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Spoon
Spoon: a shallow bowl on a handle for scooping, stirring, serving, and measuring food. Also called cochleare in Latin. Earliest forms were shells and gourds; today made mainly of 18/10 stainless steel.
Spoon (band)
Spoon is an American indie rock band formed in Austin, Texas, in 1993 by Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, named after a Can song. Known for minimalist songwriting, it was Metacritic's top artist of the 2000s and earned a 2023 Grammy nomination for Lucifer on the Sofa.
Spoon bending
Spoon bending, popularized by Uri Geller from 1972, is the claimed psychokinetic bending of metal spoons; tested at SRI and exposed by James Randi as a conjuring trick using pre-weakened spoons, misdirection, and sleight of hand.
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology is a 1915 poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters in which deceased residents of a fictional Illinois town speak their own epitaphs.
Spoon theory
Spoon theory, created by Christine Miserandino in 2003, is a chronic illness metaphor where spoons represent finite daily energy units; users called spoonies budget tasks, borrow against tomorrow, and risk crash days.
Spoonbridge and Cherry
Spoonbridge and Cherry is a sculptural fountain by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, a giant spoon bearing a red cherry at the center of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Spoonerism
A spoonerism is a slip of the tongue or deliberate wordplay in which the initial sounds of two words are exchanged, named after Oxford's Reverend William Spooner.
Spoonley
Spoonley (Spoonley Wood Roman Villa) is a scheduled Romano-British courtyard villa near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, excavated in 1882 by Middleton and Bazeley; its visible mosaic is a Victorian replica, with finds at Sudeley Castle and the British Museum.
Spoonmaker's Diamond
The Spoonmaker's Diamond (Kaşıkçı Elması) is an 86-carat pear-shaped diamond in the Topkapı Palace treasury in Istanbul, surrounded by 49 smaller diamonds, and among the largest on public display.
Spoons sex position
Spoons sex position: both partners lie on their sides facing the same direction, one behind the other (big spoon, little spoon). Used for intercourse and cuddling; recommended in late pregnancy, after cancer treatment, and for painful conditions.
SPOP
SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) is a human protein that recruits targets for degradation via the CULLIN3/RBX1 E3 ubiquitin ligase; its gene is the most commonly mutated gene in primary prostate cancer.
Sporadic adult-onset ataxia of unknown etiology
Sporadic adult-onset ataxia of unknown etiology (SAOA, idiopathic late-onset cerebellar ataxia) is a rare non-hereditary degenerative ataxia beginning around age 50, with progressive gait ataxia, dysmetria, and dysarthria, differentiated from MSA-C and increasingly reclassified genetically (FGF14, RFC1).
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD, sporadic CJD) is the most common human prion disease, about 85-90% of CJD cases, a rapidly fatal dementia with myoclonus, median onset age 65, incidence roughly 0.5-2 per million per year, no treatment.
Sporadic fatal insomnia
Sporadic fatal insomnia (sFI, sCJDMM2 thalamic subtype) is an extremely rare sporadic prion disease mimicking fatal familial insomnia without PRNP mutation, causing sleep loss, autonomic and motor signs, thalamic degeneration, and death within two to three years.
Sporadic group
A sporadic group is one of the 26 finite simple groups outside the infinite families, ranging from the Mathieu group M11 to the monster group.
Sporadic hyperekplexia
Sporadic hyperekplexia, or startle disease, is a rare neurologic disease of excessive startle response with hyperreflexia in patients with no affected relatives and no other neurologic cause.
Sporadic infantile bilateral striatal necrosis
Sporadic infantile bilateral striatal necrosis (Sporadic IBSN, ABSN, ORPHA:225147) is a rare, non-inherited syndrome of bilateral symmetric degeneration of the caudate, putamen, and pallidum, often post-febrile, causing choreoathetosis, dystonia, and regression.
Sporadic lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Sporadic lymphangioleiomyomatosis (S-LAM) is a rare cystic lung neoplasm of women without tuberous sclerosis, caused by somatic TSC2/TSC1 mutations activating mTOR; treated with sirolimus.
Sporadic Parkinson disease
Sporadic Parkinson disease (ICD-11 8A00.00; idiopathic PD) is Parkinson disease without apparent inheritance, the majority of cases, a multifactorial Lewy body disease driven by polygenic risk, environment, and aging.
Sporadoceras
Sporadoceras, Hyatt 1884, a genus of Famennian (Late Devonian) goniatite ammonoids and namesake of the Sporadoceratidae; type species Goniatites bidens; near-global tropical distribution, index species S. muensteri.
Sporangium
Sporangium (plural sporangia): the spore-producing capsule of plants, fungi, and slime molds. Eusporangia arise from many initial cells; leptosporangia from one, with an annulus for spore release.
Spore
Spore: single reproductive or survival cell of fungi, plants, algae, and Bacillales/Clostridiales bacteria; disperses in space and time, resists heat and drought via trehalose, DPA, and SASPs, and germinates through germinant receptors.
Spore (2008 video game)
Spore (2008), Maxis/EA god game by Will Wright, evolving a creature through Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space stages; Metacritic 84 but Amazon rating under 1.5 stars over SecuROM DRM.
Spore and pollen abnormalities as ecological stress indicators
Malformed fossil spores and pollen grains, formed when meiosis or tetrad-stage grain separation is disrupted, permanently record environmental stress in land plants, peaking at mass extinctions.
Spore dispersal in ferns
Spore dispersal in ferns is how haploid spores travel from the parent plant to new sites, ejected by a sporangium cavitation catapult at about 10 meters per second.
Spore dormancy and germination in ferns
Spore dormancy and germination in ferns describe how released spores persist, sometimes over 50 years, until light, temperature, and moisture allow germination into a gametophyte.
Spore prints and chemical spot tests
Spore prints and chemical spot tests are bench techniques mushroom identifiers use to record spore color and test tissue chemistry with reagents like KOH and Melzer's, separating lookalike species.
Spores, elaters and dispersal cells of bryophytes
Spores, elaters and dispersal cells of bryophytes are the microscopic propagules and sterile helper cells through which mosses, liverworts, and hornworts reach new sites, mostly by wind.
Spork
Spork: hybrid eating utensil, also called runcible spoon, combining a spoon bowl with short fork tines. Patented by Samuel W. Francis in 1874; word dates to 1909; trademarked by Van Brode Milling (1970). Distinct from the SPORK Java merge tool and FPGA scheduler.
Sporobolus
Sporobolus (dropseed) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 225 C4 grasses in Poaceae, Chloridoideae, defined by one-flowered awnless spikelets and seed-ejecting pericarps; includes turf, forage, and invasive weed species.