{{wiktionary|ansa}} '''Ansa''' or '''ANSA''' may refer to:
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==Organizations== * 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 ({{floruit}} 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 {{IAST|Aṃśa}}, 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== * Ansah, a given name and surname * Anza (disambiguation)
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