Ansa
# 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
