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Tibouchina

Tibouchina (glorytree) is a Neotropical Melastomataceae genus, native S. Mexico to S. Tropical America, with 38 accepted species after the 2019 split into Pleroma, Chaetogastra, and Andesanthus; bee-pollinated, with T. herbacea invasive in Hawaii.

Tibra Capital

Tibra Capital, originally FTD Trading Pty Limited, is an Australian proprietary trading and market-making firm founded in 2006 by former Optiver traders and based at Austinmer, New South Wales.

Tibradden Chambered Cairn

Tibradden Chambered Cairn (Irish: Tigh Bródáin, "Brodáin's House") is a Bronze Age burial cairn on the summit of Tibradden Mountain in the Dublin Mountains, Ireland, first excavated in 1849.

Tibremciclib tartrate capsules

Tibremciclib tartrate capsules (泰瑞西利, BPI-16350, brand name Kangmeina) are an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor developed by Betta Pharmaceuticals of Hangzhou, approved in China in 2025 for advanced breast cancer.

Tibullus

Tibullus (c. 54 – 19 BC) was a Latin poet of the Augustan age, one of the principal Roman writers of love elegy, alongside Propertius and Ovid.

Tibur Chasmata

Tibur Chasmata, a 156-km-wide system of extensional troughs on Saturn's moon Dione at 60N, 69.3W, IAU-named in 1982 after the ancient Italian town Tibur (modern Tivoli).

Tiburcio Carías Andino

Tiburcio Carías Andino (1876–1969) was a Honduran lawyer, soldier, and politician who ruled Honduras as president and personal dictator from 1933 to 1949, the country's longest presidency.

Tiburoneros

Tiburoneros (The Shark Hunters) is a 1962 Mexican black-and-white drama directed by Luis Alcoriza, starring Julio Aldama as shark fisherman Aurelio Gómez on the Tabasco coast; it won Best Cinedrama at Mar del Plata 1963 and was restored in 4K by Filmoteca UNAM.

Tic

Tic is a sudden, rapid, recurrent movement or sound that people may suppress. It defines childhood neurodevelopmental conditions including Tourette syndrome and provisional tic disorder.

TIC 139270665

TIC 139270665 is a G2 star about 619 light-years away with two confirmed 2024 planets: TIC 139270665 b, a dense warm sub-Saturn (0.463 Jupiter masses, 23.6-day transit orbit) found via TESS and citizen science, and TIC 139270665 c, an eccentric 4.89-Jupiter-mass radial-velocity planet.

TIC 24750448

TIC 24750448 is a K-type dwarf star about 581 light-years from Earth in Hydrus, hosting two transiting planets, a sub-Neptune and a Neptune-like world, found in 2026 by the RAVEN search of TESS images.

Tic disorder

Tic disorder: DSM-5-TR neurodevelopmental conditions with motor and/or vocal tics, covering Tourette syndrome, persistent (chronic) motor or vocal tic disorder, and provisional tic disorder, diagnosed by tic type, duration, and onset before age 18.

Tic Tac

Tic Tac is Ferrero's pill-shaped breath mint and candy brand, launched in 1969 with the iconic flip-top dispenser; made from layered sugar with Piedmont mint, sold in over 70 countries.

Tic-tac-toe

Tic-tac-toe, or noughts and crosses, is a 3x3 X-and-O game tracing to Roman terni lapilli, named by 1852-1892, solved as a forced draw with perfect play, and the basis of OXO (1952), among the first video games.

Ticagrelor

Ticagrelor (Brilinta) is an oral, reversible P2Y12 platelet inhibitor approved in 2011 for ACS, post-MI, high-risk CAD, and minor stroke/TIA, dosed 180 mg load then 90 mg twice daily, with bleeding and dyspnea as main adverse effects.

Tical (album)

Tical (1994) is Method Man's debut solo album and the first Wu-Tang Clan solo release after Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), produced almost entirely by RZA on Def Jam, certified platinum in 1995.

Ticarcillin

Ticarcillin is a semisynthetic, injectable penicillin antibiotic with broad bactericidal activity, developed in 1964 at Beecham in the UK as an improved alternative to carbenicillin.

Tichina Arnold

Tichina Arnold (born 1969, Queens, New York) is an American actress and singer known as Pam on Martin, Rochelle on Everybody Hates Chris, and Tina Butler on CBS's The Neighborhood, with three NAACP Image Awards.

Tichit

Tichit (Arabic: تيشيت), also spelled Tichitt, is a Saharan oasis town in central Mauritania founded around 1150, a trans-Saharan trade hub now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tichitt culture

The Tichitt culture was a Late Stone Age society of southeastern Mauritania known for its dry stone wall villages, flourishing in the second and first millennia BC.

Ticino

Ticino (Repubblica e Cantone Ticino) is Switzerland's southernmost, entirely Italian-speaking canton, created in 1803 by Napoleon's Act of Mediation from former confederate bailiwicks south of the Gotthard, with Bellinzona as capital and red-blue flag.

Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve

Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve (Riserva della Biosfera Ticino Val Grande Verbano): UNESCO MAB reserve in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy, designated 2018 as an extension of the 2002 Valle del Ticino reserve; over 332,000 hectares to the Swiss border, 211 municipalities, core-buffer-transition zonation.

Tick

Ticks (order Ixodida; families Ixodidae and Argasidae) are blood-feeding arachnid ectoparasites with egg, larva, nymph, and adult stages; 1,033 valid species vector Lyme disease, RMSF, and tick-borne encephalitis.

Tick bite

A tick bite is the penetration of skin by an attached, feeding tick, which anchors itself with barbed mouthparts and cement and feeds for minutes to weeks.

Tick infestation

Tick infestation: parasitic hard and soft ticks (Ixodidae, Argasidae) on hosts or premises. Four life stages, blood meal each stage, up to 3-year cycles; major livestock pest and disease vector; controlled with acaricides and integrated management.

Tick paralysis

Tick paralysis is a rapidly reversible neurological condition caused by a neurotoxin from an engorged female tick during feeding, producing ascending flaccid paralysis within 2 to 6 days.

Tick removal and post-bite response

Tick removal and post-bite response covers pulling an attached tick with fine-tipped tweezers, cleaning the wound, and watching for rash or fever for up to 30 days.

Tick-borne disease

Tick-borne disease: illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or parasites transmitted by infected tick bites, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and alpha-gal syndrome; transmission occurs via tick saliva during feeding.

Tick-borne encephalitis

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), a Flaviviridae Orthoflavivirus with European, Siberian, and Far Eastern subtypes, is an Ixodes tick-borne CNS infection endemic from Europe to Asia, also spread by unpasteurized dairy, preventable by inactivated vaccines such as TICOVAC.

Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine

Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine, also called FSME-IMMUN, TicoVac, or Encepur, an inactivated whole-virus vaccine against TBEV; three-dose schedule, over 87% seroconversion, Ticovac the only US-licensed product since 2021.