| ADW | Autoclaved drinking water |
| BS/BV | Bone surface to bone volume ratio |
| BS/TV | Bone surface density |
| BV/TV | Bone volume fraction |
| CD | Crohn’s disease |
| DAI | Disease activity index |
| DGME | Dried ginger milk extract |
| DGWE | Dried ginger aqueous extract |
| DSS | Dextran sulfate sodium |
| ERK | Extracellular signal-regulated kinase |
| FC | Fold change |
| FMH | Food–medicine homology |
| GMP | Guanosine monophosphate |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| H&E | Hematoxylin and eosin |
| IBD | Inflammatory bowel disease |
| IBD-BL | Inflammatory bowel disease-associated bone loss |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| MAPK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| MEK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase |
| M-CSF | Macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| NFATc1 | Nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 |
| OC.N/BPm | Osteoclast number per bone perimeter |
| OC.S/BS | Osteoclast surface per bone surface |
| PCoA | Principal coordinate analysis |
| PLS-DA | Partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| RANKL | Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand |
| SASP | Sulfasalazine |
| SMI | Structural model index |
| SPD | Spermidine |
| Tb.N | Trabecular number |
| Tb.Sp | Trabecular separation |
| Tb.Th | Trabecular thickness |
| TCMSP | Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology database |
| Th17 | T helper 17 cell |
| TIC | Total ion chromatogram |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-alpha |
| UC | Ulcerative colitis |
| UHPLC-Q-TOF MS | Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| VAN | Vanillin |
| VIP | Variable importance in projection |