| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCFL | Countercurrent Flow Limitation |
| TARC | Tiered Area Response Capability |
| BBB | Blood-brain Barrier |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| MTC | Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma |
| NEKIA | National Education Knowledge Industry Association |
| AF | Atomic Fluorescence |
| MC | Mclean-Chandler Basis Set |
| MAGE | Melanoma-associated Antigen-encoding Gene |
| PGM | Platinum-group Mineral(s) |