Ansa

• Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italian news agency • Ansa Mediterranean or ANSAmed, section of the above • Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia • Artists for a New South Africa (1989–c.2014) • 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 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), a genus of moth • In archaeology, the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase • Bridge (chemical) between two functional groups/ligands • Ansa-metallocene ==People==

• Ansa, Queen of the Lombards ( 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 , a solar deity and one of the Adityas • ANSA, equivalent of NASA in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes • Armed non-state actors, a term used in political science • National Security Advisor (United States), Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs ==See also==