| Acronym | Meaning |
| DCAD | Dietary Cation-anion Difference |
| TKN | Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen |
| AEM | Acoustic Emission Monitoring |
| PTD | Protein Transduction Domain |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High Mass Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| KKT | Kramers-Kronig Transformation |
| RDF | Restricted Dirac-Fock (quantum Calcn. Method) |
| UBA | Unitarized Born Approxn. |
| CLTVD | Controlled Low-temperature Vacuum Dehydration |
| TCXO | Temperature-compensated Crystal Oscillator |