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Neostigmine
Neostigmine (Prostigmin), a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor introduced in 1931, reverses nondepolarizing neuromuscular blockade after surgery and historically treated myasthenia gravis; quaternary ammonium, poorly absorbed orally, given with anticholinergics.
Neostoicism
Neostoicism (Neo-Stoicism) was a late Renaissance movement, founded by Justus Lipsius's De constantia (1584) and continued by Guillaume Du Vair, that revived ancient Stoicism in a form compatible with Christianity while rejecting Stoic materialism and determinism.
Neotame
Neotame (E 961, INS 961, brand Newtame) is an aspartame-derived high-intensity sweetener 7,000-13,000 times sweeter than sucrose, FDA-approved in 2002, with JECFA ADI 0-2 mg/kg bw and EFSA re-evaluated as safe in 2025.
Neotantra
Neotantra, or tantric sexuality, is the modern Western reworking of South Asian tantric traditions into a practice centered on sexuality and personal growth, taught through commercial workshops rather than guru lineages.
Neoteny
Neoteny: retention of juvenile traits after sexual maturation, coined by Kollmann (1885 or 1905). Classic example is the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), kept larval by absent thyroxine-driven metamorphosis; distinct from progenesis and paedomorphosis.
Neoteny in humans
Neoteny in humans: the hypothesis that delayed development retains juvenile primate traits in adults, proposed for human brain size and cognition; supported by transcriptomic and synaptic evidence but contested as a mosaic, not uniform delay.
Neoterics
The Neoterics were a group of first-century BCE Roman poets, including Catullus and Licinius Calvus, who wrote short, highly polished verse modeled on Hellenistic Greek poetry.
NEOTIR study
NEOTIR (NCT07579988) is a cross-sectional observational study at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, measuring thyroid volume by ultrasound in 400 healthy term newborns in the first week of life to establish the first Italian neonatal reference values.
NeoTract
NeoTract, Inc. was a Delaware medical device company, founded in 2004, that developed the UroLift System for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia; Teleflex acquired it in 2017.
Neotribe Ventures
Neotribe Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Swaroop "Kittu" Kolluri, investing in early- and growth-stage deep-technology companies including BillionToOne.
Neotricula aperta
Neotricula aperta (หอยเม็ดทรายลายจุด), a Pomatiopsidae freshwater snail of the lower Mekong basin, is the intermediate host of Schistosoma mekongi; it has α, β, and γ strains, the γ-strain being the most susceptible.
Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is the biogeographic realm covering Central America, South America, the West Indies, and tropical Mexico, defined by Sclater in 1858; it holds 76.7% of global freshwater fish functional diversity and 119 WWF ecoregions.
Neotropical species of Boletus
Neotropical species of Boletus are bolete fungi described from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, many since reassigned to other genera of the Boletaceae by molecular phylogenetics.
Neotrypaea californiensis
Neotrypaea californiensis, the bay ghost shrimp (formerly Callianassa californiensis), is a burrowing Callianassidae shrimp of Pacific coast estuaries from Alaska to Baja California, an ecosystem engineer whose 80-cm branching burrows drive sediment oxygen and nitrogen cycling and conflict with oyster aquaculture.
Neottia
Neottia, including the twayblades formerly placed in Listera, is a genus of 87 terrestrial orchid species native to the temperate and subarctic Northern Hemisphere, best known for the leafless bird's-nest orchid.
Neottieae
Neottieae (type genus Neottia) is a basal tribe of Epidendroideae orchids with about 150–200 species in six to seven genera across northern temperate forests, notable for repeated independent evolution of mycoheterotrophy and stepwise plastome degradation.
Neotx Holdings Ltd.
Neotx Holdings Ltd., doing business as NeoTX Therapeutics and formerly Predictive Therapeutics Ltd., is a Rehovot, Israel biotechnology company developing immuno-oncology drugs from a bacterial superantigen platform.
Neotyphodium
Neotyphodium, a former form genus of asexual, seed-transmitted grass endophytes (Clavicipitaceae) split from Acremonium in 1996 and synonymized under Epichloë in 2014; source of fescue toxicosis and ryegrass staggers.
Neovascular glaucoma
Neovascular glaucoma (NVG), also called rubeotic glaucoma, is a severe secondary glaucoma from iris and angle neovascularization driven by retinal ischemia, mainly diabetic retinopathy and central retinal vein occlusion, treated with anti-VEGF, PRP, and glaucoma surgery.
Neovascularization
Neovascularization is the formation of new blood vessels in tissue through angiogenesis, vasculogenesis, and arteriogenesis; it aids wound healing, but abnormal vessel growth feeds tumors and causes blinding eye disease.
NEOWISE
NEOWISE, the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, was NASA's asteroid-hunting reactivation of the WISE infrared telescope, which detected over 3,000 near-Earth objects from 2013 to 2024.
Neowiz (네오위즈)
Neowiz (네오위즈) is a South Korean video game company founded in 1997 and based in Pangyo, best known for publishing Lies of P and the DJMAX series.
Neozapatismo
Neozapatismo is the political ideology of Mexico's EZLN, clandestine in Chiapas from 1983, which rose publicly on 1 January 1994 and builds indigenous autonomy, direct democracy, and anticapitalism under Mandar Obedeciendo, rejecting state power and classical left labels.
Nepafenac
Nepafenac (Nevanac, Ilevro) is a topical ophthalmic NSAID prodrug converted in the eye to amfenac, a COX inhibitor; FDA-approved in 2005 for cataract surgery pain and inflammation and studied for macular edema prevention.
Nepal (नेपाल)
Nepal (नेपाल), the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia of about 29.6 million people, a federal republic since the 2015 Constitution, with a remittance-dependent economy, heavy hydropower reliance, and high climate and disaster exposure.
Nepal Academy
Nepal Academy, also known as Nepal Pragya Pratishthan, is Nepal's national academy for languages, literature, culture, and philosophy, founded in 1957 and based in Kathmandu.
Nepal Airlines
Nepal Airlines, formerly Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation, is Nepal's state-owned flag carrier. Founded in 1958, it flies from Kathmandu to 11 international and more than 25 domestic destinations.
Nepal Bhasa literature
Nepal Bhasa literature (नेपालभाषा साहित्य), also called Newari literature, is the writing of the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, with dated literary texts reaching back to 1380.
Nepal Idol
Nepal Idol (नेपाल आइडल) is a Nepali television singing competition, the Nepali adaptation of the Idol franchise, first aired in 2017 on AP1 TV, with six seasons completed by 2025.
Nepal in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia
Nepal in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia: Nepal debuted in the inaugural Eurovision Asia 2026 in Bangkok via broadcaster Himalaya TV. Its national final Nepal Decides (7 October 2026) selected Pratik Himal Rai, who will perform "Ananta Maya" on 14 November.