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Lugaro cell
Lugaro cell, or fusiform cell of Lugaro: a GABAergic/glycinergic inhibitory interneuron of the cerebellar cortex, first described by Ernesto Lugaro in 1894 in cat; fusiform soma under the Purkinje cell layer, inhibits Golgi and molecular layer interneurons.
Lugdunum Convenarum
Lugdunum Convenarum was a Gallo-Roman town at modern Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges in the French Pyrenees, capital of the civitas of the Convenae, flourishing from the Augustan era and reduced to its hilltop by 585.
Luge
Luge: winter sliding sport, French for sled, in which athletes race supine, feet first, down an ice track at about 100 mph without brakes; Olympic since 1964 Innsbruck, governed by the FIL, with singles, doubles, and team relay events.
Luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics (Lausanne/St. Moritz): five events at the natural-ice Olympia Bob Run, 17–20 January 2020. Germany won three golds; Latvia's Gints Berzins took men's singles gold, his country's first of the Games.
Luge at the Winter Olympics
Luge at the Winter Olympics is a sliding sport where athletes race sleds down an icy track at about 100 mph, an Olympic event since 1964.
Luge World Cup
Luge World Cup (EBERSPÄCHER Luge World Cup), annual FIL artificial-track luge series since 1977/78 in singles, doubles, and team relay; Olympic qualification basis; Eberspächer title sponsor since 2020/21.
Luger pistol
The Luger pistol, also known as the Pistole Parabellum or P08, is a German semi-automatic service pistol designed by Georg Luger, patented in 1898 and chambered in 9mm Parabellum.
Lugger
A lugger is a sailing vessel rigged with lug sails, four-sided sails set on a yard angled from the mast, popular for fishing from the 19th century.
Lugh
Lugh (Old Irish Lug, modern Irish Lú) is the many-skilled god of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology, also called Lugh Lámfhota and Samildánach, who slew Balor at Mag Tuired, fathered Cú Chulainn, and gave his name to the August festival Lughnasadh.
Lughnasadh
Lughnasadh (Lúnasa) is the Gaelic harvest festival on 1 August, one of four Irish quarter days, named for the god Lugh and his foster-mother Tailtiu; its English counterpart is Lammas, and it survives in Reek Sunday and modern Wheel of the Year practice.
Lugii
Lugii (Ligi, Lygi, Logiones), ancient people of Germania in Silesia on the Oder along the Amber Road; a 'great nation' of tribes (Harii, Naharvali, Buri) allied with Maroboduus, destroyers of Vannius' kingdom around 50 AD, often equated with the Vandals.
Luginetskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Luginetskoye Oil and Gas Field (Лугинецкое месторождение) is an oil, gas, and condensate field in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, discovered in 1967 and operated by Tomskneft.
Lugo, Galicia
Lugo (Lucus Augusti) is the capital of Lugo province in Galicia, Spain, founded by Rome around 25–15 BC. It holds the only Roman city wall with a fully intact perimeter (2,117 m, UNESCO 2000) and passed 100,000 inhabitants in 2025.
Lugol's iodine
Lugol's iodine, also called Lugol's solution, is an aqueous solution of iodine and potassium iodide developed in 1829 by Jean Lugol, used to lower thyroid hormone levels in Graves' disease.
LuGre friction model
The LuGre friction model, introduced in 1995, is a dynamic friction model treating friction as the deflection of elastic bristles, capturing the Stribeck effect and hysteresis.
Luguelin Santos
Luguelin Santos (Luguelin Miguel Santos Aquino), Dominican 400m sprinter born 1992 in Bayaguana; Olympic silver at London 2012 (44.46) and Tokyo 2020 mixed relay; banned 2023-2026 by the AIU for age falsification, stripped of his 2012 World Junior title.
Luguentz Dort
Luguentz Dort (born 1999) is a Canadian NBA guard, undrafted in 2019, who won the 2025 title and an All-Defensive First Team spot with Oklahoma City before a 2026 trade to the Atlanta Hawks.
Lugus Planitia
Lugus Planitia is a 574-km-wide plain on Mercury, centered at 6.24°S, 98.66°W in the H-07 Beethoven quadrangle. Named by the IAU on March 14, 2017 after the Gaulish equivalent of the Roman god Mercury; a slope lineae hotspot.
Luguvalium
Luguvalium, Roman fort and town at modern Carlisle, Cumbria, founded c. AD 72-73; western Stanegate terminus, later civitas capital of the Carvetii, with name attested on AD 80s writing tablets.
Luh-ishan
Luh-ishan (Luḫ-iššan) was the eighth king of the Awan dynasty of Elam around 2300 BC, named among defeated opponents in Sargon of Akkad's victory inscription.
Luha ng Buwaya
Luha ng Buwaya (Tears of the Crocodile) is a Tagalog novel by Amado V. Hernandez, first published in Manila in 1963, about poor tenant farmers who organize against a landlord family.
Luhais Oil Field
Luhais Oil Field (حقل اللحيس) is an onshore oil field in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, discovered in 1961 and operated by the Basra Oil Company.
Luhan Yang
Luhan Yang (杨璐菡) is a Chinese-born biologist who cofounded the xenotransplantation company eGenesis with George Church in 2015 and served as its chief scientific officer.
Luhansk (Луганськ)
Luhansk (Луганськ), city in eastern Ukraine at the Luhanka-Vilkhivka confluence, founded 1795 as a state cannon foundry under Charles Gascoigne; major machine-building center, LPR capital since 2014, population about 398,000 in 2022.
Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область)
Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область), also called Voroshylovhrad oblast until 1958, is an eastern Ukrainian region on the Siverskyi Donets, bordering Russia; largely occupied since 2014 by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic and claimed as annexed by Russia in 2022.
Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic (LNR/LPR), self-proclaimed statelet in Ukraine's Luhansk oblast declared 11 May 2014 after an unrecognized referendum, controlled by Russian-backed separatists, recognized by Russia 21 February 2022 and annexed September 2022.
Luhansk Raion
Luhansk Raion (Луганський район) is a district of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, created in the 2020 reform and the oblast's most populous raion, with its center in Luhansk.
Luhman 16 A
Luhman 16 A (WISE J104915.57-531906.1 A) is the L7.5 primary brown dwarf of the Luhman 16AB binary in Vela, about 2 pc (6.5 light-years) away, with a mass near 35 Jupiter masses.
Luhn algorithm
The Luhn algorithm, also called the mod 10 or modulus 10 algorithm, is a checksum formula created by Hans Peter Luhn at IBM in 1954.
Luhua Group (鲁花集团)
Luhua Group (鲁花集团) is a Chinese edible-oil producer based in Laiyang, Shandong, founded in 1983, China's leading peanut-oil brand and third-largest packaged edible-oil retailer, controlled by the founding Sun family.