title: Ansa
text: # Ansa
  
  Ansa (Latin for "handle") or ANSA may refer to:
  
  ## Organizations
  
  * Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italian news agency
     * Ansa Mediterranean or ANSAmed, section of the above
  * Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia
  * 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 (fl. 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 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
  