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Kyoung-Shin Choi
Kyoung-Shin Choi (최경신) is a South Korean electrochemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting.
Kyowa Electronic Instruments
Kyowa Electronic Instruments (共和電業) is a Japanese manufacturer of strain gages and force transducers, including six-axis sensors for robot arms, founded in Tokyo and known for commercializing Japan's first strain gage in 1951.
Kyowa Kirin
Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (協和キリン) is a Japanese specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo and owned by Kirin Holdings. Formed by a 2008 merger, it makes Crysvita and Poteligeo.
Kypaira
Kypaira (Cyphaera) was a fortified ancient settlement of Achaia Phthiotis, near Palaia Giannitsou in Thessaly, Greece. The unexcavated site, an Archaic to Hellenistic polis, was seized by the Aetolians, per Livy.
Kyparissia (Greece)
Kyparissia (Κυπαρισσία), Messenian port town on the Ionian coast of the Peloponnese; Homeric Kyparissieis in Nestor's kingdom, port of Messene after 369 BC, Byzantine Arcadia with castle, Frankish from 1205, Ottoman from 1460.
Kyphomelic dysplasia
Kyphomelic dysplasia (KMD, OMIM 211350) is a rare bent-bone skeletal dysplasia with severely angulated femurs, short stature, narrow thorax, and platyspondyly; classically autosomal recessive, now linked to biallelic CCN2 and de novo KIF5B variants.
Kyphoplasty
Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure in which a balloon is inflated inside a fractured vertebra to restore height before bone cement is injected, treating painful compression fractures.
Kyphoscoliotic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Kyphoscoliotic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (kEDS, EDS type VI), autosomal recessive, PLOD1 or FKBP14 subtypes: congenital muscle hypotonia, congenital kyphoscoliosis, joint hypermobility, dislocations, hearing loss, and rare vascular complications.
Kyphosis
Kyphosis (hyperkyphosis, roundback, hunchback) is excessive forward curvature of the spine, mainly thoracic. Types include postural, Scheuermann's (≥5° wedging at 3 vertebrae), congenital, and age-related; treated with exercise, bracing, or fusion surgery.
Kyra Dutt
Kyra Dutt is an Indian actress and model from Kolkata, known for Calendar Girls (2015) and as the first actress to sign Ekta Kapoor's nudity clause for XXX: Uncensored.
Kyra Gaunt
Kyra D. Gaunt is an American ethnomusicologist and jazz vocalist at the University at Albany who studies Black girls' musical play from the schoolyard to YouTube and TikTok.
Kyra Phillips
Kyra Phillips (born 1968, San Diego) is an ABC News correspondent and ABC News Live anchor; formerly CNN anchor of Live From and CNN Newsroom and HLN's Raising America, and Iraq War embed reporter.
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick (born 1965, New York City) is an American actress, producer, and director; Emmy and Golden Globe winner as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's The Closer (2005-2012), wife of Kevin Bacon.
Kyran Thrax
Kyran Thrax, drag persona of Kyran Peet (born 1998, Chorley, Lancashire), is an English drag performer who won RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 6 in November 2024 with three challenge wins, a bin entrance look, and an Elvis Presley Snatch Game.
Kyreece Lisbie
Kyreece Lisbie (born 2003) is an English right winger for Reading FC, signed from Colchester United in June 2026; son of Kevin Lisbie and twin of Kyrell Lisbie, formerly of Brentford B.
Kyrell Lisbie
Kyrell Jeremiah Lisbie (born 2003, London) is an English left winger at Millwall, signed from Peterborough United in July 2026 after 11 League One goals; twin of Kyreece Lisbie, son of Kevin Lisbie.
Kyren Lacy
Kyren Lacy, LSU wide receiver from Thibodaux, Louisiana (also UL-Lafayette 2020-21), 2024 second-team All-SEC with 9 TD catches; died April 12, 2025 amid disputed charges over a fatal December 2024 crash.
Kyren Williams
Kyren Williams (born 2000) is a Los Angeles Rams running back from Kirkwood, Missouri; a 2022 fifth-round pick out of Notre Dame with three straight 1,000-yard seasons and a $33 million extension.
Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson (born 1991, Kettering, England), nicknamed The Warrior, English snooker player; 2024 World Champion (beat Jak Jones 18-14), 2026 Masters winner, 10 ranking titles, career-best ranking No. 2, five 147 maximum breaks.
Kyrgyz destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate
The Kyrgyz destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate was the 840 conquest in which the Yenisei Kyrgyz sacked the Uyghur capital Ordu-Baliq and ended their steppe empire.
Kyrgyz Khaganate
The Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate was a Turkic polity on the upper Yenisei River that destroyed the Uyghur Khaganate in 840 and led Central Asia for decades.
Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz (кыргыз тили) is the Turkic state language of Kyrgyzstan, where Russian is the official language. Covers the 1989 law, Kyrghyztest testing levels and mandates, historical periods, dialects, and NLP resources.
Kyrgyz literature
Kyrgyz literature (кыргыз адабияты) is the literature of the Kyrgyz people, rooted in the centuries-old oral tradition headed by the Manas epic, with written literature emerging in the 1920s.
Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар)
The Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар), also known as Kirgiz or Kirghiz, are a Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia, the titular majority of Kyrgyzstan and historically nomadic pastoralists.
Kyrgyzenergo
Kyrgyzenergo was the state-owned, vertically integrated electricity and heat monopoly of Kyrgyzstan until its restructuring in the early 2000s, which created the National Electric Grid of Kyrgyzstan and four regional distribution companies.
Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан)
Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked Central Asian state of 7.4 million between the Tien Shan and Pamirs, with a remittance- and gold-dependent economy, fast recent growth, and a consolidating presidential system under Sadyr Zhaparov.
Kyrgyzstan national football team
Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан) national men's football team, run by the Kyrgyz Football Union (AFC). First major tournament at the 2019 Asian Cup, reaching the last 16; FIFA ranking high of 75th; eight World Cup qualifying campaigns.
Kyrgyzstan's accession to the World Trade Organization
Kyrgyzstan's accession to the World Trade Organization made it the WTO's 133rd member on 20 December 1998, the first CIS country and among the fastest accessions.
Kyrgyzstani som
The Kyrgyzstani som (кыргыз сом) is the national currency of Kyrgyzstan, legal tender since May 1993, divided into 100 tyiyns and issued by the National Bank.
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou is a bioengineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine known for scaffold-free cartilage tissue engineering, five founded companies, and 15 FDA-approved products.