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Amnioinfusion
Amnioinfusion is an obstetric procedure in which saline or Ringer's lactate is infused into the amniotic cavity, most often through a transcervical catheter during labor.
Amniote
Amniote (Amniota): the vertebrate clade of mammals, reptiles, and birds, defined by the amniotic egg with amnion, chorion, and allantois; split into Synapsida and Sauropsida over 320 million years ago.
Amniotic band syndrome
Amniotic band syndrome (ABS), also called amniotic band sequence or Streeter anomaly, is a congenital disorder where fibrous amniotic strands constrict fetal parts, causing deformities or amputation, mostly of hands and feet, sometimes treated by fetoscopic band release.
Amniotic fluid
Amniotic fluid: liquid in the amniotic sac surrounding the fetus; peaks near 800 mL at 34 weeks, circulates via fetal urine and swallowing, measured by AFI or deepest vertical pocket, sampled by amniocentesis.
Amniotic fluid embolism
Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), also called anaphylactoid syndrome of pregnancy, is a rare obstetric emergency where amniotic fluid enters maternal circulation, causing cardiovascular collapse, hypoxia, and DIC; incidence about 1.7 per 100,000 maternities with 13–30% case fatality.
Amniotic fluid index
Amniotic fluid index (AFI): ultrasound sum of the deepest fluid pocket in four uterine quadrants (Phelan 1987). Oligohydramnios AFI 25 cm; versus single deepest pocket it doubles diagnoses and inductions without better outcomes.
Amniotic membrane transplantation
Amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) grafts preserved human amniotic membrane, a placental layer, onto damaged eye surfaces to promote healing while suppressing inflammation, neovascularization, and scarring.
Amniotic sac
Amniotic sac: fluid-filled sac of inner amnion and outer chorion membranes surrounding the embryo and fetus; fills the uterus by about 12 weeks, cushions the fetus, and its amnion is used medically as a biological dressing.
Amniotomy
Amniotomy, also called artificial rupture of membranes (ARM), is an obstetric procedure that tears the amniotic sac to induce or augment labor or place fetal monitors.
Amnisos
Amnisos (Αμνισός), Minoan harbour of Knossos at the Karteros river mouth, 8 km east of Heraklion, Crete; named in Amenophis III's list, Linear B tablets, and Homer; site of the Villa of the Lilies and the Eileithyia cave sanctuary.
Amnon Aharony
Amnon Aharony (אמנון אהרוני) is an Israeli condensed matter physicist, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for work on critical phenomena and disordered systems.
Amnon Altman
Amnon Altman is an Israeli-born immunologist known for T cell receptor signaling research and discovery of protein kinase C-theta, now Professor Emeritus at La Jolla Institute for Immunology.
Amnon Kohen
Amnon Kohen is an Israeli enzymologist and chemist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, known for hydrogen tunneling in enzyme catalysis and the thyX pathway.
Amnon Lotem
Amnon Lotem is an Israeli algorithms and technologies expert who won the 2014 Gödel Prize for co-authoring "Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware", which introduced the threshold algorithm.
Amnon Shashua
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and serial AI founder, best known as co-founder and longtime CEO of Mobileye.
Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv is an Israeli-born American applied physicist and electrical engineer at Caltech who developed the distributed feedback semiconductor laser central to optical fiber communications.
Amnon Yitzhak (אמנון יצחק)
Amnon Yitzhak (אמנון יצחק), born 1953, is an Israeli Haredi rabbi who heads Shofar, an outreach organization credited with tens of thousands of returnees to observance.
AMNS India
AMNS India (ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India) is an Indian flat steel producer, a 60:40 joint venture of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel formed in 2019 after acquiring Essar Steel.
Amnya
Amnya (Amnya I and II, Амня) is an Early Neolithic fortified hunter-gatherer complex on the Amnya river, western Siberia, dated c. 6000 cal BC; the world's oldest-known promontory fort.
Amo
Amo is the third studio album by Argentine singer-songwriter Axel, released in 2003 on Sony Music Argentina, whose piano-and-cello title track became a radio hit across Latin America.
Amoashtart
Amoashtart was a royal woman of Sidon in the Persian period, priestess of Astarte and mother of King Eshmunazar II, known from his sarcophagus inscription (KAI 14).
Amobarbital
Amobarbital (Amytal, sodium amytal), 5-ethyl-5-(3-methylbutyl)barbituric acid, is an intermediate-acting sedative-hypnotic barbiturate known for the Wada test and amobarbital interview; Schedule II injectable in the US, discontinued by Bausch Health in 2024.
Amobi Okoye
Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-born NFL defensive tackle born 1987; drafted 10th overall in 2007 by Houston Texans as youngest modern NFL draftee at 19 years, 322 days; later Chicago Bears; distinct from Amobi Okugo and C.J. Okoye.
Amoca Oil and Gas Field
Amoca is an offshore oil and gas field in shallow water in the Bay of Campeche off Tabasco, Mexico, the largest of three fields Eni developed from 2015.
Amoco
Amoco, also known as Standard Oil of Indiana, was an American oil and chemical company headquartered in Chicago, formed in 1889 and merged with BP in 1998.
Amoco Cadiz
The Amoco Cadiz was a Liberian-flagged supertanker that ran aground off Brittany, France, in 1978, causing the largest tanker oil spill ever recorded at the time.
Amoco Canada
Amoco Canada Petroleum Company was a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas producer, incorporated in 1969 as a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana and best known for acquiring Dome Petroleum in 1988.
Amod Malviya
Amod Malviya is an Indian engineer and entrepreneur who was Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart before co-founding Udaan, India's largest business-to-business e-commerce platform, in 2016.
Amodiaquine
Amodiaquine is a synthetic 4-aminoquinoline antimalarial drug, similar to chloroquine in structure and action, used mainly in artesunate–amodiaquine combination therapy and limited to treatment because of rare severe toxicity.
Amoeba
Amoeba: a eukaryotic cell that moves and feeds with pseudopodia; a body plan, not a clade. Bulk of species lie in Amoebozoa (Lühe 1913); includes Entamoeba histolytica and Naegleria fowleri.