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Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dehli
Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dehli (نصیر الدین چراغ دہلی) was a Sufi master of the Chishti order who led its Delhi lodge from 1325 until his death in 1356.
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah I
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah I was sultan of Delhi from 1246 until his death in 1265 or 1266, a grandson of Iltutmish who ruled through his deputy Balban.
Nasirul Mulk (ناصر الملک)
Nasirul Mulk (ناصر الملک), born 1950 in Mingora, Swat, is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 22nd Chief Justice of Pakistan (2014–2015) and the seventh caretaker prime minister (June–August 2018), after refusing the 2007 PCO oath.
Nasium
Nasium (Nasium/Naix, Forum Leucorum): Gallo-Roman town of the Leuques in Meuse, France, on Naix-aux-Forges, Boviolles, and Saint-Amand-sur-Ornain; 120 ha urban area below the Boviolles oppidum, classified Monument historique since 1862.
Nasıl Delirdim?
Nasıl Delirdim? ("How Did I Go Mad?") is the fifth studio album by Turkish pop singer Hande Yener, released in 2007 and marking her full shift to electronic music.
Nasjonal Samling
Nasjonal Samling (NS), meaning "National Unity," was a Norwegian far-right party founded by Vidkun Quisling in 1933. It became Norway's only legal party during the German occupation.
Naskh (script)
Naskh (نسخ) is a rounded Arabic calligraphy script, codified by Ibn Muqla in the 9th century, that is today the standard for printed Arabic and Qurans.
Nasmyth (lunar crater)
Nasmyth is a 78.37 km IAU-approved impact crater on the Moon's southern nearside at 50.49°S, 56.39°W, named in 1935 for James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and lunar observer.
Nasoalveolar molding
Nasoalveolar molding, also called presurgical nasoalveolar molding, is an orthodontic treatment for cleft lip and palate that reshapes the nose before surgical repair at 3 to 6 months.
Nasoendoscopy
Nasoendoscopy, also known as flexible nasendoscopy (FNE), is a diagnostic procedure in which a narrow flexible endoscope is passed through the nose to inspect the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and larynx.
Nasolacrimal duct cyst
Nasolacrimal duct cyst (dacryocystocele, dacryocele): congenital cyst of the tear drainage duct, presenting at birth as a bluish medial canthal mass, causing tearing, dacryocystitis, and nasal obstruction; managed first conservatively, then surgically.
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction (blocked tear duct) is blockage of tear drainage from eye to nose, congenital (valve of Hasner, resolves spontaneously in ~90% of infants) or acquired (inflammation, trauma, tumors), treated by massage, probing, intubation, or dacryocystorhinostomy.
Nasolaryngoscopy
Nasolaryngoscopy, also called fiberoptic nasendoscopy, is an office-based endoscopic exam in which a thin flexible scope passed through the nose inspects the nasal cavity, pharynx, and larynx.
Nasopalpebral lipoma-coloboma syndrome
Nasopalpebral lipoma-coloboma syndrome (NPLCS, OMIM 167730) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant congenital syndrome with eyelid and nasopalpebral lipomas, bilateral eyelid colobomas, telecanthus, and maxillary hypoplasia.
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial cancer of the nasopharynx, strongly linked to Epstein-Barr virus, endemic in southern China; treated mainly with radiation and chemoradiation, with PD-1 immunotherapy for recurrent or metastatic disease.
Nasopharyngeal myiasis
Nasopharyngeal myiasis (鼻咽頭ハエ症), ICD-11 1G01.1 / ICD-10 B87.3, is fly-larva infestation of the nose and nasopharynx, caused mainly by Oestrus ovis and Chrysomya bezziana, treated by larval removal plus ivermectin.
Nasopharyngoscopy
Nasopharyngoscopy is an office-based otolaryngology procedure in which a thin flexible or rigid scope passed through the nostril of an awake patient inspects the nasopharynx and larynx, used for hoarseness, sleep apnea, and detecting nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Nasotracheal intubation
Nasotracheal intubation is an airway management procedure in which an endotracheal tube is passed through the nose into the trachea, leaving the mouth free for surgery.
NASOVAC Influenza Vaccine, Live Attenuated Freeze Dried
NASOVAC Influenza Vaccine, Live Attenuated (Human) Freeze-Dried, also called Nasovac, is a WHO-prequalified intranasal live attenuated pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine by Serum Institute of India, prequalified 26 November 2012 (FVP-P-257/258), now listed as no routine production.
Nasovac s3 influenza vaccine
Nasovac-S3 (Nasovac-S) is Serum Institute of India's WHO-prequalified seasonal trivalent live attenuated intranasal influenza vaccine for people aged 2 years and over, licensed by CDSCO in 2013, prequalified in 2015, with contrasting efficacy results in Bangladesh and Senegal trials.
Nasovac-S (Nasovac, Nasovac-S3, Nasovac-S4)
Nasovac-S family: intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccines by Serum Institute of India, from the 2009 pandemic H1N1 vaccine Nasovac to trivalent Nasovac-S and quadrivalent Nasovac-S4, WHO prequalified 2015.
Naspers
Naspers, founded in 1915 as De Nationale Pers, is a South African technology investor whose stake in Tencent, held through Prosus, became one of history's most lucrative investments.
Nasr al-Dawla
Nasr al-Dawla (ناصر الدولة), personal name Ahmad ibn Marwan, was the Marwanid emir of Diyar Bakr in Upper Mesopotamia from 1011 until his death in 1061.
Nasr al-Din's jihad
Nasr al-Din's jihad, known as Sharr Bubba, was a 1673 reformist uprising in the Senegal River valley in which peasants and herders led by Nasir al-Din overthrew their rulers.
Nasr al-Madhkur
Nasr al-Madhkur (نصر المذكور) was an eighteenth-century Arab ruler of Bushehr under the Zand dynasty, who held Bahrain until losing it to the Utub tribes in 1783.
Nasr Farid Wasil
Nasr Farid Wasil (نصر فريد واصل) is an Egyptian scholar who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt, head of Dar al-Ifta, from 1996 to 2002, issuing 7,378 registered fatwas.
Nasr ibn Ali al-Azdi
Nasr ibn Ali al-Azdi, known as Abu 'Amr al-Azdi al-Jahdami, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Basra who died in 864 CE and appears in all six canonical Sunni collections.
Nasr ibn Sayyar
Nasr ibn Sayyar (نصر بن سيار) was an Arab general and administrator who served as the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, appointed in 738 and dying in flight in 748.
Nasr ibn Sayyar al-Kanani
Nasr ibn Sayyar al-Kanani, honorific Sharaf al-Din, was a Sunni Hanafi jurist, judge, and hadith authority of Herat, 1082 to 1176, whom biographers styled musnid Khurasan, the hadith-master of Khurasan.
Nasr ibn Shabath
Nasr ibn Shabath (نصر بن شبث العقيلي) was an Arab chieftain of the Banu Uqayl who led a decade-long revolt against Caliph al-Ma'mun from Kaysum, north of Aleppo.