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Scapigliatura
Scapigliatura, Italian for "dishevelment," was a rebellious Italian literary and artistic movement centered in Milan from about 1860 to the 1880s, named after a novel by Cletto Arrighi.
Scapula
Scapula (shoulder blade): flat triangular pectoral-girdle bone on the upper back; glenoid cavity holds the humeral head, spine ends in the acromion, coracoid anchors muscles, over 10 muscles attach.
Scapular
Scapular: Christian garment from Latin scapula (shoulder), in monastic form a work apron of the habit and in devotional form two small cloth panels; the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, tied to the 1251 Simon Stock tradition, is the best known.
Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, commonly the Brown Scapular, is a Catholic sacramental of two brown wool panels worn over the shoulders as a reduced Carmelite habit.
Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy: rare genetic disorder with shoulder-girdle and distal leg weakness; genetically heterogeneous, including MYH7-related myopathy, FHL1 X-linked form, and TRPV4-related SPSMA; main differential FSHD.
Scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy
Scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy (SPSMA, neurogenic scapuloperoneal amyotrophy, New England type) is a rare autosomal dominant TRPV4-related motor neuron disease causing scapular and peroneal muscle atrophy, laryngeal palsy, and distal weakness.
Scapy
Scapy is a Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library that can forge, send, sniff, and dissect packets of many network protocols, developed by Philippe Biondi starting in 2003.
Scar
Scar: fibrous tissue replacing skin or organ tissue destroyed by injury, disease, or surgery; forms via inflammation, re-epithelialization, and collagen remodeling; includes hypertrophic and keloid types.
Scar (The Lion King)
Scar (スカー) is the villain of Disney's The Lion King (1994), Mufasa's brother who murders him and seizes the Pride Lands; voiced by Jeremy Irons, later played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (2019) and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Taka (2024).
Scar excision
Scar excision, also known as scar revision, is a surgical procedure that cuts out an existing scar and re-closes the wound to produce a finer, better-oriented scar.
Scar Literature
Scar Literature (伤痕文学) was the first public literary movement in China after the Cultural Revolution, named after Lu Xinhua's 1978 story 《伤痕》 and depicting the wounds ordinary people suffered.
Scar Symmetry
Scar Symmetry is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in Avesta in 2004, signed to Nuclear Blast and known for science fiction and transhumanist lyrics.
SCARA
SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm; Japanese スカラロボット) is a four-axis industrial robot, rigid vertically and fast horizontally, invented by Hiroshi Makino in Japan in 1978 and widely used in electronics assembly.
Scarab (artifact)
Scarab (artifact): ancient Egyptian amulet and seal shaped like Scarabaeus sacer, called kheper ("to become"). Used as amulets from the Old Kingdom, as seals from the Middle Kingdom; heart scarabs carried Book of the Dead spell 30B.
Scarabaeidae
Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles, lamellicorn beetles) is a beetle family in Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Scarabaeoidea, including dung beetles (Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) and root-feeding pasture pests, with key nutrient-cycling and seed-dispersal roles.
Scarabaeus sacer
Scarabaeus sacer, the sacred scarab beetle, is a large ball-rolling dung beetle of the Scarabaeini, described by Linnaeus in 1758 and the model for Egypt's scarab amulets and god Khepri.
Scaramouche
Scaramouche (Italian: Scaramuccia, meaning "skirmish") is a boastful, cowardly braggart soldier of the commedia dell'arte, made famous by the Neapolitan actor Tiberio Fiorilli in Paris from 1640.
SCARB1
SCARB1 (SR-BI, CLA-1), gene at 12q24.31, encodes the primary HDL cholesterol selective-uptake receptor driving reverse cholesterol transport; also an HCV E2 and SARS-CoV-2 entry receptor; variants raise HDL-C.
SCARB2
SCARB2 (LIMP-2, LMP2) is a human gene on chromosome 4q21.1 encoding a lysosomal membrane protein that traffics beta-glucocerebrosidase, serves as the enterovirus 71 receptor, and causes AMRF syndrome when biallelically mutated.
Scarbia
Scarbia, Roman road station (mansio) in Raetia at or near Scharnitz, Tyrol, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Tarteno and Vetonina; identified with Scharnitz (Barrington 19 D2), on the Teriolis-Parthanum route, name surviving in Scharnitz.
Scarborough
Scarborough is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England, Britain's first seaside resort and the largest town on the Yorkshire Coast.
Scarborough Castle
Scarborough Castle: medieval royal castle on a North Sea headland in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Founded by William le Gros in the 1130s; Henry II's great tower (1159–1169), Roman signal station, 1645 siege, 1914 shelling, Cold War ROC post.
Scarborough F.C.
Scarborough F.C., English football club founded 1879, first Conference side promoted to the Football League (1987, Neil Warnock), FA Trophy winner 1973/76/77; wound up 2007 with £2.5m debts, reformed as fan-owned Scarborough Athletic.
Scarborough Fair (ballad)
Scarborough Fair is a traditional English ballad, a variant of The Elfin Knight (Child 2, Roud 12), about lovers assigning impossible tasks; famous for the refrain "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" and the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel recording Scarborough Fair/Canticle.
Scarborough Floating Production Unit
The Scarborough Floating Production Unit is a semi-submersible gas processing facility operated by Woodside Energy off Western Australia, which delivered first gas in July 2026.
Scarborough gas field
The Scarborough gas field is a deepwater natural gas field in the Carnarvon Basin, about 375 km off Western Australia's Pilbara coast, discovered in 1979 and developed by Woodside Energy.
Scarborough Gold Cup
The Scarborough Gold Cup is the principal motorcycle road race meeting at Oliver's Mount in Scarborough, England, first run in 1950, when Geoff Duke won on a works Norton.
Scarborough Shoal
Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Dao; Panatag Shoal; Bajo de Masinloc) is the South China Sea's largest atoll, ~150 km², inside the Philippine EEZ, claimed by China, the Philippines, and Taiwan, seized by China in 2012, and the subject of the 2016 arbitral ruling and 2023-2026 enforcement escalations.
Scarborough subway extension
The Scarborough subway extension, also called the Line 2 East Extension, is a 7.8-kilometer underground extension of Toronto's Line 2 subway from Kennedy Station to Sheppard Avenue East.
Scarcity
Scarcity, also known as economic scarcity, is the condition in which human wants exceed the resources available to satisfy them; it is the starting point of economics, forcing choice and tradeoffs measured by opportunity cost.