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Sterling Shepard
Sterling Shepard, born 1993 in Oklahoma City, NFL wide receiver; Oklahoma All-American, Giants second-round pick (40th, 2016), fifth in Giants receptions, later Buccaneers and Jets.
Sterling silver
Sterling silver is a silver alloy containing 92.5% pure silver, with copper usually making up the rest, and has been the standard for silverware since the 14th century.
Sterling St. Jacques
Sterling St. Jacques (Sterling Saint Jacques, reportedly Sterling Colter) was an American model, dancer, singer, and actor, regarded as the first Black male supermodel; he walked at Versailles 1973, modeled for Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and Halston, and was a Studio 54 fixture.
Sterling submachine gun
The Sterling submachine gun, also called the Patchett gun, is a British 9 mm submachine gun designed in 1944 and adopted by the British Army in 1955.
Sterling, Virginia
Sterling, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place in Loudoun County near Dulles Airport; once the railroad village of Guilford (renamed Sterling in 1887), it grew after 1959 with Sterling Park, Loudoun's first planned community, and had 30,337 residents in 2020.
Sterlitamak
Sterlitamak (Bashkir: Стәрлетамаҡ), founded in 1766, is the second most populous city of Bashkortostan, Russia, after Ufa, known for its chemical industry and machine building.
Sterlite Technologies
Sterlite Technologies Limited, also known as Sterlite Tech, is an Indian optical networking company headquartered in Pune, founded in 1988, that makes optical fiber, cable, and connectivity products.
Stern
The stern, also known as the ship's stern, is the after end of a ship or boat, farthest from the bow, housing the rudder and propeller shaft; common forms include cruiser and transom sterns.
Stern (game company)
Stern (game company): Stern Electronics (1977-1985), founded by Sam Stern via Chicago Coin, and successor Stern Pinball, Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, the world's largest pinball maker under Gary Stern, known for Pro/Premium/LE editions, SPIKE electronics, and licensed titles.
Stern Grove Festival
Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free summer concert series held Sundays at Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove in San Francisco, founded by Rosalie M. Stern in 1938.
Stern tube bearing
A stern tube bearing is a plain journal bearing in a ship's stern tube that supports the propeller shaft and transfers radial propeller forces to the hull.
Stern v. Marshall
Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 462 (2011), Supreme Court case holding bankruptcy judges lack Article III authority to enter final judgment on certain state-law counterclaims, despite statutory core-proceeding authority; Anna Nicole Smith estate dispute.
Stern–Gerlach experiment
The Stern–Gerlach experiment, also known as the Stern–Gerlach effect, is a 1922 experiment that split a beam of silver atoms in two, first showing atomic angular momentum is quantized.
Sternal cleft
Sternal cleft (bifid sternum, sternum bifidum) is a rare congenital chest wall malformation in which the sternal halves fail to fuse, leaving a complete or partial gap; usually asymptomatic at birth and treated by surgical closure, ideally neonatal.
Sternberg item recognition task
The Sternberg item recognition task is a working memory paradigm, introduced by Saul Sternberg in 1966, that measures how fast people retrieve items from short-term memory.
Sternenkinder
Sternenkinder (star children) is a 2005 children's dice game by Monika Mulzer-Adam, published by Beleduc, for 2-4 players aged 4+, on the Kinderspiel des Jahres 2005 recommended list; the name also denotes a 1946 Asscher-Pinkhof novel and a 2006 Tatort episode.
Sternfeld (lunar crater)
Sternfeld is a 109.80-km-diameter lunar crater at 19.75°S, 142.27°W, formerly designated Lodygin G, named in 1991 by the IAU for Ari Abramovich Sternfeld, a Soviet space scientist (1905–1980).
Sterno
Sterno, also known as Sterno Canned Heat, is an American brand of jellied alcohol cooking fuel in steel cans, used to keep food warm under chafing dishes.
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
Sternocleidomastoid (SCM), sternomastoid: paired superficial neck muscle from sternum and clavicle to mastoid process; rotates and flexes the head, innervated by CN XI, divides neck into triangles.
Sternotherus
Sternotherus, American musk turtles (Kinosternidae), Gray 1825, small North American aquatic turtles to 17.6 cm; traditionally four species, expanded by a 2017 RAD-locus study that described S. intermedius and elevated two subspecies.
Sternula
Sternula (Boie, 1822) is a genus of small terns in Laridae, type species the Little Tern S. albifrons; seven species including the Least Tern, Fairy Tern, and Peruvian Tern, separated from Sterna on molecular grounds.
Sternum
Sternum (breastbone): flat midline chest bone of manubrium, body, and xiphoid process; protects the mediastinum, anchors ribs 1-7 via costal cartilage, and marks the sternal angle at the 2nd rib.
Sternwheeler
A sternwheeler is a steam-powered riverboat driven by a single paddle wheel at the stern, whose shallow draft made it the standard freight and passenger carrier on western North American rivers.
Steroid
Steroid: organic compounds on the four-fused-ring cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene (sterane) skeleton, spanning cholesterol, steroid hormones, bile acids, sterols, and vitamin D derivatives; parent hydrocarbons estrane through cholestane (C18–C27), all biosynthesized from cholesterol.
Steroid hormone
Steroid hormone: cholesterol-derived lipophilic signaling molecule (corticosteroids, sex steroids) acting via intracellular nuclear receptors on gene transcription, plus rapid membrane-initiated non-genomic signaling; purified mainly 1929–1954.
Steroid-induced osteoporosis
Steroid-induced osteoporosis, or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP), is iatrogenic bone loss from steroid therapy, the most common secondary osteoporosis, causing rapid dose-dependent fracture risk and treated with bisphosphonates or teriparatide.
Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis
SREAT, or Hashimoto encephalopathy, is a rare steroid-responsive encephalopathy with elevated antithyroid antibodies, diagnosed after excluding other causes; seizures, confusion, and cognitive decline are common, and corticosteroids help most patients.
Steroidal alkaloid biosynthesis
Steroidal alkaloid biosynthesis is the plant pathway that converts cholesterol into nitrogen-containing steroidal alkaloids, best studied in tomato and potato, which make α-tomatine and α-solanine.
Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
StAR (STARD1) is a mitochondrial protein that transports cholesterol across mitochondrial membranes for pregnenolone synthesis, the rate-limiting step of steroidogenesis; mutations cause congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
Sterol
A sterol is an amphiphilic steroid alcohol built on a four-ring nucleus that stabilizes eukaryotic cell membranes: cholesterol in animals, ergosterol in fungi and yeast, and phytosterols in plants.