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Lars Wallentin
Lars Wallentin is a Swedish cardiologist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who led pivotal trials of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, including PLATO and ARISTOTLE, and built the SWEDEHEART registry.
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen (L. Wilhelmsen) was a Swedish cardiologist and epidemiologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital who co-started the Men born in 1913 study and directed the Göteborg Multifactor Primary Prevention Trial.
Lars Zender
Lars Zender (born 1975 in Hanover) is a German medical oncologist at University Hospital Tübingen known for in vivo RNAi screens in living mouse livers and for first-in-class MKK4 inhibitor drugs.
Lars‐Oliver Essen
Lars-Oliver Essen is a German structural biologist who has been professor of structural biochemistry at Philipps-Universität Marburg since 2001, known for crystal structures of DNA photolyases and microbial photoreceptors.
LARS1
LARS1 (leucyl-tRNA synthetase 1, also LARS, LeuRS) is the human cytosolic leucine-tRNA ligase, an mTORC1 leucine sensor anchored to IARS1 in the multi-synthetase complex, whose biallelic variants cause infantile liver failure syndrome 1.
Larsa
Larsa (Larša), whose ruins lie at Tell as-Senkereh in southern Iraq, was a major Mesopotamian city-state that dominated the south until Hammurabi of Babylon conquered it in 1763 BC.
Larsa dynasty
The Larsa dynasty, also called the First Dynasty of Larsa, was an Amorite dynasty of Larsa in southern Iraq, ended by Hammurabi in 1763 BC.
Larsa Pippen
Larsa Pippen (born Larsa Younan, 1974, Chicago) is an American reality TV personality and entrepreneur, original cast member of The Real Housewives of Miami, ex-wife of Scottie Pippen, founder of Larsa Marie jewelry.
Larsa Sulci
Larsa Sulci, formerly Larsa Sulcus, is a 1,130 km grooved-terrain sulcus system on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at 2.00°, 260.00°, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for the ancient Sumerian town of Larsa.
Larsen & Toubro
Larsen & Toubro, known as L&T, is an Indian multinational engineering and construction company headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 1938 by Danish engineers Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro.
Larsen Channel
Larsen Channel is a 1-3 mile wide strait between d'Urville and Joinville Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered in December 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition and named for Captain C.A. Larsen of the ship Antarctic.
Larsen Ice Shelf
Larsen Ice Shelf: ice shelf system on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Larsen A–D, Weddell Sea). Larsen A collapsed 1995, Larsen B 2002 via meltpond hydrofracture; Larsen C calved A68 in 2017.
Larsen Inlet
Larsen Inlet, also Ensenada Larsen, is an ice-filled inlet between Sobral Peninsula and Cape Longing on the Nordenskjöld Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica; charted by C.A. Larsen in 1893, renamed after a 1947 FIDS survey, its ice shelf collapsed in 1989.
Larsen syndrome
Larsen syndrome (LRS, OMIM 150250) is a rare autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia caused by FLNB mutations, marked by congenital large-joint dislocations, clubfeet, cleft palate, distinctive facies, and cervical spine dysplasia.
Larsen Thompson
Larsen Thompson, born in 2000, is an American dancer, model, and actress who went viral in 2016 dancing to Beyoncé and played the title role in Pearl.
Larson Capital
Larson Capital, formally Larson Capital Management, LLC, is a real estate focused private equity firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri, founded and majority owned by Paul Douglas Larson.
Larus
Larus (Linnaeus, 1758) is the gull genus of Laridae holding the large white-headed gulls such as Herring, Lesser Black-backed, and Great Black-backed Gulls; molecular phylogeny showed the traditional broad genus was not monophyletic and split it into several genera.
Larus (Cantabrian)
Larus, or Laro, is a probably fictional Hispanic mercenary in Silius Italicus's epic Punica, killed in single combat by Lucius Cornelius Scipio in 207 BC.
LaRussell
LaRussell (LaRussell Thomas, born 1994), Vallejo rapper and Good Compenny founder, formerly Tota; known for backyard Pergola concerts, offer-based pricing, about 40 albums since 2018, the 2026 Roc Nation deal and Super Bowl LX tailgate set.
Larut Wars
The Larut Wars were three conflicts fought between 1861 and 1874 among rival Chinese secret-society miners, and their Malay patrons, over the rich tin-mining district of Larut in Perak.
Larva
Larva (plural larvae; Latin for mask) is the immature, morphologically distinct free-living stage of indirectly developing animals, from caterpillars to marine trochophores, that becomes an adult through metamorphosis.
Larva (라바) (TV series)
Larva (라바) is a South Korean TUBAn CGI slapstick animated series premiering on KBS March 26, 2011, following wordless larva characters Red and Yellow under a storm drain; distributed to many countries and a Netflix original with Larva Island.
Larvacean
Larvacean (appendicularian, Appendicularia/Larvacea): solitary pelagic tunicate retaining a chordate tail throughout its few-day life; filters water through a discarded-and-rebuilt mucus house, feeding on particles down to 0.2 µm and exporting carbon via sinking houses.
Larvacean mucus house
A larvacean mucus house is a disposable gelatinous filter-feeding structure that larvaceans secrete around themselves, replacing it up to 40 times a day; discarded houses carry carbon and microplastics to the seafloor.
Lary C. Walker
Lary C. Walker is a neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Emory University in Atlanta known for establishing that amyloid-beta, the protein of Alzheimer's plaques, spreads by prion-like seeding.
Lary Over
Lary Over is the stage name of Raymond Guevara, a Puerto Rican Latin trap rapper from Carolina who broke out in 2016 with "Booty Call".
Lary Schulhof
Larry (Lary Alan) Schulhof, born 1942 in Muncie, Indiana, is an American butterfly swimmer and neurosurgeon; he won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Tokyo 1964 and set a 1961 medley relay world record.
Larymna (Boeotia)
Larymna (Λάρυμνα), ancient harbor city on the Euboean Gulf at the Boeotia-Locris border; Upper and Lower towns, Cyclopean and 4th-century BC walls, chain-closed harbor, destroyed by Sulla 85 BC, site of modern LARCO port village.
Laryngeal abductor paralysis
Laryngeal abductor paralysis (abductor vocal cord paralysis, AVCP): impaired opening of the vocal folds during inspiration due to posterior cricoarytenoid weakness, causing stridor and airway obstruction when bilateral.
Laryngeal abductor paralysis-intellectual disability syndrome
Laryngeal abductor paralysis-intellectual disability syndrome (Plott syndrome, ORPHA:2375, OMIM 308850) is a rare X-linked recessive disorder of males with congenital permanent vocal cord paralysis, severe neonatal stridor, and intellectual disability; gene not localized.