Guttae (medical)

Guttae (medical)

In medicine, guttae, the plural of "gutta", is Latin for drops.cite journal |author=McGarry RC, McGarry P |title=Please pass the strychnine: the art of Victorian pharmacy |journal=CMAJ. |volume=161 |issue=12 |pages=1556–8 |year=1999 |pmid=10624415 |doi= [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1230877&blobtype=pdf Free Full Text] .] It is frequently abbreviated as gtts (gtt for singular) and often seen on prescriptions.

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