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CSF

CSF is the initialism of cerebrospinal fluid.

CSF is the initialism of classical swine fever.

CSF is the initialism of critical success factor.

CSF is the initialism of colony-stimulating factor.

Meaning of cerebrospinal fluid

Noun

cerebrospinal fluid (countable and uncountable, plural cerebrospinal fluids)

  1. A clear bodily fluid in the form of a very pure saline solution with microglia that occupies the subarachnoid space in the brain (between the skull and the cerebral cortex), and which acts as a cushion or buffer for the cortex.
    Synonyms:
    brain fluid, CSF
  2. A bodily fluid filling the third ventricle and surrounding the interthalamic adhesion.

Meaning of critical success factor

Noun

critical success factor (plural critical success factors)

  1. An element that is necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission.
    Synonyms:
    CSF

Forms of CSF

pluralCSFs

Words formed from CSF

Questions about CSF

What is CSF the initialism of?
CSF is the initialism of cerebrospinal fluid.

Words near CSF in the dictionary

  1. csejka berry
  2. CSEM
  3. Cserba
  4. CSEs
  5. CSEZ
  6. CSF
  7. CSFR
  8. CSFs
  9. CSG
  10. CSGO
  11. cshatriya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CSF (page history and authors); cerebrospinal fluid (page history and authors); critical success factor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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