| Acronym | Meaning |
| NTS | Nucleus Of The Solitary Tract |
| LLS | Laser Light Scattering |
| FNA | Fine-needle Aspiration |
| BPAI | Board Of Patent Appeals And Interferences |
| HCPT | Hard-core Perturbation Theory |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition |
| MA | Mission Abort |
| PFCGE | Pulsed-field Capillary Gel Electrophoresis |
| THC | Total Hydrocarbon |
| FADD | Fas-associated Death Domain Protein |