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Lower Valley of the Omo
Lower Valley of the Omo: UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1980, criteria iii and iv) in south-western Ethiopia near Lake Turkana, a 165 km2 Plio-Pleistocene fossil region with the Shungura, Usno, Kibish, and Fejej formations, hominid fossils including Homo gracilis, and ongoing Kuraz sugar project conservation concerns.
Lower Warbank Roman Villa
Lower Warbank Roman Villa, Keston, Bromley: a Romano-British villa over an Iron Age farmstead on Holwood Hill's slopes, excavated 1828-1978, scheduled monument 1002024, with a Saxon weaving hut in its ruins.
Lower Yangtze
Lower Yangtze: the easternmost reach of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) with Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai; temperate floodplain wetlands, polder agriculture, large lakes, and endemic fishes draining to the East China Sea.
Lower Zambezi
Lower Zambezi: the 593 km Zambezi reach below Cahora Bassa gorge, a freshwater ecoregion with delta, and Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park, a water-based safari and elephant conservation landscape.
Lower-back tattoo
Lower-back tattoo, aka tramp stamp, a lumbar tattoo placement that boomed with 1990s low-rise fashion, drew a misogynistic nickname, declined, and revived in the 2020s with custom designs and Gen Z reclaiming the term.
Lowest common denominator
The lowest common denominator (LCD), also called the least common denominator, is the least common multiple of the denominators in a set of fractions, used mainly to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
Lowest rounds of golf
Lowest rounds of golf: sub-60 competitive scores. Jim Furyk's 58 (2016 Travelers) is the PGA Tour record; Al Geiberger shot the first 59 (1977); Sorenstam's 59 leads the LPGA; Rhein Gibson's 55 is the lowest ever.
Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
The lowest temperature recorded on Earth, also called the coldest temperature achieved on Earth, is −89.2 °C, recorded at Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983.
Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a coastal town in Suffolk, England, on the North Sea; the easternmost settlement in the United Kingdom, it had 71,327 residents in 2021.
Lowkey
Lowkey (Kareem Dennis, born 1986, London) is a British rapper and activist of Iraqi-English parentage, known for independent political hip hop: Dear Listener (2008), Soundtrack to the Struggle (2011, #1 UK iTunes hip hop chart), Mongrel supergroup, and the Struggle sequels of 2019.
Lowkey Ventures
Lowkey Ventures is a name used by several distinct, unverified entities, including firms registered in Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, and Estonia, none confirmed to be the same organization.
Lowland anoa
Lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis), a dwarf wild buffalo endemic to Sulawesi and Buton, Indonesia; smallest wild cattle, IUCN Endangered under 2,500 mature individuals, diverged from other Bubalus about 0.84 Mya.
Lowland Football League
The Lowland Football League, also known as the Scottish Lowland Football League, is a Scottish football league that, with the Highland League, forms tier five of Scotland's pyramid.
Lowlands (festival)
Lowlands, A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, is a Dutch three-day music and culture festival at Biddinghuizen, founded 1993 by Mojo and Loc7000; about 65,000 visitors, twelve stages, ~250 acts, camping included, €365 tickets, no day passes, cancelled 2020-2021 for COVID.
Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome
Lown–Ganong–Levine (LGL) syndrome, or short PR–normal QRS syndrome, a proposed pre-excitation syndrome described in 1952 with PR under 120 ms, normal QRS, no delta wave, and paroxysmal SVT; now considered an outdated diagnosis.
Lowrance
Lowrance is an American marine electronics brand based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, founded in 1957, known for fish finders, sonar systems, chartplotters, and trolling motors for sport fishing.
Lowrider
A lowrider is a customized car modified to ride as low as possible, often with hydraulic or pneumatic suspension, emerging from Mexican American communities in the 1940s.
Lowry-MacLean syndrome
Lowry-MacLean syndrome (OMIM 600252, ORPHA:2409) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant disorder with microcephaly, craniosynostosis, congenital glaucoma, growth failure, and visceral malformations; only three cases reported, poor prognosis. Distinct from Lowry and Lowe syndromes.
Lowry-Wood syndrome
Lowry-Wood syndrome (OMIM 226960), also called epiphyseal dysplasia-microcephaly-nystagmus syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia caused by biallelic RNU4ATAC variants, with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, microcephaly, short stature, nystagmus, and intellectual disability.
Lox
Lox (Yiddish laks) is salt-cured, traditionally unsmoked salmon, an American Jewish creation from Eastern European immigrants, popularized in 1920s-30s New York; distinct from Nova lox (cold-smoked) and gravlax (dill-sugar cure).
Lox Pratt
Lox Pratt is a British child actor who plays Jack in the BBC's Lord of the Flies (2026) and was cast as Draco Malfoy in HBO's Harry Potter series, announced June 9, 2025, premiering early 2027.
Loxapine
Loxapine (Adasuve, loxapine succinate) is a dibenzoxazepine antipsychotic approved since 1975 for schizophrenia and since 2012 as a single-breath inhaled powder for acute agitation in schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder.
Loxia curvirostra
Loxia curvirostra, the red crossbill or common crossbill (Fichtenkreuzschnabel), is a Holarctic finch with crossed mandibles for extracting conifer seeds; nomadic, irruptive, IUCN Least Concern with 90-180 million mature individuals.
LOXL1
LOXL1 (lysyl oxidase-like 1), chromosome 15q24.1 gene encoding a copper-dependent enzyme that cross-links collagen and elastin; strongest genetic risk factor for exfoliation syndrome and exfoliation glaucoma, with risk alleles reversed across ethnicities.
LOXL2
LOXL2 (lysyl oxidase like 2, WS9-14) is a human chromosome 8p21.3 gene encoding a copper- and LTQ-dependent amine oxidase that crosslinks collagen and elastin, driving fibrosis, cancer, and myelofibrosis, and is targeted by inhibitors including simtuzumab, GB2064, and SNT-5382.
Loxoprofen
Loxoprofen (Loxonin, ロキソニン) is a prodrug NSAID of the propionic acid class used mainly in Japan for pain and inflammation; its trans-alcohol metabolite nonselectively inhibits COX-1 and COX-2.
Loxoscelism
Loxoscelism, also called necrotic arachnidism or brown recluse spider bite, is envenomation by Loxosceles spiders causing necrotic skin lesions and rarely hemolytic systemic illness; sphingomyelinase D is the key toxin, and diagnosis is often overmade where the spiders are absent.
Loy Krathong (ลอยกระทง)
Loy Krathong (ลอยกระทง) is a Thai festival involving floating decorated offering boats called krathongs, a tradition recognized as national intangible cultural heritage in 2011.
Loy Yang A power station
Loy Yang A power station is a 2,215-megawatt brown coal-fired power station at Traralgon South in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, supplying about 30 percent of the state's electricity.
Loy Yang B power station
Loy Yang B is a brown coal-fired power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, operating since 1993 with two units providing about 1,070 MW of baseload power.