All articles starting with N

Neophocaena asiaeorientalis

Neophocaena asiaeorientalis, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, is an Endangered East Asian porpoise species with two subspecies: the Critically Endangered freshwater Yangtze finless porpoise and the marine East Asian finless porpoise; bycatch is the main threat.

Neophocaena phocaenoides

Neophocaena phocaenoides, the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Cuvier, 1829), is a small finless coastal porpoise from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, IUCN Vulnerable, threatened mainly by gillnet bycatch.

Sep 19, 2026

Neophyte

Neophyte is the stage name of Jeroen Streunding, a Dutch gabber and hardcore DJ and producer active since the early 1990s who founded Neophyte Records in 1999.

Neophytos I

Neophytos I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, recorded by the patriarchate's regnal list in 1153 between Theodotos II and Constantine IV Chliarenus, during Emperor Manuel I Komnenos's reign.

Neophytos II

Neophytos II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, holding the office twice in the early 17th century, from 1602 to 1603 and again from 1607 to 1612.

Neophytos III

Neophytos III was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from June 1636 to March 1637, a Cretan hierarch installed by Cyril Lucaris as a stand-in, who later retired to Chios.

Neophytos IV

Neophytos IV (Νεόφυτος Δ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 27 November 1688 to 7 March 1689. Formerly metropolitan of Adrianople, he deposed Callinicus II in revenge and lost the throne within three months.

Neophytos V

Neophytos V was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1707, between Gabriel III (1702–1707) and Cyprian I's first term (1707–1709); his precise tenure length is unknown.

Neophytos VI

Neophytos VI was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, a native of Patmos who served two non-consecutive terms from 1734 to 1740 and 1743 to 1744, then died in exile on Patmos in 1747.

Neophytos VII

Neophytos VII (Νεόφυτος Ζ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, from 1789 to 1794 and from 1798 to 1801, forced from office both times and exiled to Mount Athos.

Neophytos VIII

Neophytos VIII (Νεόφυτος Η΄), born Joakim Papakonstantinou, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1891 to 1894, elected as a compromise candidate and forced to resign over the Bulgarian schism.

Neoplasm

A neoplasm, also called a tumor or neoplastic disorder, is an abnormal mass of tissue from excessive cell growth; benign types stay local, while malignant ones (cancers) invade and spread by metastasis.

Neoplasm Grading

Neoplasm grading, also called histologic or tumor grade, describes how abnormal cancer cells look under a microscope and how quickly they are likely to grow and spread.

Neoplasma

Neoplasma (Journal of experimental and clinical oncology) is a bimonthly Slovak oncology journal founded 1957, continuing Ceskoslovenska onkologia; ISSN 0028-2685, edited by the Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava.

Neoplastic cell

Neoplastic cell (tumor cell): an abnormal cell with dysregulated proliferation or apoptosis control, capable of forming a neoplasm. Covers benign and malignant clones, cancer stem cells, heterogeneity, and genetic origins.

Neoplastic pericarditis

Neoplastic pericarditis (ICD-11 BB20.1) is pericardial inflammation from primary or metastatic cancer, most often lung and breast carcinoma and lymphoma, presenting as effusion or tamponade, diagnosed by cytology, with poor prognosis.

Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism is the modern term for the Platonic school of late antiquity (3rd–6th centuries CE), founded by Plotinus, systematizing emanation from the One through Intellect and Soul, and shaping Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Renaissance thought.

Sep 19, 2026

Neopop Festival

Neopop Festival, also billed as the NEOPOP Electronic Music Festival, is an electronic music festival held each August at Forte de Santiago da Barra in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, founded in 2006.

Neoprene

Neoprene (polychloroprene, first sold as DuPrene) is a synthetic rubber introduced by DuPont in 1931, the first produced commercially, valued for oil, ozone, and flame resistance.

Neopronoun

Neopronoun (also neo-pronoun): a newly coined pronoun, especially a gender-neutral one such as ze/hir, xe/xem, or ey/em, used mainly by nonbinary and genderqueer people. Distinct from singular they; coined sets date to at least 1858 (thon); usage remains a small minority.

Neoproterozoic

The Neoproterozoic, also called the Late Proterozoic, is the last era of the Proterozoic eon, spanning 1 billion to 539 million years ago and ending at the Cambrian.

Neoptolemus (Νεοπτόλεμος)

Neoptolemus (Νεοπτόλεμος), also called Pyrrhus, is the son of Achilles and Deidamia in Greek myth: a Trojan War hero, killer of Priam, king in Epirus, killed at Delphi, central to Sophocles' Philoctetes.

Neorealism (international relations)

Neorealism, or structural realism, is Kenneth Waltz's IR theory (Theory of International Politics, 1979) explaining state behavior through anarchy and the distribution of capabilities, split into offensive and defensive realism, unlike classical realism's human-nature focus.

Neoregelia

Neoregelia (blushing bromeliads) is a genus of about 100-116 tank bromeliads in Bromelioideae, native to South America, named for von Regel, grown for colorful foliage and flower once, then produce pups.

Neorion

Neorion (νεώριον): Greek term for a shipyard or naval base, best known as the ancient shipyard harbor of Constantinople beside the Prosphorion on the Golden Horn; silted by the 7th century, dredged in 698, and later the Byzantine fleet's main base.

Oct 22, 2026

Neoromanticism

Neoromanticism (German Neuromantik, Dutch neoromantiek) is a current within modernism that revived the themes and forms of Romanticism, flourishing in German-language literature from about 1890 to 1910.

Neoromicia

Neoromicia is an African genus of vesper bats (Vespertilionidae, Vespertilionini) named by Roberts in 1926, type species the Zulu serotine; raised from a Pipistrellus subgenus on karyotype evidence and split into four genera by molecular revision.

Neos (airline)

Neos, also known as Neos Air, is an Italian leisure airline founded in 2001 as part of the Alpitour World tourism group, flying charter and scheduled services.

Neosocialism

Neosocialism (néo-socialisme): revisionist 1930s French SFIO tendency led by Marcel Déat, Adrien Marquet, and Montagnon, preaching "order, authority, nation" and planism; expelled in 1933, founded the PSdF, linked later to Déat's collaborationist RNP.