| 3D | Three-dimensional |
| AAMI | Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation |
| AM | Additive manufacturing |
| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| CAD | Computer-aided design |
| CAM | Computer-aided manufacturing |
| CD | Change in the dimensions |
| CT | Computed Tomography |
| DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DOE | Design of experiments |
| EOS | Electro-Optical Systems |
| FFF | Fused filament fabrication |
| ICP | Iterative closest point |
| INFILL % | Infill rate |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| LT | Layer thickness |
| MIMICS | Materialise Interactive Medical Image Control System |
| MSD | Mean square deviation |
| NSHELLS | Number of shells |
| PATTERN | Infill pattern |
| PEEK | Polyetheretherketone |
| POC | Point-of-care |
| PSIs | Patient-specific implants |
| RMS | Root mean square |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SLS | Selective laser sintering |
| S/N | Signal-to-noise |
| STL | Standard Tessellation Language |