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Fowl
Fowl: birds of the orders Galliformes (landfowl, e.g. chickens, turkeys) and Anseriformes (waterfowl, e.g. ducks, geese); domesticated fowl are called poultry, dominated by over 33 billion chickens.
Fowl cholera
Fowl cholera (avian cholera, avian pasteurellosis) is a contagious, often fatal bacterial disease of domestic and wild birds caused by Pasteurella multocida, mainly capsular serotype A, affecting turkeys most severely and controlled by biosecurity and bacterin or live vaccines.
Fowl pox
Fowl pox (fowlpox) is a worldwide, slow-spreading viral disease of chickens and turkeys caused by fowlpox virus, genus Avipoxvirus, with cutaneous and diphtheritic forms, mosquito and wound transmission, and control by live or pigeonpox vaccines.
Fowl typhoid
Fowl typhoid, also called avian typhosis (tifosis aviar), is a septicaemic poultry disease caused by Salmonella Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum, affecting mainly mature chickens and turkeys, transmitted vertically and horizontally, eradicated from commercial poultry in the US and Canada.
Fowler (lunar crater)
Fowler is a 139.52-km-wide impact crater on the far side of the Moon at 42.59°N, 145.27°W, IAU-named in 1970 for British astronomer Alfred Fowler and physicist Ralph Howard Fowler.
Fowler urethral sphincter dysfunction syndrome
Fowler urethral sphincter dysfunction syndrome, also known as Fowler-Christmas-Chapple syndrome, is a rare disorder of young women causing painless urinary retention over 1 liter with loss of bladder sensation.
Fowler–Nordheim tunneling
Fowler–Nordheim tunneling is quantum-mechanical tunneling of electrons through a triangular potential barrier created by a strong electric field, derived by Fowler and Nordheim in 1928.
Fowler's Ghost
Fowler's Ghost was an experimental fireless, condensing steam locomotive built in 1861 to John Fowler's design for London's Metropolitan Railway; it failed its trials and was scrapped.
Fowler's position
Fowler's position: semi-upright bed position with head elevated 45–60 degrees (semi-Fowler 30–45, high Fowler 60–90), used to ease breathing, aid eating, and reduce aspiration and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Fowzan S. Alkuraya
Fowzan S. Alkuraya is a Saudi human geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University, known for defining the autozygome and discovering human knockout genes.
Fox
Fox: small canids of the genus Vulpes, named by Just Leopold Frisch in 1775; smaller than most canids, with the desert fennec fox adapted by thin coat and large ears, and red foxes showing dog-like traits under selection for tameness.
Fox (disambiguation)
Fox (disambiguation): the canid mammal (red fox, Vulpes vulpes), the Old English word from PIE puk- 'tail', the Algonquian Fox people, figurative senses, and fox folklore such as kitsune and huli jing.
Fox (Latin American TV channel)
Fox (Latin American TV channel): pay-TV and streaming sports channel of Fox Corporation's FOX Latin America, launched in Mexico in 2025 from the acquired Caliente TV and expanded to Central America in 2026 via Tigo Sports, carrying Liga MX, UEFA Champions League and Premier League rights.
Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends is Fox News Channel's conservative weekday morning news and opinion show (6-9 a.m. ET), launched February 1998, hosted by Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones, with First and Weekend spin-offs.
Fox 2000 Pictures
Fox 2000 Pictures: 20th Century Fox film division founded 1994 by Laura Ziskin, led from 1999 by Elizabeth Gabler, known for book adaptations (The Devil Wears Prada, Hidden Figures), closed by Disney in 2019.
Fox and His Friends
Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1975 West German melodrama in which an unemployed fairground worker, played by Fassbinder, wins the lottery and is exploited by middle-class gay friends.
Fox Animation Studios
Fox Animation Studios was 20th Century Fox's feature-animation division, founded in 1994 under Don Bluth at a 66,000-square-foot Phoenix studio; it made Anastasia (1997) and Titan A.E. (2000), then collapsed.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), launched October 9, 1986 by Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller, is the fourth major U.S. broadcast network, a Fox Corporation subsidiary known for NFL coverage, The Simpsons, and its affiliate station model.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Fox Chase Cancer Center: NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Philadelphia, formed 1974 from the American Oncologic Hospital (1904) and Institute for Cancer Research; home of the Philadelphia chromosome discovery, two Nobel Prizes, and part of Temple University Health System since 2012.
Fox Corporation
Fox Corporation is a Delaware-incorporated American media company headquartered in New York, operating FOX News, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi. Fiscal 2026 revenue exceeded $17 billion; Cruden 2, LLC holds 38.7%.
Fox Creek Oil and Gas Field
The Fox Creek Oil and Gas Field is an unconventional oil and gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, centered on the town of Fox Creek, discovered in 1957.
Fox Engine
Fox Engine: Kojima Productions' cross-platform game engine for Konami, announced June 2011 by Hideo Kojima. Powered Metal Gear Solid V, Metal Gear Survive, and PES 2014-2020 (derivative Fluidity), then replaced by Unreal Engine after Kojima's 2015 departure.
Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group: the pre-2019 News Corp registrant (CIK 1068002) and, today, the entertainment arm of Fox Corporation spanning FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, FOX News Media, FOX Sports, and Tubi.
Fox Filipino
Fox Filipino was a Philippine pay TV channel launched March 1, 2012 by Fox International Channels, airing GMA Network, TV5, and Sari-Sari Channel shows, GMA Pictures films, and Tagalog-dubbed foreign programs; it closed July 7, 2020.
Fox Film
Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, was an American film production and distribution studio; it pioneered the Movietone sound-on-film system and newsreel, and merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935 to form Twentieth Century-Fox.
Fox games
Fox games: asymmetric hunt board games, chiefly Fox and Geese, where one fox hunts 13-17 geese on a cross-shaped 33-point board; geese corner the fox, the fox jumps geese; recorded from 1471 England.
Fox hunting
Fox hunting: mounted sport hunting of red foxes with hound packs. Banned in Scotland (2002) and England and Wales (Hunting Act 2004); trail hunting, drag hunting, and exemptions remain, with a UK trail hunting ban proposed in 2026.
Fox Kids
Fox Kids (Fox Children's Network) was Fox Broadcasting's children's block, airing September 8, 1990 to September 7, 2002, known for Power Rangers and Bobby's World, sold to Disney in 2001 and succeeded by the Fox Box.
Fox Mountain
Fox Mountain names several North American features: the 2,404 m highest peak of Yukon's Pelly Mountains, a 5,165-ft roadless-area summit in Los Padres National Forest, California, and the Southeastern Cave Conservancy's largest Georgia cave purchase.
Fox Mulder
Fox "Spooky" Mulder is a fictional FBI special agent played by David Duchovny on The X-Files, where he investigates paranormal cases with partner Dana Scully.