| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAD | Coronary Artery Disease |
| FDS | Field Desorption Spectrometry |
| STEAMER | Slow Turning Echo Amplitude Modulation And Echo Reduction |
| CBEN | Center For Biological And Environmental Nan |
| IEM | Independent Electron Model (for Ionization In Ion-atom Collisions) |
| ICPEMC | International Commission On Protection Against Environmental Mutagens And Carcinogens |
| PUCHF | Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock |
| IGS | Intergenic Spacer |
| DCBA | Distorted-coupling Born Approximation |
| OSEE | Optically Stimulated Electron Emission |