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• CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• CF — Cystic Fibrosis
• CCM — Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
• OPS — Operations
• LAN — Local Area Network
• HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus I
• US — United States of America
• CHF — Congestive Heart Failure
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• A BY E — Admission by Exception
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• AD — Atopic Dermatitis
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• AA — Ascorbic Acid
• RDF — Combustion of Refuse Derived Fuels
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• UCAAD — University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• CCTV — Closed-circuit television
• PS — PostScript
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• BTW — By The Way
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• DO — Dissolved Oxygen
• MM — Millimeter
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• ICD — Interface Control Document
• PPM — parts per million
• XFTS — XMM File Transfer System
• AHRQ — Agency for Health, Research, and Quality
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• BAEPS — Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• A — Ampere
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• CMAP — Compound Muscle Action Potential
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• ADH — Antidiuretic Hormone
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• E&CE — Electrical and Computer Engineering
• PDF — Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)

• WHO — World Health Organization
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• CGI — Clinical Global Impression
• HADCM — Hadley Center Model
• HADRT — Hadley Center Radiosonde temperature
• QC — Quality Control
• UCP&T — University Committee on Privilege and Tenure
• NIEO — New International Economic Order
• UCORP — University Committee on Research Policy
• XIDT — X-Ray Identification Team
• IP — Internet Protocol
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• UCOLASC — University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• A3RI — Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
• P-N — Positive-Negative
• BAFME — Benign Adult Familial Myoclonic Epilepsy
• MUX — Multiplexer
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• XFDS — XMM Flight Dynamics System
• UCM-TF — University of California, Merced Task Force
• UCR&J — University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
• I&T WG — Integration and Test Working Group
• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• RF — Radio Frequency
• UCMEXUS — UC Institute for Mexico and the United States
• CBC — Complete Blood Count
• MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheets
• CV — Curriculum Vitae
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• ASD — Atrial Septal Defect
• UCACCORD — UC All Campus Collaboration on Outreach and Dissemination
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• CAIS — Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• AC — Alternating Current
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• HALLIP — Heterogeneous and Liquid Phase Processes (EUROTRAC)
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• WWW — World Wide Web
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• AS — Aortic Stenosis
• DCP — Defined Contribution Plan
• API — Application Programming Interface
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ALL — Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• R&D — Research & Development
• GIS — Geographic Information System

• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• NCCLS — National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• BASDAI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• ESA — European Space Agency
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• CD — Compact Disc
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• DOT — Department of Transport
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• RPM — Revolutions Per Minute, (Rotations Per Minute)
• CNS — Central Nervous System
• PPO — Preferred provider organization
• AD — autistic disorder
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• AMM — Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
• DBMS — Database Management System
• HMO — Health Maintenance Organization
• W — Watt
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• RAM — random-access memory
• IUPAC — International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• CSF — Cerebrospinal Fluid
• ACF — Autocorrelation Function
• ICU — Intensive Care Unit
• FY — Fiscal Year
• TB — Tuberculosis
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• CRS — Congressional Research Service
• EC — European Commission
• EOL — End Of Life
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• RIXOS — ROSAT International X-Ray optical Survey
• IOSH — Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• CAD — Coronary Artery Disease
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• MB — Megabyte

• POE — Point of Entry
• WRT — "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• ANP — Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
• AARP — American Association of Retired Persons
• GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
• GO — General Observer
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• BFGF — Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• NM — Nanometer
• ADA — Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation)
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• CRO — Contract Research Organization
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• ATN — Acute Tubular Necrosis
• CIN — Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• XPM — Cross-Phase Modulation
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• CS — Computer Science
• CONUS — Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC)
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• ANC — Absolute Neutrophil Count
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• MDCK — Madin-Darby Canine Kidney
• DNS — Domain Name System
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• OPD — Outpatient Department
• ROI — Return on Investment
• AU — Astronomical Unit
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• ITCZ — Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• CC — Colon Cancer
• CBF — Cerebral Blood Flow
• DME — Durable Medical Equipment
• PT — Physical Therapy
• OAI — Official Action Indicated (serious Food & Drug Administration post-inspection classification)
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• BCC — Basal Cell Carcinoma
• KG — Kilogram
• CLD — Chronic Liver Disease

• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• ABA — American Bar Association
• BBT — Basal Body Temperature
• ALV — Avian Leukosis Virus
• AMA — American Medical Association
• URD — User Requirements Document
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• CEN — Committee European de Normalisation
• TBC — To Be Confirmed
• DC — Direct Current
• BPS — bits per second
• CIDI — Composite International Diagnostic Interview
• ADS — Astrophysics Data System
• DDT — Dichloro Diphenyl Trichlorethane
• BBS — Bulletin Board System
• FSA — Flexible Spending Account
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• HCFA — Health Care Financing Administration
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• AF — Air Force
• NAM — National Association of Manufacturers
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• O3 — Ozone
• ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• ASR — Airport Surveillance Radar
• RPM — Resale Price Maintenance. The UK Net Book Agreement, as was. Means by which retail prices are controlled by primary suppliers. (Alternatively, Revolutions Per Minute, as in engine speed and 78, 33 and 45 records. In years to come how many people will know
• CRF — Case Report Form
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• EFM — Electrostatic Force Microscopy
• BAC — Boeing Aerospace Company
• SIR — Shuttle Imaging Radar
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• ASAP — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
• CRO2 — Chromium Oxide
• CCHS — Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
• ARE — Antioxidant Response Element
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• TIPS — Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• FTC — Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)

• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• ATS — applications technology satellite
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• ACS — American College of Surgeons
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• EM — Electromagnetic
• OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
• DILHR — Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations
• CBD — Common Bile Duct
• BSE — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• CALTRANS — California Department of Transportation
• HIV — Hair Is Vanishing. Amusing alternative interpretation (thanks EP) contrasting with the seriousness of the more usual meaning of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.HIVIHusband Is Village Idiot. (ODSA) Classic nurses' shorthand.
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• CTM — Chemical Transport Model
• STP — standard temperature and pressure (0° and 1 atm)
• ATA — Alimentary Toxic Aleukia
• CC — Colorectal Carcinoma
• HOPPS — Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
• GSE — Ground Support Equipment
• AF — Amniotic Fluid
• NEMA — National Electric Manufacturer's Association
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• CAPE — Convective Available Potential Energy
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• GAO — Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office]
• CCD — Classic Cleidocranial Dysplasia
• AAMC — American Association of Medical Colleges
• PPB — parts per billion (109)
• SIG — Special Interest Group
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• SMD — Science Mission Division
• PPMV — Parts Per Million by Volume
• BMA — British Medical Association
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• AT&T — American Telephone & Telegraph
• BASIC — Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• NO — Nitric Oxide
• ABR — Auditory Brainstem Response
• CAP — College of American Pathologists
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• NEMS — NASA Equipment Management System
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• CW — Continuous Wave
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle

• H2O — Water (vapor)
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• CHD — Coronary Heart Disease
• CAPD — Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• LF — Low Frequency
• DOC — Doctor
• AFT — Acute Functional Tolerance
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• CA — cytosine arabinoside
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• APEC — Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli
• CDF — Common Data Format
• END — Equivalent Narcotic Depth
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• ACF — Asymmetric Crying Facies
• APD — Avalanche Photo Diode
• SONAR — (DOD) A sonic device used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects.(This term is derived from the words "sound navigation and ranging.")
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• SCR — Software Change Request
• POS — Point of Service Plan
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• CVS — Concurrent Versions System
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• CLD — Chronic Lung Disease
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• RCS — Revision Control System
• CGD — Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• CFS — Cubic Feet per Second
• AGA — appropriate for gestational age
• ACP — Acyl-Carrier Protein
• AMML — Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• SPMP — Software Project Management Plan
• CAI — Codon Adaptation Index
• AICE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• IR — Infrared
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• AHA — American Hospital Association
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• NAFTA — North American Free Trade Agreement
• NAI — No Action Indicated (Most Favorable Food & Drug Administration Post-inspection Classification)
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• ATCC — American Type Culture Collection
• FFW — Feet of Fresh Water
• GO — Guest Observer
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• DNV — Det Norske Veritas
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

• HTTPS — HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• ADL — Avionics Development Laboratory
• HV — High Voltage
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• ABMT — Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• ASD — Autism Spectrum Disorder
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• O2 — Oxygen
• CITECH — Center for Information on Technology in Healthcare
• GB — Gigabyte
• ODP — Ozone Depletion Potential
• DTED — Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted)
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• ACDP — Ancient Conserved Domain Protein
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• ADPKD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• M — Million
• SCB — Software Control Board
• PSD — Power Spectral Density
• ARA — Attitude Reference Assembly
• ADHSP — Autosomal Dominant Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• C — Centigrade
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• SPR — Software Problem Report
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• GCM — General Circulation Model
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• CCB — Calcium Channel Blocker
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• SCPI — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
• CIDP — Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• NAD — Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• ASQ — Alpha System Qualification
• CH — Channel
• SSI — Space Studies Institute
• SNR — Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• HF — High Frequency
• NRC — National Response Center
• CCA — Common Carotid Artery
• TNT — Tri-nitro-toulene
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride

• CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• CEL — Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• CDM — Clean Development Mechanism
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• AFV — Amniotic Fluid Volume
• AJ — Astronomical Journal
• CFC — Chloro Fluoro Carbon
• CCF — Cross-Correlation Function
• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• IPY — International Polar Year
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• CML — Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• COFR — Certificate of Flight Readiness
• AIS — Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• CH — Chronic Hepatitis
• AMD — Acid Maltase Deficiency
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• APP — Amyloid Precursor Protein
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• CCD — Central Core Disease
• WFC — World Food Council
• CK — Creatine Kinase
• BAS — British Antarctic Survey
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• ARDS — Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• UNCCD — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• OCONUS — Outside Continental United States
• CC — Combined Cycle
• SCF — Standard Cubic Foot
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• PM — Particulate Matter
• ASQ — Autism Screening Questionnaire
• CD — Celiac Disease
• SAO — Semi-Annual Oscillation
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• TB — Terabyte
• CINO3 — chlorine nitrate
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• ESL — English as a second language
• BASFI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index

• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• AHO — Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• BAD — Bipolar Affective Disorder
• WG — Working Group
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• DPI — Department of Public Instruction
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• DG — Dentate Gyrus
• CADIC — Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas
• AIP — Acute Intermittent Porphyria
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• C — Celsius
• HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
• ACF — Aberrant crypt foci
• AIN — Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• AFTN — Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• ABPM — ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• CA — Cancer Antigen
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• LHV — lower heating value
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• GWP — global warming potential (climate)
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• DDD — Detailed Design Document
• CLAH — Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• FCOS — Flight Computer Operating System (Orbiter)
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory

• CTS — Canadian Technology Satellite
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade & Industry (Japan)
• ASM — American Society for Microbiology
• DFRC — Dryden Flight Research Center
• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• XRONOS — Time-Series analysis package, part of XANADU
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• DORIS — Doppler Orbitography And Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite (EOS)
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• OP — Office of the President
• AP — Acid Phosphatase
• MERSAT — Meteorology And Earth Observation Satellite
• AAU — Association of American Universities
• CIN — Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• AH — adrenal hypoplasia
• PA — Preliminary Assessment
• CETP — Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein
• AIS — Adenocarcinoma in Situ
• EC — European Community
• DSMB — Data Safety Monitoring Board
• CONACYT — Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• BBC — Bilateral Breast Cancer
• MFA — Manned Flight Awareness
• BEN — Balkan endemic nephropathy
• LVS — Launch Vehicle Simulator
• CMHC — Community Mental Health Center
• AY — Academic Year
• TAO — Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• TMAPI — Topic Map Application Programming Interface
• CID — Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• SAST — Science Analysis Software Team
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• CFCS — Chlorofluorocarbons
• ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
• ADEOS — ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)
• LPLWS — Launch Pad Lightning Warning System
• MOL — Manned Orbital Laboratory
• CGAP — Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• ABL — Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• CIS — Carcinoma in Situ
• CBCL — Child Behavior Checklist
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• DTS — Data Transfer System
• CDH — Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

• PDP — Postinsertion Deorbit Preparation
• PU — Propellant Utilization
• AP — Anomalous Propagation
• AMA — Advanced Maternal Age
• UC — University of California
• ARS — Acute Radiation Syndrome
• CAM — Cell Adhesion Molecule
• RTF — Return To Flight
• ISA — Instrument Society of America
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• AGC — atypical glandular cells
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• DOS — United States Department of State
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• AE — Adverse Event
• AQCR — Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
• NABR — National Association for Biomedical Research
• AA — Acrylic Acid
• CALLA — common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• RS — Remote Sensing
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• ATP — Adult Treatment Panel
• MOSPO — Mobile Satellite Photometric Observatory
• AOM — Acute Otitis Media
• SWT — Science Working Team
• CHAMEX — Cloud Height And Motion EXperiment
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• EMAIL — Electronic Mail
• CA — Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
• ACML — Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• CG — Celera Genomics Corporation
• ROSAT — Roentgen Satellite
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• BDV — Border Disease Virus
• CHD — Congenital Heart Disease
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• DEC — Declination
• AAD — Australian Antarctic Division
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• CDV — Canine Distemper Virus
• SMPTRB — Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Requirement Board
• NTP — National Toxicology Program
• MCP — Microchannel Plate
• G — Gram (g)
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• AOA — Airborne Optical Adjunct
• CAC — Coronary Artery Calcification

• AIL — Avionics Integration Laboratories
• OIG — Office of Inspector General
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• B-ISDN — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• CE — Cholesterol Ester
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• CDA — Command and Data Acquisition
• CCA — Chromated Copper Arsenate
• CGMP — Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate
• ERSIR — Earth Resources Shuttle Imaging Radar
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• AD — Autosomal Dominant
• BLAST — Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• PHRMA — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (formerly PMA, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
• AO — Acridine Orange
• ADR — Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
• APR — Acute Phase Response
• RID — Review Item Discrepancy
• APC — Activated Protein C
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• AID — Artificial Insemination Donor
• BCAA — branched chain amino acids
• KB — Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second
• DMS — Dynamic Message Sign
• CORSA — Cosmic Radiation Satellite
• ANF — Atrial Natriuretic Factor
• ADMCKD — Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Disease
• ND — NASA Document
• BBD — Benign Breast Disease
• SSV — Space Shuttle Vehicle
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• AIS — Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• ADD — Architectural Design Document
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• SAW — Surface Acoustic Wave
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• HEW — Half Energy Width
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• ADPKD — Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• THR — Thrust
• AHR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• ABS — acute bacterial sinusitis
• SESL — Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• CDL — California Digital Library
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• BFF — Bovine Follicular Fluid

• NOX — Nitrogen Oxide
• DLT — Digital Linear Tape
• NDA — New Drug Application
• BAS — British Andrology Society
• ACH — Active Chromatin Hub
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• ISO 14155 — Current Widely Accepted Standard
• ARF — Acute Rheumatic Fever
• MOD — Maximum Operating Depth
• RVU — Relative Value Unit
• JOP — Jupiter Orbiter Probe
• AR — Aspect Ratio
• ISU — International Space University
• MIPS — Merritt Island Press Site
• FD — Flight Dynamics
• CAFS — Conotruncal Anomaly Face Syndrome
• AR — Androgen Receptor
• LSSL — Life Sciences Space Laboratory
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
• WASC — Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• ERS — Earth Resources Satellite
• DPU — data processing unit
• FOM — Figure Of Merit
• AFIGE — Asymmetric Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• AEP — American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• CDT — Cytolethal Distending Toxin
• AES — Agricultural Experiment Station
• CGL — Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
• ETS — Educational Testing Service
• EIGA — European Industrial Gases Association
• ABHI — Association of British Health-Care Industries
• DOH — Department of Health (various countries)
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
• MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
• BAP — Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• ADO — Allelic Drop Out
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• LE — Low Energy
• CHB — congenital heart block
• MMDA — Michigan Medical Device Association
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• HE — High Energy
• IDE — Investigational Device Exemption
• CD — Conduct Disorder

• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• TM — Telemetry
• CHIME — College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• AAH — Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
• AME — Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess
• ACE — Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
• APCR — Activated Protein C Resistance
• CPI — characters per inch
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research & Development Center
• CSA — Canadian Standards Association (like UL)
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• EAP — Education Abroad Program
• CCK — Cancer Center Karolinska
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• BCRP — Breast Cancer Resistance Protein
• AWACS — Airborne Warning And Control System
• CHB — Chronic Hepatitis B
• CFH — Complement Factor H
• DOI — Department of the Interior (US)
• ADNFLE — Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• IPA — Individual Practice Association
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• ASHP — American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
• MASER — microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
• ESDAC — European Space Data Center
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• MMI — Man-Machine Interface
• AK — Actinic Keratosis
• NOS — National Ocean Service
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• ADRV — Adult Diarrhea Rotavirus
• LMSS — Lunar Mapping and Survey System
• EIR — Environmental Impact Report
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• APL — Applied Physics Laboratory (at Johns Hopkins)
• COMET — Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (NOAA and UCAR)
• SERC — Science and Engineering Research Council
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• CCC — Cholangiocellular Carcinoma
• CLH — Cutaneous Lymphoid Hyperplasia
• ARC — Arctic Research Commission
• CAP — Catabolite Activator Protein
• APBD — adult polyglucosan body disease
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• DMERC — Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)

• GCP — Good Clinical Practice
• IA — Interactive
• ABS — Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
• ADF — Amsterdam density functional
• AVS — Aortic Valve Stenosis
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• AR — Autosomal Recessive
• CDART — Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool
• AEH — Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
• NPD — NASA Policy Directive
• CDC — Child Development Centre
• DFAD — Digital Feature Analysis Data (dee-fad)
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility
• CSU — Cleveland State University
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• JD — Julian Day
• CMP — Competitive Medical Plan
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• ADC — Astronomical Data Center
• ASSIST — Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
• CIP — Cast-In-Place
• COSSH — Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
• CCE — Comprehensive Clinical Examination
• AATP — Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• CDC — Cell Division Cycle
• EIA — Extended Interaction Amplifier
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• DEMUX — Demultiplexer
• AEV — Avian Erythroblastosis Virus
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• MEM — Meteoroid Exposure Module
• CHL — Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
• OAQPS — Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• ACC — Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
• CARA — Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• ELS — Eastern Launch Site
• CTE — Charge Transfer Efficiency
• ADPLD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Liver Disease
• IDC — Indirect Costs
• GSI — Graduate Student Instructor
• TMU — Transmission Message Unit

• AL — Ad libitum
• CMD — Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• CALAS — Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• CDR — Common Deleted Region
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• CA — Carbonic Anhydrase
• HCIS — Health Care Information System
• OSS — Office of Space Sciences
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• MPS — Materials Processing in Space
• BACT — Best Available Control Technology
• CAI — Complete Androgen Insensitivity
• BAEP — Brainstem Acoustic Evoked Potentials
• CFC-11 — CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• UT — Universal Time
• DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute
• BPI — bits per inch
• MAP — Mesoscale Alpine Programme
• AFGF — Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• AFLPS — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
• MFCS — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• ACLL — Atypical Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• CGL — Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia
• BSI — British Standards Institution
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• CHA — Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• CART — Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis)
• COSTAR — Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
• CAMP — Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
• CTI — Charge Transfer Inefficiency
• EPACT — Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
• ADCI — American Die Casting Institute
• CDM — Common Data Model
• CEF — chick embryo fibroblast
• ADOA — Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
• CFA — colony forming assay
• CG — Complementation Group
• JHIT — Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• AERONOX — Impact of NOx Emissions from Aircraft upon the Atmosphere
• ID — IDentifier
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)

• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy
• CBF — Ciliary Beat Frequency
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multiple Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• IDTF — Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (US-Japan)
• EPTOX — Extraction Procedure Toxicity
• LED — Liquid Emitting Diode
• AMC — Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
• VT — Visual Testing
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• BFH — Benign Familial Hematuria
• KBPS — KiloBytes per second
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• AEG — Acidic Epididymal Glycoprotein
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• BIO — Biotechnology Industry Organization
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• MAGSAT — Magnetometer Satellite
• SRD — Software Requirements Document
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
• TRI — Toxics Release Inventory
• CCS — clear cell sarcoma
• SAA — Solar Aspect Angle
• OAR — Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• SWHG — Social Welfare History Group
• S/W — Software
• AABR — Automated Auditory Brainstem Response
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• MFPE — Mission from Planet Earth
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• AS — Asperger Syndrome
• GHTF — Global Harmonization Task Force
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• CKII — Casein Kinase II
• CISS — Chromosome In Situ Suppression
• POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• ARMS — Amplification Refractory Mutation
• CMA — Chemical Manufacturers Association
• CLS — Cloud Lidar System
• REM — Rocket Engine Module
• AR — Aortic Regurgitation
• VDC — Voltage Direct Current

• RD — Reference Document
• ACA — Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
• AGNIC — Agriculture Network Information Center
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• ADCP — Adenosine Deaminase Complexing Protein
• CD — Coeliac Disease
• CBPI — Cytokinesis-Block Proliferation Index
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• ARMD — Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• OSSA — Office of Space Sciences and Applications
• NCOS — National Commission on Space
• TNT — Trinitrotoluene
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission
• CCHB — Complete Congenital Heart Block
• CDC — Centers for Disease Control
• AFLP — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphic
• CFTD — Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion
• AFSCN — Air Force Space Command network
• SIR — Spaceborne Imaging Radar
• CHR — complete hematologic response
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• ASE — Absence Status Epilepticus
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• CME — Cystoid Macular Edema
• EBCDIC — Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• SEC — Sun-Earth Connection
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• AR — Aldose Reductase
• ASMT — American Society for Medical Technology
• STEP — Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
• CMK — Cytidine Monophosphate Kinase
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• ARCD — Acquired Renal Cystic Disease
• CON — Certificate Of Need
• TDT — Total Dive Time
• CMU — Concrete Masonry Unit
• DTS — Digital Transmission Systems, Inc.
• PSCL — Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
• CRO — Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• DBP — Defined Benefit Plan
• ABM — Agaricus Blazei Murill
• IC — Instrument Controller
• MEO — Mid Earth Orbit
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Costs
• MHW — Ministry of Health and Welfare

• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• WEC — World Energy Council
• AAAS — Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• SBSTA — Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
• VAI — Voluntary Action Indicated (Food & Drug Administration postaudit inspection classification)
• AOS — Active Oxygen Species
• ASE — Aerospace Support Equipment
• CEP — Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
• TUV — Technische Uberwachungs-Vereine
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• ASV — Avian Sarcoma Virus
• CIDS — Circular Intensity Differential Scattering
• UW — University of Washington
• CHC — Clathrin Heavy Chain
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• CALL — Common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• GTI — Good Time Interval
• PLSL — Propellants and Life Support Laboratory
• ADT — Actual Dive Time
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• CCO — Cytochrome C Oxidase
• CDLS — Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
• AMIA — The American Medical Informatics Association
• ADA — Automatic Data Acquisition
• CIC — Circulating Immune Complex
• AGE — Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• BC — Breast Cancer
• APL — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• SARA — Superfund Amendment And Reauthorization Act
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• AD — Applicable Document
• RA — Right Ascension
• AE — Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
• GLP — Good Laboratory Practice
• RTCS — Real-Time Computer System
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum
• SRSS — Shuttle Range Safety System
• AHRR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor
• CLD — combined lipase deficiency
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• JFET — junction field effect transistor
• CSIRO — Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
• HOP — High Output Paraffin
• LEGRI — Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager
• PCA — Principal Component Analysis
• RSRM — Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor

• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• PDUFA — Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992, U.S.)
• CACD — Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy
• BCR — Breakpoint Cluster Region
• ATS — Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• NPI — Norwegian Polar Institute
• SPART — Space Research and Technology
• TTA — Time to Apogee
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• RNA — Ribose Nucleic Acid
• ALS — Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis
• AIMS — Ancestry informative markers
• DOY — Day of Year
• MMA — Minnesota Medical Association
• PBX — Public Branch Exchange
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• AO — Agent Orange
• CKI — casein kinase I
• ALERT — Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
• AGMK — African Green Monkey Kidney
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• HIRA — Health Industry Representatives Association
• CE — Cooperative Extension
• ABBA — Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
• SZA — Solar Zenith Angle
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• SEOS — Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite
• LRDP — Long Range Development Plan
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• ACE — Accessory Cholera Enterotoxin
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• CCAM — Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
• SOC — Space Operations Center
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• CAP — Capital Accumulation Provision
• DUART — Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• BAV — Bicuspid Aortic Valve
• BAL — Bronchial Alveolar Lavage
• NRCS — Natural Resources Conservation Service
• OCS — Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
• AAO — Age At Onset
• EDAC — Error Detection And Correction
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• ATM — Atmospheric Transport Model
• ADMI — American Dye Manufacturers Institute
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• UT — University of Tennessee

• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• STC — Science and Technology Center
• ADNIV — Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy
• NWS — National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau)
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• JRC — Joint Research Center
• DDS — Domestic Data Service
• CEFS — chicken embryonic fibroblasts
• STI — Steel Tank Institute
• UTLS — Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere
• ADPSP — Autosomal Dominant Pure Spastic Paraplegia
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• MERIS — Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• CH — Cluster Headache
• MDD — Medical Device Directive
• CLP — Chromosome Length Polymorphism
• AER — Apical Ectodermal Ridge
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia
• AUM — Asymmetric Unit Membrane
• RMS — Royal Meteorological Society
• SHEIR — Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
• AAU — Acute Anterior Uveitis
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• TSE — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• PS — Project Scientist
• NCC — Network Control Center (GSFC)
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope
• BFCNS — Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
• CAH — Chronic Active Hepatitis
• AMOS — Automated Meteorological Observing System
• ACF — Aberrant Crypt Focus
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• SPP — Solar Physics Payload
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• ANN — Artificial Neural Network
• CFS — Cancer Family Syndrome
• QSR — Quality System Regulation
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• CC — Clomiphene Citrate
• ADVAMED — Advanced Medical Technology Association
• EC — executive committee
• RALPH — Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
• BCP — Basal Cell Papilloma
• AWD — Alive With Disease
• MSS — Mission Support System
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• CDF — Cerebellar Deficient Folia

• AB — Alcian Blue
• AI — Association Index
• BMFT — Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• CD-ROM — Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
• AAD — Age at Diagnosis
• EAS — External Anal Sphincter
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• AK — Adenylate Kinase
• CHH — Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone
• RDP — Recreational Dive Planner
• ABA — Agaricus Bisporus Agglutinin
• AGL — Acute Granulocytic Leukemia
• APTTS — Activated Partial Thromboplastin Times
• FACS — Facilities Assignment and Control System
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• ADCA — autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia
• CLL — Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• CEC — critical electrolyte concentration
• ABD — Actin Binding Domain
• CANS — Central Auditory Nervous System
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• AO — aldehyde oxidase
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• CE — Caenorhabditis elegans
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• CHR — Complete Hematologic Remission
• ATM — Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• AA — Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• CG — Ciliary Ganglion
• SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• RSS — root-sum-square
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• CGH — Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• CV — Cataclysmic Variable
• PSU — power supply unit
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• ATD — ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTROPHY
• AMSR-E — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS
• QRSL — quick-reaction space laboratory
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• BEL — Bovine Embryonic Lung

• STE — Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
• ADG — Average Daily Gain
• ECRI — Emergency Care Research Institute
• ETAC — Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)
• ARA — American Rheumatism Association
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• CAE — Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• AP — alkaline phosphatase
• ASAP — Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation
• RMS — Root-Mean-Square
• MB — Millibar(s)
• NGI — Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• AFC — Amniotic Fluid Cells
• AH — Amphipathic Helix
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• CD — Chemistry Division
• CPSC — Consumer Product Safety Commission
• QM — Qualification Model
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• ALH — Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia
• SIB — Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• ADPEO — Autosomal Dominant Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
• AAD — Acidic Activation Domain
• CCITT — Comit? Consultatif International T?l?graphique et T?l?phonique
• FFM — Full Face Mask
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• CHED — Congenital Heredity Endothelial Dystrophy
• TC — Telecommand
• CFP — Cyan Fluorescent Protein
• PS/2 — Personal System/2 (Microsoft)
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• APL — Altered Peptide Ligand
• ARH — Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia
• DCIEM — Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• MEDGV — Germany's Medical Equipment Safety Law
• BED — Bornholm Eye Disease
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• AGEP — Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis
• NIC — National Ice Center
• DG — Directorate-General (EU) (government)
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)

• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• BTD — Brightness Temperature Difference
• CBER — Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• AADC — Aromatic Acid Decarboxylase
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• MSLP — Mean Sea Level Pressure
• APKD — Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease
• ART — Assisted Reproductive Technology
• SEU — Single Event Upset
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• SI — Solar Influences
• SNPA — Subnetwork Point of Attachment
• NAREGI — National Research Grid Initiative
• CIV — Chilo Iridescent Virus
• HIAA — Health Insurance Association of America
• CMS — Correctional Medical Services
• CDI — Color Doppler Imaging
• 2MASS — Two-Micron All-Sky Survey
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• ACOE — Army Corps of Engineers
• NMC — National Meteorological Center (US)
• CIIP — Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction
• NIR — Near Infrared
• HRI — High Resolution Imager
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• ASCT — Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
• BDC — Bellini Duct Carcinoma
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• AUL — Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health)
• CIRA — COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
• CCT — Computer Compatible Tape
• ARHSP — Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
• AZOOR — Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy
• CBB — Common Bacterial Blight
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• CG — Chorionic Gonadotropin
• ABC — Autism Behavior Checklist
• HCFCS — Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
• DSMA — Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• AMOS — Air Force Maui Optical System
• CCRCC — Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
• ICR — Indirect Cost Recovery

• FAHS — Federation of American Health Systems
• ARP — Aldehyde Reactive Probe
• CSI — Construction Specifications Institute
• CLMA — Clinical Laboratory Management Association
• SDE — Software Development Environment
• J.D. — Juris Doctor degree
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• CLP — Chlorine Loading Potential
• CHPA — Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• SARSAT — Search and Rescue Satellite
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• CB — cord blood
• LH — Labor-Hour
• ACCS — Acinar Cell Carcinomas
• CEI — Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
• NWP — Numerical Weather Prediction
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• AL — annulate lamellae
• CM — cytoplasmic membrane
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• NASPY — North American Society of Electro Physiology and Pacing
• AICR — American Institute for Cancer Research
• EJ — Expansion Joint
• PI — Principle Investigator
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• AIL — Advance Intercross Line
• ITTP — Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• ALD — alcoholic liver diseases
• CGN — Cerebellar Granule Neurons
• CFC — Continuous-Flow Centrifugation
• ICH — International Conference of Harmonization
• BEI — Backscattered Electron Imaging (electron microscopy technique)
• CCV — Channel Catfish Virus
• DOF — Department of Finance
• TBW — To Be Written
• CC — corpus callosum
• CH — congenital hypothyroidism
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• MEDEC — Medical Devices Canada
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• DUD — duodenal ulcer disease
• SPOT — Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
• CBN — Cellular Blue Nevi
• ADI — Autosomal Dominant Ichthyosis
• AODC — Association of Offshore Diving Contractors
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• RA — Regulatory Affairs
• EAA — Experiment Aircraft Association

• CCFDN — Congenital cataracts facial dysmorphism neuropathy
• DHS — Data Handling Subsystem
• CLA — Cutaneous Lymphocyte Antigen
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• OAC — Orbital Activation and Checkout
• UNECE — United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• CES — Cat Eye Syndrome
• CLG — Certified Local Government
• CAA — California Alumni Association
• CALGB — Cancer and Leukemia Group B
• ALP — ATHEROGENIC LIPOPROTEIN PHENOTYPE
• AN — Anorexia Nervosa
• SSS — Social Studies of Science
• ARE — Androgen Response Elements
• MDMA — Medical Device Manufacturers Association
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• CAD — Cold Agglutinin Disease
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• SOAPEX — Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• ESPI — European Space Policy Institute
• FDLI — Food and Drug Law Institute
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• ASAIO — American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• AHL — Acyl Homoserine Lactone
• OEC — Olfactory Ensheathing Cell
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• ADO — Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis
• RSNA — The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
• AACC — American Association for Clinical Chemists
• AO — Amine Oxidase
• AGR — accessory gene regulator
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• AVF — Abdominal Visceral Fat
• RM — Radiation Monitor
• SSD — Software Specification Document
• CDA — congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• MDS — Medium Deep Survey
• AROA — Autosomal Recessive Ocular Albinism
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• GERB — Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

• CBT — Cord Blood Transplant
• AP — acute pancreatitis
• CL — Cleft Lip
• ACC — Australian Cancer Council
• BDT — Binary Decision Tree
• AFOS — Automation of Field Operations and Services
• INT — Isaac Newton Telescope
• CBFB — Core Binding Factor Beta
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• HCMM/AEM-1 — Heat Capacity Mapping Mission/Applications Explorer Mission
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• BFNC — Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• ALC — Anaplastic Large Cell
• DANR — Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• AACI — Association of American Cancer Institutes
• MF/MAGNOLIA — Magnetic Field Experiment
• ALTS — Atypical Lipomatous Tumors
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• AAP — amino acid permease
• CM — complete mole
• ACARS — Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Communication and Recording System
• DXS — Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• RSO — Resident Space Object
• CAMS — Cell Adhesion Molecules
• HRSA — U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
• MOP — Mortgage Origination Program
• CBV — Coxsackie B Viruses
• AM — Acral Melanoma
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• CMD — Cartilage Matrix Deficiency
• TWIP — Terminal Weather Information for Pilots
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
• ADC — Analogue to Digital Converter
• BFIC — Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions
• CCS — Clinical Classification System
• CIIT — Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• CALLA — Common Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Antigen
• ED — Department of Education (US)
• CREST — Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (Puerto Rico)
• CDR — Complementary determining regions
• AP — arterial pressure
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• PREST — Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology
• FIRST — Far Infrared Space Telescope
• ASFV — African Swine Fever Virus
• JAAME — Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System

• ATC — Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• APAG — Academic Policy Advisory Group
• NAHIT — National Alliance for Health Information Technology
• CEL — Carboxyl Ester Lipase
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• DRG — Diagnosis-Related Groups
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• ARPKD — Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• PD — Photo Diode
• PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory (chip)
• PHA — Pulse Height Analyzer
• CE — ciliary epithelium
• EUD — Exploration of the Universe Division
• CIBD — Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• EBW — Electron Beam Welding
• ECCLS — European Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards
• PDR — Physician’s Desk Reference
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• CCMV — Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus
• MOPH — Ministry of Public Health
• CAK — Cell Adhesion Kinase
• NCSC — National Council of Senior Citizens
• IAPM — International Association of Medical Prosthesis Manufacturers
• AE — Assemble Axial Elements
• CDS — commonly deleted segment
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• AGI — Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
• ACNPV — Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• CARDS — Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
• WHT — William Herschel Telescope
• BEV — Baboon Endogenous Virus
• CFTR — cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein
• AT — Arabidopsis thaliana
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• AEL — After Egg Laying
• UNEX — University Extension
• AEP — Alkaline Extracellular Protease
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• RA — Research Assistant
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• INPAC — Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• CEC — Commission of the European Communities ;
• SEAWIFS — Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
• TCI/TK — Tool Control Language and Toolkit
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• DSC — Direct Satellite Communications
• CAA — Chronic Aplastic Anemia

• BA — biliary atresia
• BD — binding domain
• MIR — Management Information Report
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• CFF — Cystic Fibrosis Factor
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• MDR — Medical Device Register
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• HIDA — Health Industry Distributors Association
• DDE — Distributive Data Environment (McIDAS)
• WCSAR — Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
• CAA — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• CLD — Congenital Lactase Deficiency
• AJ — adherens junction
• AE — anion exchanger
• OM — Optical Monitor
• CB — Ciliary Body
• AII — Angiotensin II
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
• CCR — Complex Chromosome Rearrangement
• BA — benzoic acid
• ASF — African Swine Fever
• POES — Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• ASPS — Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• AMLL — Acute Mixed Lineage Leukemia
• FTS — File Transfer System
• ACEC — Area of Critical Environmental Concern
• CST — Convective-Stratiform Technique
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• ASCRS — American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's
• ALSPP — Atmospheric and Land Surface Processes Project
• MASSMEDIC — Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
• ERA — Employee Reimbursement Account
• NIGMS — National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
• BDV — Borna Disease Virus
• CIN — Chronic Idiopathic Neutropenia
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• CCA — Cortical cerebellar atrophy
• AMV — Avian Myeloblastosis Virus
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• WWSEF — Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair
• CD — cortical dysplasia
• AHF — Altered Hepatic Foci

• CE — central element
• EXOSAT — European X-Ray Observatory Satellite
• NSC — Norwegian Space Center
• AK — acetate kinase
• SVT — System Validation Test
• APC — Ambulatory Payment Class
• CA — Contagious agalactia
• ATF — Aphid Transmission Factor
• NASSH — North American Society for Sport History
• HSQB — Health Standard and Quality Bureau
• DYAX — Dyax Corp.
• ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition
• CRU — Climate Research Unit (East Anglia)
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• JIF — Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum
• OPEP — Organisation des Pays Exportateurs de Pétrole
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• BB — Borrelia burgdorferi
• CE — cornified envelope
• OASH — Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
• MDT — Maximum Dive Time
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• ACD — Avellino Corneal Dystrophy
• OOD — Object-Oriented Design
• SMMR — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• AN — Aspergillus Nidulans
• AMDT — Adjusted Maximum Dive Time
• AISA — Acquired Idiopathic Sideroblastic Anemia
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• ARVD — arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• CC — colorectal cancer
• ORATOS — Orbit and Attitude Operating System
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• CH — cystic hygroma
• HIS — Health Information Systems
• CAPE — Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (STORM)
• CG — cortical granule
• INDA — Investigational New Drug Application
• DO — Diving Officer
• SHM — Social History of Medicine
• CH — Centrosome hyperamplification
• AC — Adenylyl Cyclase
• FASTEX — Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment
• DIFAX — Digital Facsimile
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• CDIC — cytoplasmic dynein intermediate chain

• CFPS — culture filtrate proteins
• ADRP — Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• AAUC — Alumni Associations of the University of California
• SMDA — Safe Medical Devices Act (1990)
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• ANL — Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
• CDGE — Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• ARSS — Autonomous Replication Sequences
• PSDF — Power Spectral Density Function
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• RPE — Relative Pointing Error
• ARJP — Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
• NRS — Natural Reserve System
• AD — axiodistal
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• GCC — Global Change Category
• ASMD — Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis
• AD — Agar Dilution
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• CFAS — Colonization factor antigens
• EAD — Equivalent Air Depth
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• EBI — European Bioinformatics Institutetute
• BDA — Bile Duct Adenoma
• APRE — Acute Phase Response Element
• CESD — Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
• DU — Dobson Unit
• SODAR — Sound Detection And Ranging (meteorological Instrument)
• CLD — Cholestatic Liver Disease
• J.S.D. — Doctor of the Science of Law
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• AGFS — Aviation Gridded Forecast System
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• CSIS — Centralized Storm Information System
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• JET-X — Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
• VIS — Visible
• AH — absorptive hypercalciuria
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• CCE — Charge Collection Efficiency
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

• PCF — Pounds per cubic foot
• CI — Cerebral Infarction
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• MEI — Medical Economic Index
• TOD — Theoretical Ocean Depth
• CDTS — cytolethal distending toxins
• JIM — Job Information Memorandum
• UCSF — University of California, San Francisco
• ADH — Atypical Duct Hyperplasia
• ALT — Atypical Lipomatous Tumor
• AOD — Autoimmune Ovarian Dysgenesis
• HFMA — Healthcare Financial Management Association
• ASD — Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• EPCU — EPIC pn Camera Head Unit
• MAFI — Medical Alert Foundation International
• BLCMD — BiLevel CoMmanD (DXS)
• BAL — Biphenotypic Acute Leukemia
• CEA — Collie Eye Anomaly
• CAV — Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
• EMDU — EPIC MOS Data Handling Unit
• VAN — Value-Added Network
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• EE — End-to-End
• AMFR — Autocrine Motility Factor Receptor
• UPC — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• AGM — African green monkey
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• PSF — Point-Spread Function
• AEV — Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus
• AO — Airway obstruction
• ATR — Acid Tolerance Response
• DMAP — Digital MAPping, charting and geodesy analysis program
• IRI — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• S/C — Spacecraft
• DEMA — Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association
• CM — cutaneous melanoma
• DEED — Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• EFPIA — European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• BD — Bipolar Disorder
• ALF — automated laser fluorescence
• CES — Central Excitatory State
• NH3 — Ammonia
• CLAG — Cytoadherence Linked Asexual Gene
• CEF — Chicken embryonic fibroblast
• AAPC — Attenuated Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• BOREAS — Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
• CIRRIS — Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle

• CBSCT — Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• AP — Adenomatous POLYPs
• BCAC — Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
• EODRS — Earth observation data retrieval system
• PROPAC — Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
• ALCL — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• OHTA — Office of Health Technology Assessment
• AOT — Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumour
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• ASA — Antarctic Support Associates
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• AO — active oxygen
• ANA — Autoantibody to Nuclear Antigen
• AP — accelerated phase
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• CI — Continuous Infusion
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• CIASTA — Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial Applications
• NCBI — National Center for Biotechnology Information
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• AUP — Adjusted Unbiased Prediction
• NDIU — Network Data Interface Unit
• V&V — Validation & Verification
• NDPD — National Data Processing Division (EPA)
• BRG — Bureau des Ressources Génétiques
• FAUI — Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors
• APLS — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemias
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• AI — Aromatase Inhibitor
• AMTIC — Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• AWI — Alfred Wegener Institute
• TOGA/COARE — Toga/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• CMD — Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
• ADCC — Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract
• TOO — Target Of Opportunity
• SEU — Structure and Evolution of the Universe
• ACIS — Automated Cellular Imaging System
• CF — Correction Factor
• TOMS — Transactions On Mathematical Software
• BARC — Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• DCM — Dispersion Compensation Module
• ASEC — Applied Solar Energy Corporation
• ADOM — Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution)
• CALS — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UW–Madison)
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Response

• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• STA — Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• AD — After Disease
• AP — amyloid plaques
• AF — activation function
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• CISH — Chromosome in Situ Hybridisation
• IPEM — Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• CF — Clastogenic factor
• AMLS — Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
• AAL — Alternaria Alternata Lycopersici
• AI — Amelogenesis imperfecta
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• AHC — Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenital
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• AE — Axial Element
• CMG — Computer Measurement Group
• AOC — Allene Oxide Cyclase
• CG — Comparative Genometrics
• AMOG — Adhesion Molecule on Glia
• DST — Data Systems Test
• AHH — anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• LWIR — Long-Wavelength Infrared
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• CD — cytochalasin D
• AGT — average generation time
• TTP — Time to Perigee
• CH — contact hypersensitivity
• AAR — abnormal anaphase resolution
• ASPS — Affected Sibling Pairs
• BAERS — Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses
• BCR — B Cell Receptor
• AHF — Attitude History File
• EXPRESSO — Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants
• LSPDF — Life Science Payload Development Facility
• CAPS — Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• APM — Affected Pedigree Member
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• SCOR — Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research Seasat Sea Satellite
• CCI — Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• ALADIN — Interactive sky atlas developed by CDS Strasbourg
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• CAMP — Childhood Asthma Management Program

• CBB — Coomassie Brilliant Blue
• DAN — Diver’s Alert Network
• S&T — Directorate for Science and Technology
• COAPEC — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate
• AS — Asparagine Synthetase
• GSM — Ground Segment Manager
• CGC — Climate and Global Change
• JETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• CGAT — Chromaffin Granule Amine Transporter
• OSCAR — Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review
• ARF — Alternative Reading Frame
• CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• CM — Capillary malformation
• CAR — Cell Adhesion Regulator
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• DISEL — Diseno e Ingenieria de Systemas Electronicos
• ARVC — arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• AE — Attaching and effacing
• FGP — Faculty Grants Program
• CMCS — cultured mast cells
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• CAA — Congenital Aural Atresia
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• ARCI — Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis
• CCF — Current Calibration File
• ATD — Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• DLL — Dynamic Link Libraries
• OTF — On-Target Flag
• CAR — Constitutive Androstane Receptor
• AHCS — Anterior Horn Cells
• CMA — China Meteorological Administration
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• ARIC — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
• SNRI — Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• JCAHO — Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• ACOS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• NAT — Nitric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol)
• NAG — Numerical Algorithms Group Inc.
• XSCS — XMM MOC Control System
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• IMAU — Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht
• DP — dermal papilla
• APC — Adenomatosis Polyposis Coli

• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• QSO — Quasar|Quasi-Stellar Object
• LORAN — Long Range Navigational System
• CCGA — Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs
• SOM — Spacecraft Operations Manager
• ALCLS — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• CCBS — Calcium Channel Blockers
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• TOASTE — Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
• MTI — Minnesota Technology Inc
• FBTR — Fast Breeder Test Reactor
• NNPI — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
• CAN — Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
• BCTV — Beet Curly Top Virus
• CC — congenital cataract
• ALP — Automated Linkage Preprocessor
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electromechanical Standardisation
• HRPT — High Resolution Picture Transmission
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• BCC — Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
• CH — Calponin homology
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• APBSCT — Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
• BACS — bacterial artificial chromosomes
• OLS — Optical Line Scanner
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• AS — Alport syndrome
• HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• CGH — Comparative Gene Hybridization
• APC — Academic Planning Council
• CH — chloral hydrate
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• JCCT — Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (US-China)
• BEF — Bromine Efficiency Factor
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• NUST — National University of Science and Technology
• GLOSS — Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC)
• PDA — Parenteral Drug Association
• CDFG — California Department of Fish and Game's
• CM — contrast media
• EBC — Executive Budget Committee
• DPV — Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• ITT — Integration and Test Team
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

• ADL — Acid Detergent Lignin
• MCR — Main Control Room
• CDF — Cation Diffusion Facilitator
• ALL — Acute Lymphatic Leukemia
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• CER — Common Eliminated Region
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• CGS — Contiguous Gene Syndromes
• MOSS — Manned Orbital Space Station
• CAPD — Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• ACMSU — Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit
• SPAC — State Pharmaceutical Administration of China
• CL — cystic lymphangioma
• MIP — Minimum Ionising Particle
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• AMV — Avian Myoblastosis Virus
• CA — cerebellar atrophy
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Centre
• GCE — Ground-base Cloud Experiment (EUROTRAC)
• UCRP — University of California Retirement Plan
• BCNS — Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
• BDGP — Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• APPS — Acute Phase Proteins
• DAL — Data Access Layer
• OST — Office of Science and Technology
• CSG — Clock Sequence Generator
• CESH — Comparative Expressed Sequence Hybridization
• NNF — National Nanofabrication Facility
• BCCS — Basal Cell Carcinomas
• AWD — abnormal wing discs
• BANF — Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
• GLI — Global Imager
• CM — Cardiac Myxoma
• CRIS — Cross-track Infrared Sounder
• EOSDIS — Earth Observing System Data and Information System (sic FCW 9/97)
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• CAMS — Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner
• SID — Structure Identifier
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• CHD — Congenital Heart Defect
• HDP — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• AMPS — Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
• CE — conventional electrophoresis
• AR — adaptive response
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• MTBE — Methyl Tert-butyl Ether

• ADEM — Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management
• CECS — cerebral endothelial cells
• ABCS — Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction
• URSI — Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
• AR — apoptotic rate
• HIBCC — Health Industry Business Communications Council
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• CA — Cerebellar Ataxia
• OBSM — On-Board Software Maintenance
• ERICA — Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones Over the Atlantic
• CF — Culture fluid
• APC — Anterior polar cataract
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• CF — colony formation
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• STAR — Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
• MRI — Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
• AIED — Aland Island Eye Disease
• IPE — Institute of Physics of the Earth
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• ARS — Autonomous Replication Sequence
• NAD — Nitric Acid Dihydrate
• MCP — Multi Channel Plate
• DEM — Digital Electronics Module
• BCP — Basic Calcium Phosphate
• AH — adenomatous hyperplasia
• AK — Arginine kinase
• APB — Alternative Pyrimidine Biosynthetic
• ACASS — Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• BISA — Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Belgium)
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• CAF — Conotruncal Anomaly Face
• CDCS — Cri Du Chat Syndrome
• ARPS — Affected Relative Pairs
• CNES — Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• ARNT — Ah Receptor Nuclear Translocator
• ALVS — Avian Leukosis Viruses
• MT — Measured Time
• ICAIR — International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• DBU — Digital Bus Unit
• AS — Angelman Syndrome
• CGAM — Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
• DMAC — Diving Medical Advisory Committee
• AIM — Acute Infectious Mononucleosis
• CBPP — Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
• BCCP — Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein
• NERC — National Environmental Research Council

• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• CGKD — Complex Glycerol Kinase Deficiency
• CD — Cowden Disease
• CCR — Continuous Complete Remission
• DWS — Division of Water Supply
• ILE — Institute for Labor and Employment
• CCA — Current Cost Accounting
• AMDM — Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• AEA — Atomic Energy Authority
• ORS — Outer root sheath
• SSALT — Solid-State radar Altimeter
• BC — Burkholderia cepacia
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• NODC — National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
• STR — Star TRacker
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Response
• BITNET — Because It's Time Network
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• ARC — Arctic Radiation and Chemistry experiment
• DOA — Department of Administration (US)
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• ISTAHC — International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
• AED — Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
• CWB — Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan)
• ASCP — American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• ANNS — Artificial Neural Networks
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• AIEOP — Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica
• DTS — Digital Termination Service
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia
• CBI — Confederation of British Industries
• BC — breast carcinoma
• CNA — Comisión Nacional del Agua (Mexico)
• DAMTP — Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Cambridge)
• MIAA — Medical Industry Association of Australia
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• DIU — Detector Interface Unit (DXS)
• CD — Chromatin Diminution
• CA — Colorectal Adenoma
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• IES — Institute of Environmental Sciences
• GOSTA — Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
• IMDA — Independent Medical Distributors Association
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• OOA — Object-Oriented Analysis
• QSIT — Quality System Inspection Technique
• LIGG — Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology

• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• HYREX — Hydrological Radar Experiment
• NILU — Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning
• CRG — Council for Responsible Genetics
• SSDF — Space Science Development Facility
• ASH — Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy
• CDD — Cytidine Deaminase
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control and Measurement Subsystem
• ABC — aneurysmal bone cyst
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• DNR — Department of Natural Resources
• AM — Admixture Mapping
• APSU — Austin Peay State University
• CAD — Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease
• AP — Apple Proliferation
• SIGMA — High Energy X-ray Instrument
• CTP — Cloud-Top Pressure
• FDDI — Fibre Distributed Data Interface
• CAA — Cationic Amino Acid
• ANLL — Acute Nonlymphoid Leukemia
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• H/K — Housekeeping
• AI — Apoptosis Index
• NSI — Nordic Sami Institute
• EUDRA — European Drug Regulatory Authorities Network
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• AEEC — attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
• AN — accessory nuclei
• AH — aniline hydrochloride
• JANET — Joint Academic Network
• CPEC — California Postsecondary Education Commission
• LLC — Limited Liability Partnership
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• EESC — Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine
• AD — Arginine Deiminase
• APLP — Amplified Product Length Polymorphism
• DPSS — Data Processing Services Subsystem
• MPIA — Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
• SNR — Super Nova Remnant
• AOS — Allene Oxide Synthase
• CI — Cytoplasmic incompatibility
• CFSS — common fragile sites
• SPO — Sponsored Projects Office
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• MPIC — Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
• ASH — American Society of Hematology's
• AD — Alzheimer Disease
• CITA — Center for IT Accommodation (GSA)
• PAB — Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (Japan)

• BAUD — one bit per second
• NIWA — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• ACGM — Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
• ESMR — Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• ANT — Attention Network Test
• AF — Archaeoglobus Fulgidus
• NED — Network of Egghead Divers
• CB — carotid body
• RA — Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• ASPS — Acid Shock Proteins
• CF — culture filtrate
• OIU — Observer Interface Unit
• SCHISM — Science Simulator
• SVF — Software Validation Facility
• KOPRI — Korea Polar Research Institute
• DLCF — Data Link Control Field
• APVS — Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
• SPOT — Systeme Pour L'Observation De La Terre (France)
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fuer Normung
• LMSC — Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
• CDC — Collecting duct carcinoma
• CSG — Council of State Governments
• CIRRUS — Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS
• NH — Northern Hemisphere
• PPRC — Physician Payment Review Commission
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• PDIC — Professional Diving Instructors Corporation International; Diving Instruction Organization.
• MOZIAC — Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
• GFLOPS — Billions of Floating Point Instructions per Second
• CHI — California Healthcare Institute
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• DES — Divers Environmental Survey
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• MOUT — Message Out
• CD — Canavan disease
• BF — Bacteroides Fragilis
• CL — chromosome loss
• WMREI — Waste Management Research and Education Institute
• FNRS — Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
• CS&S — Computer Sciences and Statistics (UW-MSN)
• CM — Centimetre
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• DCA — Division of Community Assistance
• AL — Acute Leukemia
• CL — Crithidia luciliae
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
• CNRM — Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques(France)
• AIPS — Astronomical Image Processing System

• CD — Congenital Defects
• CIAP — Climatic Impact Assessment Program
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• ODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• MDA — Medical Device Amendments
• AI — Adiposity Index
• CAPP — Concerted Action Polyp Prevention
• AIRS — Acute Insulin Responses
• RAID — Redundant of Inexpensive Discs
• CEO — Centre for Earth Observation
• IPC — Imaging Proportional Counter
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• CCS — Chromatin Conformational State
• NAMES — National Association of Medical Equipment Services
• CITE — Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation (NASA GTE)
• SSMS — Society for Sexual Medicine of Slovenia
• EMAE — EPIC MOS Analogue Electronics
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• AS — Argininosuccinate Synthetase
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• AFA — Ankyloblepharon Filiforme Adnatum
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• BCE — Bovine Capillary Endothelial
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• PSSM — Polish Society for Sexual Medicine
• CBAH — Conjugated Bile Acid Hydrolase
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• DPR — Dual Precipitation Radar
• CC — Carney complex
• NORSAR — Norwegian Seismic Array
• AS — Active sleep
• AF — ameloblastic fibroma
• CD — Campomelic dysplasia
• MENARG — Middle East and North Africa Research Group
• APMI — American Powder Metallurgy Institute
• PWSA — Ports and Waterways Safety Act
• BC — Brain Cancer
• BADC — British Atmospheric Data Centre
• AP — Adaptor Protein
• AI — apoptotic index
• ITE — Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
• IPAR — Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• AST — Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing
• DBRA — Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
• AION — Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
• MOSS — Market-Oriented Sector Selective
• ORA — FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs

• ADLTE — Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Epilepsy
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• ASS — Arginosuccinate Synthetase
• UCMC — University of California Marine Council
• ABI — Advanced Baseline Imager (GOES)
• EPG — Engineering Proposal Generation
• CI — Chromosome Index
• ADCAS — Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• CA — Cytogenetic Abnormalities
• AS — alternative splicing
• LL.M. — Master of Laws degree
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• APC — Ateles Paniscus Chamek
• CAO — Chlorophyll A Oxygenase
• BDMV — Bean Dwarf Mosaic Virus
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• JFMDA — Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations
• MTPPI — Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
• ICOLC — International Consortium of Library Consortia
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• CE — colony efficiency
• BAC — Bovine Artificial Chromosome
• CEC — Chick Embryo Cells
• JEM-X — Joint European Monitor for X-rays
• CODAR — COrrelation Detection And Ranging
• DLC — Distributed Learning Center
• CAPE — Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester
• AFG — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• UCT — Universal Time Code
• IUCRP — Industry University Cooperative Research Program
• AS — Acid Succinate
• ASP — Apoptosis Specific Protein
• APL — Acute Progranulocytic Leukemia
• CDM — Chemically Defined Medium
• ASF — Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat
• OAD — Orbit and Attitude Division
• BBV — Black Beetle Virus
• DS2 — Second Dark Spot (Neptune)
• HEAO-1 — NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• VLA — Very Large Array
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• ARD — Adult Refsum Disease
• PEM — Particle Environment Monitor
• AAU — Association of African Universities

• AST — Arterial Spin Tagging
• LDO — Locally Designated Officer
• CC — cervical carcinoma
• MDDI — Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Remission
• PSS — Procedures, Specifications and Standards
• CALPIRG — The California Public Interest Research Group
• SAFISY — Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
• ARTS — Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• TMPSU — Telescope Module Power Supply Unit
• PRO — Professional Review Organization
• UCEP — University Committee on Educational Policy
• AREP — Assembly Representation
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• MOS-1 — Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• HRDI — High Resolution Doppler Imager
• ADC — Atlantic Data Coverage (Meteosat)
• HPB — Health Protection Board (Canada)
• RANN — Research Applied to National Needs (NSF)
• CDC — Cell Division Control
• EVC — Executive Vice Chancellor
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• ESSHC — European Social Science History Conference
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• AINA — Arctic Institute of North America
• UCSD — University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
• F&A — Facilities and Administrative
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• CCLRC — Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• D/C — diarrhea constipation
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• AHA — Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
• CF — Cladosporium fulvum
• HAPEX — Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
• ED — Energy Division
• IOLM — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• CLSM — confocal laser scan microscope
• CDS — Correlated Double Sampler
• CM — cisterna magna
• APP — AVHRR Polar Pathfinder
• EADS — Engineering and Data Analysis System
• ARS — Antigen recognition sites
• ERSC — Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES)
• AT — Autologous Transplantation

• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• WFC — Wide-Field Camera
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic lymphoma
• MEV — mega electron volts
• CA — Candida albicans
• PDTS — PPS Data Transfer System
• FM — Frequency Modulator
• CD — Conjugated dienes
• IAS — Interactive Analysis Subsystem
• COR — Committee on Research
• CBDMP — California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
• CEL — Conserved Effector Locus
• SORI — Subcommittee on Research Initiatives
• INPE — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
• BE — Branching Enzyme
• ATF — anti-activating transcription factor
• AGC — Advanced Gastric Carcinoma
• APKC — atypical protein kinase C
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• CH — cuticular hydrocarbon
• DBI — Digital Bus Interface
• AH — anterior horn
• OAL — ODF Access Layer
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• ASE — Air-Sea Exchange experiment (EUROTRAC)
• UCD — University of California, Davis
• INTEGRAL — International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• ARRP — Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
• FDAMA — FDA Modernization Act of 1997
• CFC — GM-colony forming cell
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
• METEOSAT — Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• NLN — National League for Nursing
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• AK — Adenosine Kinase
• WPD — War Plans Division
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS)
• CC — Cumulus cells
• GENEMIS — Generation of European Emission Data (EUROTRAC)
• ASADA — Automated Smoke/Aerosol Detection Algorithm
• ERAD — Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic leukosis
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• DE — Detector Electronics (DXS)
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program
• ESDD — Earth Science Data Directory
• UCPB — University Committee on Planning and Budget

• APTF — Admissions Processing Task Force
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanner Polarimeter
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, future NASA mission
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• ACIS — ACademic Information Services (IBM)
• ASG — Accessory Sex Glands
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• SSSM — Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine
• CE — clonal evolution
• ASP — Agouti Signaling Protein
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• EMCU — EPIC MOS Camera Head Unit
• OCCM — Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
• AI — allelic imbalance
• UCAF — University Committee on Academic Freedom
• AM — arbuscular mycorrhizal
• AC — Academic Council
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• BAF — Bvg accessory factor
• BER — Base Excision Repair (biology)
• CEQA — California Environmental Quality Act
• UHV — Ultra-high Vacuum
• PXP — XMM Project Payload
• UCRS — University of California Retirement System
• ASSA — Aminopterin Syndrome Sine Aminopterin
• CCR — Carbon Catabolite Repression
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• CAS — cellular apoptosis susceptibility
• UCAP — University Committee on Academic Personnel
• EPDH — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• STP — Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• CI — centromeric index
• NAGRA — Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• MH — Message Handling
• CF — competence factor
• CB — Cajal Bodies
• AM — Achillea Millefolium
• AS — Anthranilate Synthase
• UEXT — University Extension
• ISLSCP — International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• HAACP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Program
• CTD — Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
• AD — Affecting Disease
• CUA — Circumpolar Universities Association
• AS — Ankylosing Spondylitis
• CID — Combined Immune Deficiency
• AFM — Array File Maker
• EATD — European Association of Technical Divers
• MSU — Memphis State University
• RAL — Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

• ASR — acoustic startle response
• ASDS — Atrial Septal Defects
• POSS II — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, second version
• CENR — Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• CA — Colanic Acid
• IOA — Institute Of Astronomy (Cambridge)
• ARNSHL — Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
• PT — Pass-Through
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handler
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fur Normung
• CCA — Conventional Cytogenetic Analysis
• NBII — National Biological Information Infrastructure
• AA — Acrylonitrile And Acrylamide
• ALL — Acute Lymphoblastic
• PI — Position Invariant
• PPS — XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem
• CBL — Cord Blood Lymphocytes
• ACDS — Astronomical Catalogues Database Subsystem
• NHIB — National Health Insurance Bureau (Taiwan)
• CCD — Calcite Compensation Depth
• CA — Constitutively Active
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• RTK — Right-To-Know
• CCA — Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly
• AT — The Ataxia Teleangiectasia
• AIEE — American Institute for Electrical Engineers
• CCP — Cytochrome C Peroxidase
• AS — Alagille Syndrome
• AN — Alkaline Nuclease
• CAD — Cinnamyl Alcohol dehydrogenase
• CONUS — Continental U.S.
• PRIC — Polar Research Institute of China
• SSO — Solar System Object
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (Univ of Colorado)
• EDU — Event Detection Unit
• CA — Children Age
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• BBM — anti-brush border membrane
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• IST — integrated systems test
• FDR — Flight Dynamics Room
• CHLC — Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• CA — Chromatid Aberrations
• GMSLP — Global Mean Sea Level Pressure
• CE — cellular extract
• AGCI — Aspen Global Change Institute
• DNH — Division of Natural Heritage
• CA — chromosome aberration
• ASIM — American Society of International Medicine

• RAPS — Regulatory Affairs Professional Society
• TIR — Thermal Infrared
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• OLA — Off-Line Analysis
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• CFAG — cystic fibrosis antigen
• CBS — classic Bartter syndrome
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• OCTS — Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
• LSU — Louisana State University
• WMF — Windows Metafile
• CGCL — Central Giant Cell Lesion
• ASICS — Acid Sensing Ion Channels
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• ACC — Atlantic Climate Change
• BCCP — apo-biotin carboxyl carrier protein
• HIB — Health Insurance Bureau (Japan)
• AU — Atomic Units
• PGS — Proposal Generation System
• AVTD — Anomalous Viscosity Time Dependence
• ALE/GAGE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• BA — Bone Age
• ARPS — Advanced Regional Prediction System
• DPU — digital processing unit
• AFES — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• CFA — Cyclopropane fatty acids
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• ODF — Observation Data File
• CC — Cellular Cycle
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• EDMA — European Diagnostics Manufacturer's Association
• AGSP — Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
• NMDC — National Medical Device Coalition
• AK — Aspartate kinase
• CITE — Cargo Integration and Test Equipment (DXS)
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• BCS — Broadband Cable System (UW)
• HK — HouseKeeping Data
• SCED — Engineering Department at ESOC
• AAM — Atmospheric Angular Momentum
• IFS — Integrated Forecast System
• DCTD — Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• AS — autologous serum
• AJ — Ashkenazi Jewish
• ARF — Ancillary Response Function
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set

• XTE — X-Ray Timing Explorer
• CA — Clavulanic Acid
• ASTEX — Atlantic STratus EXperiment
• CC — Conventional Cytogenetic
• HDIF — Health Care Data Interchange Format
• ENSO — El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• CLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• TCP/IP — Networking Protocol used on Internet
• ARA — AppleTalk Remote Access
• RMF — REDISTRIBUTION MATRIX FILE
• ASP — The Abnormal Spindle Protein
• PXS — XMM Project Spacecraft
• UCSC — University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California)
• APE — Airborne Polar Experiment
• BA — Brucella Abortus
• HIRLAM — High-Resolution Limited Area Model
• CET — Central England Temperature
• STREAM — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
• CC — Cervical Cancer
• NETC — National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
• GLOMAC — Global Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry (EUROTRAC)
• AMS — atypical mole syndrome
• CAMEX — Convection and Moisture Experiment
• FIMR — Finnish Institute of Marine Research
• CC — Cell Counts
• UCR — University of California, Riverside's
• EDH — EPIC Data Handling Unit
• CCR — Cassette Chromosome Recombinase
• CAT — Common Arterial Trunk
• CORP — Corporation
• LORAN — Long-Range Navigation
• GCTE — Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the IGBP
• BUV — Backscattered UltraViolet
• CIRTL — Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
• CD — cytosine deaminase
• SI — Systeme International
• DNAG — Decade of North American Geology
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• BCM — Blue Cone Monochromacy
• ANO — Any Other
• MODIS-T — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA)
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite (Navy)
• SAFARI — Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• CB — Chromatoid Body
• MST — Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
• IFS — SSC-SOC Interface Sub-system
• ANDI — American Nitrox Divers Incorporated

• WSAD — Websphere Studio Application Developer
• APP — Abeta precursor protein
• ASCII — American Standards Committee for Information Interchange
• BF — Basal Forebrain
• APM — Academic Personnel Manual
• AP — Arbitrarily Primed
• SCOS — Spacecraft Control and Operations System
• APH — Attitude Pointing History
• ASA — Academic Staff Assembly
• CIFAR — Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• NMAI — National Museum of the American Indian
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• ASMCS — Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells
• EMCS — EPIC MOS Camera System
• CD — circular dichroic
• CA — Cavernous Angiomas
• AH — Albumen Height
• MIRD — Mission Implementation Requirements Documents
• MIP — Mission Implementation Plan
• ASP — Audiogenic seizure Prone
• BASE-A — Biomass burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia
• DWPC — Division of Water Pollution Control
• ASF — Alaskan SAR Facility
• PROS — X-Ray data analysis package, part of IRAFm supported by CfA
• AP — Alkaline Protease
• CML — Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia
• BCG — bacillus of Calmette and Guérin
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• ACI — Alloy Casting Institute
• ESSA — Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA)
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• CC — Cleavable Complex
• GCF — Ground Calibration File
• CA — Chromosome Analysis
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• CC — complete chimerism
• PPQA — Pre-Product Quality Assurance
• AL — Angiotropic lymphoma
• BD — Birth Defects
• MEDMARC — Medical Device Material Assurance and Reinsurance Company, Ltd.
• KORDI — Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
• MRIF — Multicampus Research Incentive Fund
• BC — blast crisis
• AQS — Air Quality System
• APS — Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en TeledetectionSpatiale (France)
• MEDSUN — Medical Device Surveillance Network
• OFS — Orbiter Flight Simulator
• CD — Crohn disease
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface

• ORU — Organized Research Unit
• NASA — National Aeronautic & Space Administration
• RMF — Response Matrix File
• AR — Acrosome reaction
• CAMEX — CMOS Amplifier and Multiplexing Chip
• DLESE — The Digital Library for Earth System Education
• XMCS — XMM MissionControl System
• CACGP — Commission For Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution
• DSWM — Division of Solid Waste Management
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• ICB — Instrument Control Bus
• IWC — Instream Waste Concentration
• IRICP — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• ERSAF — Environment Remote Sensing Analysis Facility
• HEASARC — High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Centre
• DMIC — Deputy Meteorologist-In-Charge (NWS)
• AS — Aldosterone Synthase
• CA — Cytogenetic Aberrations
• CH — Channel Header
• CASPR — Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• MOTIE — Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (Korea)
• EINSTEIN — Einstein Observatory
• BB — Bacterial Blight
• CAAS — Contracted Advisory & Assistance Services
• CI — Coccidioides immitis
• ABS — Advanced Baseline Sounder
• AI — Allele Imbalance
• ALU — Arithmetic (and) Logic Unit
• COVC — Council of Vice Chancellors
• CI — Cephalic Index
• EPCE — EPIC pn Control Electronics Unit
• MODB — MOC Operational Database
• AM — Affected Male
• AK — activated killer
• BC — Binucleated Cells
• I&T — Integration and Testing
• GFURD — Ground Facilities User Requirements Document
• UCFW — University Committee on Faculty Welfare
• MRU — Multicampus Research Unit
• DPI — Derived Product Imagery
• FIRETRACC — Firn Record of Trace Gases Relevant to Atmospheric Chemical Change
• UACB — Undergraduate Admissions Coordination Board
• CM — Congenital Malformations
• EROS — Earth Resources Observing System
• DODS — Distributed Ocean Data System
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• OSU — Oregon State University
• AEDU — Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit
• TDG — Tennessee Division of Geology

• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• PRAREE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version
• BCC — British Coal Corporation
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic
• SWIR — Short-Wavelength Infrared
• ARIEL-6 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1979
• WETNET — Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
• EBTC — Edison BioTechnology Center
• AO&SS — Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
• MLOPEX — Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
• NDSTC — Naval Dive and Salvage Training Center
• IMPAC — Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum
• CITA — Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• VCP — Voluntary Cooperation Program (Equipment and Services) (UN)
• AIMBE — American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• ESOC — European Satellite Operations Center
• QE — Quantum Efficiency
• AVR — Acute Vascular Rejection
• SEA — Slovak Energy Agency
• AIST — Advanced Industrial Science Technology
• RPOS — Re-planned Preferred Observation Schedule
• CH — Cerebral Hemispheres
• KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
• DRH — Division of Radiological Health
• CH — congenital hydrocephalus
• JCMM — Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
• PERI — Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute
• RDE — RGS Digital Electronic Unit
• NODIS — NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
• COCIR — Coordination Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries
• CNSI — California NanoSystems Institute
• CATS — Comparative Anchor Tagged Sequence
• BIATEX — Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (EUROTRAC)
• SAA — South Atlantic Anomaly
• SAS — Science Analysis Subsystem
• BC — Branhamella catarrhalis
• HROI — High Resolution Optical Instrument
• PX — XMM Project
• IBIS — Image on-Board INTEGRAL Spacecraft
• POCE — Pantone Open Color Environment
• DB — Diversion Box
• AWPD — Assessment and Watershed Protection Division
• APTI — Air Pollution Training Institute
• CICA — Center for Innovative Computer Applications
• LTMS — Local Time Management System
• UBA — Universal Breathing Apparatus
• CC — Condensed chromatin
• CCM — community climate model
• CCST — California Council on Science & Technology
• DLS — Division of Laboratory Services

• ACSOE — Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• SESAME — Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment
• CA — Cyclopiazonic Acid
• AHSRL — Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• UCOP — University of California, Office of the President
• PAGES — Past Global Changes (IGBP)
• UGAMP — Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
• GGI — GPS Geoscience Instrument
• SMS/GOES — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• CHAMMP — Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program
• JCEE — Joint Conference of EARMA and Euroscience
• ALEXI — Atmospheric Land EXchange Inversion (CIMSS)
• CUCEA — Council of the University of California Emeriti Association
• MGLS — Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium
• TOBI — Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument
• LACTOZ — Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone (EUROTRAC)
• MOC — XMM Mission Operation Centre
• MOHMATN — Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nucleus
• AESA — Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• PARE — Physiological & Anatomical Rodent Experiment
• HCPCS — Health Care Common Procedure Coding System
• EXPORT — European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
• TGMI — Tennessee Government Management Institute
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• DP — Data Products
• AM — Alveolar Macrophage
• ADU — Analogue to Digital Unit
• BCRS — Breakpoint Cluster Regions
• IRMM — Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
• EMDM — European Medical Device Manufacturer
• BOARS — Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
• ECA — Effective Cloud Amount
• ORISE — Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• AGN — Active Galaxy Nucleus
• ARGOS — Argos Data Collection and Location System (France)
• CLNS — Connectionless Network Services
• AMSAS — AOA Meteorological Satellite Analysis System
• TRC — The Research Corporation
• ETTP — East Tennessee Technology Park
• DPS — Detector Power Supply
• KAL — Keep Alive Loop
• SPACON — Spacecraft Controller
• PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer
• CAS — Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge, UK)
• UOEAP — Universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program
• AU — Activity Units
• DRIBU — DRIfting BUoy data
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites

• CICS — Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (U.Maryland)
• NARSTO — North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
• UART — Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit
• CI — cardiac involvement
• CSEPA — Chinese State Environment Protection Agency (China)
• MODIS — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
• ASCA — Japanese X-Ray Astronomy satellite launched 1993
• MDC — Major Diagnostics Category
• STG — Steering Group
• CI — chromosomal instability
• PSPC — Position Sensitive Proportional Counters
• RPS — Remote Proposal Submission
• HDU — Header Data Unit
• IFCC — International Federation of Clinical Chemists
• HC — Heater Controller
• WMRS — White Mountain Research Station
• CAC — Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (York, Canada)
• CARE — Cholesterol and Recurrent Events
• FDRG — Faculty Discipline Review Group
• BF — Bomb Factory
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• NAEI — National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
• CSMP — Climate System Modeling Project
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function
• DPD — Data Processing Division
• ISI — Institutes for Science and Innovation
• PGO — Principal Guest Observer
• DPSS — Data Product Screening Sub-system
• NAHC — National Association of Home Care
• AE — Effective Area
• NEJAC — National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
• AC — Amylose Content
• LOICZ — Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
• CAL — Calibration Access Layer
• ERM — EPIC Radiation Monitor
• ASU — Astronomical Server URL
• UCR — University Of Costa Rica
• CAR — Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring
• MPE — Max Planck Institut fur Extaterrestrische Physik, Garching
• IPA — Institute for Polyacryclate Sciences
• MNBIO — Minnesota Biotechnology
• BLIS — Boundary Layer Instrumentation System
• UM — Unified Model
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• IGETC — Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• TRACT — Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
• AWD — Abdominal Wall Defects
• ADAM — Astronomical Data Acquisition and Management
• IOSDL — Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory

• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• DEFA — Digital Event Filter and Address Encoder
• DMS — DiMethylSulphide
• SORG — Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
• AP — Antimicrobial Peptides
• AHR — Ability of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor
• BD — Bone Density
• PMA — Premarket Application
• MICR — Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
• CHF — Calibration History File
• SHF — Short History File
• UCOPE — University Committee on Preparatory Education
• UCCP — UC College Preparatory Initiative
• HED — High Energy Detector
• STERAO — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
• CADC — Canadian Astrophysical Data Centre
• DISK — magnetic media (floppies)
• HKD — Housekeeping Data
• SAMS — stratospheric and mesopheric sounder
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
• HEDIS — Healthplan Employee Data and Information
• TIMEX — Time Multiplexer
• UARC — University Affiliated Research Center
• RNLI — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• SIP — Sickness Index Profile
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• HIRIS — High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• SAG — Science Advisory Group
• COHMEX — Cooperative Huntsville Meteorological Experiment
• OGIP — Office of Guest Investigator Programs
• POLDER — Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
• SLASIAC — Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
• PIDAS — Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring
• ISME — Instrument Software Maintenance Environment
• RAF — Radiation Amplification Factor
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• PM — Protocol Machine
• CSI — Coastal Studies Institute (LSU)
• NDSC — Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change
• SQHUW — Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• BUCHE — ButyrylCholine Estérase
• DENIS — Deep Near-Infra-red Survey
• ICC — Intersegmental Coordinating Committee
• ACCCI — American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• ECB — Educational Communications Board
• MM — Mirror Model
• BC — biotin carboxylase
• POSIX — Portbale Operating System Interface

• PMC — Pressure-Modulator Cell
• NCTRS — Network Command and Telemetry Router System
• CA — common antigen
• MOS — Metal Oxide Semi-conductor
• OAB — Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
• LQHUW — Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• CDS — Centre de Donnees Stellaires
• SCSI — Small Computer Systems Interface, a common disc interface
• GRO — Gamma-Ray Observatory
• CRF — Calibration Resource File
• RGA — RGS Grating Assembly
• UADE — Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
• SEAWIFS — sea-viewing wide-field sensor
• MIDAS — Munich Interactive Data Analysis System
• NDO — National Diving Officer
• JPOP — Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
• DAO — Data Assimilation Office (NASA)
• DXRB — Diffuse X-Ray Background
• POL — Physician's Office Laboratory
• CRCC — Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
• CHAT — Choline Acetyltransferase
• CD — Complete Deficiency
• MODIS-N — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Nadir
• MTSU — Middle Tennessee State University's