| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCLRC | Council For The Central Laboratory Of The Research Councils |
| IRIS | Integrated Risk Information System |
| USCM | Unified Solvation Cavity Model |
| TRCF | Transcription-repair Coupling Factor |
| ICD | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator |
| WDD | Weighted Density Distribution |
| BALF | Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid |
| CDE | Collective Dose Equivalent |
| NLSLE | Nonlinear Schroedinger-Langevin Equation |
| IBSCA | Ion Beam Spectrochemical Analysis |