| ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| ASRDs | Application-Specific Reference Databases |
| BAD | Bile Acid Diarrhea |
| CBPC | Carbon Black Polymer Composite |
| CC | Colon Cancer |
| CD | Celiac Disease |
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis |
| CGD | Chronic Gastrointestinal Disease |
| CNF | Carbon Nanofiber |
| CP | Conducting Polymer |
| CRC | Colorectal Cancer |
| CRD | Crohn’s Disease |
| EAD | Electronic Aroma Detection |
| EC | Electrochemical |
| ED | Ethyl Dodecanoate (biomarker) |
| E-nose | Electronic-nose |
| EM | Endometriosis |
| FAIMS | Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectroscopy |
| FID | Flame Ionization Detector |
| GC-MS | Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry |
| GC-TOF-MS | Gas Chromatography-Time-Of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry |
| GC/O | GC-Olfactometry |
| GI | Gastrointestinal |
| GIRMs | Gastrointestinal Resident Microbes |
| GNP | Gold Nanoparticle |
| HIA | Hydroxylamine-based Indole Assay |
| HNC | Head and Neck Cancer |
| HS-SPME | Headspace Solid Phase Microextraction |
| ID | Infectious Diarrhea |
| IBD | Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| IBS | Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| IMR-MS | Ion Molecule Reaction-Mass Spectrometry |
| IR | Infrared |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LD-PCA | Linear Discriminant Principle Component Analyses |
| LOS | Late-Onset Sepsis |
| MIB | 2-methylisoborneol (VOC-metabolite) |
| MOS | Metal Oxide Semiconductors |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| NAFLD | Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
| NDIR | Non-Dispersive Infra-red (optical devices) |
| NEC | Necrotizing Enterocolitis |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| NVOMs | Non-Volatile Organic Metabolites |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PID | Photo-Ionization Detector |
| POCT | Point-Of-Care Testing |
| PTR-MS | Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry |
| QA/QC | Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
| QCM | Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
| RCC | Renal Cell Carcinoma |
| SAW | Surface Acoustic Wave |
| SESI-MS | Secondary Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry |
| SIFT-MS | Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry |
| SPME | Solid Phase Microextraction |
| TB | Tuberculosis |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic Acid (pathway) |
| UC | Ulcerative Colitis |
| UPLC-MS | Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry |
| VE | Viral Enteritis |
| VOCs | Volatile Organic Compounds |
| VOMs | Volatile Organic Metabolites |