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Anegan (அனேகன்)
Anegan (அனேகன்), also released as Anekudu, is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller directed by K. V. Anand and starring Dhanush, Amyra Dastur, and Karthik.
Anegasaki thermal power station
Anegasaki thermal power station (姉崎火力発電所) is an LNG-fired power station in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by JERA through JERA Power Anegasaki.
Aneirin (Mercurian crater)
Aneirin is a 467 km diameter impact crater on Mercury at 27.47°S, 2.68°, named for the 6th-century Welsh poet Aneirin, IAU-approved in 2014; its eastern rim is buried under volcanic smooth plains about 3.7 billion years old.
Anek (अनेक)
Anek (अनेक) is a 2022 Hindi political action thriller directed by Anubhav Sinha. It follows an undercover agent in Northeast India attempting to broker a peace accord.
Anekantavada (अनेकान्तवाद)
Anekantavada (अनेकान्तवाद), the Jain doctrine of non-one-sidedness or many-sidedness, holds reality has infinitely many aspects; companion doctrines syadvada and nayavada; associated with Mahavira and systematized by later Jain philosophers.
Anello Photonics
Anello Photonics is a Santa Clara, California startup co-founded by silicon-photonics pioneer Mario Paniccia that makes the SiPhOG chip-scale optical gyroscope, serving defense and commercial navigation where GPS is unavailable.
Anelosimus eximius
Anelosimus eximius (Keyserling, 1884) is a Neotropical social theridiid spider from Panama to Argentina and the Lesser Antilles, forming communal webs with colonies up to tens of thousands that cooperatively capture large prey.
Anemia
Anemia (anaemia) is a below-normal red blood cell or hemoglobin level, reducing oxygen delivery. Affects 40% of young children and 30% of women 15–49 globally; iron deficiency is the leading cause.
Anemia of chronic disease
Anemia of chronic disease (ACD), or anemia of inflammation, the second most common anemia after iron deficiency; hepcidin-mediated iron sequestration, blunted EPO, and shortened red cell survival in inflammatory illness.
Anemia of lead poisoning
Anemia of lead poisoning is a usually mild anemia caused by lead's disruption of heme synthesis and red-cell membranes, often with basophilic stippling, rarely lowering hemoglobin below 9 g/dL.
Anemoi (Ἄνεμοι)
Anemoi (Ἄνεμοι), the Greek wind gods, also called Venti in Rome: Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus, and Eurus, sons of Astraeus and Eos, each tied to a direction and season, distinct from the storm winds Anemoi Thuellai.
Anemoi (アネモイ) (video game)
Anemoi (アネモイ) is an all-ages romance adventure visual novel by Key/Visual Arts, released April 24, 2026 for PC. Set in post-disaster northern Masumi-cho, it follows Mugi and Rikka Hayakawa, with five heroine routes and a planned Steam release.
Anemoia
Anemoia, from John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, means nostalgia for a time one never experienced. Not a clinical term; studied as vicarious or historical nostalgia and linked to populism and vintage marketing.
Anemometer
An anemometer, also called a wind gauge or wind meter, is an instrument that measures wind speed. The commonest design is the cup anemometer, brought into general use in 1846.
Anemone
Anemone (windflower) is a Ranunculaceae genus of perennial herbs with petaloid sepals, no petals, and achenes; type species A. coronaria; species counts range 60-170 depending on circumscription; toxic, medicinal, and widely cultivated.
Anemone (film)
Anemone is a 2025 drama, the feature debut of director Ronan Day-Lewis, co-written with and starring his father Daniel Day-Lewis alongside Sean Bean and Samantha Morton; estranged brothers, the Troubles, NYFF premiere, October 3, 2025 release.
Anemonia sulcata
Anemonia sulcata (snake-locks sea anemone), Pennant 1777, a Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic Actiniidae sea anemone; treated by WoRMS as a synonym of Anemonia viridis, used as a δ15N pollution bioindicator.
Anemonoides nemorosa
Anemonoides nemorosa (syn. Anemone nemorosa), the wood anemone, a Ranunculaceae rhizomatous geophyte native to Europe to W. Caucasus; early-spring white woodland flower, ancient-woodland indicator, spreads about six feet per century.
Anen
Anen was an official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served as Second Prophet of Amun under Amenhotep III, brother of Queen Tiye and son of Yuya and Thuya.
Anencephaly
Anencephaly is a fatal neural tube defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull (ICD-10 Q00.0). About 1 in 4,762 U.S. births; preventable with 400 mcg daily folic acid before and during early pregnancy.
Aneri Vajani
Aneri Vajani, Indian TV and film actress known as Nisha in Nisha Aur Uske Cousins and Saanjh in Beyhadh; debut Kaali: Ek Punar Avatar (2012); Gujarati film debut Jai Kanhaiyalal Ki (2026).
Anerood Jugnauth
Anerood Jugnauth, known in Mauritius as SAJ, was a Mauritian politician who served three times as Prime Minister, from 1982 to 1995, 2000 to 2003, and 2014 to 2017.
Anesthesia
Anesthesia: reversible drug-induced loss of sensation or consciousness enabling surgery. Four types (general, regional, sedation, local); GABA-A/NMDA mechanisms; MAC dosing; mortality down to 34 per million; sugammadex and pEEG monitoring.
Anesthesia and analgesia (institution)
Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society, founded 1922 as Current Researches in Anesthesia & Analgesia by Francis Hoeffer McMechan; world's longest-running anesthesiology journal, monthly since 1980, online-only from 2027.
Anesthesia and Analgesia (procedure)
Anesthesia and analgesia are medical techniques that relieve pain or eliminate pain sensation during surgery, spanning local, regional, and general anesthesia together with sedation and postoperative pain control.
Anesthesia and analgesia in dogs and cats
Anesthesia and analgesia in dogs and cats is the patient-specific practice of safely rendering companion animals unconscious and pain-free, with mortality of 0.17% in dogs and 0.24% in cats.
Anesthesia and analgesia in production animals
Anesthesia and analgesia in production animals is the veterinary control of pain during procedures like castration and dehorning in cattle, sheep, and swine, constrained by food-safety rules.
Anesthesia of birds and reptiles
Anesthesia of birds and reptiles is the branch of veterinary anesthesia covering immobilization, analgesia, and monitoring in birds, snakes, lizards, and turtles, which differ physiologically from mammals.
Anesthesia Recovery Period
The anesthesia recovery period is the interval from the end of anesthetic delivery until a patient regains consciousness and stable vital functions, spent partly in the PACU.
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, the medical specialty of anesthesia and perioperative medicine, spans general, regional, sedation, and local techniques; founded by the 1846 ether demonstration, with defined training, safety standards, and workforce shortages in the UK and US.