All articles starting with Z

Zimmermann-Laband syndrome

Zimmermann-Laband syndrome (ZLS, OMIM 135500), also called Laband's syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with gingival fibromatosis, nail and distal phalanx hypoplasia, hypertrichosis, and intellectual disability, caused by KCNH1, ATP6V1B2, or KCNN3 mutations.

Zimplistic

Zimplistic is a Singapore-based food-technology company founded in 2008 by Pranoti Nagarkar and Rishi Israni, best known for the Rotimatic, a kitchen robot that makes a flatbread in about 90 seconds.

Zimredda of Lachish

Zimredda, also known as Zimredda (mayor of Lachish), was mayor of the Canaanite city of Lachish in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters.

Zimredda of Sidon

Zimredda, also Zimrida, was king of Sidon in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the bitter rival of Abimilki, king of Tyre.

Zimri (king of Israel)

Zimri was the fifth king of Israel, an officer who murdered King Elah at Tirzah, reigned seven days around 885 BC, and died in the burning citadel.

Zimri-Addu

Zimri-Addu was an official of the kingdom of Mari, modern Tell Hariri, in the 18th century BC, known from a gift-disbursement list in the royal archives of King Zimri-Lim.

Zimri-Lim

Zimri-Lim was the last king of Mari, a major 18th-century BC center on the Euphrates, reigning about 1775 to 1761 BCE until Hammurabi of Babylon destroyed the city.

Zina

Zina (زنا, zinā) is the Islamic-law category of unlawful sexual intercourse, covering fornication and adultery, proved by confession or four male witnesses and punished by lashes or stoning; modern codes in Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, and Afghanistan enforce it, often against rape survivors.

Zina Garrison

Zina Garrison, American tennis player from Houston, peaked at WTA No. 4, won 1988 Olympic doubles gold, and reached the 1990 Wimbledon final beating Seles and Graf.

Oct 20, 2026

Zinaida Amosova

Zinaida Stepanovna Amosova (Зинаида Степановна Амосова), born 1950, Soviet cross-country skier; 1976 Olympic relay champion and 1978 world champion at 10 and 20 km.

Oct 22, 2026

Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Гиппиус), 1869–1945, was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and prose writer who, with her husband Dmitry Merezhkovsky, hosted a famous literary salon before emigrating to Paris in 1919.

Zinaida Turchina

Zinaida Turchina (Зінаїда Турчина), Ukrainian playmaker born 1946 in Kyiv; Soviet handball great, double Olympic champion 1976 and 1980, 1988 bronze, IHF female player of the 20th century, Spartak Kyiv legend.

Zinaida Voronina

Zinaida Voronina (Зинаида Воронина, née Druzhinina), Soviet artistic gymnast, 1968 Olympic team champion and all-around silver medalist behind Čáslavská; 1970 world team champion; died 2001.

Sep 23, 2026

Zinat Mahal

Zinat Mahal (زینت محل) was the youngest and favorite wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal emperor, campaigning for their son's succession before exile to Rangoon.

Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30, a group 12 metal essential to life and used mainly to galvanize steel.

Zinc (musician)

DJ Zinc, born Benjamin Pettit in 1972, is a British DJ and producer from London, a pioneer of jungle and drum and bass best known for the 1995 track 'Super Sharp Shooter'.

Zinc anode

A zinc anode is the negative electrode of a battery in which metallic zinc is oxidized during discharge, used since Volta's early-1800s piles in zinc-carbon, alkaline, zinc-nickel, zinc-air, and zinc-ion batteries.

Zinc chloride

Zinc chloride (ZnCl2), also known as butter of zinc, is a white, deliquescent compound of zinc and chlorine used in soldering fluxes, dry cell batteries, and wood preservation.

ZINC database

ZINC is a free database of commercially available small molecules for virtual screening, created at the University of California, San Francisco, and first released in 2005.

Zinc deficiency

Zinc deficiency: insufficient body zinc causing growth retardation, diarrhea, dermatitis, and immune impairment. Discovered by Ananda Prasad in 1958 in Iran; phytate-rich diets are the main cause; about 17% of the world population affected.

Zinc deficiency syndromes

Zinc deficiency syndromes (ICD-11 5C64.21) are acquired or neonatal clinical zinc deficiency states, distinct from inherited acrodermatitis enteropathica (SLC39A4/ZIP4), diagnosed mainly by plasma zinc cutoffs and treated with supplementation.

Zinc dialkyldithiophosphate

Zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP) is an organophosphorus compound, Zn[S₂P(OR)₂]₂, patented in 1941 and still the predominant antiwear and antioxidant additive in almost all modern gasoline and diesel engine oils.

Zinc electroplating

Zinc electroplating is the electrodeposition of a zinc layer onto iron or steel, protecting it by barrier action and by corroding in preference to exposed steel.

Zinc excess

Zinc excess (zinc toxicity, hyperzincemia; ICD-11 5B91.1) is acquired zinc overload causing copper deficiency, anemia, neutropenia, and neuropathy; upper limits are 25 mg/day (EFSA) and 40 mg/day (US adults).

Zinc ferrite

Zinc ferrite (ZnFe₂O₄) is a cubic spinel oxide in which zinc ions sit on tetrahedral sites and iron(III) ions on octahedral sites, occurring naturally as the mineral franklinite.

Zinc finger

Zinc finger: small protein domain folded around a zinc ion, discovered 1985 in Xenopus TFIIIA. The C2H2 form is the most common human DNA-binding motif, reads DNA triplets via a recognition code, and is widely engineered.

Zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox

Zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox (ZEB) family: two transcription factors, ZEB1 (deltaEF1, TCF8) and ZEB2 (SIP1), with paired zinc finger clusters binding E-box motifs and a non-DNA-binding homeodomain; repressors driving EMT, neural crest development, and Mowat-Wilson syndrome.