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Lamine Fanne
Lamine Fanne (Mouhamed Lamine Fanne Dabo), Spanish defensive midfielder born 2004; played for AIK and Luton Town, joined Venezia FC in February 2026.
Lamine Yamal
Lamine Yamal is a professional Spanish right winger playing for FC Barcelona and the Spain national team. He holds numerous age records, including becoming Barcelona's youngest-ever La Liga debutant.
Laminectomy
Laminectomy, also called spinal decompression, is surgery removing the lamina bone to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and nerves, mainly for lumbar spinal stenosis and herniated disks; first successful case 1828, success rate about 90%.
Lamington
Lamington: Australian and New Zealand square of sponge or butter cake coated in chocolate and desiccated coconut, sometimes jam- or cream-filled; named after Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland 1896–1901; first printed recipe 17 December 1900.
Lamington National Park
Lamington National Park is a 21,176-hectare rainforest park on the McPherson Range in south-east Queensland, established in 1915 and part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.
Lamini Fati
Lamini Fati (Lamini Domingos Fati João), born 2006 in Madrid, is a Spanish left-footed centre-back for Real Madrid Castilla, signed from Leganés in 2025 for over €100,000, under contract to 2029 with a €60M clause.
Laminin
Laminins are heterotrimeric alpha-beta-gamma glycoproteins, first isolated in 1979, that polymerize via LN domains to form the network foundation of all basement membranes and signal through integrins and dystroglycan.
Laminin subunit alpha 2-related congenital muscular dystrophy
LAMA2-related congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC1A, merosin-deficient CMD) is an autosomal recessive dystrophy from LAMA2 gene variants, causing laminin-α2 deficiency, neonatal hypotonia, scoliosis, respiratory failure, and a milder late-onset limb-girdle form.
Laminitis
Laminitis, also called founder, is a horse foot disease in which the laminae bonding the hoof wall to the coffin bone fail, allowing the bone to rotate or sink.
Laminography
Laminography is a tomographic X-ray and neutron imaging method that reconstructs the 3D structure of flat, plate-like objects, such as circuit boards and paintings, from a tilted rotation axis.
Laminoplasty
Laminoplasty, or cervical laminoplasty, is a posterior cervical spine operation that hinges open the laminae to decompress the spinal cord without fusion, developed in Japan in the 1980s.
Laminotomy
A laminotomy is a spinal decompression operation removing part of one lamina to relieve pressure on the thecal sac or a nerve root, preserving more structure than laminectomy.
Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار)
Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار), Palestinian actress, writer, and video artist born 1992, star of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Sand Storm (2016), later a Berlin-based performer at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
Lamium
Lamium (dead-nettles) is a genus of annual or perennial herbs in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to temperate Eurasia, Macaronesia to Ethiopia. About 32 accepted species; nettle-like leaves that do not sting; two-lipped flowers; includes L. album, L. purpureum, L. galeobdolon.
Lamium galeobdolon
Lamium galeobdolon (yellow archangel; syn. Lamiastrum galeobdolon, Galeobdolon luteum) is a stoloniferous perennial mint native to Europe to W. Siberia and Iran, with yellow hooded flowers, used as ground cover; its variegated subspecies argentatum is invasive.
Lamium purpureum
Lamium purpureum, purple or red dead-nettle, is a mint-family winter annual weed native from Macaronesia and Europe to West Siberia, introduced in North America and Japan; square stems, purple-tinged petioled upper leaves, and pinkish-purple flowers distinguish it from henbit.
Lamivudine
Lamivudine (3TC), sold as Epivir, is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used in combination therapy for HIV-1 and, at a lower dose, for chronic hepatitis B.
Lamiyyat al-Arab
Lamiyyat al-Arab (لامية العرب, "the L-poem of the Arabs") is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode of 68 verses attributed to the brigand-poet al-Shanfarā, one of the most commented works of classical Arabic poetry.
Lamma Power Station
Lamma Power Station (南丫发电厂) is a thermal power station on Lamma Island, Hong Kong, opened in 1982 and supplying electricity to Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker (born 1971, Pittsburgh) is an American actor known as Sheriff Troy in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, Dr. Will Brown in Meet the Browns, and Jacob Greenleaf in OWN's Greenleaf; also an educator and co-founder of The Black Gents.
Lammas
Lammas, also called Lammas Day or Lamastide, is a Christian first-fruits feast kept on 1 August, when a loaf baked from the new wheat was offered at Mass.
Lammbock
Lammbock (Lammbock – Alles in Handarbeit) is a 2001 German stoner comedy, Christian Zübert's directorial debut, starring Lucas Gregorowicz and Moritz Bleibtreu as Würzburg friends selling home-grown cannabis through a pizza service; sleeper hit followed by the 2017 sequel Lommbock.
LAMMPS
LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) is an open-source molecular dynamics code developed at Sandia National Laboratories that models interacting particles in liquids, solids, and gases, from single atoms up to billions.
Lamnae/Ad Lam(i)nas
Lamnae/Ad Lam(i)nas, also written Lamnas or ad Lamnas, a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana, 33 Roman miles from Rome near Cineto Romano, Italy, not the Pleiades star cluster.
Lamniformes
Lamniformes (mackerel sharks), order Garman 1885 of Elasmobranchii; 15 living species in 7 families including great white, threshers, basking, megamouth, goblin sharks; over 360 fossil species from ~135 Ma, including Otodus megalodon.
Lamnum
Lamnum, the Tabula Peutingeriana spelling of Tamnum, a Roman road station of the Santones on the Bordeaux–Saintes road in Gaul, between Blavia and Mediolanum Santonum; proposed sites include Montendre and Talmont, Charente-Maritime.
LAMO-SHE
Lamo-she (田海子山) is a 6,070 m mountain in the Daxue Shan of Sichuan, China, the highest summit of the Tatsienlu Massif east of Kangding, first climbed in 1993.
Lamon Brewster
Lamon Brewster, also known as Lamon Tajuan Brewster, is a retired American heavyweight boxer nicknamed "Relentless" who held the WBO heavyweight title from 2004 to 2006.
Lamone
Lamone (Gruppo Sportivo Lamone, G.S. Lamone A.S.D.) is an Italian amateur road-running club founded in 1977 in Russi, province of Ravenna, named after the Lamone river; it organizes the Maratona del Lamone, one of Italy's oldest marathons, and is affiliated with FIDAL and UISP.
LaMonica Garrett
LaMonica Garrett (born 1975, San Francisco) is an American actor and former pro SlamBall player known for Designated Survivor's Mike Ritter, the Arrowverse Monitor, Thomas in 1883, and Tucker in Lioness.