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SMBC Group
SMBC Group, also known as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, is one of Japan's three largest financial groups, formed in 2001 and known for its deepening alliance with Jefferies.
SMC Corporation
SMC Corporation (SMC株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of pneumatic and electric automation components such as air cylinders and solenoid valves, founded in Tokyo in 1959 and holding roughly 30% of the global pneumatics market.
SMC protein
SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) proteins, also called SMC ATPases, are conserved ring-shaped motor proteins forming cohesin, condensin, and SMC5-SMC6 complexes that compact, loop, and segregate DNA in bacteria and eukaryotes.
SMC study
SMC study: the Swedish Mammography Cohort, a population-based prospective cohort of 61,433 women recruited via mammography screening in Uppsala and Västmanland counties from 1987, now part of SIMPLER with COSM.
SMC1A
SMC1A (structural maintenance of chromosomes 1A), also SMC1L1, is an X-linked gene at Xp11.22 encoding a core cohesin complex subunit. Missense variants cause Cornelia de Lange syndrome 2 (~5% of cases); loss-of-function variants cause DEE85 epilepsy in females.
SMC3
SMC3 (structural maintenance of chromosomes 3, also BAM/bamacan, CSPG6) is a human chromosome 10 gene encoding a core cohesin subunit that holds sister chromatids together; variants cause mild Cornelia de Lange syndrome and recur in cancers.
SMCHD1
SMCHD1 (structural maintenance of chromosomes flexible hinge domain containing 1) is a 2,005-amino-acid non-canonical SMC protein that epigenetically silences genes; variants cause FSHD2 and Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome.
Smear examination
A smear examination is a diagnostic method in which cells or microorganisms from a specimen are fixed, stained, and examined under a microscope, mainly for tuberculosis and malaria.
Smear microscopy
Smear microscopy is the light-microscopic examination of stained smears, most often sputum, to detect acid-fast bacilli such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis; it remains the primary TB diagnostic in many high-burden settings.
Smeargle (ドーブル)
Smeargle (ドーブル, Doble) is a Normal-type Painter Pokémon, National Dex #235, the only Pokémon that learns Sketch, which copies the opponent's last move; in Pokémon GO it copies moves via GO Snapshot photobombs.
Smectic liquid crystal
A smectic liquid crystal is a liquid-crystal phase, first synthesized by Vorländer in 1902, in which rod-like molecules arrange into layers while remaining fluid within each layer.
Smedley Butler
Smedley Butler (1881–1940), USMC major general nicknamed "Old Gimlet Eye," double Medal of Honor recipient for Veracruz 1914 and Haiti 1915, Business Plot whistleblower before Congress, author of War Is a Racket.
Smeg (appliances)
Smeg is an Italian household appliance manufacturer founded in Guastalla in 1948 by Vittorio Bertazzoni Sr, known internationally for design-led appliances like the retro FAB refrigerators.
Smegma
Smegma: a natural buildup of sebum, dead skin cells, and moisture under the foreskin or around the clitoral hood; harmless, not an STI, and not carcinogenic despite a long medical myth.
Smell
Smell, or olfaction, is the chemical sense by which gaseous odorant molecules are detected and identified, mediated by the olfactory nerve and closely coupled to taste in flavor perception.
Smell training
Smell training, also called olfactory training, is a rehabilitation therapy in which patients sniff a fixed set of odorants twice daily for months to recover lost smell.
Smell-O-Vision
Smell-O-Vision was a scent-delivery system developed by Swiss inventor Hans Laube that piped odors through tubing to individual movie theater seats; it was used for one film, Scent of Mystery (1960).
Smelling salts
Smelling salts, also called ammonia inhalants or aromatic ammonia, are ammonium carbonate preparations releasing ammonia gas to trigger an inhalation reflex; historically used for fainting since the 13th century, now common in sports despite weak performance evidence and FDA warnings.
Smells Like Children
Smells Like Children is Marilyn Manson's 1995 remix EP on Interscope/Nothing, produced by Trent Reznor, featuring the Sweet Dreams cover, Billboard 200 No. 31, RIAA Platinum.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit is Nirvana's 1991 single opening Nevermind, written by Cobain, Grohl, and Novoselic, titled after Kathleen Hanna's graffiti, built on Pixies-style quiet-loud dynamics in F minor, and credited with taking alternative rock mainstream.
Smelly Cat
Smelly Cat is the comedic folk song performed by Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay on Friends, debuting in 1995 in "The One With The Baby On The Bus"; written by Betsy Borns, Adam Chase, Kudrow, and Chrissie Hynde, later performed with Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
Smelt (fish)
Smelt (Osmeridae) are small, silvery Northern Hemisphere fish with marine, anadromous and freshwater forms, including rainbow smelt, eulachon, Delta smelt, and the European smelt Osmerus eperlanus; several species are fished commercially and several are threatened.
Smelting
Smelting, or metal smelting, is a pyrometallurgical process that heats ore with a reductant such as coke to extract metal, a chemical change beyond mere melting.
Smelting reduction
Smelting reduction is a group of ironmaking processes that turns iron ore into liquid hot metal in a reactor using non-coking coal instead of a coke-fired blast furnace.
Smena
Smena (Смена) is a Russian illustrated literary magazine founded in Moscow in January 1924 as the youth organ of the Soviet Communist Party, with a peak circulation of 3.5 million.
Smendes
Smendes, Egyptian Nesbanebdjed, was the founder and first king of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty and first ruler of the Third Intermediate Period, reigning from Tanis about 1070–1044 BC after Ramesses XI.
Smendes II
Smendes II, also known as Nesbanebdjed II, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 21st Dynasty, the seventh pontiff, serving briefly around 997–993 BC.
Smendes III
Smendes III, Egyptian Nisu-Ba-Neb-Djedet, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the 22nd Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Osorkon I who held the office around 884–874 BC.
Smenkhkare
Smenkhkare (Semenkhkare), late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh of the Amarna Period with throne name Ankhkheperure, husband of Meritaten. Debates cover one versus two rulers with Neferneferuaten, a possible co-regency with Akhenaten, and the disputed KV55 burial.
SMERSH (СМЕРШ)
SMERSH (СМЕРШ, from Smert shpionam, "Death to Spies") was Soviet military counterintelligence, 1943–1946, created from NKVD Special Departments, headed by Abakumov under Stalin, disbanded into the MGB.