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Aminopterin

Aminopterin, also known as 4-aminofolic acid, is a synthetic folic acid analog that in 1948 became the first drug to induce remissions in childhood leukemia.

Aminopterin/methotrexate embryofetopathy

Aminopterin/methotrexate embryofetopathy (fetal aminopterin syndrome, ORPHA:1908) is a rare pattern of growth deficiency, craniofacial, skull, limb, cardiac, and neural defects caused by first-trimester maternal exposure to the folate antagonists aminopterin or methotrexate, critical at 6 to 8 weeks after conception.

Aminopyralid

Aminopyralid (CAS 150114-71-9), also sold as its TIPA salt, is a pyridine auxin herbicide for broadleaf weeds on grassland, pasture, wheat, and rangeland; EU-approved 2015, with compost restrictions due to residue persistence.

Aminopyrine

Aminopyrine, also called aminophenazone or amidopyrine, is a synthetic pyrazolone drug marketed as Pyramidon in 1896, used for pain, fever, and inflammation, and withdrawn from most industrialized markets after it was linked to agranulocytosis.

Aminorex

Aminorex (2-amino-5-phenyl-2-oxazoline, Menocil, Apiquel) is a withdrawn amphetamine-like anorectic stimulant whose 1965-1968 European marketing caused a pulmonary hypertension epidemic; now UN Schedule IV, DEA Schedule I, and a levamisole metabolite.

Aminotetrazole

Aminotetrazole most commonly refers to 5-aminotetrazole, an organic heterocyclic compound with the formula CH₃N₅ and the highest nitrogen content of any organic class, used in airbag gas generators, fireworks, and solid propellants.

Aminotrifluoromethylation

Aminotrifluoromethylation is an alkene difunctionalization reaction that adds a trifluoromethyl group and a nitrogen group across the double bond, producing CF3-substituted lactams, aziridines, and pyrrolidines useful in medicinal chemistry.

Aminta

Aminta is a pastoral dramatic poem by Torquato Tasso, written for the Este court of Ferrara around 1573, telling of the shepherd Aminta's love for the nymph Silvia.

Amintore Fanfani

Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999), Italian Christian Democracy statesman and economic historian: six-time prime minister, DC secretary 1954–59 and 1973–75, UN General Assembly president 1965, senator for life from 1972.

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) is a 500-bed federal tertiary teaching hospital on Zaria Road, Kano, Nigeria, established August 1988, affiliated with Bayero University Kano, led by CMD Prof. Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe.

Aminyl radical

An aminyl radical, also called the amino radical or amidogen, is a weakly nucleophilic nitrogen-centered radical generated from N-halogen amines and used to form C–N bonds in nitrogen heterocycles.

Amiodarone

Amiodarone (Cordarone) is a plant-derived, iodine-rich class III antiarrhythmic drug developed in Belgium in the 1960s as an antianginal agent, FDA-approved in 1985, used for ventricular arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation but limited by pulmonary, thyroid, hepatic, and cardiac toxicity.

Amiot Islands

Amiot Islands: islet group with Cumbers Reef and Ward Islands off SW Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula; charted by Charcot's FrAE 1908-10, named for A. Amiot of Montevideo; also Îles Amiot, Islas Amiot, Amiot Reef.

AMIP (climate model experiment)

AMIP is a climate modeling experiment protocol in which an atmospheric model is run with observed sea surface temperatures and sea ice prescribed rather than an interactive ocean.

Amir (musician)

Amir Haddad is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter, born in Paris in 1984, a finalist on The Voice in 2014 whose Eurovision 2016 song "J'ai cherché" placed sixth with 257 points.

Amir al-Hajj

The amir al-hajj (امير الحج) commanded the annual pilgrimage caravan to Mecca, responsible for its security and provisioning; under the Ottomans from 1517, two amirs served, based in Damascus and Cairo.

Amir al-Mu'minin (أمير المؤمنين)

Amir al-Mu'minin (أمير المؤمنين), "Commander of the Believers," is an Arabic honorific first held by Caliph Umar in 634 and later claimed by caliphs, Moroccan kings, and the Taliban.

Amir al-umara

Amir al-umara (أمير الأمراء) was the chief military office of the later Abbasid caliphate, combining army command with civil authority; the Buyids held it from 945.

Amir Arison

Amir Arison (born 1978, St. Louis) is an Israeli-American actor, director, and producer known as Aram Mojtabai on The Blacklist (2013–2023) and for his Theatre World Award-winning Broadway debut in The Kite Runner.

Amir Arsalan

Amir Arsalan (امیر ارسلان) is a Persian prose romance of the Qajar era, related by the Shah's chief storyteller and written down by Princess Tūrān Āḡā Fakr-al-dawla.

Amir Attaran

Amir Attaran is a Canadian lawyer-biologist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, known for Lancet papers on AIDS donor financing and the World Bank's malaria accounts.

Amir Averbuch

Amir Averbuch is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, who co-founded the AI financial crime compliance company ThetaRay in 2013.

Amir Barid I

Amir Barid I (امیر برید) was the second ruler of the Barid Shahi dynasty of Bidar, who governed from 1504 to 1542, first through puppet Bahmani sultans.

Amir Barid Shah III

Amir Barid Shah III (امیر برید شاہ سوم) was the last sultan of the Barid Shahi dynasty of Bidar, reigning from 1609 until 1619, when Bijapur annexed the kingdom.

Amir Barid's seizure of Bidar

Amir Barid's seizure of Bidar (امیر علی برید) was the Barid ministers' takeover of the Bahmani capital Bidar, completed when the last sultan fled in 1527.

Amir Ben Yahmed

Amir Ben Yahmed is a media executive, CEO of Jeune Afrique Media Group and founder of the Africa CEO Forum, the largest annual gathering of Africa's private sector.

Amir Blumenfeld (אמיר שמואל בלומנפלד)

Amir Blumenfeld (אמיר בלומנפלד, born 1983, Afula, Israel) is an Israeli-American comedian, writer, and actor, half of the duo Jake and Amir at CollegeHumor, co-host of If I Were You, and HeadGum co-founder.

Amir Bouhamdi

Amir Bouhamdi (أمير بوحمدي), born 2008 in Sittard, is a Dutch-born left winger at PSV Eindhoven; a Morocco-eligible Netherlands U18 player who debuted in the 2026 Johan Cruyff Shield and signed a PSV contract to mid-2031.

Amir Caldeira

Amir Ordacgi Caldeira is a Brazilian theoretical physicist and retired professor at Unicamp whose Caldeira–Leggett model guided experiments behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Amir Chupan

Amir Chupan (چوپان), also written Choban, was a Mongol amir who became de facto ruler of the Ilkhanate of Persia from 1316 and founded the Chobanid dynasty.