AAOS	American Academy of Sciences
ADAMS	A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase
ADAMTS	A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease with ThromboSpondin type 1 repeats
ADAMTS Cat∆5	A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease with ThromboSpondin type 1 repeat-5 devoid of its catalytic domain
AFM	Atomic force microscopy
ACL	Anterior cruciate ligament
AQP1	Aquaporin-1
Capn2	Calpain-2
CCN	acronym term derived from the first three members of the gene families, CYR61(cysteine-rich angiogenic protein 61 or CCN1), CTGF (connective tissue growth factor or CCN2), and NOV (nephroblastom-overexpressed or CCN3)
CLEC3B	Tetranectin
CRLF1	Cytokine receptor-like factor 1
Ctsk	Cathepsin K
µCT	Micro computed tomography
Elf	E74-like factor-1 [ets, (erythroblast transformation-specific) domain transcription factor]
ECM	Extracellular matrix
Foxo4	Forkhead box protein O4
HMBG	High mobility group box-1
IL-1α	Interleukin-1 alpha
IL11	Interleukin-11
INHBA	Inhibin, beta A
Klk8	Kallikrein-8
MMP	Matrix metalloprotease
MSCs	Mesenchymal stem (stromal) cells
NOD	Nucleotide oligomerization domain
NOV	Nephroblastom-overexpressed or CCN3
OA	Osteoarthritis
PHDLA2	Pleckstrin homology-like domain, family A, member 2
PPAR	Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
PRG4	Proteoglycan 4 (lubricin)
Prss46	Serine protease 46
PTGS2	Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase-2 (cyclooxygenase-2, COX-2)
RA	Rheumatoid arthritis
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
3D	three dimensional
TNF-α	Tumour necrosis alpha
Tp53	Tumour protein 53
Wnt	a condensation of terms describing the Winged and Int transcription factor morphogens