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Symbols used by medical and healthcare professions.
All 81symbols recorded in this context, A–Z.
A fixed frame for the body.
A crossed loop for a weight.
A weight below the dram.
Circles and crosses plotting hearing loss by ear and frequency.
Adhesive tape whose pale stripes turn dark after processing.
A trefoil of overlapping circles, designed to be instantly recognisable as a warning for biological hazards.
A letter and a sign naming ABO type and rhesus status.
A serpent coiled around a stemmed bowl, marking pharmacy.
A winged staff with two serpents wound around it, originally the attribute of Hermes (Mercury), the messenger god.
Day or date labels printed on a blister pack, one per dose.
An open book with a lowercase i, in blue.
A letters-and-numbers marking showing a medicine's controlled-drug schedule.
A purple label with a cell in division, marking hazardous drugs.
A heart with a lightning stroke on green, marking an AED.
Yellow for serious but can wait.
Three incompatible systems for naming the same tooth.
The vertical and horizontal lines that carry the relationships in a tree.
A stroke through a square or circle meaning the person has died.
A crossed-out STERILE box with a diagonal bar.
Two parallel lines joining a couple who are blood relatives.
Twelve views, named by convention.
A flat line broken by a sharp spike, standing for a heartbeat.
Black or blue, for those beyond help.
An hourglass or EXP mark giving the date after which a product should not be used.
Two digits: quadrant then tooth.
A shaded square or circle: this person has the condition being traced.
A white cross on green, marking first aid provision.
A black human silhouette with a starburst on the chest, in a red-bordered diamond — the GHS symbol for serious, longer-term health hazards.
A capital H inside a circle, marking a helicopter landing area.
Red for treat first.
Colours distinguishing reliever from preventer inhalers.
A chromosome complement in one line.
A child-and-hand or crossed-child mark warning against accessible storage.
The letters LOT in capitals.
A simplified factory building with a roofline.
A circle with an arrow pointing up and right — Mars, the male sign, and iron.
A rod-of-Asclepius badge worn to signal a condition.
A standard set of pictograms on device packaging.
The Rod of Asclepius and the caduceus on memorials, and which of them actually means medicine.
Shoulder colours identifying what is in a cylinder.
A coloured band on a cylinder's shoulder above a white or coloured body.
A thermometer or snowflake marking a medicine's required storage conditions.
A horned circle above a cross — Mercury, and quicksilver.
The smallest liquid measure.
Green for walking wounded.
A pharmacist's mortar and pestle carved on a monument.
Three symbols saying whether an item may enter the scanner room.
A crossed-out cup or spoon, instructing that a patient must not eat or drink.
A bracket showing the quadrant.
The squares, circles and connecting lines of a formal family diagram.
A square for a male individual, a circle for a female, a diamond where unknown.
Letters and numbers pressed into a tablet, identifying the product.
A bottle you can read in the dark.
A capital letter R with a stroke across its leg, heading a prescription.
An arrow marking the individual the chart was drawn for.
A three-bladed trefoil, conventionally black on a yellow background, warning of ionising radiation hazards.
A lead L or R placed in the beam before exposure.
The R with a stroke.
A red crescent on a white ground, protected under the Geneva Conventions.
A red cross on a white ground, protected under the Geneva Conventions.
A red square standing on one corner, on a white ground.
A recorded clinical decision, not a symbol worn by a patient.
A staff with a single serpent coiled around it, associated in Greek mythology with Asclepius, the god of medicine.
A symbol or coloured connector marking how a medicine is to be given.
A rigid yellow container with a fill line and a lid lock.
A coloured jar in the window.
The two letters Sv, the SI unit symbol for the sievert.
Latin abbreviations giving the dosing instructions on a prescription.
A figure 2 struck through by a diagonal bar in a circle.
A blue six-barred star with a serpent-and-staff at its centre, marking emergency medical services.
The letters STERILE with EO beside them in a rounded box.
The letters STERILE with R beside them in a rounded box.
A looped tube ending in earpieces and a round chest piece.
Scale lines whose interval depends on the syringe size.
A graduated barrel with a plunger and a fine needle.
A capital T, the SI unit symbol for the tesla.
Letters for the faces of a tooth.
Four colours sorting casualties by urgency at an incident.
One to thirty-two, straight through.
A circle above a cross — Venus, the female sign, and copper.
A fraction or a decimal describing how well someone sees.