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  • ADA

    American Diabetes Association

  • ADA

    American Dental Association

  • ADA

    Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

  • ADA

    Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency

  • ADAA

    Animal Drug Availability Act of 1996

  • ADaM

    Analysis Dataset Model (CDISC)

  • ADAMHA

    Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (now SAMHSA)

  • ADAMHA (Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration)

    Reorganized in October 1992 as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). ADAMHA included the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP), and the Office for Treatment Intervention (OTI). NIMH, NIAAA, and NIDA are now part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • Adaptability

    Inherent ability of a piece of equipment, a process, or a facility to be modified to deliver a different result than originally expected. Adaptability entails recognition of a need for changes to an original configuration with financial and time investment at the time of the change.

  • Adaptive Control

    An advanced controller function that automatically adjusts controller settings to changing process conditions.

  • Adaptive Maintenance

    (IEEE) Software maintenance performed to make a computer program usable in a changed environment.

  • ADC

    Analog-to-Digital Converter

  • ADC

    Air Diffusion Council

  • ADCC

    Antibody-Dependent Cellular Toxicity

  • ADCC (Antibody-Dependent Cell-Mediated Cytotoxity)

    An immune response in which antibodies, by coating target cells, makes them vulnerable to attack by immune cells.

  • ADCI

    American Die Cast Institute

  • Additive Effect

    A biologic response to exposure to multiple substances that equals the sum of responses of all the individual substances added together.

  • Additon Can

  • Address

    A number, character, or group of characters which identifies a given device or a storage location which may contain a piece of data or a program step.

  • Address

    To refer to a device or storage location by an identifying number, character, or group of characters

  • Addressing Exception

    (IEEE) An exception that occurs when a program calculates an address outside the bounds of the storage available to it.

  • ADE

    Acceptable Daily Exposure

  • ADE

    Adverse Drug Event

  • ADE

    Acceptable Daily Exposure

  • ADE

    Adverse Drug Experience