There are multiple definitions:

1. Chinese Academy of Sciences(English)

   • CASS, CAST
   • Organizations (scientific)

2. complex adaptive system(English)

   • GST

3. chemical abstracts service(English)

   • Biomedical journals, Medical publications

4. computer-aided surgery(English)

   • TDU, TVSS
   • Surgery, Robotics

5. Cholesterol Awareness Survey(English)

6. cold agglutinin syndrome(English)

   • AIHA

7. cultural assimilation scale(English)

   • Scoring systems/scales

8. Caregiver Abuse Screen(English)

   • a screening measure for detecting abuse of seniors
   • AAT, BASE, CABS, EASI, IOA, OAPAM, RAT, SAT, VASS
   • Care giver/provider, Abuse of elderly, Screening, Misconduct
   • https://cnpea.c…er-abuse-screen

9. Certificate of Advanced Studies(English)

   • postgraduate programs that aim to give greater depth or interdisciplinary breadth to an original academic qualification
   • Education
   • https://en.wiki…_Advanced_Study

10. carotid artery stenting(English)

    • for patients with asymptomatic significant carotid stenosis
    • CEA, TCAR, TCAL
    • Vascular disease, Surgery, Therapeutic approaches
    • https://doi.org…jnl-2019-316164
    • https://doi.org…000000000001209

11. coronavirus anxiety scale(English)

    • assesses dysfunctional anxiety associated with the COVID-19 crisis
    • COVID-19
    • Anxiety/fear, Scoring systems/scales
    • https://www.mdc…xiety-scale-cas

12. cephalic autonomic symptom(English)

    • typically associated with trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, but also reported in migraine
    • TAC
    • Headache
    • https://doi.org…194-022-01389-w

13. carotid artery stenosis(English)

    • CIMT, DGU, PJ
    • Atherosclerosis /atherogenic, Vascular disease
    • https://doi.org…lnu.2003.10.002

14. coronary artery spasm(English)

    • defined as vasospastic angina or microvascular angina in response to coronary high-dose acetylcholine
    • ACh, CFR, CFT, HMR, INOCA
    • Coronary circulation, Stress (test)
    • https://doi.org…IONS.122.012017

15. coronary artery stenosis(English)

    • FFR, NAFLD, CAD
    • Coronary circulation
    • https://doi.org…17/CT.2022.2483

16. contact activation system(English)

    • biochemical pathway that includes several proteins that skirt the fringes of the blood coagulation, fibrinolytic, complement and renin-angiotensin fields. These proteins initially were proposed as part of the hemostatic pathways because their deficiencies are associated with prolonged clinical assays
    • Factor VII
    • Hematology, Thrombocyte /thrombosis
    • https://doi.org….1111/jth.13194

17. childhood apraxia of speech(English)

    • a rare and severe speech disorder associated with a pathogenic variant in CDK13
    • CDK13, AAC
    • Pediatrics, Speaking / language [incl. disorders], Genetics
    • https://doi.org…431-022-01275-8

18. catalytic active site(English)

    • AChE, PAS
    • Enzymes
    • https://doi.org…02.2022.2162583

19. cyclosporin, azathioprine and steroid [regimen](English)

    • BPAR, BTAS, GFR, MMF, MPS, TAS
    • Kidney and adrenals, Transplantation
    • https://doi.org/10.3310/hta10490

20. co-morbid anemia and stunting(English)

    • affect a significant number of children under the age of five
    • Public Health, Pediatrics
    • https://doi.org…/ijerph20136251