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Glanbia
Glanbia (Glanbia plc) is an Irish global nutrition company formed from the 1997 Avonmore-Waterford merger and renamed in 1999. It runs Performance Nutrition (Optimum Nutrition), Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition, with FY2025 revenue of $3.9 billion; Tirlán is its largest shareholder.
Glancing angle deposition
Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a physical vapor deposition technique in which vapor arrives at oblique angles, producing porous sculptured thin films of nanoscale columns and helices.
Gland
Gland: organized cell aggregation secreting hormones, sweat, saliva, milk, or mucus. Exocrine glands use ducts; endocrine glands release into blood. Covers merocrine/apocrine/holocrine secretion, major glands, disorders, and organoid research.
Glanders
Glanders, caused by Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei), is a life-threatening, reportable bacterial disease of horses, donkeys, and mules transmissible to humans; no vaccine exists, and it is eradicated in North America, Australia, and Europe but persists in parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
Glans penis
Glans penis: the conical, bulbous head of the penis, the distal expansion of the corpus spongiosum bearing the external urethral meatus; richly innervated by the dorsal nerve of the penis (S2–S4), supplied by the dorsal and bulb arteries, and central to sexual sensation.
Glanum
Glanum (Γλανόν), ancient Glanon, a Celtic-Ligurian then Gallo-Greek and Gallo-Roman town near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, built around a sacred spring, granted Latin rights, destroyed c. 270 CE, buried under alluvium, excavated since 1921.
Glanum dam
Glanum dam, also called the Vallon de Baume or Peirou dam, a Roman arch dam of the first century BC near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France; the oldest known arch dam, feeding a 500 m aqueduct that supplied Glanum's triumphal fountain and baths.
Glanzmann thrombasthenia
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT), a rare autosomal recessive platelet disorder from ITGA2B/ITGB3 mutations, lacks the αIIbβ3 fibrinogen receptor, causing mucocutaneous bleeding treated with antifibrinolytics, rFVIIa, and platelets.
Glaoui family
The Glaoui family, also written El Glaoui or al-Glaoui, was an Amazigh ruling house of southern Morocco whose chiefs, based at Telouet and Marrakesh, rose under French rule.
Glare (band)
Glare: American shoegaze band from the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, formed 2017 from the emo band Dispirit; heavy melodic shoegaze on Sunday Drive and Deathwish; debut album Sunset Funeral released April 2025.
Glare screen
A glare screen, also called an anti-glare screen, is a highway safety device on median barriers that blocks headlight glare from oncoming traffic, in permanent medians and work zones.
Glareola
Glareola (typical pratincoles) is a genus of seven swallow-like waders in Glareolidae, Charadriiformes, including the Collared, Oriental, Black-winged, Small, Rock, Grey, and Madagascar Pratincoles, differing from Stiltia.
Glareolidae
Glareolidae, the coursers and pratincoles, is a Charadriiformes bird family of 4 genera and 17 species across Africa, Asia and Australia, with slender bodies, long wings, aerial insect feeding, and mostly Least Concern IUCN status.
GLAS
GLAS (Global Loan Agency Services) is a London-based provider of loan agency, debt administration, and bond trustee services founded in 2011, now administering over $750 billion in assets.
Glasdegib
Glasdegib (Daurismo), a Pfizer Hedgehog pathway Smoothened inhibitor approved 2018 (FDA) and 2020 (EU) with low-dose cytarabine for newly diagnosed AML in unfit adults; phase 3 BRIGHT AML 1019 later failed to confirm benefit.
Glaser coupling
Glaser coupling is the copper-catalyzed oxidative homocoupling of terminal alkynes to form symmetrical 1,3-diynes, first reported by Carl Glaser in 1869 and still the most widely used method for making 1,3-diynes.
Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland's largest city on the River Clyde, also called the Second City of the Empire; home of the 1451 University of Glasgow, James Watt's 1765 steam condenser, and Clyde shipbuilding; population 654,330 in 2025.
Glasgow Airport
Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International or Abbotsinch Airport, serves Glasgow and west central Scotland from Renfrewshire, and handled 8.1 million passengers in 2024.
Glasgow Blatchford score
The Glasgow Blatchford score (GBS) is a clinical scoring system that predicts which patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding need transfusion, endoscopy, or surgery, and identifies low-risk patients suitable for outpatient management.
Glasgow Bridge
Glasgow Bridge Roman Fortlet, an Antonine Wall fortlet in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on a promontory over the River Kelvin; c. 30 x 30 m, one of the four earliest known Wall fortlets, between Cadder and Kirkintilloch forts.
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), the University for the Common Good, is a Scottish public university formed on 1 April 1993 by merging Queen's College Glasgow and Glasgow Polytechnic, with roots in the 1875 Glasgow School of Cookery, about 22,000 students, and campuses in Glasgow, London and New York.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral (High Kirk of St Mungo) is Glasgow's medieval Gothic cathedral, the only one on the Scottish mainland to survive the 1560 Reformation virtually intact; built 12th–13th centuries over St Kentigern's tomb, now a Church of Scotland parish church in HES care.
Glasgow City Chambers
Glasgow City Chambers, also known as Glasgow City Council Chambers, is the headquarters of Glasgow City Council on George Square, opened by Queen Victoria in 1888.
Glasgow City F.C.
Glasgow City F.C., independent women's football club in Glasgow founded 1998 by Laura Montgomery and Carol-Anne Stewart; Scotland's most successful women's club with 16 SWPL titles and two UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final appearances.
Glasgow Climate Pact
The Glasgow Climate Pact is the decision adopted at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on 13 November 2021, the first COP decision to mention fossil fuels.
Glasgow Coma Scale
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), by Teasdale and Jennett (Lancet 1974): rates eye, verbal, and motor responses; sum score 3–15; severity bands mild 13–15, moderate 9–12, severe <8; standard consciousness assessment in head injury.
Glasgow Cosmic
Glasgow Cosmic is a Scottish Twenty20 cricket franchise based in Glasgow, one of six teams in the inaugural 2026 season of the European T20 Premier League.
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is a private-sector coalition of financial firms, launched by Mark Carney in April 2021 to mobilize capital for net zero by 2050.
Glasgow Haskell Compiler
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is an open-source compiler and interactive environment for Haskell, begun at Glasgow in 1989 and used by nearly all Haskell programmers.
Glasgow Outcome Scale
The Glasgow Outcome Scale is a five-category clinical scale rating recovery after brain injury, from death through disability to good recovery, widely used in trials.