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Arnold-Chiari malformation type I
Arnold-Chiari malformation type I, commonly called Chiari I malformation, is a congenital brain disorder in which the cerebellar tonsils herniate into the upper spinal canal, often causing headaches.
Arnold-Chiari malformation type II
Arnold-Chiari malformation type II (Chiari II, CM II) is a congenital hindbrain herniation of the cerebellar vermis, brainstem, and fourth ventricle, found only with myelomeningocele, usually with hydrocephalus, and a leading cause of death under age 2.
Arnolfini Portrait
The Arnolfini Portrait (also Arnolfini Wedding) is Jan van Eyck's signed 1434 oil-on-oak double portrait in the National Gallery, London, probably of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, famous for its convex mirror and disputed meaning.
Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Grunberg, full name Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg, is a Dutch writer born in Amsterdam in 1971 whose novel Tirza won the Gouden Uil and Libris prizes.
Arnon Milchan (ארנון מילצ'ן)
Arnon Milchan (ארנון מילצ'ן), born 1944, Israeli billionaire film producer and founder of New Regency Productions; over 100 films including 12 Years a Slave and Birdman; former Israeli arms and intelligence operative; central figure in Netanyahu's Case 1000.
Arnon Rosenthal
Arnon Rosenthal is a biotechnology entrepreneur and scientist who co-founded Alector in 2013 and serves as its CEO and President, after co-founding Rinat Neuroscience and Annexon Biosciences.
Arnoraja
Arnoraja (अर्णोराज) was a Chahamana (Chauhan) king who reigned from about 1133 to 1155, fought the Turks, the Paramaras of Malwa, and the Chaulukyas of Gujarat, and was killed by his son Jagadeva.
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011) was a Czech Jewish novelist, screenwriter, and professor who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, wrote over twenty Holocaust books, and won the 2008 Franz Kafka Prize.
Arnot power station
Arnot power station is a coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, owned by Eskom and commissioned between 1971 and 1975 with a capacity of 2,100 MW.
Arnoud Sonnenberg
Arnoud Sonnenberg is a Dutch cell biologist known for defining the α6β4 integrin and the hemidesmosomes anchoring epithelial cells to basement membranes, and now Professor Emeritus at Leiden University.
Arnøya
Arnøya (Sami Árdni) is Norway's 15th-largest island, in Skjervøy, Troms: 275.65 km², 260 inhabitants, highest peak Arnøyhøgda 1,170 m. Distinct from the Arnøyene pair in Gildeskål and an Arnøya in Smøla.
ARNT
Nuclear translocator (ARNT, HIF-1β) is a bHLH-PAS transcription factor on human chromosome 1q21 that dimerizes with AhR and HIF-α subunits to drive xenobiotic and hypoxia gene responses; despite its name it does not translocate partners into the nucleus.
Arnt Eliassen
Arnt Eliassen (1915–2000) was a Norwegian meteorologist, a pioneer of dynamical meteorology and numerical weather prediction who held the geophysics chair at the University of Oslo from 1958 to 1985.
Arnulf of Metz
Arnulf of Metz, also known as Saint Arnulf of Metz, was a Frankish courtier who became bishop of Metz around 614, retired to the Vosges, and died about 640.
Arnulf Øverland
Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and lecturer, best known for the anti-fascist poem 'Du må ikke sove!' and his 1933 acquittal for blasphemy.
Arnus Vallis
Arnus Vallis (Arno River, Tuscany) is a ~325-km sinuous trough on Mars' Syrtis Major volcano flank, interpreted as a sinuous rille formed by an open lava channel, with aeolian dunes on its floor.
Arnuwanda I
Arnuwanda I, also written Arnuwandas I, was a Hittite Great King of the late 15th century BC, married to Queen Ašmu-nikal and known for his edicts and frontier treaties.
Arnuwanda II
Arnuwanda II, also written Arnuwandas II, was a Hittite king of the New Kingdom, eldest son and successor of Šuppiluliuma I, who reigned c. 1322–1321 BC.
Arnuwanda III
Arnuwanda III was a king of the Hittite Empire who ruled briefly around 1209–1207 BC, near the empire's end, and was succeeded by his brother Šuppiluliuma II.
Aro Biotherapeutics
Aro Biotherapeutics Co is a Philadelphia-based biotechnology company, founded in 2017 by former Johnson & Johnson scientists, developing tissue-targeted genetic medicines on its Centyrin protein-scaffold platform.
Aro Confederacy
The Aro Confederacy was an Igbo trading and oracle network based at Arochukwu in southeastern Nigeria, dominant in the Bight of Biafra hinterland until the British Aro Expedition of 1901–02.
Aro Expedition
The Aro Expedition, or Anglo-Aro War, was a British military campaign in 1901 to 1902 against the Aro Confederacy in southeastern Nigeria, ending with the destruction of the Ibini Ukpabi oracle.
Aro–Bonny alliance
The Aro–Bonny alliance was a commercial and political partnership in which the Aro trading network sold slaves to the Niger Delta city-state of Bonny for Atlantic export.
Aroer
Aroer was an ancient fortified town in Moab on the northern rim of the Arnon gorge in Jordan, identified with Khirbet 'Ara'ir and mentioned in the Mesha Stele.
Arogya
Arogya (আরোগ্য, "Recovery") is a 1941 collection of Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written after his serious illness of 1940 and among the notable works of his final poetic phase.
Arogyaswami Paulraj
Arogyaswami Paulraj, born 1944 in Coimbatore, India, is an Indian-born American electrical engineer and emeritus Stanford professor who invented MIMO spatial multiplexing, the technology behind 4G and Wi-Fi.
Arogyavardhini gutika
Arogyavardhini gutika (Arogyavardhini Vati), classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill with purified mercury, bhasmas, katuki, and triphala, used for liver and skin disorders; clinical trials in metabolic syndrome and dyslipidemia, with heavy-metal safety concerns.
Arok Dedes
Arok Dedes is a historical novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, first published in 1999, that retells the rise of Ken Arok and Ken Dedes, founders of Singasari in 13th-century Java.
Aroldis Chapman
Aroldis Chapman is a Cuban-born Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, known for the fastest recorded pitch in MLB history.
Aroma compound
An aroma compound, also known as an odorant or flavor compound, is a volatile, low-molecular-weight molecule that reaches olfactory receptors in the nose and shapes a food's flavor.