Editing Ansa

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'''Ansa''' (Latin for "[[handle]]") or '''ANSA''' may refer to:

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==Organizations==
* [[Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata]], Italian news agency
** [[Ansa Mediterranean]] or ANSAmed, section of the above
* [[Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia]]
* [[Association of Norwegian Students Abroad]]

==Science and technology==
===Anatomy===
* [[Ansa cervicalis]], a loop of nerves that are part of the cervical plexus
* [[Ansa lenticularis]], a part of the brain, making up the superior layer of the substantia innominata of Meynert
* [[Loop of Henle]] (''ansa nephroni''), a portion of a nephron in the kidney
* Ansa of the [[tympanal organ]]

===Astronomy===
* ''Ansae'', compact [[Nebulosity|nebulosities]] such as can be found in protoplanetary nebulae
* One of the apparent ends of the [[rings of Saturn]]

===Computing===
* [[Advanced Networked Systems Architecture]], a 1990s, pre-CORBA, distributed systems architecture
* [[ANSA Pre-processor]], commercial pre-processing software (Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis)

===Other uses in science and technology===
* [[Ansa (moth)|''Ansa'' (moth)]], a genus of moth
* In archaeology, the engraved and ornamented handle of a [[vase]]
* [[Bridge (chemical)]] between two functional groups/ligands
** [[Ansa-metallocene|''Ansa''-metallocene]]

==People==
* [[Ansa, Queen of the Lombards]] ({{floruit}}  753–774), wife of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
* [[Ansa Ikonen]] (1913–1989), Finnish actress
* [[Tina McElroy Ansa]] (born 1949), African American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist

==Other uses==
* [[Ansa (Hinduism)]] or {{IAST|Aṃśa}}, a solar deity and one of the Adityas
* ANSA, equivalent of NASA in the 1968 film ''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''
* Armed [[non-state actor]]s, a term used in political science
* [[National Security Advisor (United States)]], Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

==See also==
* [[Ansah]], a given name and surname
* [[Anza (disambiguation)]]

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