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Anisodamine

Anisodamine (山莨菪碱, code 654; synthetic racemate 654-2) is a tropane alkaloid M-anticholinergic from Anisodus tanguticus, isolated in China in the 1960s and used for smooth-muscle spasm, microcirculatory shock, and organophosphate poisoning.

Anisolabididae

Anisolabididae (Verhoeff, 1902; synonym Carcinophoridae) is a family of earwigs with 449 valid species in 34 genera; males have paired penises, and its phylogenetic placement within Dermaptera remains unresolved.

Anisole

Anisole, also known as methoxybenzene (C6H5OCH3), is a colorless liquid with a sweet, anise-like odor, used in perfumery, as a flavoring, and as a solvent.

Anisometropia

Anisometropia: significant interocular difference in refractive error, usually SER ≥1.00 D. Causes amblyopia, reduced stereopsis, aniseikonia; contact lenses preferred correction; increasingly linked to myopia.

Anisomycin

Anisomycin, also known as flagecidin, is a pyrrolidine antibiotic first isolated from Streptomyces griseolus in 1954 that inhibits eukaryotic protein synthesis and activates stress-activated protein kinases.

Sep 19, 2026

Anisong

Anisong (アニソン), a contraction of anime and song, is the Japanese term for songs written for anime, a genre dating to 1963's Astro Boy and now a global streaming market.

Sep 19, 2026

Anisong World Matsuri

Anisong World Matsuri (アニソンワールドマツリ) is an anime-song concert series created by six Japanese entertainment companies, first held at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in 2016 and revived in 2025 as J-POP Sound Capsule.

Anisoprint

Anisoprint is a technology company, founded in Moscow in 2015 by Skolkovo Institute researchers, that develops continuous fiber composite 3D printing for metal part substitution.

Anisoptera

Anisoptera is a homonym: a genus of ten tropical Asian dipterocarp trees (Korth., 1841) and the dragonfly suborder of Odonata, with about 2,500 species; a lacewing use is unavailable.

Anisotropic conductive film

Anisotropic conductive film (ACF) is a thermosetting adhesive filled with conductive particles that bonds chips to glass panels, conducting vertically and insulating adjacent terminals, standard in flat panel displays.

Sep 29, 2026

Anisotropic diffusion (image processing)

Anisotropic diffusion is a PDE-based image-smoothing technique that reduces noise while keeping region boundaries sharp, introduced by Pietro Perona and Jitendra Malik in 1990 and used in denoising and segmentation.

Anisotropic elasticity

Anisotropic elasticity is the branch of continuum mechanics describing solids whose stress-strain response depends on direction, requiring up to 21 independent elastic constants rather than 2.

Anisotropic filtering

Anisotropic filtering is a texture filtering technique in computer graphics that reduces blurring and aliasing on surfaces viewed at grazing angles, such as receding floors and roads.

Anisotropic magnetoresistance

Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) is a magnetotransport effect in ferromagnetic materials in which resistance depends on the angle between current and magnetization, first observed by William Thomson in the 1850s.

Anisotropic star

An anisotropic star is a general-relativistic model of a compact star whose radial and tangential pressures differ, relaxing the Buchdahl bound and allowing greater compactness.

Anisotropic wet etching

Anisotropic wet etching is a microfabrication process that dissolves single-crystal silicon at rates depending on crystallographic orientation, typically with KOH or TMAH, and underpins MEMS fabrication.

Anisotropine

Anisotropine methylbromide (octatropine methylbromide), a quaternary ammonium antimuscarinic tropane derivative once sold as Valpin 50 for peptic ulcer; discontinued, replaced by more effective agents.

Anisotropy

Anisotropy is the dependence of a physical property of a material on the direction of measurement, the opposite of isotropy; crystalline solids are generally anisotropic.

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) is the dependence of a rock's magnetic susceptibility on field direction, defined by three principal susceptibilities forming an ellipsoid that records mineral fabric.

Anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

The anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is the non-uniform arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 EeV, established by the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array.

Anissa Jones

Anissa Jones (Mary Anissa Jones, 1958-1976), American child actress of Lebanese descent who played Buffy Davis on CBS's Family Affair (1966-1971, 138 episodes); died at 18 in Oceanside, California, of combined drug intoxication. Not the Georgia legislator of the same name.

Anistreplase

Anistreplase (APSAC, Eminase) is an acylated streptokinase-lys-plasminogen thrombolytic complex, given as a 30-unit IV bolus over 2-5 minutes, half-life about 90 minutes, FDA approved 1989 for acute myocardial infarction.

Oct 22, 2026

Anisuzzaman

Anisuzzaman, also known as Anisuzzaman in Bengali script as আনিসুজ্জামান, was a Bangladeshi academic and literary critic who taught Bengali literature at the University of Dhaka.

Anisya Kirdyapkina

Anisya Kirdyapkina (Анися Кирдяпкина), born 1989 in Saransk, Russian 20 km race walker; 2010 European champion, 2014 World Race Walking Cup winner, 2009 World bronze; stripped of 2011–2013 results for biological passport irregularities and DQ from London 2012.