This test checks for problems similar to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis or other similar immunological diseases which are associated with pregnancy losses or infertility. This test becomes weakly positive in women with infertility and in women with recurrent pregnancy losses. This antibody causes inflammation in the body or in the uterus when a baby attaches. It is usually reported as ANA positive with at titer of 1:40 or higher with a speckled pattern. This pattern is not typical of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis or other immunological disorders.
A blood test that is used in the evaluation of possible lupus or other connective tissue disorders. When the ANA is positive, it indicates that someone may have an autoimmune disorder, but by itself it cannot make the diagnosis for sure.
Anti-nuclear Antibody - Autoantibodies against various cell nuclear components. See "How is Lupus Diagnosed?", "I've Heard of the Lupus Criteria - What's That?", "I Have a Positive ANA but I'm Told I Don't Have Lupus", "Can a Lupus Patient have a negative ANA titer?"
(Association of National Advertisers) A membership organization representing 300 companies with 8,000 brands dedicated exclusively to marketing and brand building.
Association of National Advertisers. The ad industry's oldest trade association (est. 1910), ANA is the only one exclusively dedicated to serving the interests of corporations that advertise regionally and nationally. ANA members (representing 2,000 subsidiaries, divisions and operation units) market a variety of goods and services that account for over 80% of all annual regional and national ad expenditures in U.S. ANA's Outdoor Advertising Committee addresses issues to advertisers using or considering those media to ensure maximum effectiveness.
( Erdtman and Vishnu-Mittre, 1956) A prefix indicating the position of features, such as apertures, on the distal face. Examples: Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae), Sparganium (Typhaceae). Antonym: cata-. See also: zona-.
adverb [greek: "up"] - A term used in some literature to refer to one of the two directions from three dimensional space into four dimensional space. In tetraspace, represented by the vector 0,0,0,1. This term refers to the direction analogous to up; the opposite direction is kata. On this webpage I use the term upsilon for the concept of four-dimensional up. See the chart under direction.
In contexts of solar physics and data analysis, ana is a somewhat whimsically named computer language that is designed for array processing and image data analysis. The name is an acronym for "A Non Acronym". Ana began as a fork of an early version of IDL, but has diverged significantly since then.