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Tick-borne encephalitis virus

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), a Flaviviridae Orthoflavivirus with three subtypes (European, Far Eastern, Siberian), is transmitted by Ixodes ticks across Europe and Asia, causing biphasic CNS disease with up to 35% mortality and preventable by inactivated vaccines.

Tick-borne relapsing fever

Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF), also soft tick relapsing fever, is a Borrelia spirochete infection transmitted mainly by Ornithodoros ticks, causing recurrent fever episodes; distinct from louse-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia recurrentis.

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Tick, Tick... Boom! is Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, begun as the 1990 one-man rock monologue Boho Days, reworked by David Auburn into a three-actor Off-Broadway show in 2001, and adapted into a 2021 Netflix film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda starring Andrew Garfield.

Tick, Tick... Boom! (film)

tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) is Lin-Manuel Miranda's feature directorial debut, a Netflix film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, starring Andrew Garfield as composer Jon in 1990 New York, with Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Editing.

Ticker symbol

A ticker symbol, also called a stock symbol, is a short code of one to five letters or digits that identifies a tradable security on a particular market or exchange.

Ticker tape

Ticker tape, also known as stock ticker tape, is the narrow paper strip on which telegraph-linked stock tickers printed share prices and trades as they happened, starting in 1867.

Ticket (티켓)

Ticket (티켓, Tiket) is a 1986 South Korean drama by Im Kwon-taek about women in a Seokcho 'ticket dabang'; Kim Ji-mee's first film as producer for Jimee Films, censored at release, later restored by KOFA.

Ticket resale

Ticket resale, also known as ticket scalping or ticket touting, is the reselling of event tickets on a secondary market, often at markups above face value.

Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) (TV series)

Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) is a 2026 Thai drama series by GMMTV, set in 1996 at a Catholic boys' school, where a devout student's faith is shaken by love for a classmate.

Ticket to Paradise (2022 film)

Ticket to Paradise is a 2022 romantic comedy directed by Ol Parker, in which George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced couple who travel to Bali.

Ticket to Ride (board game)

Ticket to Ride, Alan R. Moon's 2004 Days of Wonder railway board game (Zug am Zug, Spiel des Jahres), for 2-5 players: collect train cards, claim North American routes, complete destination tickets; USA 1910 expansion, 2025 refresh, Netflix deal.

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster: American ticketing company founded 1976, wholly owned by Live Nation Entertainment since the 2010 merger; dominant in US primary concert ticketing (about 80% of major venues) and subject of major DOJ and FTC antitrust actions.

Tickets

Tickets: documents or digital credentials entitling holders to admission, travel, or services. From 1520s French estiquet; covers admission, transport, raffle, traffic, political, and IT senses, plus ticketing platforms, fees, and fraud.

Tickets to My Downfall

Tickets to My Downfall is Machine Gun Kelly's fifth studio album, a pop-punk record produced by Travis Barker, released September 25, 2020 on Interscope; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Tickle Me Elmo

Tickle Me Elmo: motorized laughing, shaking plush of Sesame Street's Elmo by Tyco Preschool, released July 1996 at $29.95; 1996's must-have toy, over 1 million sold by Christmas, sparked by Rosie O'Donnell giveaways.

Tickle torture

Tickle torture is prolonged non-consensual gargalesis, the intense laughter-inducing form of tickle, applied to restrained victims; documented in WWII reports, it can meet torture and battery definitions despite the victim's involuntary laughter.

Tickle v Giggle

Tickle v Giggle is an Australian Federal Court decision from 2024. It ruled that removing a transgender woman from a women-only app was unlawful gender identity discrimination.

Tickled

Tickled (2016) is a New Zealand documentary by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve investigating competitive endurance tickling videos, Jane O'Brien Media, and David D'Amato's harassment and blackmail operation; Sundance premiere, dismissed defamation suits, HBO follow-up The Tickle King.

Tickling

Tickling: touching the body to provoke laughter or squirming, divided into knismesis (light, feather-like) and gargalesis (heavy, laughter-inducing); self-tickle is suppressed by cerebellar prediction, and rats and great apes are ticklish too.

Ticks of domestic animals

Ticks of domestic animals are Ixodidae and Argasidae parasites of livestock, dogs, and cats that transmit babesiosis, theileriosis, and other diseases; controlled historically by arsenic dipping since 1893, now challenged by acaricide resistance and managed through integrated tick management.

Ticlopidine

Ticlopidine, sold as Ticlid, is an oral antiplatelet drug of the thienopyridine class that irreversibly blocks the platelet ADP P2Y12 receptor; synthesized in 1972, it was superseded by clopidogrel.

Tico Torres

Tico Torres (Hector Samuel Juan Torres, born 1953) is the American drummer of Bon Jovi since 1983, formerly a first-call session player with Pat Benatar, Cher, and Alice Cooper, also a painter.

Ticonderoga-class cruiser

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser, also known as the Aegis cruiser, is a class of 27 US Navy guided-missile cruisers, in service from 1983 to 1994, built around the SPY-1 radar.

Ticrynafen

Ticrynafen (tienilic acid, Selacryn, SKF 62698) is a withdrawn uricosuric diuretic antihypertensive approved in the US in 1979, distinguished by lowering serum uric acid, and withdrawn January 1980 for immunoallergic hepatitis linked to anti-LKM2 antibodies against CYP2C9.

Ticsani

Ticsani is a dacitic lava dome complex in Moquegua region, southern Peru, 60 km NE of Moquegua city, 30 km SE of Huaynaputina. Last eruption about 1800 CE; fumarolic activity, recurring seismic swarms, high-risk classification, green alert, monitored by IGP and INGEMMET.

TID

TID, the stage name of Khalid Mohamed, is a Tanzanian Bongo Flava singer born in Dar es Salaam in 1981, known for "Kiuno", "Nyota Yako", and "Zeze".

Tidal (album)

Tidal (1996) is Fiona Apple's debut album on Epic Records, produced by Andy Slater, 10 songs in 51 minutes, featuring "Criminal". It went platinum within a year, sold about 3 million copies, and shaped later artists including Kanye West.

Tidal (service)

Tidal is a subscription music streaming service with a catalog of over 180 million songs, known for its lossless and high-resolution audio tiers and direct-to-fan artist sales tools.

Tidal acceleration

Tidal acceleration, also called tidal friction, is the transfer of angular momentum from Earth's rotation to the Moon's orbit, which makes the Moon recede about 3.8 cm per year.

Tidal asymmetry

Tidal asymmetry is the inequality between the flood and ebb phases of a tidal cycle, arising when tidal waves distort in shallow water and shaping estuary sediment transport.