Health and Medicine
- Doctor of Optometry (O.D.)
- Drug overdose, the use of a drug in quantities greater than recommended
- Occupational disease, the health effects from exposures associated with a particular occupation
- "OD", an abbreviation commonly used in medical prescriptions for the Latin phrases oculus dexter, ocular dexter, ocularis dexter, or omne in die; or the English phrase "once daily"
- Osteochondritis dissecans, a medical disease affecting the joints of both humans and animals
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