CTD

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CTD is an abbreviation which may refer to the following things:

[edit] Medicine

• The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, a scientific database describing chemical-gene-disease interactions CTD.
• In the Pharmaceutical industry a Common Technical Document is a drug approval document.
• Abbreviation for Connective Tissue Disease (i/e Lupus Erythematosus).
• Informally used for a close-to-death and hopeless situation. CTD stands for Circling the Drain.
• In occupational safety and health, a cumulative trauma disorder, also known as a repetitive strain injury.
• Chronic Transplant Disfunction, a disease of transplanted tissue
• Used as an abbreviation for Continued

[edit] Other

• Central de Trabajadores Democráticos, a trade union centre in El Salvador
• In Biochemistry the Carboxy-Terminal Domain, a part of RNA polymerase II
• In Computer Science the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle relates to the universality of simulation.
• In Computer Storage in most unix systems, drives are designated by the ctd notation, e.g. controller 1, target 2, disk 3 would be c1t2d3.
• In Geophysics and Oceanography a CTD is used to measure conductivity, temperature and depth of the water column.
• In Computing, sometimes used as an abbreviation for "Crash to Desktop", when a program exits abnormally
• The Center for Talent Development, a Northwestern University based summer program for gifted students
• In Finance, where a physically settled derivative contract has multiple deliverables, the underlying which is most economically optimal to deliver is the cheapest to deliver (CTD). See derivative (finance).
• Crash Test Dummies, a band
• Clubbed to Death, a song by Rob Dougan
• Contra - Terrene Device, from the books of Neal Asher, a euphemism for an Antimatter bomb
• Crash to Desktop, a computer program crash which the program unexpectedly quits, taking the user back to the desktop.