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Lornoxicam
Lornoxicam (chlorotenoxicam; Xefo, Acabel) is a short half-life oxicam NSAID inhibiting COX-1/COX-2, dosed 8–16 mg daily for moderate to severe pain, osteoarthritis, and postoperative pain.
Loro Parque
Loro Parque, zoological park in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, founded 1972 by Wolfgang Kiessling; known for parrot breeding, Loro Parque Fundación conservation work, Orca Ocean orcas including Morgan, and American Humane certification.
Loro Piana
Loro Piana is an Italian luxury fashion house founded by Pietro Loro Piana in 1924, known for cashmere and fine wools and owned by LVMH since 2013.
Lorraine
Lorraine is a historical territory in northeastern France, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire for most of its history until its 1766 incorporation into France.
Lorraine Ashbourne
Lorraine Ashbourne (born 1961, Manchester) is an English stage, film and TV actress, wife of Andy Serkis, known for Daphne Sparrow in Sherwood, Grandma Joan in Alma's Not Normal, Mrs Varley in Bridgerton, and Jess in Riot Women.
Lorraine B. Ware
Lorraine B. Ware is an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center known for research on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, including her widely cited 2000 New England Journal of Medicine review.
Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco (born 1954, Brooklyn) is an American actress, Oscar-nominated as Karen Hill in Goodfellas and Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on The Sopranos; also Rizzoli & Isles, Nonnas, and former Gaultier model.
Lorraine Chase
Lorraine Chase (born 1951, Deptford, London) is an English actress and former model famous for 1970s Campari adverts and for playing Steph Stokes in Emmerdale from 2002 to 2006, returning in 2013.
Lorraine Crapp
Lorraine Crapp (Lorraine Thurlow), born 1 October 1938, Australian freestyle swimmer; 23 world records, first woman under 5 minutes for 400m freestyle, double gold medalist at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Lorraine Crosby
Lorraine Crosby (born 1960, Newcastle upon Tyne), also known as Mrs. Loud, is an English singer who performed the uncredited female vocals on Meat Loaf's 1993 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"; later solo album Mrs Loud and Bonnie Tyler charity duet.
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston, born 1951, is an American historian of science who directed the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1995 to 2019.
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary (Lorraine Gottfried, born 1937) is a retired American actress who played Ellen Brody in Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws: The Revenge; wife of MCA president Sid Sheinberg, she retired in 1979.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), American playwright and civil rights activist, first African American woman with a Broadway play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959); youngest and first Black winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
Lorraine Hillas
Lorraine Hillas (Lorraine Mary Hillas, later Wharton), born 1961, Australian Hockeyroo field hockey player; fourth at Los Angeles 1984 and Olympic gold medallist at Seoul 1988, later a school teacher.
Lorraine J. Gudas
Lorraine J. Gudas is an American pharmacologist who has chaired the pharmacology department at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1991, studying vitamin A derivatives called retinoids for cancer treatment and prevention.
Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly (born 1959, Glasgow) is a Scottish broadcaster and host of ITV's weekday show Lorraine since 2010, after TV-am, GMTV and Good Morning Britain; CBE (2021), BAFTA TV Special Award (2024), 2019 persona tax-case winner.
Lorraine McIntosh
Lorraine McIntosh (born 1964) is a Scottish singer and actress, vocalist in Glasgow pop-rock band Deacon Blue since 1985, wife of Ricky Ross, actress in My Name Is Joe and River City, and charity ambassador.
Lorraine Nicholson
Lorraine Nicholson, also Lorraine Broussard Nicholson, is an American writer-director and former actress, daughter of Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard, known for Soul Surfer, the short Life Boat, and her Searchlight feature debut Playmates.
Lorraine Pascale
Lorraine Pascale (born 1972, London) is a British celebrity chef, cookbook author, and former 1990s fashion model, first black British model on US Elle, known for BBC's Baking Made Easy and Food Network judging roles.
Lorraine Pillus
Lorraine Pillus is a molecular biologist and Professor at UC San Diego, known for her 1989 Cell paper demonstrating epigenetic inheritance of transcriptional silencing in yeast.
Lorraine Symington
Lorraine Symington is a British-born yeast geneticist at Columbia University, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024, known for work on DNA double-strand break repair.
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint, Trinidadian-born American actress (born 1960), Juilliard-trained; known as Vee in Orange Is the New Black (Critics' Choice and SAG winner), Rene Jackson in Any Day Now, and Aunt Vi on CBS's The Equalizer.
Lorraine Vélez
Lorraine Vélez, also spelled Loraine Velez, is an American singer and actress specializing in musical theatre, twin sister of Lauren Vélez; Broadway Dreamgirls and Rent (Mimi), West End Fame, Miss Saigon, Rent, Porgy and Bess, plus TV and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse credits.
Lorre family
Lorre family (FIN 527), a young C-type asteroid collisional family in the high-inclination central main belt around (5438) Lorre, formed by a cratering impact about 1.9 million years ago.
Lorrie Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who pioneered usable privacy and security research and served as FTC Chief Technologist in 2016.
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (Marie Lorena Moore, born 1957, Glens Falls, New York) is an American short-story writer and novelist, author of Self-Help, Birds of America, Bark, and the NBCC Award-winning novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home; known for second-person narration and deadpan wit.
Lorrie Morgan
Lorrie Morgan (Loretta Lynn Morgan, born 1959) is an American country singer, Grand Ole Opry member, daughter of George Morgan and widow of Keith Whitley, with number-one hits "Five Minutes" and "What Part of No."
Lorrin A. Riggs
Lorrin A. Riggs (1912–2008) was an American physiological psychologist and vision scientist who spent his 39-year career at Brown University studying visual perception and eye movements.
Lorrin A. Thurston
Lorrin Andrews Thurston (1858–1931), Honolulu-born lawyer, Honolulu Advertiser publisher, and architect of the Bayonet Constitution and the 1893 Committee of Safety overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani, then chief Washington advocate of Hawaiian annexation.
Lorryia formosa
Lorryia formosa (citrus yellow mite, Ácaro amarillo de los cítricos), a Tydeidae mite under 250 µm with six life stages, thelytokous reproduction, feeding on honeydew and sooty mold on citrus and rubber trees, non-damaging to citrus but an export quarantine concern.