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Floryn
Floryn is a Dutch fintech company founded in 2016 in 's-Hertogenbosch that provides online business loans to small and medium-sized enterprises using bank transaction data.
Flosequinan
Flosequinan (Manoplax), a Boots quinolone vasodilator for heart failure, improved symptoms and hemodynamics but raised mortality in the PROFILE trial and was voluntarily withdrawn in July 1993.
Floss (dance)
The floss is a repetitive viral dance of swinging fists and opposing hips, popularized by Russell Horning (Backpack Kid) on SNL in 2017 and spread by Fortnite.
Flossen hoch!
Flossen hoch! is a 2012 Zoch Verlag children's memory board game by Edith Grein-Böttcher for 2-4 players aged 4+, about 20 minutes, where players fish hidden colored fish from box slots to move penguins; distinct from Yuval Zommer's 2026 bingo game of the same name.
Flossenbürg concentration camp
Flossenbürg concentration camp, a Nazi camp in Bavaria founded May 1938 for granite quarrying by the SS firm DESt, held about 100,000 prisoners across nearly 80 subcamps and was liberated by the US Army on April 23, 1945.
Flosshilde Farra
Flosshilde Farra is a 75-km-wide farrum, or pancake dome cluster, on Venus at 10.5N, 279.4E, named for a German water nymph and adopted by the IAU in 1994.
Flossie (cat)
Flossie (born 1995) is a British tortoiseshell cat, Guinness World Records' oldest living cat since November 2022; she turned 30 in 2025, far short of Creme Puff's 38-year all-time record.
Flossie Wong‐Staal
Flossie Wong-Staal, born Yee Ching Wong (1946–2020), was a Chinese-born American molecular virologist who first cloned HIV, proved it causes AIDS, and later led AIDS research at UCSD.
FLOT chemotherapy
FLOT chemotherapy combines docetaxel, oxaliplatin, leucovorin, and fluorouracil in two-week cycles around surgery for stomach and esophageal adenocarcinoma, replacing ECF as the standard after the FLOT4-AIO trial.
FLOT regimen
The FLOT regimen is a combination chemotherapy of docetaxel, fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin given every 14 days, used mainly as perioperative treatment for resectable gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
FLOT1
FLOT1 (flotillin 1, reggie-2) is a human protein-coding gene at 6p21.33 encoding flotillin-1, an SPFH-family scaffold protein of lipid rafts and caveolae that drives clathrin-independent endocytosis with flotillin-2 and is implicated in cancer and neurological disease.
FLOT2
FLOT2 (flotillin 2, ESA1, Reggie-1) is a human gene at 17q11.2 encoding a 428-aa SPFH-domain lipid raft scaffold protein. It forms 44-subunit dome complexes with FLOT1 on the inner plasma membrane and is implicated in cancer metastasis and podocyte injury.
Flotation separation
Flotation separation is a separation method that attaches hydrophobic particles to gas bubbles in a liquid, so they rise as a froth; it processes about 90% of non-ferrous metals.
FLOTCH syndrome
FLOTCH syndrome (leukonychia totalis-trichilemmal cysts-ciliary dystrophy syndrome, ORPHA:2045) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant cutaneous disorder with leukonychia totalis and recurrent pilar cysts, sometimes with ciliary dystrophy, koilonychia, or renal calculi; genetic cause unknown.
Flotek Industries
Flotek Industries, Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based specialty chemistry and data technology company serving the energy industry, founded in 1985 and listed on the NYSE as FTK.
Flotsam and Jetsam (band)
Flotsam and Jetsam: American thrash metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed 1981 (earlier names Paradox, Dredlox, Dogz). Debut Doomsday for the Deceiver (1986); Jason Newsted left for Metallica; still active on Napalm Records.
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict are the four maritime-law categories of lost sea goods that statutorily define "wreck" under the UK Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and similar laws in Ireland, Singapore, Canada, and The Bahamas.
Flotta oil terminal
The Flotta oil terminal is a crude oil terminal on the island of Flotta in Orkney, Scotland, receiving North Sea oil by pipeline since 1977.
Flounder
Flounder: common name for flatfishes (order Pleuronectiformes, families Bothidae, Pleuronectidae, Paralichthyidae) with both eyes on one side of a flattened body; includes summer, winter, and arrowtooth flounder; distinct from halibut and sole.
Flounder Oil and Gas Field
Flounder is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, discovered in 1968 and producing oil from 1984.
Flour
Flour, powder milled from cereal grains, chiefly wheat endosperm; wholemeal keeps bran and germ. Covers milling history, protein grades, gluten, fortification, and whole-grain health evidence.
Flour Massacre
Flour Massacre: Israeli forces' killing of Palestinian aid-seekers on 29 February 2024 at the Nabulsi Roundabout on Al-Rashid Street, Gaza City, during a flour convoy distribution; 104-118 reported killed, amid famine conditions in northern Gaza.
Flour mite
Flour mite (Acarus siro, grain mite, synonym Tyroglyphus farinae), a stored-product mite pest of flour and cheese; species complex with A. farris and A. immobilis; causes occupational asthma and grocer's itch.
Flourished Peony (国色芳华)
Flourished Peony (国色芳华), also known as Guo Se Fang Hua, is a 2025 Chinese Tang-dynasty costume drama starring Yang Zi and Li Xian, adapted from Yi Qian Chong's web novel; 32 episodes, premiered January 7, 2025 on MangoTV, Douban 7.8, with sequel In the Name of Blossom.
Flow
Environmental flow (e-flow): the quantity, timing, and quality of river flows needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems alongside human use; assessed by hydrological, habitat-simulation, and holistic methods such as Tennant, BBM, and DRIFT.
Flow (2024 film)
Flow (Straume) is a 2024 dialogue-free Latvian-French-Belgian animated film by Gints Zilbalodis about a cat surviving a flood, made in Blender, and winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Latvia's first Academy Award.
Flow (psychology)
Flow (psychology): optimal experience, flow state, introduced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975; a state of full absorption when challenge and skill balance, measured by the Flow State Scale and Flow Short Scale.
Flow battery
A flow battery, also called a redox flow battery, is a rechargeable device that stores energy in liquid electrolytes pumped through cell stacks from external tanks, suited to long-duration grid storage.
Flow chemistry
Flow chemistry, also called continuous flow chemistry, is a synthetic method in which reagents react while pumped through tubing instead of in a batch vessel.
Flow coefficient
The flow coefficient (Cv) measures a valve's hydraulic capacity, defined as the US gallons per minute of water at 60 °F passing through it at a 1 psi drop.