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VS (band) VS were a British pop group, the brainchild of former Blue member Simon Webbe (who was also their manager), Melody from DJ Pied Piper and established singer/songwriter Ali Tennant who came together to form production company Love For Music.
VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire is the sequel to the Japanese animation of 1990 NG Knight Lamune & 40. Like it's first series it was never dubbed by any English companies , however it does have an Arabic Dub.
VS System VS System (pronounced "Versus System") is a gaming system designed for collectible card games, in which players take their constructed decks and attempt to wear down their opponents to 0 or less endurance. It is currently used for the superhero collectible card games Marvel and DC Comics TCG, created and published by Upper Deck Entertainment.
VS-31 Sea Control Squadron Three One (VS-31), known as the "Topcats", is a United States Navy S-3 Viking squadron based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. Currently, the squadron is slated for decommissioning following its 2007 cruise aboard the carrier USS John C.
VS-931 VS-931 Antisubmarine Squadron was activated at Willow Grove Naval Air Station in Pennsylvania on March 1, 1951 during the Korean War and was transfereed to Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California. The squadron was sent abroad on the USS Sicily and operated near Japan and Okinawa.
VS-AT4 mine The VS-AT4 and VS-AT4-EL are Italian minimum metal blast resistant anti-tank blast mines. The VS-AT4 uses a blast resistant mechanical pressure fuze, while the VS-AT4-EL uses a programmable electronic pressure fuze with an integral anti-lifting function.
VS-HCT mine The VS-HCT series of mines are Italian plastic cased anti-tank mines that use Misznay Schardin effect warheads and have a dual seismic and magnetic fuze. The mines are no longer produced and differ in size and shape.
VS-MK2 mine The VS-MK-2 is an Italian plastic bodied scatterable anti-personnel blast mine. The mine is extremely difficult to detect because of its low metal content, it is also resistant to blast overpressure thanks to a pneumatic system incorporated into the fuze.
VSG Altglienicke Berlin VSG Altglienicke is a German sports club based in the Treptow district of eastern Berlin offering its members football, volleyball, handball, bowling, seniors activities, gymnastics, dance, and cheerleading. Its football team plays in the Kreisliga-A Berlin (VII).
VSHSON The VSHSON or All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People (Vse-Rossiiskii Sotsial-Hristianskii Soyuz Osvobozhdenie Naroda, Всероссийский Социал-Християнский Союз за Освобождения Народа - ВСХСОН) was an underground anti-Soviet organization that originated in Russia during the 1960's.
VSMOW VSMOW, or Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, is an isotopic water standard defined in 1968 by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Despite the somewhat misleading phrase "ocean water", VSMOW refers to pure water (H2O) and does not include any salt or other substances in seawater.
VSNL International Canada VSNL International Canada (formerly called Teleglobe) is an international telco carrier. Part of their recent work has involved the updating of the CANTAT transatlantic cable system that connects the United Kingdom and Newfoundland under the Atlantic Ocean.
VSpeech SDK VSpeech SDK is a Vietnamese speech recognition library. The aim is to allow developers to design their own speech applications easily and quickly by using C#/VB/C++ Delphi and any languages support dynamic link library (DLL).
VSpot Top 20 Countdown VSpot Top 20 Countdown is a weekly television show on the VH1 cable network. Until the week of March 31, 2006, it was simply called Top 20 Countdown, and it counted down the top videos of the week by record sales, radio airplay, video spins, message board posts and snail mail.
VSS-UNES-USU Since 1920, VSS-UNES-USU (Verband Schweizer Studierendenschaften, Union des Etudiant-e-s de Suisse, Unione Svizzera degli Universitari) is the umbrella organization of the Swiss Student Unions and represents the interests of students in Switzerland. It coordinates the requests of its members and cooperates with national and international organizations.
VSSK Vychlop (Rifle) 12.7 mm VSSK (Vintovka Snayperskaya Spetsialnaya Krupnokalibernaya - special sniper rifle, large caliber) "Vychlop" (Exhaust) silenced sniper rifle is one of the most recent creations of famous Russian KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
VST architecture VST architecture represents an overall strategic way of looking at Virtual Studio Technology systems from a design engineering perspective. As many schemas exist and are planned as there are composers, artists, musicians and others who may be interested in the technology.
VSTa VSTa is an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode. It is mostly POSIX compliant, except when POSIX compatibility got in the way of extensibility and modularity.
Vtiger CRM vtiger CRM is an open source CRM business solution built over LAMP/WAMP (Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) technologies and other open source projects. The core development team of vtiger CRM is based in Chennai, India, and is funded by AdventNet.
VT-1 reactor The VT-1 reactor was the nuclear fission reactor used in a pair to power the Soviet Navy's Project 645 Кит-ЖМТ (November) first generation submarine. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using highly enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 73 MWt of power.
VT-8 Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) was a United States Navy squadron of torpedo bombers assigned to the Air Group operating from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). The squadron joined the ship shortly after commissioning in October 1941 and remained in the Pacific following her sinking in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942.
VT05 The VT05 was the first free-standing CRT computer terminal from Digital Equipment Corporation. Famous for its extremely futuristic styling, the VT05 presented the user with an upper-case only 5x7 dot-matrix display of 20 rows by 72 columns.
VT100 The VT100 was a video terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which became the de facto standard used by terminal emulators. In fact, if one looks up video terminal in the American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, the picture is of a VT100.
VT220 The VT220 was a terminal produced by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1983 to 1987. It was similar to the earlier VT100 series of terminals, but added support for the Multinational Character Set and came with a redesigned keyboard, much smaller physical packaging, full support for 8-bit downloadable character sets, and a much faster microprocessor.
VT420 The VT420 was a computer terminal designed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Introduced in 1990, it fit up to 50 lines on the screen and supported two sessions, either one through each communication port, or by multiplexing two sessions on one line with a suitable terminal server.
VT52 The VT52 was a CRT-based computer terminal produced by Digital Equipment Corporation during the late 1970s. This terminal provided a screen that was 24 rows high and 80 columns wide and supported the full upper- and lower-case ASCII character set as well as a few special graphics characters.
VTech CreatiVision The Video Technology CreatiVision was a hybrid computer and video game console introduced by VTech in 1981. The hybrid unit was similar in concept to computers such as the APF Imagination Machine, the older Video Brain computer, and to a lesser extent the Intellivision game console and Coleco ADAM computer, all of which anticipated the trend of video game consoles becoming more like low-end computers.
VTech Laser 200 The VTech Laser 200 was an early 8-bit home microcomputer from 1983, also sold as the Salora Fellow (mainly in Scandinavia, particularly Finland), the Texet TX8000 (in the United Kingdom) and the Dick Smith VZ 200 (in Australia and New Zealand).
VTEC VTEC (standing for Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control) is a system developed by Honda to improve the combustion efficiency of its internal combustion engines throughout the RPM range. This was the first system of its kind and eventually led to different types of variable valve timing and lift control systems that were later designed by other manufacturers (VVTL-i from Toyota, VarioCam Plus from Porsche, and so on).
VTI Technologies VTI Technologies is a company in Finland that was founded as a spin-off from the company Vaisala Oy, a market leader in meteorology. VTI was founded to industrialize and further develop Vaisala's MEMS technology in automotive applications.
VTK Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python.
VTOC In the z/OS architecture from IBM, VTOC refers to the Volume Table Of Contents. A way of cataloging the data sets that reside on a particular volume, it can reside anywhere on the volume it catalogs and lists both the names of the data sets on the volume as well as information such as size, location, and permissions.
VTT-323 The North Korean produced M1973 Sinhung VTT-323 is a licensed copy of the Chinese YW 531 APC. The vehicle features a box-like welded steel hull, with a small turret positioned just to the rear of the hull centerline.
Vu Quang Vu Quang is a remote forested region of Vietnam, in which several new species of deer and antelope have been discovered since the 1990s. Some are so new that scientific description is still pending, although most have local names.
Vu Quoc Uy Vu Quoc Uy (Vu the Great) was born into a small intellectual family in the province of Nam Dinh. He was lucky to study in a Trung Thanh level school, so he soon felt sensitive to the cultural life and art of urban youth.
Vual In demonology, Vual is a mighty Great Duke of Hell, commanding thirty-seven legions of demons. S/He gives the love of women, causes friendship between friends and foes, and tells things past, present and to come.
Vuanirewa The Vuanirewa is the ruling clan (yavusa) of the Lau Islands, a scattered group of more than a hundred islands (16 inhabited) and reefs along the eastern edge of Fiji. The members of this clan all hail from the village of Tubou on the island of Lakeba and claim descent from one of four noble households (mataqali) that make up the clan.
VuÄŤedol culture The VuÄŤedol culture was a culture that flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC (the Eneolithic period), centered in eastern Slavonia on the right bank of the Danube river, but possibly spreading throughout the Pannonian plain.
Vucub-Caquix Vucub-Caquix rules the Mayan underworld of Xibalba together with his second-in-command, Hun-Came He is a giant bird-shaped god. According to Mayan myth, he was almost the god of the sun, but he lost in a game of darts against the hero-twins, Xbalanque and Hunahpu.
Vuda (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Vuda East Maritime Indian Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Vuda (Open Constituency, Fiji) Vuda Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Vue (band) Vue is a rock and roll band from San Francisco, California in the United States. This band was also formerly knows as The Audience and released one album, "Das Audience" and several singles on GSL records before changing their name to Vue when signing to Sub Pop Records.
Vuelta a España 2005 These are the results for the 2005 edition of the Vuelta a España cycling race. Roberto Heras was the original champion but the win was awarded to Russian Denis Menchov after the climber from Béjar tested positive in a doping test.
Vuelta a España 2006 The 61st Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from August 26 to September 17, 2006. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3,192 km, and was won by Alexander Vinokourov of the Team Astana cycling team.
Vuelta al Táchira The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (English: Tour of Táchira) is a mutli-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January in the state of Táchira, Venezuela. Vuelta al Táchira is part of the UCI America Tour, which is one of six UCI Continental Circuits sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the sport's international governing body.
Vuelve Vuelve (Spanish for "come back") is the fourth album by the Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. Released by Sony on February 10, 1998 (see 1998 in music), it has been credited for worldwide sales of over 8,000,000 copies.
Vuelvealavida Vuelvealavida, RompecolchĂłn, and Siete Potencias (Back into Life, Mattress-breaker and Seven Powers) are names given to various seafood cocktails in Venezuela. These cocktails are believed, perhaps apocryphally, to serve as sexual stimulants.
Vugar Alakparov Vugar Alakparov (born January 5, 1981) is an Azerbaijani boxer who competed in the Middleweight (75 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the quarter final.
Vugrovec Vugrovec is a group of two villages in central Croatia, Donji Vugrovec and Gornji Vugrovec, located about 5 km northeast of Zagreb and north of Sesvete. The population of Donji Vugrovec is 452 people, and in Gornji Vugrovec there are 306 people (census 2001).
Vujak VuJak was the world's first video sampler, a VJ remix and mashup tool created in 1992 by Brian Kane, Lisa Eisenpresser, and Jay Haynes. The original name of the project was Mideo, but it was later changed to VuJak.
Vuk (film) Vuk (1981) is one of the most well-known Hungarian animated films, based on the novel Vuk by István Fekete. Along with Cat City, it is widely regarded as one of the ultimate classics of Hungarian cartoon making.
Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković (Вук Драшковић) (born November 29, 1946, Međa, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia), leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement is a Serbian politician who is presently the temporary Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.
Vuk Grgurević Vuk Grgurević (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Гргуревић), also known as Despot Vuk Branković and Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk, was Serbian despot (1471-1485). He was a son of Grgur Branković and grandson of despot Đurađ Branković.
Vukašin Mrnjavčević Vukashin (Влъкашинъ; Serbian: Вукашин Мрњавчевић or Vukašin Mrnjavčević; Bulgarian: Вълкашин) (around 1320-1371) was a Serbian medieval ruler in modern-day central and northwestern Macedonia, who ruled from 1365 to 1371.
Vukcevich Super Cup The Vukcevich Super Cup is an annual chess series made up of nine tournaments, running from September through May. Individual tournaments have their own champions, but the Super Champion has the best result from all the tounaments.
Vukša Veličković Vukša Veličković (Вукша Величковић, born February 18, 1979) is a Serbian writer and journalist, best known for his novel Gužva ('The Crowd') published by Alexandria Press in 2003, along with a book-soundtrack CD featuring young Serbian electronic artists. He is the author of If I were column in 'Prestup' magazine, Belgrade, in which he deals with applied pop-politics, enacting different social roles – the prime minister's chauffeur, a beggar, a TV news presenter, or a transvestite on the trail of a mass grave.
Vuko Tomasevic Vuko Tomasevic (born May 13 1980 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an football (soccer) player. He most recently played as a central defender for the Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners before being released at the end of the 2007 season.
Vuko Vukadinović Vuko Vukadinović (Serbian: Вуko Bуkaдинoвич) (born 1937) was a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro and the President of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro in 1986-1989.
Vukojevac Vukojevac is a village in the region of Turopolje south of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is situated on the eastern slopes of the VukomeriÄŤke gorice hills and about halfway between Zagreb and Sisak adjacent to the road that connected the ancient Roman towns of Poetovio and Siscia.
Vukosavlje Vukosavlje (Cyrillic]: Вукосавље) is a municipality in [[Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was created from part of the pre-war municipality of Odžak (the other part of the pre-war municipality is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Vukovar massacre The Vukovar massacre was an incident that took place between November 18 and November 21 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia. Around 260 local Croats and other non-Serbs were murdered by members of Serb paramilitary units as well as Yugoslav officers.
Vukovar-Syrmia County Vukovar-Syrmia county (Croatian: Vukovarsko-srijemska Ĺľupanija) is the easternmost Croatian county. It includes the eastern parts of Slavonia and western parts of Srijem regions; but also the lower Sava river basin (Posavina).
Vulca Vulca was an artist from the Etruscan town of Veii. He is responsible for creating a terracotta statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, and possibly the Apollo of Veii.
Vulcan (DC Comics) Vulcan, is a fictional character from DC Comics, he is the second character to star in a book titled Son of Vulcan. The first was Johnny Mann, who was created by Charlton Comics in 1965 and later purchased by DC Comics in 1983.
Vulcan (hypothetical planet) Vulcan was the name given to a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis. This hypothesis has now been rendered obsolete by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Vulcan (Star Trek) Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic, with no interference from emotion. They were the first
Vulcan Corporation Vulcan Corporation is a materials manufacturer that specializes in rubber, plastics, foam products, and bowling pins. Vulcan Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vulcan International Corporation, based in Wilmington, Delaware.
Vulcan High Command In the 22nd century of the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan High Command is apparently a form of military government which controls both the Vulcan space fleet and most of the planet itself. Most of the Vulcans, including T'Pol, from Star Trek: Enterprise served the High Command.
Vulcan IDIC In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan IDIC symbol itself is a circle and triangle of white and yellow gold metals resting upon each other, and adorned with a white jewel in the center. The symbol represents the Vulcan philosophy of IDIC ("Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations"), an idea that is often seen as an underlying philosphy of not only the Vulcans, but also a main focus in the message behind the TV show Star Trek.
Vulcan Lyre In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan Lyre, alternatively called the "Vulcan Lute" and the "Vulcan Harp", is a stringed musical instrument of Vulcan origin. The instrument creates soothing tones when plucked.
Vulcan mentat society The Vulcan Mentat Society is an organization with the charter to emulate aspects of the science fiction archetypes inherent in the Star Trek fictional race known as Vulcans and the Frank Herbert's Dune characters known as mentats.
Vulcan Materials Company Vulcan Materials Company Vulcan Materials Company (Vulcan) is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials (primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand) in the United States.
Vulcan of the alchemists Although important in Egyptian and Greek religion it was the Renaissance physician/alchemist Paracelsus who first introduced the mythological figure of Vulcan as the patron deity of alchemy and as symbolic of the hermetic art.
Vulcan salute The Vulcan salute is a hand gesture, devised by Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played the half-Vulcan Spock on Star Trek, which consists of a raised hand, palm forward with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger. The Salute first appeared on the original Star Trek series in the second season opening episode, "Amok Time".
Vulcan, Alberta The town of Vulcan is located midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge, in the southern part of Alberta, Canada. The population of the town is approximately 1,600, and the population of the county, which is also named Vulcan, is about 6,500.
Vulcanization Vulcanization, or curing of rubber, is a chemical process in which individual polymer molecules are linked to other polymer molecules by atomic bridges. The end result is that the springy rubber molecules become cross-linked to a greater or lesser extent.
Vulcano Vulcano is a small volcanic island () in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 25 km north of Sicily and the southernmost of the Aeolian Islands. It is 21 square kilometres in area, rises to 499 metres, and contains several volcanic centres, including one of four active non-submarine volcanos in Italy and the formerly separate islet of Vulcanello.
Vulcânicos Vulcânicos (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Vulkânikus) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Premier division and plays in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of São Filipe in the island of Fogo.
Vule Trivunović Vukašin "Vule" Trivunović (born March 13 1983 in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian football player. Currently, he is part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.
Vulgar The term vulgar originally meant "of the common people", from the Latin vulgus. The term is now commonly used to describe things that are, from the viewpoint of the person using the word, in bad taste, indecent, or profane.
Vulgar Latin Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris, "common speech") is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually made around the ninth century. It includes late Latin and the terms are often used synonymously.
Vulgarian National Anthem "Vulgarian National Anthem" (or "The Vulture of Vulgaria") was originally written for the 1968 musical film, produced by Cubby Broccoli called, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but was cut almost entirely from the final edit of the film. The musical theme is still heard in the soundtrack when the Vulgarian Zeppelin lands in Vulgaria.
Vulgarism "Vulgarism" derives from Latin vulgus, the "common folk", and has carried into English its original connotations linking it with the low and coarse motivations that were supposed to be natural to the commons, who were not moved by higher motives like fame for posterity and honor among peers — motives that were alleged to move the literate classes. Thus the concept of vulgarism carries cultural freight from the outset, and from some social perspectives it does not genuinely exist, or — a perhaps this amounts to the same thing — ought not to exist.
Vulgate The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century version of the Bible in Latin partly revised and partly translated by Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I in 382. It takes its name from the phrase versio vulgata, i.
Vulchitrun treasure The Vulchitrun gold treasure (Bulgarian: Вълчитрънско златно съкровище) was discoverred in 1924 by two brothers who were working in their vineyard. It consists of 13 receptacles, different in form and size.
Vulkaneifel Vulkaneifel is a district (Kreis) in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Euskirchen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Ahrweiler, Mayen-Koblenz, Cochem-Zell, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Bitburg-PrĂĽm.
Vulnerability (computing) In computer security, the word vulnerability refers to a weakness in a system allowing an attacker to violate the integrity, confidentiality, access control, availability, consistency or audit mechanisms of the system or the data and applications it hosts. Vulnerabilities may result from bugs or design flaws in the system.
Vulnerability assessment Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system. The system being studied could be a physical facility like a nuclear power plant, a computer system, or a larger system (for example the communications infrastructure or water infrastructure of a region).
Vulnerability scanner A vulnerability scanner is a computer program designed to search for and map systems for weaknesses in an application, computer or network. Step 1, typically the scanner will first look for active IP addresses, open ports, OSes and any applications running.
Vulnerable (Marvin Gaye album) Vulnerable is a 1997 album of jazz-styled soul recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label. The album included songs Gaye revisited and re-recorded following a failed 1966 stint trying to come up with a ballad-styled album.
Vulnerable species A vulnerable species is one whose chances of extinction characterize it as threatened but not quite as endangered. The following is a very small non-representative fraction of the 8565 species listed by the IUCN as vulnerable:
Vultee Aircraft The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 and had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1943 to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair.
Vultee XA-41 The Vultee XA-41 was originally ordered as a dive bomber, however the contract was later amended to change the role to low-level ground attack, after combat experience lead the Army Air Corps to believe that dive-bombers were too vulnerable to enemy fighters.
Vulture (comics) The Vulture is the name of three comic book supervillains in the Marvel Comics universe. The first Vulture is an elderly enemy of Spider-Man created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963).
Vulture Culture Vulture Culture is an album by The Alan Parsons Project. The first side of the LP (CD tracks 1-4) consists entirely of four-minute pop songs, and the second side varies widely, from the subdued funk of the title track to the bouncing, desert-like "Hawkeye".
Vulture Glacier Vulture Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. Vulture Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental divide.
Vulturine Guineafowl The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is the largest and most spectacular of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and is the only member of the genus Acryllium. It is a resident breeder in northeast Africa, from southern Ethiopia through Kenya and just into northern Tanzania.
Vulturo Vulturo is a Hanna-Barbera super-villain who first appeared in a 1967 episode of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio titled Vulturo, Prince Of Darkness. The character reappeared in another classic episode titled Return Of Vulturo.
Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia The term vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) denotes a squamous intraepithelial lesion of the vulva that shows dysplasia with varying degrees of atypia. The epithelial basement membrane is intact and the lesion is thus not invasive but has invasive potential.
Vulvectomy Vulvectomy refers to a gynecological procedure in which the vulva is partly or completely removed. Usually this is performed as a last resort in certain cases of cancer, vulvar dysplasia or Human Papilloma Virus (genital warts).

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