CNS
Appearance
CNS may refer to:
Science and medicine
- Cell, Nature, and Science, the three most prestigious scientific journals involved in biomedical research
- Central nervous system, brain and spinal cord
- Chronic nonbacterial prostatitis, a pelvic pain condition affecting men
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Coagulase-negative staphylococcus, term to describe all staphylococcus species that are not staphylococcus aureus
- Computational neuroscience
- Conserved non-coding sequence, a region of DNA that is conserved through evolution and does not code for proteins
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome, rare hereditary disease
- Crystallography and NMR system, software library for computational structural biology
- Thiocyanate, an organic compound in the cyanate family
- Color Naming System
Education
- Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Cicero, New York
- City of Norwich School, a secondary school in Norwich, England
Organisations
- Canadian Nuclear Society, technical society of the Canadian Nuclear Association
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons, a professional society representing neurosurgeons
- Corporation for National Service, former name of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent agency of the United States government
- Council for National Security, military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
- Szekler National Council (Consiliul Naţional Secuiesc), an organization representing the ethnic Szeklers of Romania
Media
Television
Internet
Music
- CNS is a short acronym in musical jargon to reference the catalog numbering systems for single records
Other
- Cairns International Airport, IATA code
- Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Norwegian folk music group
- Chinese National Standards
- Cisco Networking Services, a proprietary directory service-based management system for Cisco Systems' networking products
- "Communication, navigation, surveillance", often associated with air traffic management as CNS/ATM