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MYUDa park
MYUDa park (Парк МЮДа) was a Kremenchuk, Ukraine public park established in 1938 near the DK Kredmash and railway station; it was completely destroyed in 2006 when developer Amstor-M felled 236 trees for the Eneida complex.
Myung‐Hwan Whangbo
Myung-Hwan Whangbo, also published as M.-H. Whangbo, is an American theoretical and computational chemist at North Carolina State University known for band structures of low-dimensional solids and spin exchange analysis.
Myuran Sukumaran
Myuran Sukumaran (1981-2015), Australian Bali Nine ringleader sentenced to death in Bali in 2006 for organizing an 8.3 kg heroin smuggling plot, became a painter on death row and was executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan in 2015.
Mývatn
Mývatn ("midge lake") is a 37 km² shallow, spring-fed, naturally eutrophic lake in northeastern Iceland, formed about 2,300 years ago, famous for chironomid midges, duck diversity, Ramsar protection, and pseudocraters.
Myvatn-Laxá region
Myvatn-Laxá region (Ramsar site no. 167, designated 1977): protected wetland complex in NE Iceland around shallow Lake Mývatn and the River Laxá, famed for pseudo craters, 15 breeding duck species, and Europe's only Barrow's goldeneye breeding area.
Myxedema
Myxedema: severe, full-blown adult hypothyroidism and its mucinous nonpitting skin swelling; named by Ord (1873/1878), described by Gull (1874); includes myxedema coma (25-50% mortality) and pretibial myxedema of Graves' disease.
Myxine glutinosa
Myxine glutinosa, the Atlantic hagfish (Atlantic hagfish, myxine du nord), is a jawless, slime-producing North Atlantic fish described by Linnaeus in 1758, living on muddy bottoms at 20-1200 m and listed as Least Concern.
Myxobolus cerebralis
Myxobolus cerebralis, the whirling disease parasite, is a myxosporean that invades head and spinal cartilage of young trout, requiring a Tubifex tubifex worm host; introduced to the U.S. from Europe in 1956.
Myxococcales
Myxococcales (myxobacteria, fruiting gliding bacteria), an order of Gram-negative predatory gliding bacteria in phylum Myxococcota; type genus Myxococcus; soil micropredators and prolific producers of bioactive natural products such as epothilones.
Myxococcus
Myxococcus is a genus of Gram-negative, rod-shaped predatory bacteria that swarm in soil, feed cooperatively on other microorganisms, and build multicellular fruiting bodies filled with dormant spores when starved.
Myxococcus xanthus
Myxococcus xanthus, a Gram-negative myxobacterium from soil, is a model for bacterial sociality: cooperative wolfpack-like predation via type IV pili and A-motility, and starvation-induced fruiting bodies of ~100,000 cells producing myxospores; strains DK1622 and DZ2 dominate research.
Myxoedema coma
Myxoedema coma (myxedema coma, MC): life-threatening decompensated severe hypothyroidism with altered mental status, hypothermia, and multiorgan failure; mortality about 20-60%, treated with thyroid hormone and glucocorticoids.
Myxofibrosarcoma
Myxofibrosarcoma (MFS), formerly myxoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma, is a malignant soft tissue sarcoma of the elderly, mainly in the extremities, with myxoid stroma, curvilinear vessels, high local recurrence (10–61%), and complex karyotype.
Myxomatosis
Myxomatosis, also called infectious myxomatosis, is a lethal poxvirus disease of European rabbits, first recognized in 1896 and deliberately released in Australia in the 1950s to kill feral rabbits.
Myxopapillary ependymoma
Myxopapillary ependymoma (MPE), ICD-O 9394/1, is a CNS WHO grade 2 ependymoma of the conus medullaris, cauda equina, and filum terminale in adults, with over 90% long-term survival and recurrence reduced by gross-total resection.
Myxophaga
Myxophaga is the smallest suborder of beetles (Coleoptera), about 120 algae-feeding species in four families (Lepiceridae, Torridincolidae, Sphaeriusidae, Hydroscaphidae), tiny hygropetric stream-dwelling beetles with spiracular-gill larvae.
Myzopsetta ferruginea
Myzopsetta ferruginea, the yellowtail flounder (formerly Limanda ferruginea), is a righteye flatfish of the Northwest Atlantic from southern Labrador to Chesapeake Bay; a commercial species listed IUCN Vulnerable, reaching 64 cm and 12 years of age.
Myztro
Myztro (Tshiamiso Sekowe) is a South African amapiano producer and DJ from Soshanguve, Pretoria, known for the EP 2.0 Nkwari and singles 'Tobetsa' and '66'.
Mzila kaSoshangane
Mzila kaSoshangane (uMzila kaSoshangane), also known as Nyamande, was king of the Gaza empire from 1862, winning the throne in a succession war against his brother Mawewe.
Mzilikazi
Mzilikazi, also known as Mzilikazi KaMashobane, was a Southern African king (ca. 1790–1868) who broke with Shaka in 1822 and founded the Matabele kingdom in Matabeleland, now Zimbabwe.
Mzilikazi's flight from Shaka
Mzilikazi's flight from Shaka was the secession of uMzilikazi, chief of the Khumalo, from Zululand around 1823 after refusing to surrender captured cattle, leading to the Ndebele kingdom in Zimbabwe.
Mzimba District
Mzimba District, Malawi's largest district (10,430 sq km) in the Northern Region, home of the M'mbelwa Ngoni kingdom; 940,184 people (2018 census), agro-based economy with tobacco, maize, groundnuts, and Mzuzu City.
Mzingile
Mzingile (Swahili for "Labyrinth") is a 1991 philosophical novella in Swahili by Tanzanian novelist Euphrase Kezilahabi, regarded with Nagona as a founding text of the experimental Swahili novel.
Mzoli's Park
Mzoli's Park is the informal name for the gathering space around Mzoli's Place, a butchery-restaurant in Gugulethu, Cape Town, founded by Edwin "Mzoli" Ngcawuzele and drawing up to 30,000 patrons on busy weekends.
Mzuzu
Mzuzu is the third largest city in Malawi, capital of the Northern Region, on the Viphya Plateau. Founded as a 1940s tung oil estate, declared a city in 1985; 221,272 residents in 2018, governed by Mzuzu City Council.
MzVee
MzVee is the stage name of Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda, a Ghanaian singer in afropop, afrobeats, dancehall, and R&B who won New Artiste of the Year at the 2015 Ghana Music Awards.
Mzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, born 1959 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, is a South African performance poet and mbaqanga singer known as the "People's Poet" for his anti-apartheid resistance poetry.