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Fraser syndrome
Fraser syndrome (cryptophthalmos-syndactyly syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive malformation disorder caused by FRAS1, FREM2, or GRIP1 variants, featuring cryptophthalmos, syndactyly, and urogenital anomalies; distinct from WT1-related Frasier syndrome.
Fraser Tombs
The Fraser Tombs are a group of fifteen Fifth Dynasty rock-cut mastaba tombs at Tehna, on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, north of Minya.
Frasers Group
Frasers Group plc, formerly Sports Direct International, is a British FTSE 100 sports, premium, and luxury retail group founded by Mike Ashley in Maidenhead in 1982. FY26 revenue was £5,325.9m, with an almost 48% stake in Hugo Boss and a €2.7bn takeover bid.
Frasier
Frasier (2023 Paramount+ revival): Kelsey Grammer returns as Dr. Frasier Crane, now teaching at Harvard in Boston after 11 NBC seasons (1993-2004) of the Cheers spin-off; canceled January 2025 after two 10-episode seasons.
Frasier (2023 TV series)
Frasier (2023) is the Paramount+ revival of the NBC sitcom, starring Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, who returns to Boston to teach at Harvard and reconnect with son Freddy. Two seasons, 2023–2024; canceled January 2025.
Frasier Crane
Frasier Crane, also Dr. Frasier Winslow Crane, is the fictional psychiatrist played by Kelsey Grammer on Cheers (from 1984), the NBC spin-off Frasier (1993–2004, Seattle radio psychiatrist, 37 Emmys), and the 2023 Paramount+ revival set in Boston.
Frasier syndrome
Frasier syndrome (FS, OMIM 136680) is a rare WT1 intron 9 splice-site disorder causing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, 46,XY complete gonadal dysgenesis, and high gonadoblastoma risk, distinct from Denys-Drash syndrome.
Fraszki
Fraszki is Jan Kochanowski's 1584 Kraków collection of about 300 short, witty Polish poems, written over nearly 25 years in three books, which gave the fraszka genre its name.
Frat Pack
The Frat Pack, also called the Slacker Pack, was a 2000s Hollywood comedy-actor collective of Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, and Vince Vaughn, named in 2004 after the Rat and Brat Packs.
Frat rap
Frat rap is a critic-coined hip-hop label for party-focused college rap, mostly white artists like Asher Roth, Hoodie Allen, Lil Dicky, and Mac Miller, tracing back to the Beastie Boys, with 1950s rock, lullaby, and EDM samples.
Frataxin
Frataxin, encoded by FXN, is a conserved 18 kDa mitochondrial protein that delivers iron for iron-sulfur cluster assembly; its deficiency from a GAA repeat expansion causes Friedreich's ataxia.
Fráter–Seebach alkylation
The Fráter–Seebach alkylation, also called the Seebach–Fráter reaction, stereoselectively alkylates chiral beta-hydroxy esters via a lithium chelate and is widely used in polyketide and mycolic acid synthesis.
Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation
Fraternal birth order effect (FBOE): each older brother raises a man's odds of homosexuality by about 33%, attributed to the maternal immune hypothesis (H-Y antigens); pooled OBOR 1.47, challenged in 2023 as a statistical artefact.
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.), fraternal order founded 1898 in Seattle as the Order of Good Things; bald-eagle emblem, motto Liberty, Truth, Justice and Equality; social-legislation campaigns and charities such as its Diabetes Research Center distinguish it from the NFL team and other Eagles groups.
Fraternity
Fraternity: a fraternal organization bound by ritual and mutual aid, covering American college Greek-letter fraternities (Phi Beta Kappa 1776, Kappa Alpha 1825), sororities, and fraternal benefit societies.
Fratricide
Fratricide (Latin fratricida, killer of a brother) is the killing of one's brother or sister, also called siblicide or sororicide; it spans myth (Cain and Abel), Ottoman dynastic law, and modern forensic criminology.
Fratton Park
Fratton Park, Portsmouth FC's home ground on Portsea Island since 1898, Frogmore Road, PO4 8RA; capacity about 21,000, record 51,385 (1949), first floodlit Football League match (1956), Leitch-designed South Stand.
Fraud
Fraud: deliberate deception for gain, prosecuted as crime and civil wrong. Covers legal definitions, securities fraud under Rule 10b-5, imposter scams ($3.5B US reported losses 2025), and AI-enabled fraud trends.
Fraud triangle
The fraud triangle is a three-factor model of occupational fraud, first stated by Donald Cressey in the early 1950s, identifying pressure, opportunity, and rationalization as conditions present when fraud occurs.
Frauds (TV series)
Frauds is a 2025 six-part ITV heist drama created by Suranne Jones and Anne-Marie O'Connor, starring Jones and Jodie Whittaker as conwomen Bert and Sam planning an art heist in Spain; distinct from a 2014 Fox comedy project of the same name.
Frauen-Bundesliga
Frauen-Bundesliga (Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga), Germany's top women's football division, 14 teams since 2025/26, DFB-run until 2027, then FBL e.V. under a lease to 2034; broadcast on MagentaSport and DAZN.
Frauendienst
The Frauendienst is a largely fictional Middle High German verse narrative of 1255 by Ulrich von Liechtenstein, presenting itself as his autobiography as a servant of ladies.
Frauenkirche, Dresden
The Frauenkirche, meaning Church of Our Lady, is a Lutheran baroque church in Dresden built by George Bähr between 1726 and 1743 and destroyed in 1945.
Frauenliteratur
Frauenliteratur, German for women's literature, is a contested German-language category for writing by, for, or about women that emerged in the late 19th century and since the late 1960s has meant feminist writing.
Frauke Melchior
Frauke Melchior is a German biochemist and molecular cell biologist who became Rector of Heidelberg University in 2023, known for work placing SUMO protein modification at the nuclear pore.
Frauke Petry
Frauke Petry is a German politician and chemist who led the AfD from 2015 to 2017. She was directly elected to the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
Frauke Zipp
Frauke Zipp is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor and director of neurology at University Medical Center Mainz since 2009, known for multiple sclerosis research.
Fräulein
Fräulein, diminutive of Frau, was the German title for unmarried women (like Miss), from Middle High German vrouwelin. Abolished in official German usage by a 1972 Genscher decree; now outdated, Frau covers all women.
Fraunces Tavern
Fraunces Tavern is a historic tavern and museum at 54 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, best known as the site of George Washington's 1783 farewell to his officers.
Fraunhofer diffraction
Fraunhofer diffraction is the far-field diffraction pattern of light from an aperture, where wavefronts arrive as plane waves; first described by Joseph von Fraunhofer in 1823.