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Strix
Strix (earless owls, wood owls) is a genus of Strigidae owls erected by Linnaeus in 1758, including the tawny, Ural, great gray, barred, and spotted owls; molecular work shows the genus paraphyletic and has split Middle Eastern desert species.
Strix (mythology)
Strix (στρίξ, plural striges): a Greco-Roman folklore creature, an owl-like night bird or night-flying woman that drank infants' blood; ancestor of the words strigoi, shtriga, and strega, and of the owl genus Strix.
Strix occidentalis
Strix occidentalis, the spotted owl (Búho manchado, Chouette tachetée), is a brown forest owl of western North America with northern, California, and Mexican subspecies, threatened by logging, wildfire, and barred owl competition.
Strix uralensis
Strix uralensis, the Ural owl, is a large pale woodland owl breeding across Eurasian forests from Scandinavia to Japan; it is named for the Ural Mountains, where its type specimen was collected.
STROBE
STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) is a reporting guideline for cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies, developed by an international initiative and first published in 2007.
Strobe light
A strobe light is a device that produces brief, intense flashes at a controlled, periodically repeated rate, letting fast motion be observed as if frozen or slowed.
STROBE statement
The STROBE statement (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) is a 22-item checklist for reporting cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies, first published in 2007.
Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott (born 1946) is an American diplomat and former Time journalist who served as deputy secretary of state 1994-2001, led Clinton-era Russia policy and NATO enlargement diplomacy, and was president of the Brookings Institution 2002-2017.
Strobilanthes
Strobilanthes (Blume, 1826) is a large Asian genus of Acanthaceae, about 200 to 473 species, known for periodical 6- to 12-year mass flowering, indigo-yielding S. cusia, and a broad synonymized taxonomy.
Strobilurin
Strobilurin is a naturally occurring antifungal metabolite produced by wood-decay fungi such as Strobilurus tenacellus, which became the lead for the strobilurin class of agricultural fungicides launched in 1996.
Stroboscopy
Stroboscopy is an endoscopic examination that uses light flashing in sync with a patient's voice to show the rapidly vibrating vocal folds in apparent slow motion, the standard exam for evaluating voice disorders.
Stroessner dictatorship
The Stroessner dictatorship was the authoritarian regime of General Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled Paraguay from 1954 until his overthrow in a February 1989 coup, one of Latin America's longest dictatorships.
Strøget
Strøget is Copenhagen's main pedestrian shopping street, 1.1 km from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv, pedestrianized 17 November 1962, made up of four streets and three squares.
Stroh Brewery Company
Stroh Brewery Company: Detroit brewery founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850, famous for fire-brewed Bohemian-style lager and its lion crest. Grew into America's third-largest brewer before debt from the Schlitz and Heileman acquisitions ended it in 1999; the Stroh's brand now belongs to Pabst.
Stroh violin
The Stroh violin, or Stroviol, is a bowed string instrument that replaces the wooden body with a metal diaphragm and horn, patented by John Stroh in London in 1899.
Stroke
A stroke, also called a brain attack, is a medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or a vessel bursts, killing brain cells within minutes.
Stroke (engine)
The stroke is the distance a piston travels in an engine cylinder between top and bottom dead center, and with the bore it fixes the engine's displacement.
Stroke (journal)
Stroke, formally Stroke: a Journal of Cerebral Circulation, is a peer-reviewed medical journal published since 1970 by the American Heart Association covering cerebral circulation and its diseases.
Stroke Belt
Stroke Belt: southeastern US region (8 core states including Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi) with roughly 20% higher stroke mortality than the rest of the nation since at least 1940; includes the higher-mortality "stroke buckle".
Stroke in China
Stroke in China: the world's largest stroke burden, with 4.1 million incident and 26.3 million prevalent cases and 2.6 million deaths in 2021; ischemic stroke dominates, high blood pressure the leading risk factor.
Stroke in pregnancy
Stroke in pregnancy is a rare ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke occurring during pregnancy or the weeks after delivery, raising risk two- to threefold and causing 4–6% of US maternal deaths.
Stroke in the elderly
Stroke in the elderly covers stroke in people 65 and over, whose cases rose from 4.39 million in 1990 to 8.19 million in 2021 despite falling age-standardized rates.
Stroke play
Stroke play, also called medal play, is golf's total-stroke scoring format: every shot over one or more rounds counts, the lowest total wins, and holing out on every hole is required in the individual form.
Stroke recovery
Stroke recovery: rehabilitation after stroke, also called stroke rehab, restoring movement, speech, cognition, and mood. Key facts: start within 48 hours when medically stable; 2026 AHA/ASA guideline; ~800,000 US strokes yearly.
Stroke systems of care
Stroke systems of care are regional networks of EMS, certified stroke centers (ASRH, PSC, TSC, CSC), telestroke, and mobile stroke units that deliver time-sensitive thrombolysis and thrombectomy.
Stroke volume
Stroke volume is the volume of blood ejected by a ventricle with each contraction, typically 60 to 100 mL per beat in healthy adults at rest.
Stroker Ace
Stroker Ace: 1983 Hal Needham NASCAR comedy starring Burt Reynolds, based on the novel Stand on It; a $14 million Universal-Warner Bros. co-venture that flopped with $13 million gross and 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stroller
A stroller, also called a pushchair, is a wheeled vehicle for transporting infants or young children in a sitting or semi-reclined position, used up to about 36 months.
Strolls with Pushkin
Strolls with Pushkin (Прогулки с Пушкиным) is an irreverent literary essay on Alexander Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky, written as Abram Tertz in a Soviet labor camp and published in 1975.
Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond (James Strom Thurmond) was an American politician from South Carolina who ran for president in 1948 as a Dixiecrat and served in the Senate from 1954 to 2003.