Slash or Yaoi for male/male stories - use the first initial of the characters, such as H/D for Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Femmeslash or Yuri for female/female stories.
Lemon to denote sexual content
Het or Gen for heterosexual stories.
RPS means Real Person Slash, FPS Fake Person Slash, RPF means Real Person Ficition.
Canon - what has actually been portrayed or written in the original work
Crossover - works where characters from totally different books or shows meet and interact.
AU - alternate universe. One in which a major event that didn't occur in the original does occur, or vice versa.
H/C - Hurt/Comfort fics, where one character is injured and the other takes care of them
NC - nonconsensual sex, i.e. rape
PWP - Plot. What Plot? An erotic story that is entirely about the sex with no attempt to produce a realistic plot
UST - unresolved sexual tension
OOC - out of character. Having a character behave in a way contrary to canon
Ship or Shipper - short for relationship. Someone who consistently writes stories about a certain romantic pairing
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In health terms, the initials BOL stands for biology. It is used very much for education abbreviations when used in front of classes. It is used often.
In APA formatting, acronyms can be used as abbreviations if they are defined the first time they are used in text. Standard abbreviations like "et al." for et alia, "etc." for et cetera, "p." for page, and "vol." for volume are also commonly used. It is important to ensure that the abbreviation is widely recognized and understood by readers.
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In reality, it would become readily apparent if someone in a medical setting didn't understand medical abbreviations or terminology. The reason for this is abbreviations and specific medical terms are used on such a large scale that if someone didn't understand them, they wouldn't be able to hide it very long. In a medical setting people use medical terminology and/or abbreviations every few seconds.
Abbreviations .com is the largest resource for acronyms and abbreviations. Each entry is broken down into categories for easy searching.
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Acronyms are abbreviations used in a paper.