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Allist Pharmaceuticals
Allist Pharmaceuticals (艾力斯) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in 2004, best known for furmonertinib, a lung cancer drug licensed internationally to ArriVent Biopharma.
Alliteration
Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words, a poetic and rhetorical device (also initial rhyme, head rhyme). Distinct from consonance and assonance; central to Germanic alliterative verse and shown experimentally to aid phrase memorability.
Alliterative revival
The Alliterative Revival is the reappearance of alliterative verse in Middle English during the fourteenth century, seen in Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Alliterative verse
Alliterative verse is a family of unrhymed poetic meters whose two half-lines are joined by alliteration, the principal native form of Old English poetry and major in Middle English.
Allium
Allium is a large genus of Amaryllidaceae bulb plants including onion, garlic, leek, and chives; about 1140 species native to the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, with three major evolutionary lineages.
Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum (wild leek, elephant garlic, great-headed garlic) is a Mediterranean-to-Central-Asian Amaryllidaceae species whose cultivated groups include leek, kurrat, pearl onion, and elephant garlic; IUCN Least Concern.
Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion or Japanese bunching onion, is a bulbless perennial onion with hollow leaves, domesticated from A. altaicum in Siberia and China, and cultivated mainly in East Asia.
Allium giganteum
Allium giganteum (giant onion, ornamental onion), a bulbous Amaryllidaceae perennial native to Central and western Asia described by Regel in 1883; tallest ornamental onion, 3-5 ft, purple 5-6 inch umbels, May-June bloom, not culinary.
Allium moly
Allium moly (lily leek, yellow garlic, golden garlic) is a yellow-flowered bulbous Amaryllidaceae geophyte native to eastern Spain, Italy, and northwest Africa, placed in Allium subgenus Amerallium section Molium, IUCN Least Concern, grown as an ornamental.
Allium nigrum
Allium nigrum, black garlic or broad-leaved garlic (Allium multibulbosum synonym), a Mediterranean bulbous allium with odorless white green-centered flowers, grown as an ornamental and used as a food spice in Sicily.
Allium of western North America
The Allium species of western North America are wild native onions, with 60 of North America's 84 native species growing in Washington, Oregon, and California.
Allium tricoccum
Allium tricoccum, ramp or wild leek (ail des bois), a spring-ephemeral edible allium native to eastern North American forests; slow-growing (5-7 years to flower), heavily overharvested, vulnerable in Québec, distinct from A. burdickii and European A. ursinum.
Allium tuberosum
Allium tuberosum (garlic chives, Chinese chives, nira, jiu, buchu) is an East Asian Allium crop grown for mild garlic-flavored leaves and flowers, domesticated in northern China over 3,000 years ago, tetraploid 2n=32.
Allium ursinum
Allium ursinum (ramsons, bear's garlic, wild garlic) is a bulbous European woodland plant whose spring leaves are eaten as a herb; toxic lookalikes and in vitro-only pharmacology distinguish it from cultivated garlic.
Allium vineale
Allium vineale (crow garlic, field garlic, wild garlic, wild onion) is a bulbous perennial allium native to Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Asia, naturalized in North America and Australia. It reproduces mainly by bulbils and offsets, has hollow cylindrical leaves, and is a difficult turf and cereal-crop weed.
Allkem
Allkem Limited was an Australian lithium mining and chemicals company formed in 2021 by the merger of Orocobre and Galaxy Resources, with assets in Argentina, Australia, and Japan.
ALLKNIGHT
ALLKNIGHT is the melodic house project of Glasgow-born singer-songwriter, producer, and DJ Jodie Knight, launched in January 2023 and releasing on Anjunadeep, Monstercat, Colorize, and This Never Happened.
Allkpop
Allkpop is an American English-language news and gossip website covering K-pop and Korean celebrity culture, launched in 2007 by Johnny Noh and Paul Han and operated from Los Angeles.
AllMovie
AllMovie, also known as AllMovieGuide, is an online film database and review website covering movies, actors, and filmmakers, operated by All Media Network under the AllMediaNetwork brand.
AllMusic
AllMusic, also known as the All Music Guide, is an American online music database of album reviews, discographies, and artist biographies, founded by Michael Erlewine in Michigan in 1991.
Allobates
Allobates, commonly called nurse frogs, is a genus of 64 recognized species of small, diurnal, territorial Neotropical frogs in the family Aromobatidae, ranging from Nicaragua to Amazonian South America.
Allocation concealment
Allocation concealment is the safeguard in a randomized controlled trial that keeps upcoming treatment assignments hidden from those enrolling participants until allocation is irrevocable, preventing selection bias.
Allocative efficiency
Allocative efficiency is the economic condition in which resources go to their most valued uses, with marginal benefit equal to marginal cost, or price equal to marginal cost in competitive markets.
ALLOCORD
ALLOCORD (HPC, Cord Blood), BLA 125413 from SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, is an FDA-licensed allogeneic cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cell therapy approved May 30, 2013 for unrelated donor transplantation and hematopoietic reconstitution.
Allodial title
Allodial title, or allodial tenure, is ownership of land held in the holder's own right, free of any rent, service, or duty owed to a superior, unlike feudal tenure.
Allodynia
Allodynia, also called touch-evoked pain, is pain from a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain, defined by the IASP. Distinct from hyperalgesia, it arises through peripheral and central sensitization in neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, and migraine.
Allogeneic cultured keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts in murine collagen dsat
StrataGraft (allogeneic cultured keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts in murine collagen-dsat) is Stratatech's FDA-approved 2021 bioengineered skin substitute for adult deep partial-thickness thermal burns, later wound down by Mallinckrodt in 2024.
Allogeneic cultured keratinocytes and fibroblasts in bovine collagen
Allogeneic cultured keratinocytes and fibroblasts in bovine collagen (Gintuit) is a two-layer cell-sheet biologic, BLA 125400, FDA approved March 9, 2012 for mucogingival conditions in adults; first FDA-approved cell-based product, discontinued in 2014.
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) infuses donor stem cells to replace diseased bone marrow, treating blood cancers and marrow disorders, with graft-versus-host disease as its main risk.
Alloimmune haemolytic anaemia
Alloimmune hemolytic anemia is anemia caused by antibodies from another individual destroying red blood cells, arising most often through transfusion, pregnancy, or transplantation, and including disease of the fetus and newborn.