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Gynaecopolis
Gynaecopolis (Greek Γυναικόπολις, Gynaikopolis, "City of Women") was, per ancient geographers, the chief town of the Gynaecopolite nome in the western Nile Delta of Egypt.
Gynandroblastoma
Gynandroblastoma, a rare mixed ovarian sex cord-stromal tumor with both granulosa cell (female) and Sertoli-Leydig (male) differentiation; under 1% of sex cord tumors, often DICER1-mutated, FOXL2-wild-type, usually benign.
Gynecologic laparoscopy
Gynecologic laparoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical technique in which a laparoscope and instruments are inserted through small abdominal incisions to diagnose and treat conditions of the female reproductive organs.
Gynecologic oncology
Gynecologic oncology is the medical subspecialty devoted to cancers of the female reproductive tract, including the cervix, endometrium, fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, and vagina. Its practitioners complete fellowship training after obstetrics and gynecology residency.
Gynecologic Oncology Group
Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), also GOG Foundation, Inc.: American NCI cooperative group founded 1970 for gynecologic cancer trials; landmark trials GOG-33, GOG-111, GOG-0218, GOG-240; successor entities GOG Foundation and NRG Oncology.
Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
Gynecologic surgical procedures are operations on the female genitalia (MeSH D013509), spanning hysterectomy, myomectomy, ovariectomy, and hysteroscopy, performed open, vaginally, laparoscopically, robotically, or via vNOTES.
Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia is benign enlargement of male breast glandular tissue from estrogen excess, androgen deficiency, or drugs, peaking in neonates, puberty, and older men; treated by addressing causes, tamoxifen for recent cases, or surgery.
Gynerium sagittatum
Gynerium sagittatum (wild cane, caña flecha, caña brava) is a giant Neotropical Poaceae grass from Mexico to tropical America; its fiber weaves the Colombian sombrero vueltiao and reinforces composites, and it is a high invasion risk in Florida.
Gynesonics
Gynesonics was a privately held medical device company in Redwood City, California, developer of the Sonata System, the first FDA-cleared incisionless fibroid treatment device, acquired by Hologic in 2025.
Gynheung An
Gynheung An (안진흥) is a South Korean plant molecular biologist, professor at Kyung Hee University's Crop Biotech Institute, who built a large rice T-DNA mutant resource and biofortified rice with iron and zinc.
Gynocentrism
Gynocentrism: a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; counterpart to androcentrism. Used in feminist philosophy (gynocentric feminism, Iris Young) and men's rights discourse.
Gynoecium
Gynoecium: the female reproductive whorl of a flower, made of one or more carpels (stigma, style, ovary). Apocarpous carpels are free, syncarpous fused; it becomes the fruit.
Gynoid
A gynoid, also known as a fembot, is a robot or android with female characteristics, a term coined by Isaac Asimov in 1979 from the Greek for woman.
Gynophillic attraction in straight women
Gynephilia (gynophilia, gynophillic) is attraction to adult females; in straight-identified women it appears as mostly heterosexual or fluid same-sex attraction, documented in Diamond's 10-year longitudinal studies of female sexual fluidity.
Gynophobia
Gynophobia (gynephobia, gynaephobia) is a specific phobia of women, ICD-10-CM F40.291; ICD-11 lists it under social anxiety disorder. Treated by exposure therapy; distinct from misogyny.
Gynostemma pentaphyllum
Gynostemma pentaphyllum (jiaogulan, Amachazuru), a Cucurbitaceae climbing herb native to Asia, consumed as tea; contains gypenoside saponins related to ginsenosides, studied for glucose and lipid effects.
Gynura
Gynura (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), also spelled Compositae, is a paleotropical herb genus of about 58 species used as vegetables, ornamentals, and herbal medicines, but some species contain hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids causing HSOS.
Gyo (ギョ)
Gyo (ギョ) is a two-volume horror manga by Junji Ito, published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Spirits, about legged, stench-spreading walking fish invading Japan; adapted into ufotable's first Ito anime.
Gyojong
Gyojong (교종) was the doctrinal-school stream of Korean Buddhism, comprising text-centered schools such as Hwaeom and Beopsang in contrast to meditative Seon, and it ended in 1565.
Gyōki
Gyōki (行基, 668–749) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Nara period who organized lay believers to build ponds, irrigation channels, roads, bridges, and hostels for travelers.
Gyongyi Likerecz
Gyöngyi Likerecz (born 1983, Oroszlány) is a Hungarian weightlifter, 75 kg class, 2001 world and European champion, 143 kg clean & jerk world record holder, 5th at Sydney 2000 and 4th at Athens 2004.
Gyöngyi Szabó
Gyöngyi Szabó (Gyongyi Szabo) is a Hungarian-born hepatologist who serves as Chief Academic Officer of Beth Israel Lahey Health and holds a chair at Harvard Medical School.
Győr
Győr (German: Raab) is a northwest Hungarian county seat at the Rába-Danube confluence, on the Roman site Arrabona. Sixth-largest Hungarian city (128,225 in 2026), dominated by the Audi Hungaria plant and Széchenyi István University.
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye (vármegye), northwestern Hungarian county on the Slovak and Austrian borders; seat Győr, second town Sopron. 4,208 km², about 446,000 people, Hungary's 2nd-ranked NUTS 3 region by GDP per capita, gateway for roughly 40% of national border traffic.
Gyorche Petrov
Gyorche Petrov (Ѓорче Петров), born Georgi Petrov Nikolov, was a Macedonian revolutionary, teacher, and historian who led the VMRO movement and was assassinated in Sofia in 1921.
György Bessenyei
György Bessenyei was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and cultural politician who led the first phase of the Hungarian Enlightenment, dated from his four publications of 1772.
Gyorgy Brody
György Bródy (Gyorgy Brody), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper (1908-1967), Olympic gold 1932 and 1936, European champion 1931 and 1934, 74 international caps; later coach in South Africa.
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki, born in Kaposvár, Hungary in 1949, is a Hungarian-born American neuroscientist at NYU known for hippocampal oscillations and the two-stage model of memory consolidation.
György Cziffra
György (Georges) Cziffra (1921–1994), Hungarian-born French virtuoso pianist famed for Liszt interpretations and transcriptions; survived war, Soviet captivity, and Hungarian imprisonment before his 1956 emigration and Paris debut.
György Dózsa
György Dózsa (Dózsa György, c. 1470–1514) was a Székely minor noble appointed to lead Hungary's 1514 anti-Ottoman crusade, which became the largest Hungarian peasant revolt, crushed by Zápolya at Temesvár.