ADI	Acceptable daily intake
ANOVA	Analysis of variance
ATCC	American type of culture collection
ATP	Adenosine triphosphate
CFU	Colony forming unit
CLSI	Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
DMSO	Dimethyl sulfoxide
EMA	European Medicine Agency
EO	Essential oil
EPS	Extracellular polymeric substance
FID	Flame ion detector
FT-IR	Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy
GABAA	Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A
GC-MS	Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
HCA	Hierarchical cluster analysis
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
LA	Lavandula angustifolia
MHA	Mueller–Hinton agar
MHB	Mueller–Hinton broth
MIC	Minimum inhibitory concentration
MO	Melissa officinalis
ND	Not detected
NG	No grow
OV	Origanum vulgare
OVH	Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum
PCA	Principal component analysis
qNMR	Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
PBS	Phosphate-buffered saline
RRI	Relative retention index
SD	Standard deviation
SDA	Sabouraud dextrose agar
SDB	Sabouraud dextrose broth
SO	Salvia officinalis
SVD	Singular value decomposition
TIC	Total ion chromatography
tR	Retention time
TV	Thymus vulgaris
UV	Unit variance