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Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction or rejection of religious images, a practice spanning the Byzantine controversy from around 720 to the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.

Iconoclasm Controversy

The Iconoclasm Controversy (Εικονομαχία) was a Byzantine conflict over the veneration of religious images, in two phases from 726 to 787 and 815 to 843.

Iconoclast (2026 film)

Iconoclast (2026 film): American psychological thriller, Gabriel Basso's directorial debut, premiered at Tribeca June 9, 2026. Stars Basso, Courtney Eaton, Rain Spencer, Noah Centineo, Kiernan Shipka; about parasocial obsession with a streamer.

Iconoclastic edict of Yazid II

The iconoclastic edict of Yazid II was an order by the Umayyad caliph Yazid II, dated to 721 or 723, commanding the destruction of images in Christian churches.

Iconoclasts (album)

Iconoclasts is Anna von Hausswolff's sixth studio album, released October 31, 2025 on Year0001. The 12-song, organ-driven record features Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain, scored 88 on Metacritic, and won Sweden's P3 Guld Album of the Year.

Iconographic analysis

Iconographic analysis is an art history method that identifies the subjects, symbols, and motifs in an image and interprets what they mean, largely for medieval and Renaissance art.

Iconography

Iconography, from Greek eikon and graphia, is the art-historical study of subject matter and symbolic meaning in images, distinct from formal analysis; Panofsky's three-level method and ICONCLASS define the field.

Iconostasis

An iconostasis, also called an icon screen, is a wall of icons and doors separating the sanctuary from the nave in Eastern Christian churches of Byzantine tradition.

Icorigium

Icorigium, also recorded as Egorigium, was a Roman vicus on the Trier–Cologne military road at the Kyll crossing, at modern Jünkerath in the Eifel, Germany.

ICOS

ICOS (inducible T cell co-stimulator, CD278) is an activation-induced CD28-family costimulatory receptor on T cells; with ligand ICOSL it drives Tfh cells, germinal centers, and antibody responses, and its inherited deficiency causes a rare CVID-like combined immunodeficiency.

Icosahedron

An icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 faces; the regular icosahedron is the Platonic solid with 20 equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges, and 12 vertices, five meeting at each vertex.

Icosavax

Icosavax was a Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 as a University of Washington spinout that developed virus-like particle vaccines against RSV and hMPV, acquired by AstraZeneca in 2024.

Icosian

Icosian game, also called the Hamiltonian game: William Rowan Hamilton's 1857 puzzle of finding a Hamiltonian cycle on the dodecahedral graph (20 vertices, 30 edges, 30 solutions), rooted in his icosian calculus and sold in 1859 for 25 pounds.

Icosidodecahedron

The icosidodecahedron, also called the rectified dodecahedron or pentagonal gyrobirotunda, is an Archimedean solid with 20 triangular and 12 pentagonal faces, made by truncating a dodecahedron or icosahedron.

Icosium

Icosium (Punic Ikosim) was an ancient Phoenician-Punic port city on the site of modern Algiers, Algeria, founded in the 3rd century BC and later a Roman colony.

Icotinib

Icotinib (埃克替尼, Conmana, BPI-2009) is an oral first-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor developed by Betta Pharmaceuticals, approved in China in 2011 for EGFR-mutant NSCLC, with pivotal trials ICOGEN, CONVINCE, BRAIN, and EVIDENCE.

Icotrokinra

Icotrokinra (ICOTYDE, JNJ-2113) is a first-in-class oral 13-amino-acid cyclic peptide IL-23 receptor antagonist by Johnson & Johnson and Protagonist, FDA-approved March 2026 for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis at 200 mg once daily.

ICP-488 (TYK2 inhibitor)

ICP-488, known by the international nonproprietary name fadeucravacitinib, is an oral, highly selective allosteric TYK2 inhibitor developed by China's InnoCare Pharma, whose Phase III psoriasis trial met its primary endpoint in 2026.

ICPSR

ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, is a consortium and data archive at the University of Michigan, founded in 1962 and describing itself as the world's largest social science data archive.

ICQ

ICQ, whose name sounds like "I seek you," was a pioneering instant messaging service launched in Israel in 1996, bought by AOL in 1998, and shut down in 2024.

Icriodus

Icriodus, conodont genus named by Branson and Mehl in 1938 (type species I. expansus), an Emsian to Famennian index fossil with three-rowed spindle elements marking shallow-water Devonian biofacies.

ICSI study

ICSI (Pilot Italian Cardiogenic Shock Initiative, NCT06475456) is a Fondazione GISE observational study testing a SCAI-based spoke-hub cardiogenic shock protocol in Turin and Milan, comparing 30-day mortality in 768 AMICS patients across retrospective and prospective cohorts in 16 centers.

ICSID Review

ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal: peer-reviewed journal of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, published on Oxford Academic since spring 1986, covering foreign investment law and investment dispute settlement in English, French, and Spanish.

ICSME

ICSME, the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, is an annual conference on software maintenance and evolution, founded in 1983 as ICSM and renamed in 2014, ranked CORE A.

Ictalurus furcatus

Ictalurus furcatus, the blue catfish, is a large North American catfish native to the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Rio Grande basins and, since 1970s introductions in Virginia, invasive in the Chesapeake Bay.

Icteric sclera

Icteric sclera (scleral icterus, more accurately conjunctival icterus) is yellowing of the eye whites from excess bilirubin, appearing at roughly 2 to 3 mg/dL, an early sign of liver, biliary, or blood disease.

Icteridae

Icteridae, the New World blackbirds or troupials and allies, is a passerine family of about 108 American species including orioles, grackles, cowbirds, meadowlarks, caciques, and oropendolas, defined by five deep lineages and brood-parasitic Molothrus cowbirds.

Icterus

Icterus is the genus of New World orioles, family Icteridae, about 25-30 species across the Americas, including the Baltimore oriole, orchard oriole, and Venezuelan troupial, known for plumage convergence and hybridizing northern orioles.

Ictidomys

Ictidomys, the lined ground squirrels, is a North American rodent genus in Sciuridae, tribe Marmotini, with three species: thirteen-lined, Mexican, and Rio Grande ground squirrels, formerly placed in Spermophilus.

Ictinus (Mercurian crater)

Ictinus is a 120-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 79.56 degrees south, 174.24 degrees west, approved by the IAU in 1976 and named for a Greek architect of the 5th century BC; its listed diameter was corrected from 58.03 km in November 2024.