CVS may refer to:

Organizations

CVS Health CVS Health Corporation is an American healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company is the worl ...

, a US pharmacy chain **

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, a subsidiary of CVS Health (originally named the Consumer Value Stores from 1963–1969) **

CVS Caremark CVS Caremark (formerly Caremark Rx) is the pharmacy benefit management subsidiary of CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Company history Early years CVS Caremark was founded in 1993 as MedPartners, Inc. in Birmingham, Alab ...

, a prescription benefit management subsidiary *

Council for Voluntary Service Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) is a type of organisation in England - "the place at which local voluntary and community organisations speak to each other". They offer a wide variety of services and support for other local organisations, for e ...

, England *

Cable Video Store Cable Video Store (CVS), was a pay-per-view (PPV) service that was launched on October 1, 1986 by General Instrument. It was later owned by Graff Pay-Per-View. Cable Video Store consisted of one channel which carried first run movies and specials ...

, former US pay-per-view service * CVS Ferrari, an Italian mobile handling equipment manufacturer * Chicago Vocational High School, US

Science

Cardiovascular system In vertebrates, the circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the body. It includes the cardiovascular system, or vascular system, that consists of the heart a ...

Cyclic vomiting syndrome Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a chronic functional condition of unknown pathogenesis. CVS is characterized as recurring episodes lasting a single day to multiple weeks. Each episode is divided into four phases: inter-episodic, prodrome, ...

Chorionic villus sampling Chorionic villus sampling (CVS), sometimes called "chorionic ''villous'' sampling" (as "villous" is the adjectival form of the word "villus"), is a form of prenatal diagnosis done to determine chromosomal or genetic disorders in the fetus. It en ...

, a form of prenatal testing *

Computer vision syndrome Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a condition resulting from focusing the eyes An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information. It detects light and converts it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (ne ...

, from excessive computer display use *

CVS (enzyme) Valencene synthase (EC 4.2.3.73) is an enzyme with systematic name (2''E'',6''E'')-farnesyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase (valencene-forming). It is a terpene cyclase enzyme responsible for the biosynthesis of valencene, a sesquiterpene, using ...

, the enzyme responsible for the biosynthesis of valencene *

Coversine The versine or versed sine is a trigonometric function found in some of the earliest (Sanskrit ''Aryabhatia'',Computer-controlled Vehicle System The Computer-controlled Vehicle System, almost universally referred to as CVS, was a personal rapid transit (PRT) system developed by a Japanese industrial consortium during the 1970s. Like most PRT systems under design at the same time, CVS was bas ...

, a personal rapid transit system developed in Japan *

Concurrent Versions System Concurrent Versions System (CVS, or Concurrent Versioning System) is a version control system originally developed by Dick Grune in July 1986. Design CVS operates as a front end to Revision Control System (RCS), an older version control ...

, a revision control system for software development *

Crankcase ventilation system A crankcase ventilation system (CVS) removes unwanted gases from the crankcase of an internal combustion engine. The system usually consists of a tube, a one-way valve and a vacuum source (such as the inlet manifold). The unwanted gases, called ...

, a system for allowing engine blow-by gases to escape

Other

Anti-submarine warfare carrier An anti-submarine warfare carrier (ASW carrier) (US hull classification symbol CVS) is a type of small aircraft carrier whose primary role is as the nucleus of an anti-submarine warfare hunter-killer group. This type of ship came into existence d ...

, US hull classification symbol CVS * C. V. S. Rao (1918–1993), a senior officer in the Indian police {{disambiguation