#anul

• The Aban (illness entity) — An extremely rare archaic term attested in old Balkan apocryphal writings or healing manuscripts, denoting the symbolic or demonic personification of an acute febrile illness or a severe muscle spasm. In medieval folk medicine, diseases were frequently labeled with strange proper names (such as Abanul) to facilitate medical exorcism rituals and charms aimed at driving away pain.
• Abjudication — The act of abjudicating and its result; the legal deprivation of a person's property, patrimonial right, or official status following a definitive court ruling. It represents the procedural act by which the court revokes a legal title invoked by one of the parties, establishing the lack of legal basis or the existence of fraud in its acquisition.
• Abjudicated — That has been revoked, cancelled, or withdrawn from someone's possession by a court ruling; (about assets, titles, or rights) legally confiscated and assigned, as appropriate, to another person or returned to the public domain. The term qualifies the legal status of an object or prerogative after an abjudication action is finalized.
• To abolish / To repeal — The act of officially abolishing, annulling, suppressing, or repealing a law, custom, public institution, or legal social status, through an official legislative act or a decree issued by a sovereign state authority.
• Abolition / Repeal — The act of abolishing and its result; the official abolition, annulment, suppression, or repeal of a law, custom, public institution, or legal social status, through an act of public authority.
• Abolished / Repealed — A quality designating a law, custom, privilege, or institution that has been officially abolished, annulled, or suppressed through a legislative act or an authoritative decree. It derives from the past participle of the verb 'to abolish'.
• Abort — An emergency command, action, or procedure used in computer science, programming, and aerospace technology to forcibly and immediately terminate a process, code execution, software application, or operational mission before its natural completion; (in medicine, literary) a rare term borrowed from English or Latin used as a synonym for abortion or the premature halt of an embryo's development or a pathological process.
• Aborted — Having been prematurely, forcibly, or spontaneously terminated before reaching its natural or scheduled completion (of software processes, technical missions, actions, or plans); (in medicine and biology) having been lost or expelled before term, either spontaneously or induced (of a pregnancy or fetus); (in botany) halted in development or remaining in a rudimentary, non-functional stage (of plant organs).
• To abrogate — (Jurisprudence) To annul, abolish, or officially repeal a law, decree, ordinance, or another regulatory act through a new legal provision of equal or higher rank.
• Abrogation — The action of abrogating and its result; the official, total or partial annulment of the legal validity of a regulatory act (law, decree, regulation) by a subsequent legal provision.
• Repealed — (Jurisprudence) Of a law, decree, or regulatory act that has been officially deprived of force or validity by a subsequent legal provision.
• Abrogation — (Rare) Official annulment of a law or a regulatory act; a less frequent neologistic variant for the core term 'abrogare' (repeal).
• Abrogative — (Jurisprudence) Serving to abrogate; having the power or effect of annulling, abolishing, or repealing a law or another regulatory act.
• Retraction — The act of contradicting or rejecting and its result; the formal invalidation, retraction, or dismissal of a legal decision, statement, or claim. Used in the past as an archaic equivalent for the modern notion of disavowal or the formal annulment of a legal or ecclesiastical act.
• Invalidated — Having been formally invalidated, contradicted, or rejected by a judicial decision or an old administrative act; nullified, disavowed. In the context of historical legal texts, the term describes an argument, a testimony, or a right that has lost its legal validity following an official ruling.
• Acapulco — A famous port city and world-renowned resort town located in the Mexican state of Guerrero, along the Pacific Ocean coast. Situated in a spectacular semicircular bay, it is historically celebrated for its vibrant nightlife, tropical beaches, and the legendary cliff diving shows at La Quebrada, while also holding great historical significance as a major Spanish colonial trading hub.
• Acrocyst — An anatomical, external, and temporary vesicular formation observed in the development cycle of certain marine hydroid organisms (polyps, hydrozoans), serving as a protective chamber or external structural sac inside which the sexual cells (eggs) are retained and protected during the initial stages of embryonic development before their release as planula.
• Actinobacillosis — A chronic, structural infectious disease primarily affecting animals (especially cattle and swine) and extremely rarely humans, caused by bacteria of the genus Actinobacillus (such as Actinobacillus lignieresii). The disease is clinically characterized by the development of abscesses and hard granulomatous nodules in soft tissues, frequently localized in the tongue (commonly known as 'wooden tongue'), lymph nodes, or respiratory tract, causing major difficulties in mastication and deglutition.
• Actinomycosis — A chronic, non-contagious structural bacterial infectious disease caused by anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria of the genus Actinomyces (most commonly Actinomyces israelii), which normally colonize human mucous membranes. The condition manifests through the development of hard inflammatory granulomas and pseudotumoral suppurative abscesses that drain via fistulous tracts a characteristic pus containing yellow granules ('sulfur granules'), most frequently localizing cervicofacially (mouth and neck), thoracically, or abdominally following local trauma.
• Adamstown — The sole permanent settlement and official capital of the Pitcairn Islands, an isolated British Overseas Territory located in the southern Pacific Ocean. The locality houses the entire population of the island (a few dozen residents), primarily composed of the direct descendants of the famous mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions who settled there in 1790.