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

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