| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAI | Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor |
| ABSORB | Arctic Beaufort Sea Oilspill Research Body |
| MINDO/3L | Modified Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap/3 For Limited Electrons |
| HFD | Hartree-Fock-dispersion (type Of Intermol. Potential) |
| TRAM | TRansient And Accident Management |
| CL | Cathode Luminescence |
| HSK | Hylleraas Scherr Knight (variational Perturbation Procedure) |
| FNA | Fine-needle Aspiration |
| VREF | Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium |
| AAS | Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |