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Huriez syndrome
Huriez syndrome (sclerotylosis, OMIM 181600) is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis with congenital scleroatrophy, palmoplantar keratoderma, hypoplastic nails, and high risk of aggressive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, caused by SMARCAD1 haploinsufficiency.
Hurler syndrome
Hurler syndrome, also called Hurler's disease, is the most severe form of mucopolysaccharidosis type I, an inherited disorder causing developmental decline and death in childhood if untreated.
Husband stitch
The husband stitch, also known as the daddy stitch, is an extra stitch placed during childbirth repair to tighten the vagina, with no medical benefit.
Huseyin Naci
Huseyin Naci is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics, where he founded the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab and studies the evidence behind new drug approval and use.
Hushpuppy
Hushpuppy: small deep-fried balls of seasoned cornmeal batter, a Southern US side dish served with fried fish, seafood, and barbecue; name traced to Carolinas and Georgia fish fries, with dog-feeding origin stories.
Husk
Husk: the dry outer covering of seeds, grains, or fruits (also hull, chaff); in maize, modified leaves protecting the ear, photosynthesizing, and enabling kernel drydown; from late 14c. English huske.
Husky
Husky: sled dogs of the spitz type, chiefly the Siberian Husky (Chukchi sled dog, FCI standard 270) and the unregistered Alaskan husky working type; Arctic origin, 1909 Alaska import, 1925 Nome serum run, Iditarod racing.
Hussain Aga Khan
Prince Hussain Aga Khan, son of Aga Khan IV and brother of Aga Khan V Rahim, is a wildlife photographer and conservationist who founded Focused on Nature in 2014, investing over $4.5 million in conservation across 30-plus countries.
Hussein A. Tawbi
Hussein A. Tawbi, also known as Hussein Tawbi, is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led pivotal immunotherapy trials for melanoma that has spread to the brain.
Husseini K. Manji
Husseini K. Manji is a physician-scientist in mood disorders research, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who shared the 2023 Sarnat Prize for discovering ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.
HuT 102
HuT 102 (HUT-102) is a human T-cell cancer cell line established in 1979 from a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, from which Gallo's laboratory isolated HTLV-1.
HuT 78
HuT 78 (CVCL_0337, ATCC TIB-161) is a human Sézary syndrome T-cell lymphoma line from the NCI; its H9 subclone enabled HIV-1 propagation and blood-supply screening.
Hutabhugadi curna
Hutabhugadi churna (हुतभुगादि चूर्ण), a classical Ayurvedic polyherbal powder from Sahasrayoga with Plumbago zeylanica, Terminalia chebula, and rock salt, used for digestive impairment, anemia, edema, and piles.
HUWE1
HUWE1 (Mule, ARF-BP1, LASU1) is a giant 482-kDa HECT-domain E3 ubiquitin ligase on Xp11.22 regulating p53, Mcl-1, c-Myc, and Cdc6; variants cause X-linked intellectual disability.
Huxley family
Huxley family, British scientific and literary dynasty founded by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), Darwin's Bulldog; grandsons Julian Huxley (UNESCO's first director), novelist Aldous, and Nobel laureate Andrew Huxley.
Huzhen Qingfeng capsules
Huzhen Qingfeng capsules (虎贞清风胶囊, formerly Huzhen Tongfeng capsules) are a Class 1.1 innovative traditional Chinese medicine approved by China in 2021 for mild-to-moderate acute gouty arthritis.
Hvaldimir
Hvaldimir, the beluga whale found off Norway in 2019 wearing a harness labeled "Equipment St. Petersburg", speculated to be a Russian spy whale; rehabilitated to self-feeding, found dead near Risavika in August 2024.
Hwang Woo-suk (황우석)
Hwang Woo-suk (황우석), South Korean veterinary scientist at Seoul National University whose 2004 and 2005 Science papers claiming cloned human embryonic stem cell lines were found fabricated; his dog clone Snuppy was verified genuine.
Hyacinth
Hyacinthus (hyacinth) is a small Asparagaceae bulb genus from southern Türkiye to northern Israel and southern Turkmenistan, with three accepted species; the garden hyacinth derives entirely from Hyacinthus orientalis, though molecular work makes the genus polyphyletic.
Hyacinth macaw
Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), also called hyacinthine or blue macaw, the world's largest parrot at 90-100 cm, from Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay; IUCN Vulnerable, CITES Appendix I, palm-nut specialist of the Pantanal.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Hyacinthoides non-scripta, the English or common bluebell, is a bulbous Asparagaceae geophyte native to western Europe, with scented one-sided violet-blue spring flowers; UK-protected, threatened by hybridization with H. hispanica.
Hyacinthus orientalis
Hyacinthus orientalis, common or Dutch hyacinth, a bulbous geophyte native from southern Türkiye to northern Israel, source of all garden hyacinth cultivars; fragrant spring spikes, Dutch bulb trade history, forcing culture, mildly toxic bulbs.
Hyaenodon
Hyaenodon (Laizer & Parieu, 1838) is an extinct hyaenodontid genus of carnivorous mammals, not related to true hyenas, widespread in North America, Europe, and Asia from 38 to 16 Ma, with bone-crushing microwear and species such as H. horridus and H. exiguus.
Hyaenodonta
Hyaenodonta, an extinct clade of carnivorous placental mammals (formerly in "Creodonta"), weasel- to rhinoceros-sized, spanning Paleogene Europe, Asia, North America, and Afro-Arabia, with multiple carnassial pairs and thrice-independent hypercarnivory.
Hyaline cartilage
Hyaline cartilage, also called articular or glassy cartilage, is the most common cartilage type: a type II collagen and aggrecan matrix lining joints, airways, ribs, and the fetal bone model.
Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome
Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome (HFS, inherited systemic hyalinosis, Murray syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive ANTXR2 disorder causing hyaline tissue deposits, skin nodules, gingival hypertrophy, painful joint contractures, and protein-losing enteropathy.
Hyalocyte
Hyalocytes (of Hannover, Balazs) are yolk sac-derived resident macrophages of the eye's vitreous body, first identified in 1840, that maintain vitreous transparency, remodel the hyaloid vasculature, and drive proliferative vitreoretinal disease.
Hyalomma
Hyalomma (Koch, 1844) is a genus of large hard ticks in Ixodidae, subfamily Hyalomminae, with about 27 species across Africa, Asia, and southern Europe; principal vectors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and Theileria annulata.
Hyalophora cecropia
Hyalophora cecropia, the cecropia moth or robin moth (Saturniidae), is North America's largest native moth, ranging from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to the Rockies. Adults do not feed; larvae spin dimorphic three-layered cocoons and face parasitism by the introduced fly Compsilura concinnata.
Hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid (hyaluronan, CAS 9004-61-9), a nonsulfated glycosaminoglycan of glucuronic acid–N-acetylglucosamine repeats made at the plasma membrane by HAS1/2/3; ~15 g per adult, filler and viscosupplementation uses.