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Aurica Chirita Barascu
Aurica Chirita Barascu (Aurica Chiriță-Bărăscu), Romanian rower born 1974 in Nicorești; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Athens 2004, world champion 1999, three world silvers, European champion 2007.
Auricle (anatomy)
Auricle (pinna): the visible outer-ear structure of elastic cartilage (lobule is fibrofatty) that funnels sound into the external acoustic meatus; landmarks helix, antihelix, concha, tragus; supplied by superficial temporal and posterior auricular arteries; develops from six hillocks of His.
Auricular reconstruction
Auricular reconstruction is a surgical procedure that rebuilds a missing or deformed external ear, chiefly for microtia, using carved rib cartilage, porous polyethylene implants, or an osseointegrated prosthesis.
Auricular vagus nerve stimulation
Auricular vagus nerve stimulation, also known as transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), is a non-invasive therapy delivering electrical pulses through ear electrodes for epilepsy, depression, and pain.
Auricularia
Auricularia (wood ear, jelly ear, black fungus) is a genus of gelatinous wood-decaying edible fungi in Auriculariaceae; 37 species are recognized, including cultivated A. heimuer and A. polytricha, valued for polysaccharides, fiber, and medicinal use.
Auricularia auricula-judae
Auricularia auricula-judae (jelly ear, wood ear, Jew's ear) is a saprobic European jelly fungus on hardwood, named for Judas' ear; molecular studies split it into a species complex including A. heimuer and A. americana.
Auriculariales
Auriculariales is an order of wood-inhabiting jelly fungi in Basidiomycota, class Agaricomycetes, synonym Eutremellales, with variable septate basidia; includes Auriculariaceae and the cultivated wood ear genus Auricularia.
Auriculocondylar syndrome
Auriculocondylar syndrome (question-mark ear syndrome, dysgnathia complex, ARCND) is a rare craniofacial disorder with question mark ears, micrognathia, and mandibular condyle hypoplasia, caused by GNAI3, PLCB4, or EDN1 variants in the EDN1-EDNRA pathway, inherited dominantly or recessively with reduced penetrance.
Auriculotherapy
Auriculotherapy is a technique that stimulates the external ear with needles, seeds, laser, or electricity to treat conditions elsewhere in the body, with the best evidence for chronic pain.
Auriga (constellation)
Auriga is a northern constellation representing the Charioteer, one of Ptolemy's 48 ancient Greek constellations, prominent in winter skies and home to the bright star Capella.
Aurignac
Aurignac (Occitan Aurinhac) is a commune in Haute-Garonne, France, whose 1852-discovered rock shelter, excavated by Édouard Lartet in 1860, gave its name in 1913 to the Aurignacian, the earliest Upper Palaeolithic culture of modern humans.
Aurignacian
Aurignacian (Aurignaziano): early Upper Paleolithic culture, c. 43–32 ka BP, defined by burins, blades, and split-based bone points; first techno-complex securely linked to modern humans in Europe.
Aurinia
Aurinia (L.) Desv., goldentuft or basket of gold, is a genus of 7 Brassicaceae species native to central and southeastern Europe to Türkiye; A. saxatilis is a popular yellow rock-garden perennial.
Aurion Biotech
Aurion Biotech is a Seattle-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing AURN001, a donor cell therapy for corneal edema, approved in Japan and majority-owned by Alcon since 2025.
Auris Health
Auris Health was a Silicon Valley medical robotics company founded by Frederic Moll, who also founded Intuitive Surgical. Its Monarch robotic bronchoscopy system was FDA-cleared in 2018.
Aurizon
Aurizon, formerly QR National, is Australia's largest rail freight operator, hauling over 250 million tonnes of commodities annually and managing more than 5,100 kilometers of track.
Aurlus Mabélé
Aurlus Mabélé (1953–2020), born Aurélien Miatsonama in Brazzaville, was a Congolese singer and bandleader called the king of soukous who co-founded Loketo in Paris in 1986.
Aurobindo Pharma
Aurobindo Pharma Limited (APL), Hyderabad-based Indian generic drug and API maker founded 1986 by P.V. Ramprasad Reddy and K. Nithyananda Reddy; top-2 Indian pharma by revenue, major US/Europe generics exporter, with recurring FDA warning letters (2019, 2022, Eugia 2025).
Aurochs
Aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox and ancestor of all domestic cattle; last one died in Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627. Four ancient population ancestries; pervasive post-domestication admixture; modern back-breeding programs (Tauros, Taurus).
Aurochs (site)
Aurochs is a zoo in the Pădurea Domnească Nature Reserve in Moldova, near Moara Domnească, open 8 AM–6 PM and named for the extinct wild cattle.
Auron MacIntyre
Auron MacIntyre, also known for The Total State (2024), is an American far-right commentator, Blaze Media columnist, and host of The Auron MacIntyre Show; a former teacher influenced by Schmitt, Burnham, Francis, and Yarvin.
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (औरों में कहाँ दम था)
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (औरों में कहाँ दम था) is a 2024 Hindi romantic drama directed by Neeraj Pandey, starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu, and Jimmy Shergill; released 2 August 2024, it earned ₹8.59 crore in India and holds 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Aurora
An aurora, also called polar lights or aurora borealis, is light in the upper atmosphere when charged particles from the magnetosphere excite atoms 100 to 400 km up.
Aurora (AI model)
Aurora is an image generation model developed by xAI, announced in December 2024 as Grok's first native image generator on X, notable for permissive content policies.
Aurora (aircraft)
Aurora, also known as SR-91, is the name given to a rumored American hypersonic spyplane that first appeared in a 1985 Pentagon budget document and was never confirmed to exist.
Aurora (comics)
Aurora (Aurore), Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero and twin sister of Northstar, created by John Byrne and first appearing in Uncanny X-Men #120 (1979). An Alpha Flight member with flight, super speed, and light powers, she is defined by dissociative identity disorder.
Aurora (mythology)
Aurora is the Roman dawn goddess, the Latin counterpart of Greek Eos, daughter of Hyperion, wife of Tithonus, mother of Memnon, with doubtful cult traces; her name later named the aurora borealis and australis.
Aurora (province)
Aurora is a coastal province of Central Luzon, Philippines, capital Baler, with 8 municipalities, 151 barangays, and 240,824 residents (2024). Independent from Quezon since August 13, 1979; mountainous, typhoon-prone Pacific-facing province.
Aurora (singer)
Aurora (Aurora Aksnes, born 1996) is a Norwegian art-pop singer-songwriter; albums All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016) through What Happened to the Heart? (2024), viral "Runaway," Frozen II and Oscars appearances.
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)
Princess Aurora, also called Briar Rose, is the lead character of Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty, voiced by Mary Costa. Cursed by Maleficent to prick her finger on a spindle at sixteen, she sleeps until true love's kiss; her name comes from Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet.