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:
- Emerson - watched the Concord volunteers march off to war. He maintained the view war must be pursued. - Thoreau - died 1862, a fervent abolitionist. - Whitman - Did witness the war firsthand; hospital volunteer, but found optimism in the horror: Man could find strength in the darkness.