The ANDES (Andes) (Andijskie Cordilleras JUzh. America), an austral part of a range of Cordilleras, occupying boreal and western surburb of mainland Juzh. America. One of the most lengthy (9 thousand in km.) And the highest on the Earth (6960 m, Aêîíêàãóà). Will consist from parallel hrebtov - Vost., Center., Zap. And Coastal Cordilleras between which are encased internal a tableland or a hollow. Earthquakes are often; many active volcanoes. Andes lay in several climatic belts and differ (especially at the centre) sharp contrasts in humidifying eastern and western downslopes. Most the considerable glaciation in Patagonian Andes (over 20 thousand êì2). Across Andes passes an interocean watershed, in them Amazon and its{her} inflow rise, the eskar lays high-mountainous. Titikaka. Owing to climatic distinctions{differences} and high altitudes rather diverse soil - plant cover and fauna. Andes are affluent ores, primarily non-ferrous metals, in submontane sags - petroleum and gas.

ANEURISM (from grech. aneurysma - expansion).. 1) an aneurism of heart - the protrusion of a restricted plot istonchennoj walls of heart, is routine after an infarct... 2) the Aneurism of a vessel - restricted aboriginal expansion of a lumen of an artery owing to a stretching and extrusions of its{her} wall (at an atherosclerosis, a lues, damage).

JOKE (from grech. anekdotos - unpublished).. 1) the short story about a historical face, incident... 2) the Genre of urban folklore, burning comic a story - miniature with a unexpected tailpiece, a peculiar comic parable.

ANAEMIA (from grech. an--a negative prefix and haima - blood) (anaemia), group of the diseases defined by reduction of quantity of erythrocytes and (or) a haemoglobin in blood that results in a hypoxia. The causes: hemorrhages (acute and chronic posthemorrhagic an anaemia), heightened kroverazrushenie (a hemolytic anaemia) or a disturbed hemopoiesis (at defect in an organism gland - iron deficiency anemias pregnant, a chlorosis, etc.; some vitamins - a pernicious anaemia, etc.; at a toxic defeat of bone marrow, etc.). Some an anaemia fall into to hereditary diseases (napr., serpovidnokletochnaja an anaemia). Developments of an anaemia: asthenia, a vertigo, a short wind, palpitation, paleness of integuments, etc.

ANEMO... (from grech. anemos - a wind), the part of the composite words conforming on value to the word "wind" (napr., an anemometer).

ANEMOMETER (from anemo... And... Meter), a gauge meter of wind speed and gas streams (sometimes and wind directions - anemorumbometr) on a number of revolutions of a rotated whirly.

ANEMONE, the same, that a weather shake.

ANEMOPHILY (from anemo... And... filija), an allogamy of plants with the help of a wind, napr. For cereals, a birch.

ANEMOCHORIA (from anemo... And grech. choreo - I advance), distribution{propagation} of fruits and seeds of plants a wind.

ANERGIJA (from grech. an--a negative prefix and ergon - activity, action), in medicine - absence of body resistance to pathogenic environmental effects.

ANEROID (from a--a negative prefix and grech. neros - water), a barometer in which the atmospheric pressure is measured on value of a strain of an elastic metal box from which air is pumped off; at pressure variation the box is squeezeed or extends, and the bound with her a scape moves{migrates} on a scale, indicating pressure.

ANESTHESIOLOGY (from an anaesthesis and... logija), the range of clinical medicine investigator problems of an anaesthetization, steering of the vital functions of an organism in time, and also before and after a surgical operation.

ANESTHETICS, the medicinal substances used for a synthetic anaesthesis; oppress different kinds{views} of sensitivity, first of all pain.

ANAESTHESIS (grech. anaisthesia), an anesthesia owing to a defeat of sensory nerves. The synthetic anaesthesis for an anaesthetization at surgical operations is reached by influence of anaesthetizing substance on a brain (a general anaesthesia - narcosis), on nerve terminations and trunks in a place operations (local anaesthesia) or on a spinal cord (a spinal anaesthesis).

ANETO (Pico de Aneto), the highest top Pireneev (3404 ì) in Spain.

ANEUPLOIDY (from grech. an--a negative prefix, eu - quite, ploos - aliquot and eidos - a kind{view}), a hereditary variation at which cells of an organism contain chromosome number, not aliquot to the main{basic} panel: he is reduced on 1 (monosomy), less often 2 (nullisomija) or enlarged on 1 or some chromosomes. An aneuploidy - the cause of some chromosome diseases of the person.

ANGERS (Angers), city in the west France, on r. Maine, an administrative centre of department Maine and Loire and main city of historical range of Anjou. 141 thousand inhabitants (1990). A machine industry, textile, a food-processing industry. A museum of trellises, etc. The Romansko-Gothic cathedral (12-13 centuries), the clasp (13 century).

ANZHERO-SUDZHENSK, city (with 1931) in the Russian Federation, the Kemerovo region. Depot (Anzherskaja). 106,4 thousand inhabitants (1992). A coal mining. Factories: machine-building, tractor units, himiko-pharmaceutical, etc. The Study of local lore museum. It is based in 1897.

ANJOU (Anjou), historical range in France. 7,6 thousand êì2. The population of 700 thousand person. Maine and Loire and in part Endr and Loire, Majen, Sarta actuates departments. Main city - Angers.

ANJOU ISLANDS, central, largest islands in group of Novosibirsk islands. Actuate islands: Boiler, Faddeevsky, New Siberia, Belkovsky and Bunge the Earth. A gross area ok. 29 thousand êì2. Are called named P.F.Anzhu.