Glossary

Atherosclerotic Heart Disease

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers

Application Specific Integrated Circuit(s)

American Society for Microbiology

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Bioprocessing Equipment Standard

The ASME Bioprocessing Equipment Standard was developed to aid in the design and construction of new fluid processing equipment used in industries that require a defined level of purity and bioburden control.The Standard typically applies to:1.Components that are in contact the product, raw materials, or product intermediates during manufacturing, development, or scale-up.2.Systems that are a critical part of product manufacture, (e.g., water-for-injection (WFI), pure steam, filtration, and intermediate product storage).

A number of individually published Sections, each an American National Standard. Rules for each Section reflect the kinds of piping installations considered during its development, as follows:1.B31.1 Power Piping: piping typically found in electric power generating stations, in industrial and institutional plants, geothermal heating systems, and central and district heating and cooling systems.2.B31.3 Process Piping: piping typically found in petroleum refineries, chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, paper, semiconductor, and cryogenic plants, and related processing plants and terminals. Certain piping within a facility may be subject to other codes and standards, including but not limited to: (a) ANSI Z223.1 National Fuel Gas Code: piping for fuel gas from the point of delivery to the connection of each fuel utilization device. (b) NFPA Fire Protection Standards: fire protection systems using water, carbon dioxide, halon, foam, dry chemical, and wet chemicals. (c) NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities: medical and laboratory gas systems. (d) Building and plumbing codes, as applicable, for potable hot and cold water, and for sewer and drain systems. (also see: Fluid Service (piping))3.B31.4 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids: piping transporting products that are predominately liquids between plants and terminals and within terminals, pumping, regulating, and metering stations.4.B31.5 Refrigeration Piping: piping for refrigerants and secondary coolants.5.B31.8 Gas Transportation and Distribution Piping Systems: piping transporting products that are predominately gas between sources and terminals, including compressor, regulating, and metering stations; gas gathering pipelines.6.B31.9 Building Services Piping: piping typically found in industrial, institutional, commercial, and public buildings, and in multi-unit residences, which does not require the range of sizes, pressures, and temperatures covered in B31.1.7.B31.11 Slurry Transportation Piping Systems: piping transporting aqueous slurries between plants and terminals and within terminals, pumping, and regulating stations.

American Society of Nephrology

American Society of Non-Destructive Testing

American Society of Non-destructive Testing

American Society of Plumbing Engineers

A vapor or gas that can cause loss of consciousness and death due to lack of oxygen.

Automatic Sloper Placement Unit

American Society for Quality (formerly ASQC)

Analyte Specific Reagent

American Society for Reproductive Medicine

A technique (test) for measuring a biological response or for determining characteristics such as composition, purity, activity, and weight.

(USP) Analysis (as of a drug) to determine the quantity of one or more components or the presence or absence of one or more components.

(USP) The set of data used to determine a single potency for all samples included in the bioassay.

American Society of Safety Engineers

American Society of Sanitary Engineering

A computer program that translates programs (source code files) written in assembly language into their machine language equivalents (object code files).

(NIST) Translating a program expressed in an assembly language into object code.