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Anrikefon injection

Anrikefon injection (安瑞克芬注射液, HSK21542, brand Sishujing) is Haisco's peripheral kappa opioid receptor agonist, approved in China in May 2025 for post-abdominal-surgery pain and in September 2025 for dialysis-related pruritus, without narcotic control.

Anrufen

Anrufen, also known within the Königrufen group, is an Austrian and German four-player 24-card marriage-group trick-taking game where the bidder calls a card to choose a secret partner, with 90 card points plus marriage bonuses per deal.

Ans Polak

Ans Polak (Anna Dresden-Polak, 1906-1943), Dutch Jewish gymnast with club Bato Amsterdam, won team gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics in the first women's Olympic gymnastics event; murdered at Sobibor with her daughter Eva.

Ans Schut

Ans Schut (Johanna Schut, Boekema-Schut), Dutch long-track speed skater (1944-2025), 1968 Grenoble Olympic 3,000 m gold in 4:56.2, 1969 world record holder at 1,500 m and 3,000 m, pioneer of Dutch women's skating.

Ansa Biotechnologies

Ansa Biotechnologies is a DNA synthesis company in Emeryville, California, founded in 2018 by Daniel Lin-Arlow and Sebastian Palluk, using enzymatic synthesis rather than chemical methods.

Ansab literature

Ansab literature (أدب الأنساب) is the body of Arabic writing on tribal lineages, in which genealogical records carry poems, battle tales, proverbs, and anecdotes, foremost among them al-Baladhuri's Kitab Ansab al-Ashraf.

Ansai gas field

The Ansai gas field (安塞气田) is the gas-producing area of the Yan'an gasfield in Ansai district, Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, a "three-low" reservoir with low pressure, low permeability, and low gas abundance.

Ansaldo Energia

Ansaldo Energia is an Italian power generation company headquartered in Genoa that makes gas turbines, steam turbines, and generators, controlled by Italy's state-owned Cassa Depositi e Prestiti group.

Ansan-si (district)

Ansan-si (안산시), a Gyeonggi Province city on the Yellow Sea southwest of Seoul, administered as Sangnok-gu and Danwon-gu districts; a planned industrial city built around the Banwol and Sihwa national industrial complexes, with about 713,700 residents including a large foreign population.

Ansar

The Ansar (الأنصار) were the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi who overthrew Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan in 1885 and later became the base of the Umma Party.

Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)

Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (أنصار الشريعة), a Salafist jihadist group founded in Benghazi in early 2012, differed from same-named groups in Tunisia and Yemen by its Rafallah al-Sahati origins, blame for the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack it denied, UN and US terror listings, and May 2017 dissolution.

Ansar Shaikh

Ansar Shaikh (Shaikh Ansar Ahamad), IAS officer of the 2016 West Bengal cadre who cleared UPSC CSE at 21 with AIR 361 on his first attempt, becoming India's youngest IAS officer; currently ADM, Malda.

Ansari X Prize

The Ansari X Prize, also known as the X Prize, was a $10 million competition announced in 1996 and won in 2004 by SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed crewed spacecraft.

Ansbert Gadicke

Ansbert Gadicke is a German-trained physician and venture capitalist who founded the Boston biotech venture capital firm MPM Capital, which has raised roughly $4 billion.

Anschluss

The Anschluss was the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, March 11–13, 1938, also called the 1938 annexation of Austria. German troops entered unopposed, Seyss-Inquart signed the union law, a rigged plebiscite followed, and the takeover violated Versailles and Saint-Germain and began Hitler's territorial expansion.

Anschutz Entertainment Group

Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG, AEG Worldwide), Los Angeles-based sports and live entertainment company owned by Philip Anschutz via The Anschutz Corporation; operates Crypto.com Arena, The O2, AEG Presents, and AXS ticketing.

Anscombe's quartet

Anscombe's quartet is a set of four small datasets constructed by statistician Francis J. Anscombe in 1973, sharing nearly identical summary statistics while their scatter plots show completely different patterns.

Anseba Region

Anseba Region (Zoba Anseba) is one of Eritrea's six administrative regions, in the central-northern part of the country, with its capital at Keren, about 91 km northwest of Asmara.

Ansegis

Ansegis, also Ansegisus (c. 770 to 833), was a Frankish Benedictine monk and abbot of Fontenelle, remembered for compiling the first systematic collection of Carolingian capitularies in 827.

Ansei Purge

The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄) was a campaign of arrests, exiles, and executions ordered by tairō Ii Naosuke in 1858 and 1859 against over 100 opponents of the shogunate.

Ansei Treaties

The Ansei Treaties (安政五カ国条約) are five unequal treaties of amity and commerce the Tokugawa shogunate signed in 1858 with the United States, the Netherlands, Russia, Britain, and France.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984), American landscape photographer and environmentalist of Yosemite and the American West; cofounder of Group f/64, developer of the Zone System, Sierra Club conservationist, and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Ansel Elgort

Ansel Elgort (born 1994, New York City) is an American actor and DJ known as Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars, the title character of Baby Driver, Tony in Spielberg's West Side Story, and Jake Adelstein in Tokyo Vice.

Ansell gas field

The Ansell gas field is a liquids-rich natural gas field in the Deep Basin of west-central Alberta, near Edson, producing from multiple Cretaceous formations including Cardium, Viking, and Cadomin.

Anselm

Anselm (2023) is Wim Wenders' 3D, 6K documentary portrait of German painter Anselm Kiefer, shot over two years at his French studios, premiered at Cannes, released by Sideshow and Janus Films.

Anselm Eckart

Anselm Eckart (1721–1809) was a German Jesuit missionary and scholar who worked in Brazilian Amazonia, spent 18 years imprisoned in Portugal, and wrote a prison memoir.

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer (born 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor of monumental Neo-Expressionist works on German history, myth, and the Nazi past, using lead, ash, and sediment of electrolysis; based in France since 1992.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury, also known as Anselm of Bec, was a Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 and is called the Father of Scholasticism.

Anselm of Laon

Anselm of Laon (Anselmus Laudunensis, died 1117) was a French scholastic theologian and Bible teacher at Laon, styled Doctor Scholasticus and linked to the Glossa ordinaria.

Anselm of Lucca the Younger

Anselm of Lucca the Younger (Anselmo da Lucca, also called Anselm II, c. 1036–1086) was an Italian bishop of Lucca from 1073, nephew of Pope Alexander II, and canonist who compiled the influential Collectio canonum.