Acronym Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Jargon==== While acronyms provide convenience and succinctness for specialists, they often degenerate into confusing [[jargon]]. This may be intentional, to exclude readers without domain-specific knowledge. New acronyms may also confuse when they coincide with an already existing acronym having a different meaning. Medical literature has been struggling to control the proliferation of acronyms, including efforts by the American Academy of Dermatology.<ref name="PMID19150279">{{Cite journal |last1=Patel |first1=C. B. |last2=Rashid |first2=R. M. |title=Averting the proliferation of acronymophilia in dermatology: effectively avoiding ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=340β344 |date=February 2009 |pmid=19150279 |doi=10.1016/j.jaad.2008.10.035}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page