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Ile (singer)
iLe (Ileana Mercedes Cabra Joglar, born 1989, Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican bolero-rooted singer, formerly PG-13 and female vocalist of Calle 13 for 10 years, with solo albums Ilevitable, Almadura, and a 2022 third record.
Île Amsterdam
Île Amsterdam (Amsterdam Island, Nieuw Amsterdam) is a 58 km² French volcanic island in the southern Indian Ocean, part of the TAAF, home to the critically endangered Amsterdam albatross and the Martin-de-Viviès research base, hit by a major wildfire in 2025.
Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité: island in the Seine and historical heart of Paris, home of Notre-Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, and Conciergerie; fortified Roman castrum from 308, possibly the Gallic Parisii oppidum.
Île de la Gonâve
Île de la Gonâve (La Gonâve), a 750-km² limestone island off Haiti in the Gulf of Gonâve, its largest satellite island: severe water scarcity (7 L/person/day), deforestation, chronic food insecurity, and a 2025 gang blockade.
Île de Ré
Île de Ré: Atlantic island in Charente-Maritime, France, opposite La Rochelle, linked since 1988 by the 2,926.5 m toll Pont de l'Île de Ré; known for IGP salt, the 1627 battle of the pont du Feneau, and coastal-risk planning.
Île du Coin
Île du Coin (Coin Island) is the largest island of Peros Banhos atoll in the Chagos Archipelago, a former plantation port uninhabited from 1973 until 2026.
Île Kerguelen
Île Kerguelen (Grande Terre) is the main island of the Kerguelen Archipelago, a French subantarctic TAAF district at 49°S in the Indian Ocean; 6,675 km², Mount Ross 1,850 m, discovered 1772, scientific base Port-aux-Français.
Ile Pauline
Ile Pauline (Île Pauline) is a small uninhabited island in Pearse Strait, Bathurst Island complex, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, Canada; 4 km², about 9 m high, within Qausuittuq National Park. Islands of the same name exist in South Australia and Quebec.
Île-à-la-Crosse
Île-à-la-Crosse (Sakitawak) is a northern village in northwest Saskatchewan, Canada, founded as a fur-trade post in 1776 by Montreal-based traders; the second oldest settlement in the province, a Métis community on Lac Île-à-la-Crosse on the upper Churchill River.
Île-de-France
Île-de-France, the Paris region, France's leading administrative region: 8 departments, 12.6 million people, 30% of French GDP, regional council created 1976, territorial collectivity since 1982.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife (Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, regarded as the birthplace of Yoruba civilization and seat of the Ooni of Ife.
Ileal conduit urinary diversion
An ileal conduit is an incontinent urinary diversion in which the ureters drain into a short ileal segment brought out as a stoma, most common after cystectomy.
Ileal neuroendocrine tumor
Ileal neuroendocrine tumor (ileal NET, ORPHA:100078): rare malignant well-differentiated serotonin-producing enterochromaffin-cell tumor of the terminal ileum, ICD-10 C17.2, often metastatic at diagnosis, indolent course.
Ileal pouch–anal anastomosis
Ileal pouch–anal anastomosis (IPAA), or restorative proctocolectomy, removes the colon and rectum and joins an ileal reservoir to the anus, avoiding a permanent stoma; it is the gold standard for ulcerative colitis and FAP.
Ileana D'Cruz
Ileana D'Cruz is an Indian actress in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema, also known as Ileana D'Cruz's Telugu film career star. Debut Devadasu (2006), hit Pokiri, Hindi debut Barfi! (2012), Filmfare Best Female Debut; last film Do Aur Do Pyaar (2024), on a motherhood break.
Ileana Garcia
Ileana Garcia is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida Senate from District 36 in Miami-Dade, first elected in 2020 after decades in radio, television, and advocacy.
Ileana M. Cristea
Ileana M. Cristea is the Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work at the interface of virology and proteomics.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (born 1952, Havana) is a Cuban American Republican who represented South Florida in the U.S. House 1989–2019, the first Hispanic woman and Cuban American in Congress and first woman to chair House Foreign Affairs.
Ileana Salvador
Ileana Salvador, born 1962 in Noale, Italy, is an Italian race walker; 1993 World Championships 10 km walk silver medallist, three-time World Indoor and three-time European Indoor 3000 m walk medallist, 1992 Olympian.
iLembe District Municipality
iLembe District Municipality (DC29) is a Category C district municipality on KwaZulu-Natal's north coast, South Africa, comprising KwaDukuza, Mandeni, Ndwedwe, and Maphumulo; it is the province's smallest district by area and its water services authority since 2004.
Ilene Woods
Ilene Woods (1929-2010), born Jacquelyn Ruth Woods, American singer and radio performer, the singing voice of Cinderella in Disney's 1950 film; cast after recording demos for Mack David and Jerry Livingston; Disney Legend 2003.
ILEO trial
The ILEO trial was a Canadian randomized controlled trial testing whether patients after loop ileostomy closure could safely be discharged within 23 hours instead of staying several days.
Ileocecal resection
Ileocecal resection, also called ileocecectomy, is surgery removing the terminal ileum, ileocecal valve, cecum, and appendix as one unit, then reconnecting the bowel; Crohn's disease is the most common indication.
Ileocecal valve
The ileocecal valve is the anatomical structure where the ileum opens into the cecum, controlling the flow of chyme into the large intestine and preventing backflow into the small intestine.
Ileocolic resection
Ileocolic resection is a surgical operation removing the terminal ileum, ileocecal valve, cecum, and part of the ascending colon, mainly to treat localized ileocecal Crohn's disease.
Ileocolonic anastomosis
An ileocolonic anastomosis is a surgical connection between the ileum and the colon, restoring intestinal continuity after right hemicolectomy, most often for cancer and Crohn's disease.
Ileorectal anastomosis
An ileorectal anastomosis (IRA) is surgery that removes the entire colon and joins the small intestine to the retained rectum, avoiding a stoma; it is used mainly for ulcerative colitis, familial adenomatous polyposis, and slow-transit constipation.
Ileostomy
Ileostomy: a surgical stoma bringing the end of the small bowel through the abdomen so waste collects in a bag. Types: end and loop; temporary or permanent. Kock pouch is the continent variant.
ILERVAS trial
The ILERVAS trial is a randomized screening study in Lleida, Spain, enrolling 16,660 people at low-to-moderate cardiovascular risk from 2015 to 2018 to test whether arterial ultrasound screening affects cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Iles Barren
Iles Barren, also written Barren Isles, is an archipelago off Maintirano on the west coast of Madagascar, designated in 2017 as Ramsar Site no. 2303, covering 463,200 hectares.