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Karuthamuthu
Karuthamuthu (കറുത്ത മുത്ത്) was a Malayalam Asianet serial (20 October 2014 to August 2019, 1,450 episodes) about Karthika, a dark-skinned woman stigmatised for her complexion, starring Premi Viswanath and Kishore Sathya.
Karuvaki
Karuvaki (Kāruvākī), second queen of Emperor Ashoka and mother of prince Tivara, named in the Queen's Edict on the Allahabad pillar, which orders her donations recorded; earliest woman donor in Indian inscriptions.
Karva Chauth (करवा चौथ)
Karva Chauth, also called Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi, is a Hindu one-day fast kept by married women in northern India for their husbands' long life.
Karvalo
Karvalo (ಕರ್ವಾಲೊ) is a 1980 Kannada novel by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi about a search in the Western Ghats for a rare flying lizard thought to be extinct.
Karvan
Karvan (Karvan İdman Klubu), Azerbaijani football club founded June 11, 2004 in Yevlakh; Premier League runners-up 2005–06, first Azerbaijani club past UEFA Cup first qualifying round; plays at Yevlakh City Stadium, now in the I Liqa.
Karvy Fintech
Karvy Fintech Private Limited was a Hyderabad-based registrar and transfer agent for mutual funds and recordkeeper for India's National Pension System, renamed KFin Technologies in 2019.
Karwaan
Karwaan (कारवाँ) is a 2018 Hindi road comedy-drama directed by Akarsh Khurana, starring Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan (Hindi debut), and Mithila Palkar, about a wrong dead body mix-up on a Bengaluru-to-Kochi trip.
Karwar (ಕಾರವಾರ)
Karwar (ಕಾರವಾರ), formerly spelled Carwar, is a port city at the mouth of the Kali River in Karnataka, India, and the administrative seat of Uttara Kannada district.
Karwar Aquarium
Karwar Aquarium: public aquarium in Karwar, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India, built 1989 by the Zilla Parishad beside Rabindranath Tagore Beach near the Naval Museum; Zilla Panchayat-run, ₹50 entry, reported permanently closed.
Kary B. Mullis
Kary B. Mullis (1944–2019) was an American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for copying DNA, winning half of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Karylle
Karylle (Ana Karylle Padilla Tatlonghari-Yuzon, born 1981) is a Filipino singer, actress, and It's Showtime host, known for Encantadia's Sang'gre Alena, The Kitchen Musical, and Manila musical theater roles.
Karyn Kupcinet
Karyn Kupcinet, also known as Roberta Lynn Kupcinet, was an American actress. Her career ended when she was found strangled in West Hollywood in 1963.
Karyn Kusama
Karyn Kusama (born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American director of Girlfight, Æon Flux, Jennifer's Body, The Invitation, Destroyer, and the Emmy-nominated Yellowjackets pilot; Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner married to Phil Hay.
Karyn Parsons
Karyn Parsons (born 1966, Hollywood, Los Angeles) is an American actress and author, best known as Hilary Banks on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996), founder of the nonprofit Sweet Blackberry, and author of How High the Moon and Blue Beach.
Karyn White
Karyn White (born 1965) is an American R&B singer behind "Superwoman" and the Hot 100 No. 1 "Romantic." Her 1988 Warner Bros. debut sold over two million copies; after an 18-year hiatus she returned with Carpe Diem and the 2026 hit "You're Gonna Want Me Back."
Karyomegalic interstitial nephritis
Karyomegalic interstitial nephritis, also known as karyomegalic tubulointerstitial nephropathy, is a rare hereditary kidney disease caused by FAN1 mutations and progressing to end-stage renal disease before age 50.
Karyometry
Karyometry (karyometric image analysis) is the quantitative microscopic study of chromatin spatial distribution in cell nuclei, used in pathology for cancer detection, chemoprevention trials, and DNA-based screening, distinct from chromosome karyotyping.
Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. is a pharmaceutical company in Newton, Massachusetts, founded in 2008, whose cancer drug XPOVIO (selinexor) won FDA approval for multiple myeloma in 2019.
Karyorelictea
Karyorelictea is a class of ciliates (Corliss 1974) whose somatic macronuclei cannot divide; new macronuclei differentiate from micronuclei each division. About 170 marine interstitial morphospecies, sister to Heterotrichea in Postciliodesmatophora, with paradiploid, aging macronuclei.
Karyotype
Karyotype: an individual's complete chromosome set, or the arranged image of chromosomes from one cell, ordered by size, banding, and centromere position. Human count 46 established by Tjio and Levan in 1956; used to detect aneuploidy and structural rearrangements.
Karyotype analysis
Karyotype analysis is a cytogenetic test that examines the number and large-scale structure of chromosomes in dividing cells, diagnosing conditions such as Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, and leukemia-related abnormalities.
Karz (कर्ज़) (film)
Karz (कर्ज़) is a 1980 Hindi reincarnation thriller directed by Subhash Ghai for Mukta Arts, starring Rishi Kapoor as singer Monty, with Tina Munim, Simi Garewal, and music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal; released 11 June 1980, 159 minutes, and later inspiring Om Shanti Om and a 2008 remake.
Kasaba (2016 film)
Kasaba (കസബ) is a 2016 Malayalam action crime thriller, Nithin Renji Panicker's debut, starring Mammootty as Circle Inspector Rajan Zachariah investigating a murder on the Kerala-Karnataka border. A Ramzan box office hit with mixed reviews and a misogyny controversy.
Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon
Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP), also called Kasabach-Merritt syndrome, is a life-threatening consumptive coagulopathy with severe thrombocytopenia caused by platelet trapping in kaposiform hemangioendothelioma or tufted angioma, not infantile hemangioma.
Kasabian
Kasabian (カサビアン), English rock band formed in Leicester in 1997, named after Manson family member Linda Kasabian. Seven consecutive UK number-one albums; Brit Award 2010; Pizzorno frontman since Meighan's 2020 exit.
Kasada Tabara
Kasada Tabara (கசட தபற, Kasada Thapara), a 2021 Tamil hyperlink drama by Chimbu Deven, produced by Venkat Prabhu and R. Ravindran, six interlinked Chennai stories with six composers, cinematographers, and editors, streamed on SonyLIV from 27 August 2021.
Kasai (landform)
Kasai (Cassai), a 2,153 km river of Angola and DR Congo, the chief southern tributary of the Congo River; basin 897,500 km², discharge about 8,246 m³/s, floods January to May, navigable over 1,500 miles.
Kasai (protected area)
Kasai (FEOW ecoregion 546) is a 900,000 km2 freshwater ecoregion following the Kasai River catchment in southwestern DRC and northeast Angola, marked by rapids-driven fish endemism, the Fwa cichlid flock, and high floodplain swamp-forest habitat.
Kasai portoenterostomy
Kasai portoenterostomy, also called hepatic portoenterostomy or KPE, is the first-line operation for infants with biliary atresia, connecting jejunum to the liver hilum to drain bile.
Kasai Province
Kasaï Province (province du Kasaï) is a DRC province created 18 July 2015 from Kasaï-Occidental, capital Tshikapa; shaped by the 2016–2019 Kasaï conflict and the 2025 Bulape Ebola outbreak.