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Lomitapide
Lomitapide (Juxtapid, Lojuxta) is an oral microsomal triglyceride transfer protein inhibitor approved in 2012 as adjunct LDL-C-lowering therapy for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; LDLR-independent, with GI and hepatic steatosis risks.
Loml
"loml" (love of my life / loss of my life) is a piano ballad by Taylor Swift, track 12 on The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024), co-written and co-produced with Aaron Dessner; it peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lomography
Lomography is both an analogue photography style and the Vienna-based Lomographic Society International company behind it, founded 1992 after the LOMO LC-A compact was discovered in Prague. Known for the 10 Golden Rules, LomoWall exhibitions, LC-A+/Diana/Fisheye cameras, revived 110 film, and the 2026 EISA-winning Lomo MC-A.
Lomon (로몬)
Lomon (로몬), real name Park Solomon (박솔로몬), is an Uzbekistan-born South Korean actor of Koryo-saram descent, best known as Lee Su-hyeok in Netflix's 2022 hit All of Us Are Dead and as lead in Disney+ Revenge of Others.
Lomonosov (lunar crater)
Lomonosov (lunar crater): 90.69-km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 27.35°N, 98.28°E, named in the 1961 IAU approval of Luna 3 far-side names; distinct from the Martian Lomonosov tsunami-source crater.
Lomonosov (Martian crater)
Lomonosov is a ~120–131 km impact crater at 65°N, 9.2°W in Mars' northern plains, IAU-named 1973 for Mikhail Lomonosov; proposed as a marine impact and mega-tsunami source ~3 Ga.
Lomonosov Gold Medal
Lomonosov Gold Medal (Большая золотая медаль РАН имени М.В. Ломоносова), the highest award of the Russian Academy of Sciences, established 1956, first awarded 1959 to Pyotr Kapitsa; two medals yearly, one Russian and one foreign scientist.
Lomonosov Ridge
Lomonosov Ridge: an about 1,800 km band of continental crust crossing the central Arctic Ocean, separating the Amerasian and Eurasian Basins, and claimed by Russia, Canada, and Denmark under UNCLOS Article 76.
Lomonosov-2
Lomonosov-2 (Ломоносов-2) is a petascale supercomputer at the Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University, built by T-Platforms and in TOP500 service since 2014.
Lompoc, California
Lompoc (Lom-poke) is a Central Coast California city in Santa Barbara County, incorporated 1888 from an 1874 temperance colony; population about 43,000, majority Hispanic/Latino, near Vandenberg Space Force Base and La Purisima Mission.
Lomustine
Lomustine (CCNU) is an oral nitrosourea chemotherapy drug that crosses the blood-brain barrier, used mainly for brain tumors and relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma; approved in 1976, it is marketed as Gleostine.
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney (1883-1930), 'Man of a Thousand Faces,' American silent-film actor and makeup artist; starred in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera; made one sound film, The Unholy Three (1930).
Lon Chaney Jr.
Lon Chaney Jr. (Creighton Tull Chaney, 1906-1973), American character actor and son of Lon Chaney Sr.; played Lennie in Of Mice and Men (1939) and was the only actor to portray Universal's big four monsters, most famously the Wolf Man.
Lon Horiuchi
Lon Horiuchi, former FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper who fired the 1992 Ruby Ridge shots that killed Vicki Weaver; charged with Idaho involuntary manslaughter, case ended on Supremacy Clause immunity; also led Sierra One snipers at Waco.
Lon Kruger
Lon Kruger (born 1952) is a retired American college basketball coach, 674-432 over 35 years, first Division I coach to take five programs to the NCAA Tournament, Final Fours with Florida (1994) and Oklahoma (2016).
Lon Nol (លន់ នល់)
Lon Nol, also known as Marshal Lon Nol, was a Cambodian general and politician whose 1970 coup deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk and replaced the monarchy with the Khmer Republic.
Lon protease
Lon protease (protease La, EC 3.4.21.53, MEROPS S16) is an ATP-dependent serine protease with a Ser-Lys dyad, hexameric AAA+ machines in bacteria, mitochondria, and peroxisomes that degrade damaged and short-lived regulatory proteins.
Lon R. Cardon
Lon R. Cardon is a human geneticist and president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory since 2021, known for co-founding the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.
Lon Spurrier
Lon Spurrier (Lonnie Vernon Spurrier, 1932-2015), American 800 m runner; 880 yards world record holder 1:47.5 (1955), 1955 Pan-Am relay gold, sixth in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic 800 m final.
LONA (TV series)
LONA (ロナ) is an original Japanese TV anime announced June 2026 for a Spring 2027 premiere: Akiko Nogi's original story and screenplay, directed by Takashi Katagiri, produced by WIT STUDIO, set in a near-future VR space Mahora where researchers analyze the brains of the dead.
Lonafarnib
Lonafarnib (Zokinvy, SCH 66336) is an oral farnesyltransferase inhibitor, the first approved treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome and processing-deficient progeroid laminopathies, FDA-approved 2020 and EU-approved 2022, extending survival about 2.5 years.
Lonapegsomatropin
Lonapegsomatropin (Skytrofa, TransCon hGH) is a once-weekly transiently pegylated somatropin prodrug that releases unmodified human growth hormone over about 25 hours; approved for pediatric growth hormone deficiency in the US (2021), EU (2022), and China (2026), and for adults in the US (2025).
Lonar Lake (लोणार सरोवर)
Lonar Lake (लोणार सरोवर), also called Lonar crater lake, is a saline, alkaline lake filling a meteorite impact crater in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India, the only known such crater excavated entirely in basalt.
Lonas annua
Lonas annua (L.) Vines & Druce, yellow ageratum or African daisy, is the sole species of genus Lonas in Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae, an annual native to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, and Sardinia, grown for yellow dried flowers.
Lonavala
Lonavala (लोणावळा), twin hill station with Khandala in Maharashtra's Sahyadri ranges at 622 m, 83 km from Mumbai and 65 km from Pune; known for Karla and Bhaja caves, Bhushi Dam, monsoon tourism, and heavy seasonal visitor pressure.
Loncastuximab tesirine
Loncastuximab tesirine, sold as Zynlonta and developed as ADCT-402, is a CD19-targeted antibody–drug conjugate linking a monoclonal antibody to the PBD dimer SG3199, FDA-approved in 2021 for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.
Lonchaeidae
Lonchaeidae (lance flies) is a family of acalyptrate flies in Tephritoidea, erected by Rondani in 1856, with 611 species in 10 genera worldwide; larvae are saprophagous, zoophagous, or phytophagous, including fruit-crop pests and weevil predators.
Lonchocarpus
Lonchocarpus (lance fruit genus) is a genus of about 168 accepted Fabaceae trees and shrubs of tropical America and Africa, tribe Millettieae; roots of L. utilis, urucu, and nicou yield rotenone, used as insecticide and fish poison.
Lonchodidae
Lonchodidae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893) is the largest stick insect family (Phasmatodea), combining Lonchodinae and Necrosciinae; over 1,000 species, long antennae, no area apicalis, Indomalayan-Australasian distribution, monophyly debated.
Lonchodina
Lonchodina is an extinct conodont genus (Bassler 1925; type species L. typicalis) of bar-shaped Sb elements with discrete denticles, known from Devonian to Pennsylvanian marine rocks, distinct from the stick-insect subfamily Lonchodinae.