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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, also known as Mamma Mia 2, is a 2018 jukebox musical romantic comedy featuring ABBA songs, both sequel and prequel to Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack is the cast album of the 2008 film adaptation of the stage musical. It features ABBA songs performed by the film's stars.

Mammal (Mammalia): warm-blooded vertebrates with mammary glands, hair, three middle ear bones, and a single lower-jaw bone. Three living groups: monotremes, marsupials, placentals; oldest fossil Brasilodon, 225 million years.

Mammal classification

Mammal classification, the taxonomic ordering of Mammalia into orders, families, genera, and species, is currently standardized by the ASM Mammal Diversity Database v2.5: 6,904 species, 27 orders, 169 families, 1,363 genera.

Mammalian tuberculosis

Mammalian tuberculosis (mTB), also called bovine tuberculosis when caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is a chronic zoonotic bacterial disease of livestock, wildlife, and humans; about 147,000 zoonotic TB cases and 12,500 deaths occur yearly, and control relies on tuberculin testing, slaughter, and BCG vaccination.

Mammalian two-hybrid assay

The mammalian two-hybrid assay is a cell-based method that tests protein interactions in mammalian cells by reconstituting a transcription factor that drives a reporter gene.

Oct 3, 2026

Mammals

Mammals (2022 Prime Video series) is a six-part British comedy-drama by Jez Butterworth starring James Corden as chef Jamie Buckingham, whose pregnant wife Amandine's affair secrets unravel his marriage; distinct from Attenborough's 2024 nature series.

Mammaplasty

Mammaplasty is a plastic-surgery operation that reshapes, reduces, or enlarges the breast, covering reduction for pain relief, augmentation, mastopexy, and reconstruction after mastectomy.

Mammary duct ectasia

Mammary duct ectasia (duct ectasia, plasma cell mastitis) is a benign breast condition in which milk ducts widen, thicken, and clog with fluid, typically around perimenopause; it mimics breast cancer but does not raise cancer risk.

Mammary gland

Mammary gland: milk-producing gland of mammals, a modified sweat gland overlying the pectoralis major; 15–20 lobes in the human breast, regulated by estrogen, progesterone, prolactin, and oxytocin.

Mammary intercourse

Mammary intercourse, also called titjob or breast sex, is a non-penetrative act of rubbing the penis between the breasts; documented in sexology, surveyed in kink-community research, and unique to humans per one hypothesis paper.

Mammary stem cell

Mammary stem cells (MaSCs) are adult stem cells of the mammary gland that self-renew and generate luminal and myoepithelial lineages; defined by cleared fat pad transplantation, debated as unipotent versus bipotent, and implicated in breast cancer.

Mammary-digital-nail syndrome

Mammary-digital-nail syndrome, also known as onycho-digito-mammary syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder marked by missing or malformed nails, short fifth fingers, and breast enlargement in females.

Sep 23, 2026

Mammata

Mammata (मम्मट), also written Mammata Bhatta, was a Sanskrit theorist of poetics from Kashmir who composed the Kavyaprakasha, the most successful treatise on Sanskrit poetics, written between 1000 and 1150.

Mammatus cloud

Mammatus cloud, also written mamma, is a supplementary cloud feature of rounded pouches hanging from a cloud base, often on thunderstorm anvils, and is not a tornado signal.

Oct 20, 2026

Mammea

Mammea L. is a pantropical genus of tropical trees in Calophyllaceae, first published in 1753, with 45 accepted species per Kew and centres of diversity in Madagascar and Borneo; includes the mammee apple, Mammea americana.

Mammillaria

Mammillaria (pincushion cactus) is a large Cactaceae genus of small tuberculate cacti, 144 accepted species, native from central USA to Colombia and Venezuela, mostly Mexican, CITES Appendix II.

Mammillaria geminispina

Mammillaria geminispina, twin-spined cactus, is a clustering Mexican cactus in Cactaceae, described by Haworth in 1824, native to northeast Mexico to Veracruz, with 65 synonyms, CITES Appendix II listing, and RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Mammillaria hahniana

Mammillaria hahniana, the old lady cactus (biznaga vieja de la Sierra de Jalpan), is a white-woolly Mexican pincushion cactus described by Werdermann in 1929, native to northeastern Mexico, IUCN Near Threatened, CITES Appendix II.

Oct 20, 2026

Mammites

Mammites is an extinct genus of ammonite from the Late Cretaceous, named by Laube and Bruder in 1887 for the nipple-like nodes on its shell.

Oct 3, 2026

Mammo (मम्मो)

Mammo (मम्मो) is Shyam Benegal's 1994 Hindi drama starring Farida Jalal as a Pakistani widow fighting to stay in Bombay with her sister; first of his Khalid Mohamed trilogy, National Award winner.

Mammography

Mammography, producing mammograms, is low-dose x-ray imaging of the breast used to screen for breast cancer. Key facts: first performed 1913 by Albert Solomon; regulated in the US under MQSA (1992); USPSTF recommends biennial screening for women 40–74.

Mammography screening

Mammography screening is the use of breast X-rays to detect breast cancer early in women without symptoms, reducing mortality but carrying harms like false positives and overdiagnosis.

Mammon

Mammon (Aramaic mamon) is a Semitic word for wealth appearing four times in Jesus' speech in the New Testament, later demonized in Christian tradition as a devil of avarice.

Mammootty (മമ്മൂട്ടി)

Mammootty (മമ്മൂട്ടി), born 1951, legal name Mohammed Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, is an Indian film actor and producer with over 400 Malayalam-led films, four National Film Awards for Best Actor (including 2026 for Bramayugam), and the Padma Bhushan.

Mammootty filmography

The Mammootty filmography records the screen roles of Indian actor Mammootty, born Mohammed Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, who has appeared in over 400 mainly Malayalam films since 1971.

Mammoplasty

Mammoplasty is plastic surgery of the breast covering three operations: augmentation to add volume, reduction to remove tissue, and reconstruction after mastectomy, often using implants.

Mammosomatotroph

Mammosomatotroph: a dual-hormone anterior pituitary cell (also mammosomatotrope) secreting both growth hormone and prolactin in the same cell, PIT1/ERα lineage, rare in adults, source of mammosomatotroph PitNETs causing acromegaly with hyperprolactinemia.

Mammoth

A mammoth is any member of Mammuthus, an extinct genus of elephants that arose in Africa and spread across the Northern Hemisphere, producing the cold-adapted woolly mammoth.