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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria: armored herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaurs (Ankylosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Spicomellus) of the Jurassic and Cretaceous, traditionally split into club-tailed Ankylosauridae and clubless Nodosauridae, with tail clubs used in combat or defense.

Ankylosaurus

Ankylosaurus (Ankylosaurus magniventris), 'fused lizard', the last and largest ankylosaurid dinosaur, an 8-meter armored herbivore from Maastrichtian North America (Hell Creek, Lance, Scollard formations), named by Barnum Brown in 1908, with a side-swinging tail club.

Ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS, Bechterew's disease) is chronic inflammatory arthritis of the spine and sacroiliac joints, the radiographic form of axial spondyloarthritis, strongly linked to HLA-B27, treated with NSAIDs and biologics.

Ankylosis

Ankylosis: pathological stiffening and fusion of a joint, bony or fibrous, from disease, trauma, or surgery; distinct from surgical arthrodesis; central to ankylosing spondylitis and TMJ ankylosis.

Ankyrin and armadillo repeat-containing protein

ANKAR, ankyrin and armadillo repeat-containing protein, is a human chromosome 2q32.2 protein-coding gene whose 1,434-residue membrane protein combines ankyrin repeats with six armadillo repeats, unlike single-repeat-family relatives ANK1 and ANKK1.

Ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11

ANKRD11 (ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11) is a chromosome 16q24.3 transcriptional regulator whose heterozygous loss-of-function variants cause KBG syndrome, marked by macrodontia, short stature, and developmental delay.

Anlamani

Anlamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled in the late seventh century BC, succeeding his father Senkamanisken before his brother Aspelta.

Anlatamıyorum

Anlatamıyorum ("I cannot tell") is a short poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık, first published in Garip (1941) and written in plain, everyday language.

Anlo Kingdom

The Anlo Kingdom, also called the Anlo-Ewe state, was a pre-colonial Ewe-speaking polity on the coast of southeastern Ghana, centered on Anloga and Keta and ruled by the Awoamefia.

Anmarz

Anmarz is the performing name of Anmar Madani, a Jeddah-based Saudi house DJ and designer who has played MDLBEAST's Soundstorm festival and runs the studio 9SSCREATIVE.

Anmer Hall

Anmer Hall is a 10-bedroom Georgian country house in Anmer, Norfolk, on the Sandringham Estate, given to the Prince and Princess of Wales as a wedding gift in 2013.

Anmol Gagan Maan

Anmol Gagan Maan, also Gagandeep Kaur Maan, is an Indian Punjabi singer, lyricist, and composer from Mansa district, Punjab, who debuted in 2014 and won a 2022 assembly seat.

Anmol Malik (अनमोल मलिक)

Anmol Malik (अनमोल मलिक), daughter of composer Anu Malik, is an Indian singer-songwriter who records as Audrey Piano, known for Let Me Come Home, Isn't That Why, Talli, and the novel The Secret Eligibles of Mumbai.

Ann Akinjirin

Ann Akinjirin, formerly credited as Ann Akin, is a British actress of Nigerian descent known for Bobbi in Moon Knight (2022) and DS Vanessa Ekwensi in Strike.

Ann Arbor staging

Ann Arbor staging, the 1971 lymphoma staging system with stages I–IV plus A, B, E, and S suffixes, later revised by Cotswolds (1989) and the Lugano classification (2014), which added PET-CT and a stage II bulky category.

Ann Arbor, MI Metro Area

Ann Arbor, MI Metro Area (CBSA 11460): one-county Michigan MSA covering Washtenaw County, anchored by the University of Michigan. About 373,900 residents, 150th-largest US metro, high income and education, part of the Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor CSA.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan: county seat of Washtenaw County, founded 1824 by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey, home of the University of Michigan (opened there 1841). Population 123,851 (2020); seventh-largest Michigan city, about 40 miles from Detroit.

Ann Atwater

Ann Atwater (1935–2016) was a Durham, North Carolina civil rights and housing activist who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Klansman C.P. Ellis, converting him into a lifelong friend and civil rights ally.

Ann B. Davis

Ann B. Davis (Ann Bradford Davis) was an American actress who played secretary Schultzy on The Bob Cummings Show and housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch.

Ann B. Nattinger

Ann B. Nattinger is an American physician and breast cancer researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, known for studies of geographic variation in breast cancer treatment.

Ann Beal Salamone

Ann Beal Salamone is an American polymer chemist and entrepreneur who co-founded Rochal Industries in 1986 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie, born Charlotte Ann Beattie in 1947, is an American short-story writer and novelist whose New Yorker fiction about disaffected young people inspired talk of a "Beattie Generation."

Ann Blyth

Ann Blyth (Anne Marie Blythe, 1928-2026), American actress and singer, Oscar-nominated at 17 as Veda in Mildred Pierce (1945), later MGM musical soprano with Mario Lanza and Howard Keel; last film The Helen Morgan Story (1957).

Ann C. Macaulay

Ann C. Macaulay is a UK-trained Canadian family physician and McGill University professor emerita who pioneered community-based participatory research, leading the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.

Ann Carolyn McKee

Ann Carolyn McKee, known as Ann C. McKee, is an American neurologist and neuropathologist at Boston University who defined the neuropathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Ann Charlesworth

Ann Charlesworth, British sprint hurdler of Airedale AC active in the early 1960s; listed in the former 200m hurdles world record progression (28.7, St. Helens 1961) and WAAA 80m hurdles runner-up in 1961.

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves, British crime writer of the Vera Stanhope, Shetland (Jimmy Pérez), and Matthew Venn series; Raven Black won the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger; adapted into ITV's Vera and BBC One's Shetland.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter (born 1961) is an American conservative columnist, lawyer, and author of thirteen New York Times bestsellers starting with High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1998); distinguished from other pundits by her 1996 MSNBC debut and her influence on Trump's 2016 immigration platform.

Ann Curry

Ann Curry, born in 1956 in Agana, Guam, is an American broadcast journalist who was NBC's Today show news anchor from 1997 and co-anchor until her 2012 departure.

Ann Curtis

Ann Curtis (1926-2012), American freestyle swimmer of the Crystal Plunge club, won two golds and a silver at the 1948 London Olympics and was the first woman to win the Sullivan Award (1944).