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LISFLOOD
LISFLOOD is an open-source, GIS-based hydrological model, developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre since 1997, that simulates the water balance of large river basins.
Lisfranc injury
Lisfranc injury: fracture and/or dislocation of the midfoot disrupting tarsometatarsal joints, also called tarsometatarsal injury. About 0.2% of fractures, over 20% missed initially; treated nonoperatively, by ORIF, or by primary arthrodesis (fusion).
Lisht
Lisht, or el-Lisht, is Egypt's Middle Kingdom royal necropolis about 65 km south of Cairo, holding the Twelfth Dynasty pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senwosret I and surrounding elite cemeteries.
Lishui (丽水)
Lishui (丽水) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Zhejiang, China, the province's largest by area at about 17,300 km², a mountainous source of six rivers, a national ecological civilization pilot area, with 2.5 million residents and GDP of 230.14 billion yuan in 2025.
Lisi (company)
LISI, short for Link Solutions for Industry, is a French family-owned group making fasteners and assembly components, with 38 production sites and more than 9,600 employees.
Lisianski Island
Lisianski Island (Papaʻāpoho), Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a 1.5 km² sandy island with Neva Shoals (979 km²), discovered 1805 by the grounded Russian ship Neva; part of Papahānaumokuākea, hit hard by 2014 coral bleaching.
Lisieux
Lisieux, commune in Calvados, Normandy (19,645 inhabitants in 2023), is France's second pilgrimage site after Lourdes, centered on Sainte-Thérèse: her Basilica (1929–1954), Carmel, and Les Buissonnets; two-thirds destroyed in June 1944.
Lisima Lya Mwono
Lisima Lya Mwono, meaning "Source of Life" in Luchazi, is a wetland of over 53,000 square kilometers in Angola, named the country's first Ramsar site in January 2026.
Lisinopril
Lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) is a nonsulfhydryl ACE inhibitor for hypertension, heart failure, and post-heart-attack survival. Once-daily dosing, ~25% bioavailability, renal excretion, contraindicated in pregnancy.
Liskov substitution principle
The Liskov substitution principle (LSP) is an object-oriented design rule, introduced by Barbara Liskov in 1987, stating that subtypes must be usable wherever supertypes are expected.
Lismer (Mercurian crater)
Lismer is a 139.12-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 81.31°N, 193.28°W, in quadrangle H-01, named for Canadian painter Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) and adopted by the IAU on April 24, 2012.
Lisolo
Lisolo, also written Isolo, is a two-rank mancala game of the Bemba people of Zambia, first described by J. H. Chaplin in 1956; a related royal Isolo is played by the Sukuma of Tanzania.
Lison ut-Tayr
Lison ut-Tayr (لسان الطير, The Language of the Birds) is a mystical narrative poem in Chagatai by Alisher Navoi, written in 1498–1499 as a response to Attar's Conference of the Birds.
Lisova kazka (Forest Tale)
Лісова казка (Forest Tale) names several unrelated Ukrainian entities: a private zoo enterprise (EDRPOU 38869241, Ozera, Kirovohrad Oblast, founded 2013), a Vinnytsia animal shelter, a Kyiv-area recreation base, and a Zhytomyr sanatorium.
Lisp
Lisp (speech): a functional speech sound disorder distorting /s/ and /z/, with interdental, dentalized, lateral, and palatal types; usually resolves by age four or five or responds to articulation therapy.
Lisp (programming language)
Lisp, short for LISt Processing, is a family of programming languages created by John McCarthy at MIT in 1958 for artificial intelligence, with dialects including Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure.
Lisp machine
A Lisp machine is a computer whose processor and operating system were designed to run the Lisp programming language efficiently, built as single-user workstations in the 1970s.
LISREL
LISREL (linear structural relations) is a statistical software package for structural equation modeling, developed by Karl Jöreskog and Dag Sörbom at Uppsala University in the 1970s.
Lissachatina fulica
Lissachatina fulica (giant African land snail, formerly Achatina fulica) is an East African snail up to 20 cm, an IUCN 100-worst invasive species in over 90 countries, a crop pest and rat lungworm host.
Lissajous curve
A Lissajous curve, also called a Bowditch curve or Lissajous figure, is the path traced by a point oscillating sinusoidally in two perpendicular directions, named for Jules Lissajous.
Lissajous orbit
A Lissajous orbit is a quasi-periodic, three-dimensional spacecraft path around the L1, L2, or L3 Lagrange point, tracing a Lissajous curve that never closes on itself.
Lissamphibia
Lissamphibia is the clade of living amphibians: frogs (Anura), salamanders (Caudata), and caecilians (Gymnophiona), with frogs plus salamanders forming Batrachia. Molecular data support monophyly, but temnospondyl, lepospondyl, and polyphyly origin hypotheses persist.
Lissencephaly
Lissencephaly (smooth brain), including agyria, pachygyria, and subcortical band heterotopia, is a cortical malformation from defective neuronal migration at 12-24 weeks gestation, mainly caused by PAFAH1B1 (LIS1) and DCX mutations, with epilepsy and short life expectancy.
Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation
Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation, also called PAFAH1B1-related lissencephaly, is a rare autosomal dominant cortical malformation on 17p13.3 causing posterior smooth brain, severe epilepsy evolving from West to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and developmental delay.
Lisseth Chavez
Lisseth Chavez (born 1989) is an American actress of Salvadoran descent known for playing Officer Vanessa Rojas on Chicago P.D. and Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
Lissette del Cid
Lissette del Cid (Lisseth del Cid Fernández), First Lady of Honduras since 27 January 2026, wife of President Nasry Asfura; from Santa Lucía, Intibucá; married 1985; known for social work with women, children, and education.
Lissie
Lissie (Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, born 1982, Rock Island, Illinois) is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter whose 2010 debut Catching a Tiger went Gold in the UK; later albums include Castles and Carving Canyons.
Lissos
Lissos (Λισσός, also Lisos) was an ancient port city on the southwestern coast of Crete near modern Sougia, famed for its healing sanctuary of Asklepios and its therapeutic spring.
Lissotriton
Lissotriton (Bell, 1839) is a genus of eight small Eurasian newts in Salamandridae, including the smooth newt L. vulgaris and palmate newt L. helveticus, formerly placed in Triturus and threatened by the Bsal fungus.
Lissus
Lissus (Λίσσος, Lissum), ancient Illyrian port city at Lezhë, Albania, on the Drin; Hellenistic fortress, Roman conventus and colonia (33 BC), and coastal terminus of the Lissus-Naissus road to the Balkan interior.