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Muscles of the hip
Muscles of the hip: 21 muscles crossing the hip joint, grouped as flexors, extensors, abductors, adductors, and the six deep external rotators (piriformis, obturator internus and externus, gemelli, quadratus femoris), with attachments, architecture, and surgical relevance.
Muscogee
Muscogee (Mvskoke), also called Creek, a Native American people of the Southeast whose Muscogee (Creek) Nation, headquartered in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, is the fourth-largest US tribe; known for its town confederacy, the Creek War, Trail of Tears removal, and 2020 McGirt reservation ruling.
Muscogee County
Muscogee County is a county in west central Georgia on the Chattahoochee River, consolidated with its county seat, Columbus, since 1971, forming Georgia's first consolidated city-county government.
Muscogee National Council
The Muscogee National Council is the legislature of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, descended from the council governing the Creek Confederacy before removal.
Muscomorpha
Muscomorpha, an infraorder of Brachycera flies (Eremoneura, Cyclorrhapha), includes houseflies, fruit flies, and hoverflies, about 100,000 species, split into Aschiza and Schizophora (Acalyptratae paraphyletic, Calyptratae monophyletic), originating in the Middle Jurassic.
Muscovado
Muscovado (Barbados sugar, khandsari, khand) is unrefined non-centrifugal cane sugar retaining natural molasses; moist, dark, toffee-flavored; light and dark grades; India and the Philippines lead production; substitutes include jaggery, panela, Sucanat.
Muscovite
Muscovite, also called white mica or Muscovy-glass, is the most common rock-forming potassium mica, occurring in schists and granites and splitting into transparent sheets valued for electrical insulation.
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars (Russian: Русско-литовские войны) were a series of wars between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy from the late 1480s to 1537, in which Muscovy took Smolensk and Chernigov.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company, also called the Russia Company (Московская компания), is an English chartered trading company incorporated in 1555 that held a monopoly on English trade with Russia until 1698.
Muscovy duck
Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata), a large tropical American tree-nesting duck domesticated pre-Columbian times; not mallard-derived; sterile mule/hinny hybrids with mallards; IUCN Least Concern; more susceptible to H5N1 and duck plague than Pekin ducks.
Musculair
Musculair refers to two human-powered aircraft built by Munich designer Günter Rochelt in the 1980s, winning a Kremer prize in 1984 and a speed record in 1985.
Muscular Christianity
Muscular Christianity: Victorian religious movement, also called Christian manliness, linking sport and faith; began as an 1857 joke about a Kingsley novel, spread via the YMCA (London 1844) and shaped American sports, basketball, and the Olympics.
Muscular dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne (DMD) and Becker types, is a group of inherited, progressive skeletal muscle disorders caused by altered genes such as DMD on Xp21; diagnosis is now genetic-testing-first, with biopsy reserved for inconclusive cases.
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), founded 1950 by Paul Cohen in Rye, NY, is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) voluntary health organization for muscular dystrophy, ALS, and 300+ neuromuscular diseases; distinct from the UK MND Association and the New Zealand MDA.
Muscular dystrophy diagnosis and screening
Muscular dystrophy diagnosis and screening is the set of tests used to diagnose muscular dystrophies, from creatine kinase blood testing and genetic analysis to muscle biopsy, MRI, and newborn screening.
Muscular hypertonia
Muscular hypertonia, also called muscle hypertonia or increased muscle tone, is abnormally stiff, resistant muscles from upper motor neuron lesions, classified as spasticity, rigidity, dystonia, or paratonia; ICD-11 code MB47.8.
Muscular pseudohypertrophy-hypothyroidism syndrome
Muscular pseudohypertrophy-hypothyroidism syndrome, or Kocher-Debré-Sémélaigne syndrome (ORPHA:2349, ICD-10 E03.1), is a rare childhood disorder causing muscle pseudohypertrophy from longstanding hypothyroidism, reversible with levothyroxine; Hoffmann syndrome is its adult counterpart.
Muscular system
Muscular system: the skeletal muscles and their connective tissues, over 600 muscles making up nearly half of body mass; also covers cardiac and smooth muscle, contraction, fatigue, and sarcopenia.
Musculocontractural Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Musculocontractural Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (mcEDS), also called adducted thumb-clubfoot syndrome or Dundar syndrome, is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder caused by CHST14 or DSE variants, with congenital contractures, craniofacial features, and fragile skin.
Musculoskeletal and hematologic manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus
The musculoskeletal and hematologic manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus are joint, muscle, and blood abnormalities affecting 80–90% of SLE patients, including nonerosive arthritis, Jaccoud's arthropathy, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.
Musculoskeletal examination
The musculoskeletal examination is a clinical method in which a physician inspects, palpates, and moves the joints, muscles, and bones to detect abnormalities and diagnose musculoskeletal disorders.
MUSDB18
MUSDB18 is a dataset of 150 full-length music tracks, about 10 hours of audio, released in December 2017 as a benchmark for separating vocals, drums, and bass from mixtures.
Muse
Muse is a text-to-image generation model introduced by Google Research in January 2023, generating images by predicting randomly masked discrete image tokens with a Transformer rather than by diffusion.
Muse (band)
Muse (band): English rock trio from Teignmouth, Devon (Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard; formerly Rocket Baby Dolls). Ten studio albums from Showbiz (1999) to The Wow! Signal (2026); over 30 million units sold; seven consecutive UK number-one albums.
Muse (character)
Muse is a Marvel Comics Daredevil villain, a serial-killer artist created by Charles Soule and Ron Garney in Daredevil Vol. 5 #11 (2016), with sensory-vortex imperceptibility powers; adapted as Bastian Cooper in Daredevil: Born Again, distinct from the 2002 mutant Muse.
Muse (Jimin album)
MUSE is BTS member Jimin's second solo album, released July 19, 2024 by BIGHIT MUSIC during his military service. Seven tracks led by "Who"; debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and set a Korean soloist record with 25 consecutive weeks.
MUSE benchmark
MUSE (Machine Unlearning Six-Way Evaluation) is a benchmark testing how well machine unlearning removes knowledge from language models without damaging them, published in 2024 and accepted at ICLR 2025.
Muse Code
Muse Code is Meta's terminal-based coding agent, released in beta in August 2026 and powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-specialized model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Muse discography
Muse discography: catalog of the English rock band Muse (Teignmouth, Devon), ten studio albums from Showbiz (1999) to The Wow! Signal (2026), plus EPs, soundtracks, live films, and box sets such as Origin of Muse.
Muse Image
Muse Image is a text-to-image generation and editing model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the lab's first image model, launched July 7, 2026 in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp.