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Lobo (musician)
Lobo is the stage name of Roland Kent LaVoie (born 1943, Tallahassee, Florida), an American soft rock singer-songwriter. Known for "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" (US No. 5, 1971) and "I'd Love You to Want Me" (US No. 2, 1972); distinct from Los Lobos and other artists named Lobo.
Lobo, morir matando
Lobo, morir matando is a 2026 Telemundo Studios Spanish-language thriller superserie adapted from F.G. Haghenbeck's novel Morir Matando, starring Arap Bethke as ex-detective Lobo Rosales protecting orphan Renata, premiered February 17, 2026.
Lobodon
Lobodon is a monotypic genus of Antarctic phocid seals (Gray, 1844) whose sole species is the crabeater seal, Lobodon carcinophaga, a krill-eating filter feeder with lobed sieve teeth, numbering in the millions around Antarctica.
Lobomycosis
Lobomycosis, or Jorge Lobo's disease, lacaziosis, is a chronic subcutaneous fungal infection caused by the uncultivable fungus Lacazia loboi, endemic to the Amazon basin, causing keloid-like skin lesions in humans and dolphins.
Lobophytum
Lobophytum (von Marenzeller, 1886) is a genus of Indo-West Pacific soft corals, leather corals with lobed, ridged colonies and siphonozooids; 46 valid species per Verseveldt 1983, closely related to and partly intermixed with Sarcophyton.
Lobothyris
Lobothyris is an extinct Early Jurassic genus of terebratulid brachiopods (family Lobothyrididae), best known from the European species L. punctata (Sowerby, 1812), a stationary epifaunal suspension feeder with a low-Mg calcite shell.
Lobotomy
Lobotomy (leucotomy), a discredited psychosurgical procedure severing prefrontal-thalamic connections, introduced by Egas Moniz in 1935, Nobel-recognized 1949, popularized by Walter Freeman's transorbital method, abandoned after antipsychotics emerged in the 1950s.
Lobotomy Corporation (로보토미 코퍼레이션)
Lobotomy Corporation (로보토미 코퍼레이션) is a 2018 roguelite monster-management simulation by South Korean studio Project Moon, SCP-inspired, harvesting energy from Abnormalities; over 1 million copies sold, spawning Library of Ruina and Limbus Company.
Lobster
Lobster, chiefly the American lobster (Homarus americanus), a large clawed North Atlantic crustacean; Maine's most valuable fishery, now declining as warming waters shift stocks and regulators declare overfishing.
Lobster roll
Lobster roll: New England sandwich of lobster meat in a grilled split-top bun. Maine style is cold with mayonnaise; Connecticut style is warm with melted butter; origin most often credited to Perry's in Milford, Connecticut.
Lobster Thermidor
Lobster Thermidor (homard Thermidor) is a French dish of cooked lobster meat in a mustard cream or béchamel sauce, stuffed back into the shell, topped with Gruyère, and broiled; created in 1890s Paris and named for Sardou's play Thermidor.
Lobster War
Lobster War (Guerra da Lagosta; Conflit de la langouste): 1961-1963 France-Brazil crisis over spiny lobster fishing off NE Brazil; lobster seizure, Clemenceau task group, 1964 agreement granting 26 French boats limited fishing rights.
Lobu Tua inscription
The Lobu Tua inscription, also called the Barus inscription, is a Tamil stone inscription of 1088 recording a South Indian merchant guild at Barus, Sumatra.
Lobulated kidney
Lobulated kidney, or persistent fetal lobulation (renculation), is a benign anatomical variant where fetal renal lobules fail to fuse fully, leaving surface indentations between pyramids; found in about 10% of adults, it mimics tumors or scars on ultrasound but enhances like normal parenchyma on CT and MRI.
LOC: Kargil
LOC: Kargil is a 2003 Hindi war film directed and produced by J. P. Dutta, the third in his war trilogy after Border and Refugee. It dramatizes the 1999 Kargil War with over 30 leading actors, runs 4 hours 15 minutes, and earned four Filmfare nominations.
Local 58
Local 58 is Kris Straub's horror web series of hijacked fictional TV broadcasts, first uploaded October 26, 2015, credited with originating and naming the analog horror genre via its "ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz" tagline.
Local administrative units (European Union)
Local administrative units (LAUs) are the territorial units defined by Eurostat below NUTS 3, comprising the EU's municipalities and communes, about 96,000 units in 2018, defined by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003.
Local Anaesthetic
Local Anaesthetic (German: örtlich betäubt) is a 1969 novel by Günter Grass, set in West Berlin, where a schoolteacher tries to stop a pupil burning his dachshund in protest against napalm.
Local ancestry inference
Local ancestry inference (LAI) is a computational genomics method that estimates the ancestral origin of each chromosome segment in admixed populations, mostly using hidden Markov models.
Local and regional elections in France
The local and regional elections in France cover the municipal, departmental, and regional elections held across 18 regions, 101 departments, and 34,970 municipalities, all using two-round voting.
Local anesthesia
Local anesthesia: numbing a limited body area with sodium-channel-blocking drugs while the patient stays conscious. From cocaine (Koller, 1884) and Bier's 1898 spinal to lidocaine, bupivacaine, LAST management, and local-versus-general outcome comparisons.
Local anesthetic
Local anesthetic: drugs (cocaine, lidocaine, bupivacaine, ropivacaine) that reversibly block voltage-gated sodium channels to numb a body region; ester vs amide classes, differential block, LAST toxicity and lipid emulsion treatment.
Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a data communications system linking devices within a building or campus, dominated by wired Ethernet and wireless Wi-Fi, standardized by IEEE 802.
Local binary patterns
Local binary patterns (LBP) are texture descriptors in computer vision that encode each pixel's neighborhood as a binary code, used for texture classification and face recognition.
Local board of health
A local board of health was a British local authority created under the Public Health Act 1848, with powers to build sewers, supply water, and appoint a medical officer of health.
Local Bubble
The Local Bubble, called the Local Hot Bubble in X-ray astronomy, is a hot, low-density cavity around the Sun carved out by 14 to 20 supernovae starting about 14 million years ago.
Local buckling
Local buckling is the out-of-plane buckling of individual plate elements, such as a flange or web, under compressive stress, a governing limit state in thin-walled and cold-formed steel construction.
Local causality
Local causality is a principle formulated by physicist John Stewart Bell stating that events in one region should not depend on spacelike separated events given the complete shared past.
Local class field theory
Local class field theory is the part of number theory that classifies abelian extensions of a local field, identifying their Galois groups with quotients of the field's multiplicative group.
Local cohomology
Local cohomology is a construction in commutative algebra, introduced by Grothendieck in the early 1960s, whose functors measure a module's behavior near a closed set and test depth.