| Acronym | Meaning |
| MEBS | Medium Energy Backscattering Spectrometry |
| NICS | Nucleus-independent Chemical Shifts |
| PO | Projection Operator |
| SIEC | Spherical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement |
| VSD | Virtually Safe Dose |
| UTL | Upper Tolerance Limit |
| CSR | Class Switch Recombination |
| CCE | Counterflow Centrifugal Elutriation |
| FTD | Frontotemporal Dementia |
| DCA | Detrended Correspondence Ordination Analysis |