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Fundus photography
Fundus photography is an ophthalmic imaging method that uses a fundus camera to photograph the retina, optic nerve, and macula, detecting diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.
Fundus pulverulentus
Fundus pulverulentus is the rarest pattern dystrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, first described by Slezak and Homer in 1969, marked by granular coarse RPE mottling of the macula, strong pseudoxanthoma elasticum association, and reported choroidal neovascularization.
Fundy Biosphere Reserve
Fundy Biosphere Reserve (Fundy Biosphere Region), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in New Brunswick designated in 2007, covering over 442,000 hectares from St. Martins to Sackville and inland to Moncton, with Fundy National Park as core area.
Fundy Sinus
Fundy Sinus is a 91-km bay-shaped sinus on Titan within Punga Mare at 83.26°N, 315.64°W, IAU-approved March 12, 2020, named after Canada's Bay of Fundy, showing wind-driven surface roughness in Cassini sunglint data.
Funeral
Funeral rites are the customs and ceremonies performed for the dead, spanning body preparation, commemoration, and disposition. Also called mortuary customs; analyzed via rites of passage (van Gennep, Hertz), U.S. cremation now 63.4% versus 31.6% burial, median U.S. funeral cost $8,300.
Funeral (group)
Funeral is a Norwegian funeral doom band from Drammen, formed in 1991 and known as one of the pioneers of the funeral doom genre, with drummer Anders Eek its constant member.
Funeral (Lil Wayne album)
Funeral is Lil Wayne's 13th studio album, released January 31, 2020 on Young Money/Republic. 24 tracks, debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 139,000 units, his fifth chart-topper, Metascore 62.
Funeral Blues
Funeral Blues, or "Stop all the clocks," is a W. H. Auden elegy in four quatrains, first a satirical 1936 cabaret song from The Ascent of F6, later famous via the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Funeral director
Funeral director, also called mortician or undertaker, is a licensed professional who arranges funerals, handles body care and legal paperwork, and coordinates burial or cremation; US licensing requires education, internship, and exams, while UK regulation remains largely voluntary outside Scotland.
Funeral doom
Funeral doom is an extreme doom metal subgenre influenced by funeral dirges, defined by ultra-slow tempos such as 33 bpm, droning guitars, organs, and growled vocals. Pioneered by Thergothon, Skepticism, Funeral, Evoken, and Esoteric.
Funeral for a Friend
Funeral for a Friend (フューネラル・フォー・ア・フレンド), Welsh post-hardcore band from Bridgend; debut album Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation hit UK No. 12 in 2003; seven albums, 2019 reunion, new singer Lucas Woodland since 2023.
Funeral home
A funeral home, also known as a funeral parlor, is a business that cares for dead bodies and arranges burial or cremation services and paperwork.
Funeral in Berlin
Funeral in Berlin (1966) is a British Cold War spy film, the second Harry Palmer film, directed by Guy Hamilton with Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, and Eva Renzi, adapting Len Deighton's third novel about a mock-funeral defection across the Berlin Wall.
Funeral Mist
Funeral Mist is a Swedish black metal band formed in 1993 in Tyresö, Stockholm, led by Daniel Rostén under the pseudonym Arioch, with albums Salvation, Maranatha, Hekatomb, and Deiform.
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, Westminster Abbey, 6 September 1997, after her Paris death on 31 August; gun carriage procession from Kensington Palace, 2.5 billion TV viewers, burial at Althorp island.
Funeral Orations
Funeral Orations (Oraisons funèbres) are the funeral eulogies delivered by the French bishop and preacher Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet between 1656 and 1687, honoring figures such as Queen Marie-Thérèse and the Grand Condé.
Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列)
Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列, Bara no Sōretsu) is Toshio Matsumoto's 1969 black-and-white debut feature, an Oedipus-themed queer melodrama set in Tokyo's gay bar scene, an ATG Japanese New Wave landmark influencing Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
Funeral potatoes
Funeral potatoes, also called Mormon funeral potatoes or hash brown casserole, is a Utah cheesy potato casserole named for post-funeral luncheons served by the Latter-day Saint Relief Society.
Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines
Filipino funeral practices and burial customs: precolonial jar, boat, and hanging-coffin burials, Catholic wakes with abuloy contributions, Muslim quick burial, costs from P20,000 packages to P1.5 million, and RA 12309 free funeral services.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), or Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale, is a 139-part transnational UNESCO World Heritage property in Belgium and France, inscribed in 2023 under criteria (iii), (iv), and (vi).
Funerary chapel of Amenirdis I
The funerary chapel of Amenirdis I is a stone tomb chapel at Medinet Habu in Thebes, built c. 716–702 BC for the God's Wife of Amun Amenirdis I.
Funerary chapel of Shepenupet II, Nitocris I and Mehytenweskhet
Stone tomb chapel at Medinet Habu, Thebes, for God's Wives Shepenupet II and Nitocris I and queen Mehytenweskhet; three burial chambers under the floor, reliefs, sarcophagi later found at Deir el-Medina.
Funerary monuments in piazza del Corso (Nocera Inferiore)
Funerary monuments in piazza del Corso (Monumenti funerari di piazza del Corso), Nocera Inferiore, Italy: Roman tombs and a stretch of the Nuceria-Stabia road, in use from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD, reopened to visitors in 2017.
Funerary temple of Siptah and Twosret
The funerary temples of Siptah and Twosret were two late Nineteenth Dynasty mortuary temples at Thebes, excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1895 and surviving only in traces.
Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sardinia – The domus de janas
Domus de janas ("fairy houses") are Sardinia's Neolithic rock-cut chamber tombs, 5th–3rd millennium BCE; a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 12 July 2025 under criterion (iii), with about 3,500 hypogea island-wide.
Fungaemia
Fungaemia (fungemia), also candidaemia, is the presence of fungi in the blood, usually Candida yeasts, affecting immunosuppressed, catheterized, or postoperative patients; diagnosed by blood culture and treated with echinocandins or amphotericin B.
Fungal aspartyl proteases
Fungal aspartyl proteases are secreted, pepsin-family (A1) aspartic peptidases produced by fungi, including aspergillopepsin and mucorpepsin, active at pH 3–4 and used industrially as milk-clotting rennet substitutes.
Fungal biology
Fungal biology, also called mycology, is the discipline studying fungi from unicellular yeasts to multicellular forms. It spans genomics, evolution, pathogenesis, ecology, and biotechnology, with about 1 billion years of fungal evolution and thousands of sequenced genomes.
Fungal cell
Fungal cell: the eukaryotic cell of kingdom Fungi, with a chitin and beta-glucan cell wall, no chloroplasts, glycogen storage, heterotrophic absorption, turgor-driven hyphal growth, and septal pores; distinct from plant and animal cells.
Fungal encephalitis
Fungal encephalitis, or fungal meningoencephalitis, is brain inflammation from fungal CNS infection, most often cryptococcal in HIV and immunocompromised patients; mortality reaches 24–47% at 10 weeks despite amphotericin-based therapy.