportion of survivors in non-miners. The figures under con-