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Setka (prince)
Setka was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, an eldest son of king Djedefre, known almost entirely from a rose granite scribe statuette in the Louvre.
Setmelanotide
Setmelanotide (IMCIVREE), an MC4R agonist cyclic peptide by Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, treats rare genetic obesity (POMC, PCSK1, LEPR deficiency, Bardet-Biedl syndrome) and acquired hypothalamic obesity via daily subcutaneous injection, first FDA-approved 2020.
Setnakhte
Setnakhte (Sethnakht), pharaoh c. 1185-1182 BC, founded Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty after the contested end of the Nineteenth, fathered Ramesses III, and is known chiefly from the Elephantine Stela, Papyrus Harris I, and the usurped tomb KV14.
Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire
Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire, also called Setne II, is the second Demotic Egyptian tale of the magician-prince Setne, in which his son leads him through the netherworld.
Seto Dharti
Seto Dharti ("White Earth") is a 2012 Nepali novel by Amar Neupane about Tara, a Brahmin girl widowed at nine; it won the Madan Puraskar.
Seto Inland Sea (瀬戸内海)
The Seto Inland Sea (瀬戸内海, Setonaikai) is Japan's semi-enclosed sea between Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, about 450 km long, mean depth 38 m, governed since 1973 by a special conservation law and total pollutant load control.
Seto leelo
Seto leelo is the polyphonic folk-singing tradition of the Seto people of south-eastern Estonia and the Pechory district of Russia, inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009.
Seto ware
Seto ware (瀬戸焼) is the collective name for pottery and porcelain made in and around Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, one of the Six Ancient Kilns with roughly a thousand years of production.
Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball
Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball: Seton Hall University's Division I BIG EAST program (Pirates), founded 1903-04, 1989 NCAA runner-up to Michigan 80-79 OT, three BIG EAST tournament titles, NIT champs 1953 and 2024, coached by Shaheen Holloway.
Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named for Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint.
Seton Keough High School
Seton Keough High School was an all-girls Catholic college preparatory school at 1201 Caton Ave., Baltimore, formed in 1988 by merging Seton and Archbishop Keough high schools; enrollment fell from 450 to 186 before its 2017 closure and 2021 demolition.
Setonix
Setonix is the flagship supercomputer of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Kensington, Western Australia, built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the HPE Cray EX architecture.
Setophaga
Setophaga is a genus of migratory New World warblers erected by William Swainson in 1827, including the American Redstart, Yellow Warbler, and former Dendroica species.
SetPoint Medical
SetPoint Medical Corp is a Valencia, California medical technology company whose implantable vagus nerve stimulation device, the SetPoint System, won FDA approval in July 2025 for rheumatoid arthritis.
Setra
Setra is a German brand of touring and intercity buses founded in 1951 by Kässbohrer. The name derives from selbstend, the German word for "self-supporting," referring to its pioneering design.
Setsubun (節分)
Setsubun (節分) is a Japanese observance held the day before Risshun in early February, best known for mamemaki, the throwing of roasted soybeans to drive out evil spirits.
Setsuko K. Chambers
Setsuko K. Chambers is an American gynecologic oncologist and physician-scientist at the University of Arizona, known for a trastuzumab trial in uterine serous carcinoma and fallopian tube cytology for early ovarian cancer detection.
Setsuko Koizumi (小泉節子)
Setsuko Koizumi (小泉節子, 1868-1932), also called Koizumi Setsu, was the Japanese wife of Lafcadio Hearn; his ghost-story retellings like Kwaidan drew on tales she told him, and she wrote Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918).
Setsuro Ebashi
Setsuro Ebashi (江橋節郎, 1922–2006) was a Japanese physiologist at the University of Tokyo who discovered troponin and established the calcium theory of muscle contraction regulation.
Setsuwa
Setsuwa (説話) is a Japanese literary term for narrative tales defined by oral transmission, including myths, legends, and folk tales; the landmark collection Konjaku monogatarishū was compiled around 1120–1140.
Settat Province
Settat Province (إقليم سطات) is Morocco's largest province of the Casablanca-Settat region: 7,125 km², 652,292 people (2024), capital Settat, semi-arid climate, Sardi sheep farming, cement and textile industry.
Sette Bassi
Sette Bassi is the ruins of one of ancient Rome's largest suburban villas, built near the Via Latina under Antoninus Pius, second only to the Villa dei Quintili.
Setté Cama
Setté Cama is a 240,000-hectare Ramsar wetland site (no. 353) in Ogooué-Maritime, Gabon, designated 30 December 1986, comprising the Ouanga fauna reserve and Sette-Cama hunting domain, rich in birds, mammals, and marine turtles near Loango National Park.
Sette Sale
Sette Sale (Cisterna delle Sette Sale), ancient Roman cistern on Rome's Oppian Hill; nine chambers on two levels, over 8 million liters, built under Trajan to supply the Baths of Trajan.
Settecamini
Settecamini, Rome: archaeological area in eastern Rome on the ancient via Tiburtina (8th-9th mile), with a 1st-century BC post station, tombs, a villa, and an inn, used from the 1st century BC to the 6th century AD.
Settefinestre
Settefinestre: Roman villa near Cosa in southern Etruria (Tuscany), excavated 1976–1981 by Andrea Carandini; the best-known example of Varro's villa perfecta, a slave-run wine-producing estate of the Sestii family, abandoned in the Antonine period.
Setter
Setter, gundog breed type (English, Gordon, Irish, Irish Red, and White) that crouches or "sets" to indicate game birds; named for net-hunting posture, English Setter an AKC 1878 charter breed.
Setthathirat I
Setthathirat I, also known as Setthavong, was king of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang from 1547 until his death or disappearance in 1571 or 1572.
Setthathirath
Setthathirath was king of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang from 1548 to 1571, remembered for moving the capital to Vientiane, rebuilding Pha That Luang, and holding off Burmese invasions.
Setting (narrative)
Setting (narrative): the spatiotemporal circumstances, time, place, and social environment, in which a story's events occur; also called milieu. Distinguished from spatial frames and storyworld in narratology; typed as irrelevant, functional, mental, or symbolic in prose fiction.