| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCAQMD | South Coast Air Quality Management District |
| ALR | Augmenter Of Liver Regeneration |
| IDDB | Investigational Drugs Database |
| CEMS | Conversion Electron Moessbauer Spectroscopy |
| SANS | Small-angle Neutron Scattering |
| NMSC | Non-melanoma Skin Cancer |
| FNA | Fine-needle Aspiration |
| PECVD | Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| CCSS | Co-composted Sewage Sludge |
| PWTF | Plane-wave Translation Factors (in Atom-ion Inelastic Collisions) |