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Anatoly Parfyonov
Anatoly Parfyonov (Анатолий Иванович Парфёнов, 1925–1993), Soviet Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler, 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist, WWII veteran, and coach of Olympic champion Nikolay Balboshin.
Anatoly Polivoda
Anatoly Polivoda (Анатолій Іванович Поливода), Ukrainian basketball center (1947–2024), 1972 Olympic gold and 1968 bronze with the USSR, 1967 World Cup MVP, Budivelnyk Kyiv player, retired at 26 with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Anatoly Roshchin
Anatoly Roshchin (Анатолий Александрович Рощин, 1932–2016), Soviet Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler; Olympic silver 1964 and 1968 behind István Kozma, super-heavyweight gold at Munich 1972 at age 40, three-time world champion.
Anatoly Rybakov
Anatoly Rybakov (Анатолий Рыбаков, 1911–1998) was a Russian writer whose adventure novels sold over 20 million copies and whose Children of the Arbat became the symbol of glasnost.
Anatoly Sass
Anatoly Sass (Анатолий Фомич Сасс, 1935–2023) was a Soviet rower from Moscow, Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls with Aleksandr Timoshinin at Mexico City 1968 (6:51.82), seventh in the coxless fours at Tokyo 1964, and 1965 European single sculls silver medalist.
Anatoly Shariy
Anatoly Shariy (Анатолій Шарій), Ukrainian-born video blogger and pro-Russian politician, founder of Sharij.net and the banned Party of Shariy; exiled since 2012, charged with treason, convicted in absentia.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko (Анатолий Сливко) was a Soviet serial killer who murdered seven boys in Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985 while leading a children's tourist club.
Anatoly Sobchak
Anatoly Sobchak (Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak; 1937–2000) was a Soviet and Russian jurist and politician, the first mayor of Saint Petersburg from 1991 to 1996 who helped draft Russia's 1993 Constitution.
Anatoly Solomin
Anatoly Solomin (Анатолий Васильевич Соломин), born 1952, Soviet race walker; 20 km world record 1:22:59.4 (1979), 1978 European bronze, 1983 indoor European gold, disqualified leading the 1980 Olympic 20 km walk; distinct from boxer Vasily Solomin.
Anatoly Stessel
Anatoly Stessel (Анатолий Михайлович Стессель) was a Russian lieutenant general who surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese in December 1904, then was sentenced to death.
Anatoly Suprunovsky
Anatoly Suprunovsky (born 1973 in Tomsk) is a Russian official serving as Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations and Chief State Inspector for Fire Supervision, with the rank of Colonel General.
Anatoly Vedyakov
Anatoly Stepanovich Vedyakov (Анатолий Степанович Ведяков), Soviet race walker born 21 December 1930 in Moscow; Dynamo Moscow walker, multiple world record holder at 20 km, 30,000 m, and 50 km, two-time Olympian (1960, 1964), and four-time Soviet champion.
Anatoly Vlasov
Anatoly Alexandrovich Vlasov (Анатолий Александрович Власов; 1908–1975) was a Soviet theoretical physicist whose 1938 Vlasov equation became the paradigm of mean-field theory in plasma physics, earning him the 1970 Lenin Prize.
Anatoly Yakovenko (Анатолій Яковенко)
Anatoly Yakovenko, also known as Toly Yakovenko, is a Ukrainian-born American engineer who conceived the Solana blockchain in a 2017 whitepaper and co-founded Solana Labs, serving as its chief executive officer.
Anatoly Yarkin
Anatoly Yarkin (Анатолий Николаевич Яркин), Soviet road cyclist born 1958 in Novoye, Zaporizhzhia; won 1980 Moscow Olympic gold in the 100 km team time trial with Kashirin, Logvin, and Shelpakov, and was sixth in the individual road race.
Anatoly Zayats
Anatoly Zayats, also known as Anatoly V. Zayats, is a physicist in plasmonics and nanoscale nonlinear optics who heads the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group at King's College London.
Anatomic resection
Anatomic resection, also called anatomic lung resection, is surgery that removes an organ together with its anatomically defined segment, dividing the segmental bronchus, artery, and vein.
Anatomical plane
Anatomical plane: imaginary flat surfaces (sagittal, coronal/frontal, transverse/axial, oblique) through the body in the anatomical position, used to divide the body into sections and standardize descriptions in anatomy, CT, MRI, and ultrasound.
Anatomical resection
Anatomical resection, also known as anatomical liver resection, is a surgical technique that removes tumors along defined anatomical boundaries, such as the liver's eight Couinaud segments or the lung's bronchopulmonary segments.
Anatomical snuffbox
Anatomical snuffbox (radial fossa, radial foveola): triangular depression on the dorsum of the hand at the wrist, bounded by thumb extensor tendons, floored by the scaphoid, containing the radial artery; site of scaphoid fracture tenderness and distal radial access.
Anatomical terminology
Anatomical terminology: the standardized Latin-based nomenclature for human body structures, maintained by FIPAT of the IFAA, descended from the 1895 Basle Nomina Anatomica, currently the Terminologia Anatomica 2nd edition (2019).
Anatomical terms of location
Anatomical terms of location: standardized directional terms (anterior, medial, superior, proximal) defined against the anatomical position, governed by Terminologia Anatomica since 1895's Basiliensia Nomina Anatomica.
Anatomical terms of motion
Anatomical terms of motion: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction, and special movements, defined relative to anatomical position and the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes, standardized by FIPAT's Terminologia Anatomica.
Anatomical terms of muscle
Anatomical terms of muscle: standardized Latin and English muscle names in Terminologia Anatomica (TA, 1998; TA2, 2019), covering naming by shape, size, location, function, origin/insertion, and parallel versus pennate fiber architecture.
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
The WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system codes active substances in five levels across 14 main groups (e.g., metformin A10BA02) for drug utilization research; developed in Norway from EPhMRA, maintained in Oslo, paired with the Defined Daily Dose.
Anatomists
Anatomists: persons skilled in anatomy or dissection (MeSH D054814). From Herophilus and Vesalius to modern educators and clinical anatomists; societies include IFAA (1903) and AAA.
Anatomy
Anatomy (Greek anatome, cutting up) is the study of body structure, divided into gross and microscopic anatomy; its history runs from Herophilus' Alexandrian dissection through Galen, Vesalius' 1543 Fabrica, and the 1832 Anatomy Act to today's digital 3D teaching tools.
Anatomy (2000 film)
Anatomie (Anatomy) is a 2000 German horror thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Franka Potente as medical student Paula Henning, who uncovers the Anti-Hippocratic Society dissecting living victims at Heidelberg; it won the 2000 German Film Award audience prize.
Anatomy and physiology of micro-oligochaetes
Micro-oligochaetes, or microdriles, are small freshwater and terrestrial annelid worms of the subclass Oligochaeta, a few millimeters long, carrying the earthworm body plan in drastically simplified form.
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute), 2023 French courtroom drama by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari; Sandra Hüller plays a novelist tried for her husband's death. Palme d'Or 2023, Oscar Best Original Screenplay 2024, six Césars, $35.6M box office.