| Acronym | Meaning |
| ECDL | External-cavity Diode Laser |
| CODIS | Combined DNA Index System |
| ECMO | Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation |
| EVLSM | Evanescent Wave Light-scattering Microscopy |
| BICFET | Bipolar Inversion Channel Field-effect Transistor |
| BLM | Bilayer Lipid Membrane |
| TEA | Thermal Energy Analyzer |
| ODU | Optical Density Units |
| EEM | Environmental Effects Monitoring |
| PBMS | Photon Burst Mass Spectrometry |