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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, also called the VZ-9AV, was a disc-shaped experimental VTOL aircraft built by Avro Canada in the late 1950s for the US military.
Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster, also called the Lancaster Bomber, was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War, famous for the 1943 Dambusters raid and carrying the heaviest bomb loads of the war.
Avro Lincoln
The Avro Lincoln was a British four-engined heavy bomber developed from the Avro Lancaster, first flown in June 1944 and the last piston-engined bomber in RAF service.
Avro Shackleton
The Avro Shackleton was a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft built by A.V. Roe, operated by the RAF and South African Air Force from 1951 until 1991.
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan, also called the Vulcan bomber, was a British delta-wing jet bomber carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent from the mid-1950s until 1969 and flying the 1982 Falklands Black Buck raids.
Avro Vulcan XH558
Avro Vulcan XH558 (G-VLCN) is a British Vulcan B.2 bomber, the first delivered to the RAF and the last Vulcan in RAF service, restored to flight in 2007.
Avrodh the Siege Within
Avrodh: The Siege Within (अवरोध) is a SonyLIV Hindi war thriller series (2020–2022) directed by Raj Acharya, adapting Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh's India's Most Fearless books; season 1 dramatizes the 2016 Uri attack and surgical strike, season 2 a counterfeit-currency plot.
Avrodh: The Siege Within 2
Avrodh: The Siege Within 2 (अवरोध) is the 2022 second season of SonyLIV's Hindi war thriller series, a parallel story starring Abir Chatterjee as army captain and income tax officer Pradeep Bhattacharya, adapted from India's Most Fearless 2.
Avroy A. Fanaroff
Avroy A. Fanaroff, also known as A. A. Fanaroff, is a South African-born American neonatologist in Cleveland known for his studies of extremely low birth weight infants and his neonatology textbooks.
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi, born 1960 in Jerusalem, is a developmental psychologist at King's College London and Duke University known for longitudinal studies of genes and environments shaping mental health.
Avsunviroidae
Avsunviroidae: one of two viroid families (type member avocado sunblotch viroid, ASBVd), chloroplast-replicating circular RNAs with hammerhead ribozymes, symmetric rolling-circle replication, three genera and five species.
Avtandil Koridze
Avtandil Koridze (ავთანდილ ქორიძე), Soviet Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler (67 kg), 1960 Rome Olympic gold and 1961 world champion; died in a 1966 car crash with Roman Dzneladze.
Avtar Gill (अवतार गिल)
Avtar Gill (अवतार गिल), born 1950, in Ludhiana, is an Indian character actor of Hindi, Punjabi, and Marathi cinema and TV, known for Nukkad, Airlift, and playing himself in Kaamyaab (2020).
AvtoVAZ
AvtoVAZ (АО «АВТОВАЗ»), founded in 1966 as the Volga Automotive Plant with Fiat's help, is a Russian automaker in Togliatti producing LADA cars, Russia's largest car manufacturer.
Avu-chan (アヴちゃん)
Avu-chan (アヴちゃん), formerly Barazono Avu, is the vocalist, lyricist, and composer of the Japanese rock band Queen Bee (女王蜂), formed in Kobe in 2009; known for "Desco" in the film Moteki, "Mephisto" for the anime Oshi no Ko, and voicing the title role in the 2022 film Inu-Oh.
Avulavirus
Avulavirus, a former genus of avian paramyxoviruses (family Paramyxoviridae) now ranked as subfamily Avulavirinae with genera Orthoavulavirus, Paraavulavirus, and Metaavulavirus; type species Newcastle disease virus (APMV-1), enveloped negative-sense RNA bird viruses including major poultry pathogens.
Avulsion fracture
An avulsion fracture happens when a tendon or ligament pulls a small piece of bone away from the main bone, usually during sudden movement in young athletes.
Avulsion injury
Avulsion injury: tearing away of skin, soft tissue, bone fragment, or tooth by pulling or shearing force; severe forms are called degloving, with replantation survival about 66% for complete finger avulsions.
Avulsion of scalp
Avulsion of scalp (ICD-11 NA09.0), traumatic tearing away of the scalp, usually from hair caught in rotating machinery. Microsurgical replantation, first successful in 1976, gives the best outcomes.
Avulsion of tibial tuberosity
Avulsion of tibial tuberosity (tibial tubercle avulsion fracture, TTAF): rare adolescent knee injury, about 3% of proximal tibial fractures, in boys 14–16 during jumping sports; classified by Watson-Jones/Ogden, treated by casting or screw fixation.
Avulsion of tooth
Avulsion of tooth (exarticulation, ICD-11 NA0D.15): complete traumatic displacement of a tooth from its socket. Permanent teeth need replantation within about 60 minutes, ideally immediately, stored in milk or HBSS; primary teeth are never replanted.
Avunculate marriage
Avunculate marriage, also called avuncular or uncle-niece marriage, is marriage between a man and his sister's daughter. Documented among the Caribs, Kanarese, Nama, and Tupinamba; rare, and often traced through kinship terminology.
Avutometinib
Avutometinib (VS-6766, CH-5126766), a RAF/MEK clamp kinase inhibitor, is co-packaged with defactinib as Avmapki Fakzynja Co-pack, FDA-accelerated approved May 8, 2025 for KRAS-mutated recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer.
Avvai Shanmugi (அவ்வை சண்முகி)
Avvai Shanmugi (அவ்வை சண்முகி), also spelled Avvai Shanmughi, is a 1996 Tamil comedy directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring Kamal Haasan as a divorced man disguised as an elderly governess, inspired by Mrs. Doubtfire and remade as Chachi 420.
Avvaiyar
Avvaiyar (ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam period, a close friend of the chieftain Atiyaman Neduman Anji of Takatur and the most prolific female contributor to the Purananuru anthology.
Avvaiyar tradition
The Avvaiyar tradition (ஔவையார்) is the body of Tamil literature and legend under the name Avvaiyar, an honorific borne by several distinct Tamil poetesses across different periods.
Avvakum Petrov
Avvakum Petrov (Аввакум Петров), also called Avvakum Petrovich, was a Russian archpriest who led the early Old Believers against Patriarch Nikon's reforms and was burned at the stake in 1682.
AVX-512
AVX-512 is a family of 512-bit SIMD extensions to the x86 instruction set, introduced by Intel and later implemented in AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors.
Avy Violari
Avy Violari is a South African pediatrician and HIV researcher who heads the Paediatric Research and Care program at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Soweto.
AW Rostamani Group
AW Rostamani Group (AWR Group) is a Dubai-based, family-owned conglomerate founded in 1954 as a bookshop, now spanning automotive, real estate, logistics, and travel, chaired by Khalid Al Rostamani.