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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.
Anesthetic
Anesthetic: drug preventing pain during surgery or procedures, as general (unconsciousness) or local/regional (numbing) agents. Key facts: 1846 ether demonstration, MAC potency measure, ion channel and membrane sites of action, agents like sevoflurane, propofol, ketamine.
Anesthetic complications and safety in animals
Anesthetic complications and safety in animals is the study of deaths and emergencies under veterinary anesthesia, with canine mortality near 0.17% to 0.69% and horses higher.
Anesthetic Hypnosis
Anesthetic hypnosis (hypnosedation, hypnoanesthesia): inducing a trance-like state to relieve surgical pain, historically used as sole anesthesia in the 1800s and now an evidence-supported adjunct reducing anxiety, pain, and drug use.
Anesthetists
Anesthetists are professionals trained and certified to administer anesthetics: physician anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), and anesthesiologist assistants. Covers training, certification, history since 1846, practice models, and safety evidence.
Anestis S. Veletsos
Anestis S. Veletsos (Anestis Stavrou Veletsos) was a civil engineer, born in Istanbul, who taught at Rice University and whose earthquake engineering research underlies modern seismic codes.
Aneta Corsaut
Aneta Corsaut (Aneta Louise Corsaut, 1933–1995), American actress from Hutchinson, Kansas, known as Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968) and as Jane Martin in The Blob (1958); later roles on The Blue Knight and Matlock.
Anethole
Anethole, also known as trans-anethole, is a natural aromatic compound that gives anise, star anise, and fennel their sweet licorice taste, used in foods, spirits, and perfumery.
Anethum
Anethum (dill genus), Apiaceae herbs native Sahara to India; type species Anethum graveolens, the culinary herb dill; genus size disputed, 2 to 8 accepted taxa.
Anetoderma
Anetoderma (macular atrophy) is a rare benign skin disorder with focal loss of dermal elastic tissue, causing flaccid wrinkled lesions; linked to antiphospholipid antibodies, autoimmune disease, penicillamine, and prematurity.
Anett Kontaveit
Anett Kontaveit, born 1995, is an Estonian former tennis player who reached a career-high world No. 2 in June 2022, the highest ever for an Estonian woman.
Anett Schuck
Anett Schuck, German sprint kayaker (born 1970, Leipzig, SC DHfK), won Olympic K4 500 m gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, plus world, European, and marathon titles.
Anette Hoffmann Møberg
Anette Hoffmann Møberg, born 1971, Danish handball left wing; two Olympic golds (1996, 2000), world title 1997, 183 caps and 641 national-team goals for Denmark.
Anette Kramme
Anette Kramme, born 1967, is a German politician of the SPD who has sat in the Bundestag since 1998 and became a Parliamentary State Secretary in 2013.
Anette Norberg
Anette Norberg, born 1966 in Härnösand, is a Swedish curler and skip who won Olympic gold in 2006 and 2010, the first skip to defend an Olympic curling title, plus three world and seven European championships.
Anette Olzon
Anette Olzon (Anette Ingegerd Olsson, born 1971) is a Swedish singer, Nightwish's second vocalist 2007–2012 on Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum, later solo artist and frontwoman of The Dark Element and Allen/Olzon.
Aneuploidy
Aneuploidy: abnormal chromosome number from loss or duplication of individual chromosomes, not multiples of the haploid set. Causes miscarriage, birth defects, and cancer; detected by prenatal cfDNA screening, which can incidentally reveal maternal cancer.
Aneurin Barnard
Aneurin Barnard is a Welsh actor, born 1987 in Ogwr, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. A Royal Welsh College graduate and 2010 Laurence Olivier Award winner for Spring Awakening, he played Richard III in The White Queen, Gibson in Dunkirk, roles in 1899, Peaky Blinders, and Doctor Who.
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (1897–1960), Welsh Labour MP for Ebbw Vale 1929–1960, was Minister of Health who created the National Health Service, launched 5 July 1948; he resigned in 1951 over NHS charges and became Labour deputy leader in 1959.
Aneurysm
Aneurysm: abnormal ballooning of a weakened artery wall, most often in the aorta or brain. Key facts: AAA defined at 3.0 cm, rupture mortality up to 81%, repair at 5.5 cm (men) or 5.0 cm (women), treated by open repair, EVAR, coiling, or clipping.
Aneurysm of pulmonary artery
Aneurysm of the pulmonary artery (PAA), pulmonary artery aneurysm, is a rare focal dilatation of all three wall layers of a pulmonary artery, usually the main trunk, linked to congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, infection, and vasculitis, with rupture mortality of 50–100% and no formal management guidelines.
Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva
Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva (SOVA), sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, is a rare dilatation of an aortic sinus, congenital or acquired, that may rupture into right heart chambers; treated by surgical repair or transcatheter closure.