For the purposes of this document, the following abbreviated terms apply:
ACS | American Chemical Society |
AMA | American Medical Association |
ASN | Abstract Syntax Notation |
DTD | document type definition |
FR | France |
IEV | International Electrotechnical Vocabulary |
IG | identification guide |
IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
NF | National Formulary |
OTD | open technical dictionary |
UML | Unified Modeling Language |
UK | United Kingdom |
US | United States |
USP | United States Pharmacopeia |
USP-NF | United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary |
URL | uniform resource locator |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |