CNS
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CNS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
In science:
- Cell, Nature, and Science, acronym used to describe the three most prestigious scientific journals involved in biomedical research
- Central nervous system, brain and spinal cord
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Coagulase-negative staphylococcus, term to describe all staphylococcus species that are not staphylococcus aureus
- Crystallography and NMR system, software library for computational structural biology
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome, rare hereditary disease
- Conserved noncoding sequence
In media:
Elsewhere:
- Cairns International Airport, IATA code
- Canadian Nuclear Society, technical society of the Canadian Nuclear Association
- Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Norwegian folk music group
- Chinese National Standards
- Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Cicero, New York
- "Communication, navigation, surveillance", often associated with air traffic management as CNS/ATM
- Council for National Security, military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
- Corporation for National Service, former name of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent agency of the United States government
- Covenant not to sue, Microsoft Open Specification Promise