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ABCD may mean:

  • A mnemonic for memorizing essential steps in resuscitation. See ABC (first aid).
  • ABCD (ethnic slur), an ethnic slur used to refer to East Indian Americans, which is an initialism for American Born Confused Desi.
  • ABCD is an acronym devised in 1985 to make it easier for patients to know what to look for in terms of a possible melanoma. ABCD stands for Asymmetry, Border irregularity, Color variation, and Diameter (greater than 6 millimeters), as properties of a mole that may indicate melanoma.
  • ABCD was also a saying in World War II that means America, Britain, China, and the Netherlands.
  • ABCD also stands for Asset-Based Community Development
  • ABCD are the first 4 letters in the Latin alphabet
  • AB/CD is a Swedish AC/DC tribute and cover band from Stockholm.

It may also mean "A Big cat dog" according to Ryan Karr ABC is an acronym that stands for Airway, Breathing and Circulation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... American Born Confused Desi (ABCD) refers to people of Desi origin (of Indian or Pakistani descent), living in the United States. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...


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ABCD 2.05 was submitted to the TDWG Executive Committee in time to be considered for voting in St. Petersburg.
The elements of DwC have been mapped to ABCD to illustrate the strong overlap and the few existing semantic differences.
The reference implementation of ABCD 1.2 was carried out by tasks under the European Commission funded projects ENBI, BioCASE, and SYNTHESYS (Networking activity D), as well as by two projects funded within the GBIF-Germany programme of the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (GBIF-D Botany and SPECIFY).
Amphotericin B Colloidal Dispersion (ABCD) (1022 words)
Amphotericin B colloidal dispersion (ABCD) is a lipid formulation of amphotericin B. As with the other lipid formulations, the major goal of developing ABCD has been to attain a compound with lower toxicity and with at least similar efficacy compared to the parent compound, amphotericin B deoxycholate.
ABCD is in general administered at doses of 3- 6 mg/kg [67, 616, 1663].
ABCD is licensed to be used in treatment of invasive fungal infections when amphotericin B therapy fails or is unacceptably toxic [1702].
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