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Leopold's maneuvers
Leopold's maneuvers: four abdominal palpation steps (fundal, umbilical, Pawlik, pelvic grips) devised by Christian Gerhard Leopold to determine fetal lie, presentation, engagement, and weight; accuracy varies with examiner and maternal BMI.
Leopoldamys
Leopoldamys (long-tailed giant rats) is a Muridae rodent genus from South and Southeast Asia, erected by Ellerman in 1947, with about six species including L. sabanus and L. edwardsi, revised molecularly in 2013.
Leopoldinia piassaba
Leopoldinia piassaba (piassaba palm, chiquichiqui) is an Amazonian Rio Negro palm described by Wallace in 1853 whose leaf-sheath fiber, harvested on a 4–5 year cycle, supplies brooms, ropes, and composites.
Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá
Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá is a Mexican pharmaceutical executive who led Rimsa, his father's drug company, until its $2.3 billion sale to Teva in 2016 made him a billionaire.
Leopoldo Galtieri
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri (1926–2003), Argentine army general and de facto president 1981–1982, third junta head; ordered the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas invasion, lost the war, resigned, was sentenced to 12 years in 1986, pardoned by Menem, arrested again in 2002.
Leopoldo López
Leopoldo López (Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza, born 1971) is a Venezuelan opposition politician who served as mayor of Caracas's Chacao municipality and founded Voluntad Popular.
Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and storyteller, the leading Spanish American modernista after Rubén Darío and author of La guerra gaucha and El payador.
Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal (1900–1970) was an Argentine poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the Martín Fierro avant-garde generation, best known for Adán Buenosayres (1948); his support for Peronism brought two decades of ostracism before 1960s recognition.
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov (1933–1995) was an Argentine-born theoretical physicist who led the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley and introduced the Falicov–Kimball model of metal–insulator transitions in 1969.
Leopoldo Méndez
Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1969) was a Mexican printmaker, regarded as the leading figure of twentieth-century Mexican graphic art and principal founder of the Taller de Gráfica Popular.
Leopoldstadt (play)
Leopoldstadt is a play by Tom Stoppard about a Jewish family in Vienna from 1899 to 1955, tracing assimilation and the Holocaust. It won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Play.
Leor S. Weinberger
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and systems biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, known for the HIV latency circuit and single-dose TIP antivirals.
Leor Weinberger
Leor Weinberger is an American virologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF who created therapeutic interfering particles, engineered viral parasites that spread like the virus they treat.
Leos Carax
Leos Carax, pseudonym of Alex Oscar Dupont (born 1960), is a French director and screenwriter of Boy Meets Girl, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Holy Motors, and Annette.
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer born in Hukvaldy and based in Brno; creator of nine operas including Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and the Sinfonietta, known for speech-melody notation and the Brno organ school.
Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava
Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR/LKMT), at Mošnov 20 km from Ostrava, is the Czech Republic's largest regional airport: 3,500 m runway, H24, 506,201 passengers in 2025, cargo hub, Moravian-Silesian Region owned.
Leotar
FK Leotar, also known as Fudbalski klub "Leotar" Trebinje, is a Bosnian football club founded in 1925 in Trebinje, first champion of the unified Premijer Liga BiH in 2002/03.
Leotard
Leotard: a tight-fitting one-piece garment covering the torso but not the legs, worn in dance, gymnastics, and exercise. Named after French trapeze pioneer Jules Léotard, who called it a maillot; entered English vocabulary in 1886.
Leotrix
Leotrix, real name Ethan Wright, is an Australian dubstep producer from Sydney known for his "future riddim" style and releases on Never Say Die and Monstercat.
Lepa Brena (Фахрета Јахић)
Lepa Brena (Fahreta Jahić, Фахрета Јахић), born 1960 in Tuzla, Yugoslav and Serbian pop-folk singer, Slatki greh frontwoman, Grand Production co-owner, star of socialist Yugoslavia.
Lepa Radić (Лепа Светозара Радић)
Lepa Radić (Лепа Светозара Радић), 1925–1943, Yugoslav partisan and Communist Party member hanged by German forces at Bosanska Krupa at age 17 after refusing to name comrades; National Hero of Yugoslavia from 1951.
LEPAGA trial
LEPAGA (NCT02708836) is a recruiting randomized trial at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center testing deep extubation with LMA ventilation versus ETT-only emergence in 130 elective laparoscopic surgery patients.
Lepas (marque)
Lepas is an international automotive marque created by China's Chery Group, positioned as its premium brand of electrified SUVs for export markets outside China, launched globally in 2025.
Lepas L4
The Lepas L4 is a compact SUV from LEPAS, Chery Group's new-energy vehicle brand, first built in July 2025 and sold with petrol or electric power.
Lepcis Magna's appeal to Rome
Lepcis Magna's appeal to Rome, also called its alliance with Rome, was the Phoenician city's submission to Roman protection at the start of the Jugurthine War in 111 BC.
Lepenski Vir (Лепенски Вир)
Lepenski Vir (Лепенски Вир), a Mesolithic-Neolithic archaeological site on the Danube's right bank in Serbia's Iron Gates gorge, excavated 1965-1970 by Dragoslav Srejović, known for trapezoidal plaster-floored houses, fish-like boulder sculptures, and genetic evidence that early Aegean farmers built its village.
Leper colony
A leper colony, also called a leprosarium or lazarette, is a segregated settlement where people with leprosy, now called Hansen's disease, were confined, widespread from the later 1800s.
Lepetodrilidae
Lepetodrilidae (McLean, 1988) is a family of deep-sea vetigastropod limpets of the superfamily Lepetodrilacea, endemic to hydrothermal vents, seeps, and whale falls; genus Lepetodrilus dominates vent fauna, reaching up to 500,000 individuals per square meter.
Lepetodrilus
Lepetodrilus (McLean, 1988) is a genus of vetigastropod vent limpets, family Lepetodrilidae, type species L. pustulosus; the most abundant and speciose vent-limpet genus, found at vents, seeps, wood-fall, and whale-fall worldwide, with densities up to 400,000 per square meter.
Lepidium
Lepidium (peppergrasses, cresses) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 264 accepted species in Brassicaceae, tribe Lepidieae, first published by Linnaeus in 1753; it includes garden cress (L. sativum) and maca (L. meyenii).