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  • ABE

    Adverse Biologic Experience

  • ABG

    Arterial Blood Gas

  • ABI

    Automated Broker Interface (U.S. Customs)

  • Abifarma

    Brazilian Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry

  • Abiogenesis

    Spontaneous generation

  • Abiotic

    Absence of living organisms.

  • ABM

    Application Briefing Meeting

  • ABMA

    American Boiler Manufacturers Association

  • ABMA

    American Bearing Manufacturers Association

  • ABMT

    Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplantation

  • ABPI

    Association of The British Pharmaceutical Industry (United Kingdom)

  • ABRA

    American Blood Resource Association

  • ABRF

    Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

  • ABS

    Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

  • ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)

    A plastic material used to make pipe; based on combinations of acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene; ABS is a relatively inert material and contributes little in the way of contamination to pharmaceutical water.

  • Absolute Configuration

    The configuration of four different substituent groups around an asymmetric carbon atom, in relation to D- and L- glyceraldehyde.

  • Absolute Humidity

  • Absolute Purity Water

    Water with a specific resistance of 18.3 megohm-cm at 25° C.

  • Absolute Rating

    The diameter of the largest hard spherical particle that will pass through a filter under specified test conditions. An indication of the largest opening in the filter element. An absolute rating may be validated by a number of nondestructive tests.

  • Absorption

    The process by which medications reach the blood stream when administered other than intravenously, for example, through nasal membranes.

  • Absorption

    Assimilation of molecules or other substances into the physical structure of a liquid or solid without chemical reaction.

  • Absorption

    The removal of a specific antigen or antibody from a sample (e.g., from serum) by adding the corresponding antibody or antigen.

  • Absorption

    The transport of the products of digestion from the intestinal tract into the blood.

  • Abstraction

    The separation of the logical properties of data or function from its implementation in a computer program.

  • ACB (CDRH)

    Accreditation and Certification Branch (CDRH)