NMD

NMD is an abbreviation for:

• National Missile Defense or the US missile shield, an armaments project of the United States of America initiated during the reign of US President George W. Bush
• Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay , a control mechanism in eukaryotic cells that recognizes nonsense mutations in the mRNA and prevents their expression as truncated proteins

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.