AF	Annulus Fibrosus
AFC	Annulus Fibrosus Cell
CCA	Canonical Correlation Analysis
CEP	Cartilage Endplate
GSEA	Gene Set Enrichment analysis
GSVA	Gene Set Variant Analysis
IVD	Intervertebral disc
KNN	K-nearest neighbors
MNN	Mutual Nearest Neighbors
NP	Nucleus Pulposus
NPC	Nucleus Pulposus Cell
PCA	Principal Component Analysis
RISH	Hybridization on paraffin sections
SEA	Singular Enrichment Analysis
t-SNE	t-stochastic neighbor embedding
UMI	Unique Molecular Identifier