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Netherton syndrome

Netherton syndrome (Comel-Netherton syndrome, bamboo hair syndrome): rare autosomal recessive SPINK5/LEKTI-deficiency genodermatosis with ichthyosiform erythroderma, trichorrhexis invaginata, and atopy with high IgE; incidence about 1 in 200,000 births.

Nethinim

The Nethinim, also called Nathinites, were a class of temple servants in post-exilic Jerusalem, named from Hebrew for "given ones" and ranked below priests and Levites.

NETIFLOW trial

The NETIFLOW trial was a French randomized trial comparing mineral-rich nasal irrigation with saline after endoscopic sinus surgery for nasal polyposis, favoring the mineral solution early.

Netilmicin

Netilmicin (brand name Netromycin) is a semisynthetic aminoglycoside antibiotic developed by Schering from sisomicin, used for severe Gram-negative and staphylococcal infections and still marketed in combination eye drops.

Netivudine

Netivudine (882C87, PYaraU), an experimental 5-propynyl arabinofuranosyl uracil nucleoside antiviral, potent selective inhibitor of varicella zoster virus; reached Phase 3 but development was suspended after rodent toxicity findings.

Netizen

A netizen is a person who uses the internet for social and political life, a term coined in the early 1990s by Michael Hauben while studying the internet's implications.

Netjerkare Siptah

Netjerkare Siptah, also known as Neitiqerty Siptah, is the conventional name of an Egyptian pharaoh placed at the end of the Sixth Dynasty, around 2184–2181 BC.

Netjernakht

Netjernakht, also written Netjer-nakht, was a Middle Kingdom official of Egypt's 16th Upper Egyptian nome who held the title overseer of the Eastern Desert and was buried in tomb BH 23 at Beni Hassan.

NetJets

NetJets, formerly Executive Jet Aviation, is an American private aviation company in Columbus, Ohio, that pioneered fractional jet ownership. It has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1998.

NetKet

NetKet is an open-source Python library for studying many-body quantum systems with machine learning methods, built on JAX and introduced by Giuseppe Carleo and colleagues in 2019.

Netley Abbey

Netley Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery near Netley in Hampshire, England, founded in 1239 by monks from Beaulieu Abbey and converted into a Tudor mansion after 1536.

Netlify

Netlify is a San Francisco-based web hosting platform that builds and deploys web applications directly from a Git repository, founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach.

Netlist

A netlist is a textual description of an electronic circuit listing its components and their connections, or nets, produced by synthesis and used in digital, analog, and PCB design.

Netmeds

Netmeds was an Indian epharmacy founded in Chennai in 2010 by Pradeep Dadha of the Dadha Pharma family, acquired by Reliance Retail in 2020 for about $83 million.

NetMeeting

Microsoft NetMeeting was a free Windows program combining audio, video, and data conferencing, including application sharing and a whiteboard, released in 1996 and last shipped with Windows XP before its 2003 retirement.

Netnography

Netnography is a qualitative, interpretive research methodology that adapts ethnographic techniques to online communities and social media, introduced by Robert V. Kozinets in the mid-1990s.

Neto (footballer, born 1985)

Neto (Hélio Hermito Zampier Neto, b. 16 Aug 1985, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian centre-back of Chapecoense, Santos and Guarani; 2016 LaMia crash survivor, Copa Sudamericana 2016 winner, retired 13 Dec 2019, later club director.

Neto (footballer, born 1989)

Neto, full name Norberto Murara Neto, is a Brazilian goalkeeper born in 1989 in Araxá who has played for Juventus, Valencia, Barcelona, and Bournemouth, returning to Juventus in 2026.

Netomnia

Netomnia is a UK wholesale full-fiber (FTTP) broadband network operator founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tewkesbury, selling access through its YouFibre and Brsk retail brands.

Netón Vega

Netón Vega, stage name of Luis Ernesto Vega Carvajal (born 2003, La Paz, Baja California Sur), is a Mexican corridos tumbados singer-songwriter who wrote for Peso Pluma before the albums Mi Vida Mi Muerte (2025) and Delirium (2025).

NETRA Gas Pipeline

NETRA (Norddeutsche Erdgas-Transversale) is a 341 km natural gas pipeline carrying Norwegian gas from the North Sea coast near Dornum to Salzwedel, commissioned in 1995 and owned by OGE and Gasunie Deutschland.

NETRA GmbH Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale & Co

NETRA GmbH Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale & Co KG is a German joint venture that owns the NETRA gas pipeline from Dornum to Salzwedel, commissioned in 1995.

Netrakona District

Netrakona District (নেত্রকোণা জেলা), also spelled Netrokona, is a district of Mymensingh Division in north-eastern Bangladesh bordering Meghalaya; 2,810 km², about 2.3 million people, ten upazilas, haor wetlands, district status since 1984.

Netrikann

Netrikann (நெற்றிக்கண்) is a 2021 Tamil crime thriller, an official remake of the Korean film Blind, directed by Milind Rau, starring Nayanthara as a blind ex-CBI officer, released directly on Disney+ Hotstar on 13 August 2021.

Netrin

Netrins (from Sanskrit 'Netr', guide) are laminin-related extracellular guidance proteins, including secreted netrin-1, 3, 4 and GPI-anchored netrin G1/G2, that attract or repel migrating axons via DCC and UNC5 receptors and also act in cancer.

Netrunner

Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric cyberpunk card game by Richard Garfield (1996, Wizards of the Coast), relaunched as Android: Netrunner by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012, and maintained since 2018 by Null Signal Games.

NetScaler

NetScaler, formerly Citrix ADC, is an application delivery controller combining load balancing, SSL offload, and a web application firewall, sold as hardware, virtual, bare-metal, and container appliances.

Netscape

Netscape, formally Netscape Communications Corporation, was a 1990s software company in Mountain View, California whose Navigator browser dominated the web before Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer displaced it.

Netscape (web browser)

Netscape Navigator, later part of the Netscape Communicator suite, was a web browser released in 1994 that dominated the 1990s web, introduced JavaScript and SSL, and was discontinued in 2008.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was a web browser released by Netscape Communications in December 1994, holding about 80 percent of browser usage in the mid-1990s before losing to Internet Explorer.