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Nail pitting
Nail pitting: small (about 1 mm or less) depressions in the nail plate from defective keratinization of the proximal nail matrix. Also called pitted nails. Often idiopathic; otherwise linked to psoriasis, alopecia areata, eczema, lichen planus, trachyonychia, chemotherapy, or nail cosmetics.
Nail polish
Nail polish, also called nail varnish or nail lacquer, is a cosmetic coating that dries into a colored film decorating and protecting fingernails and toenails.
Nail Yakupov (Наиль Раилович Якупов)
Nail Yakupov (Наиль Раилович Якупов) is a Russian professional hockey right wing drafted first overall by the Edmonton Oilers in 2012, and is widely described as a major draft bust.
Nail-patella syndrome
Nail-patella syndrome (Fong disease, Turner-Kieser syndrome, HOOD), a rare autosomal dominant LMX1B disorder with nail dysplasia, absent or hypoplastic patellae, elbow dysplasia, pathognomonic iliac horns, nephropathy, and glaucoma.
Nail-patella-like renal disease
Nail-patella-like renal disease (Salcedo syndrome, ORPHA:2613, OMIM 256020) is an extremely rare LMX1B-related genetic glomerular disease with hematuria and proteinuria, moth-eaten glomerular basement membrane with type III collagen, and no nail or skeletal abnormalities.
Naila Grrewal
Naila Grrewal (born 1996) is an Indian actress known for Tamasha (2015), Thappad (2020), and as lawyer Ananya Shroff in Netflix's Maamla Legal Hai; she led Ishq Vishk Rebound (2024) and will debut in South cinema with Atlee's Raaka.
Nailbomb
Nailbomb is an industrial metal side project formed in 1994 by Max Cavalera of Sepultura and Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel, who released one album, Point Blank.
Nailed It!
Nailed It! is a 2018 American baking competition series on Netflix, hosted by Nicole Byer and judged by pastry chef Jacques Torres, with a $10,000 prize.
Nâilî
Nâilî, known as Nâilî-i Kadîm, was an Ottoman divan poet born in Istanbul around 1608 and a leading representative of the sebk-i Hindî Indian style; he died in 1666.
Nails
Nails is an American powerviolence and deathgrind band from Oxnard, California, fronted by Todd Jones, formerly of Terror and Carry On, known for short, abrasive songs.
Nailya Gilyazova
Nailya Gilyazova (Наиля Файзрахмановна Гилязова), born 1953 in Kazan, Soviet foil fencer of Dynamo Kazan; Olympic team foil gold 1976, silver 1980, and seven world titles 1974-1982 including individual gold at Rome 1982.
Naim Frashëri
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900) was an Albanian poet of the national awakening, widely considered the national poet of Albania and a central figure of the Albanian Renaissance.
Naim Süleymanoğlu
Naim Süleymanoğlu (Pocket Hercules), Turkish weightlifter born in Bulgaria 1967, defected 1986, won Olympic gold 1988, 1992, 1996, set 46 world records, died 2017.
Naima
Naima (نائما), real name Mustafa, was an Ottoman statesman and historian born in Aleppo in 1655 and died in 1716, regarded as the empire's first official court historiographer and author of the chronicle Tarih-i Naima.
Naima Khatoon (نعیمہ خاتون)
Naima Khatoon (نعیمہ خاتون) is an Indian psychologist and university administrator who serves as the 25th Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. She is the first woman to hold the office.
Naïma Moutchou
Naïma Moutchou, born in 1980, is a French lawyer and politician who served in the National Assembly for Val-d'Oise from 2017 and became Minister of Overseas Territories in 2025.
Naiman
The Naiman (乃蛮) were a tribal polity of the western Mongolian steppe in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, ruled by Tayang Khan and defeated by Genghis Khan in 1204.
Naimat West Oil and Gas Field
The Naimat West Oil and Gas Field is a conventional oil and gas field in Sindh, Pakistan, discovered in 2013 and operated by United Energy Pakistan with Government Holdings.
Naimon (crater on Iapetus)
Naimon (Naimes) is an IAU-approved impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus, 244 km wide, centered at 9.30°N, 329.30°W, named after King Charles' wisest counselor in the Song of Roland; it is unrelaxed compared with Rhea's similar Powehiwehi basin.
Naina Devi
Naina Devi (नैना देवी) is a Shakti Peetha goddess temple, chiefly the hilltop shrine in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, where Sati's eyes are believed to have fallen; a namesake temple stands at Nainital, Uttarakhand.
Nainar Nagendran
Nainar Nagendran is an Indian politician who became president of the BJP's Tamil Nadu unit in 2025, after serving as an AIADMK minister under Jayalalithaa.
Nainital (नैनीताल)
Nainital (नैनीताल), the Lake District of India, is a Kumaon Himalayan hill town in Uttarakhand around Naini Lake; district headquarters, High Court seat, British-era hill station founded in the 1840s, facing lake pollution and landslides.
Nainsukh
Nainsukh (नैनसुख), circa 1710 to 1778, was an Indian Pahari painter from Guler who served the rulers of Jasrota and painted Balwant Singh repeatedly; his sons carried his style to Kangra.
Nainwa Mound
Nainwa Mound: ancient archaeological mound at Nainwa, Bundi district, Rajasthan; ASI centrally protected monument of national importance, register number N-RJ-30, first listed under the 1951 Act with Keshwarai Patan.
Naïo Oz
Naïo Oz is a small, fully electric autonomous weeding robot made by Naïo Technologies of Toulouse, France, launched in 2013 and used for soil preparation, seeding, and mechanical weeding on market gardens.
Naiogialo
Naiogialo, a Pleiades gazetteer place (ID 138479), is an ancient Roman villa in Gaul cited as BAtlas 14 E3, identified with Nieul-lès-Saintes, Charente-Maritime, attested AD 300–640.
NAION trial
Clinical trials for non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION): the IONDT surgical trial and small citicoline (CDP-choline) studies; no treatment has demonstrated proven efficacy.
NAIP
NAIP (NLR family apoptosis inhibitory protein, BIRC1/NLRB1) is a human 5q13.2 gene encoding a 1,403-aa IAP-family protein that inhibits caspases 3, 7, and 9, seeds the NAIP–NLRC4 inflammasome against bacterial T3SS and flagellin ligands, and is deleted in spinal muscular atrophy.
Nair
Nair (Nayar), a large matrilineal caste cluster of Kerala, historically martial landholders (jenmis) below the Namboodiri Brahmins, known for marumakkathayam taravads, sambandham unions, and the 1925 Travancore Nair Regulation ending taravad partition rules.
Nair Brigade of Travancore
The Nair Brigade of Travancore (തിരുവിതാംകൂർ നായർ ബ്രിഗേഡ്) was the military body of the kingdom of Travancore, reorganized on the European model by Maharaja Marthanda Varma.