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maca trial (NCT02624648)
NCT02624648, "Effects of Lepidium Meyenii Walp on Sexual Function in Postmenopausal Women" (maca trial): Brazilian phase 1 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 144 postmenopausal women, 120-day maca capsules, FSFI primary outcome, no results posted.
MACA trial (NCT05781412)
MACA trial (NCT05781412), Modulation of the Activity of the Cerebellum in Autism: Vrije Universiteit Brussel study testing anodal cerebellar tDCS versus sham on social understanding in autistic and neurotypical adults, 100 participants, UZ Brussel, status unknown, no results posted.
Macabre
Macabre, from the danse macabre or Dance of Death (Totentanz), is the late medieval allegory in which skeletal Death leads people of every rank, from pope to infant, in a dance to the grave; first recorded in Jehan Le Fèvre's 1376 verse and first painted at Les Innocents, Paris, 1424-25.
Macaca arctoides
Macaca arctoides, also known as the stump-tailed macaque, is an Old World monkey native to Southeast Asia, characterized by its thick brown fur and short tail.
Macaca nemestrina
Macaca nemestrina, the southern pig-tailed macaque (beruk), is an Endangered Old World monkey of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, and Borneo, split from the northern M. leonina, with a short pig-like tail and declining populations.
Macaca nigra
Macaca nigra, the crested black macaque or yaki, is a Critically Endangered macaque endemic to northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, threatened by bushmeat hunting and habitat loss, with an introduced population on Bacan Island.
Macaca thibetana
Macaca thibetana, the Tibetan macaque or Chinese stump-tailed macaque, is China's largest macaque (~15 kg males), endemic to 13 provinces, Near Threatened, living in small linear-hierarchy groups and studied long-term at Mt. Huangshan.
Macaco barrigudo
Macaco barrigudo is the Portuguese name for Lagothrix lagotricha, the common or Humboldt's woolly monkey, a large Vulnerable Amazonian atelid primate, fruit-eating keystone seed disperser, 3-10 kg, CITES Appendix II.
Macadam
Macadam is a road construction method using compacted layers of broken stone on a raised, convex, well-drained roadbed, with no binder, developed by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam.
Macadamia
Macadamia is a genus of four subtropical rainforest trees in the Proteaceae family, native to eastern Australia and cultivated worldwide for its edible macadamia nut.
Macaé
Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: municipality of 246,391 (2022) known as the National Capital of Energy, onshore base of the Campos Basin oil industry, Petrobras hub since the late 1970s, major oil-royalty recipient.
Macae Surf Club
Macaé Surf Club is a surf school, shop, and sports tourism business in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also the name of a beginner-friendly A-frame beach break; it runs a mobile app for lesson scheduling, reports, and tide tables.
Macagua 2 hydroelectric plant
Macagua 2, also known as Antonio José de Sucre 2, is a hydroelectric plant on the Río Caroní at San Félix, Venezuela, inaugurated in January 1997 by President Rafael Caldera.
Macalester College
Macalester College, a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, founded 1874 by Edward Duffield Neill; known for internationalism, Kofi Annan and Walter Mondale alumni, 2,068 students, 39 majors, $920 million endowment.
MACAN
MACAN (Макан), real name Andrey Kirillovich Kosolapov, is a Russian rapper born in 2002 in Moscow, the leading figure of 'lad rap' built on brotherhood, faith, and patriotism.
Macan Band
Macan Band (ماکان بند) is an Iranian pop group formed in 2016, led by composer Yashar Khosravi with vocalists Raham Hadian and Amir Maghare, known for «هر بار این درو».
Macanese pataca
The Macanese pataca (MOP) is the official currency of Macao, subdivided into 100 avos and pegged to the Hong Kong dollar, though the Hong Kong dollar circulates widely alongside it.
Macapá
Macapá, capital of Amapá, Brazil, on the Amazon River; only Brazilian capital crossed by the Equator. Founded 1758 as Vila de São José de Macapá; 442,933 residents (2022 census).
Macaque
Macaque (Macaca): genus of about 23 Old World monkey species, the widest-ranging nonhuman primate genus from Morocco to Japan. Key species include rhesus (M. mulatta), long-tailed (M. fascicularis), and Japanese macaques; long-tailed macaque is IUCN Endangered since 2022.
Macaranga
Macaranga (Thouars, 1806) is a genus of about 300 dioecious Euphorbiaceae trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics, sister to Mallotus, with 3-4-locellate anthers, hollow-twig ant-plant symbioses, and pioneer secondary-forest ecology.
Macarena
Macarena: 1993 Spanish rumba-pop song by Seville duo Los del Río, turned into the 1995 Bayside Boys remix that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1996 and sparked a global line-dance craze.
Macarena García Romero
Macarena García Romero (born 2000) is a Mexican actress, daughter of Amairani and granddaughter of Anabel Gutiérrez, known for Control Z (Natalia), 100 días para enamorarnos (Ale), Accidente, and Chespirito: Sin querer queriendo. Distinct from the Spanish actress Macarena García of Blancanieves.
Macaria
Macaria (Μακαρία, "blessed"), Greek mythological figure: daughter of Heracles and Deianira who volunteered for sacrifice in Euripides' Heracleidae, plus a Suda-attested daughter of Hades; spring at Marathon.
Macaria (daughter of Hades)
Macaria (Μακαρία, Makaria), in Greek myth a daughter of Hades named only in the 10th-century Suda lexicon; her name means blessed and connects to the proverb ball' es Makarian. No myth survives; she is distinct from Macaria, Heracles' self-sacrificing daughter.
Macario
Macario (1960) is Roberto Gavaldón's Mexican fantasy drama, also known as an adaptation of B. Traven's 'Godfather Death' story. A starving woodcutter shares his turkey with Death, gains healing water, and the film became Mexico's first Oscar-nominated film.
Macarius
Macarius (Митрополит Макарий), born about 1482, was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus from 1542 to 1563, crowned Ivan IV as tsar in 1547, and directed the Great Menologion.
Macarius of Egypt
Macarius of Egypt, also called Macarius the Great, was a Coptic ascetic (c. 300 – c. 390) who founded a colony of monks at Scetis in Egypt and became one of the Desert Fathers.
Macaron
Macaron: French almond, egg-white, and sugar confection (macaron de Nancy, Parisian sandwich macaron); distinct from the coconut macaroon; Rabelais 1552, Nancy 1793, Ladurée filling.
Macaronesia
Macaronesia: biogeographical region of the volcanic NE Atlantic archipelagos Azores, Madeira-Selvagens, Canaries, and Cabo Verde; coined by Philip Barker Webb ca. 1850; ~14,600 km² with ~6,400 endemic terrestrial species.
Macaroni
Macaroni, known in Italian as maccheroni, is dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes, made from wheat semolina or flour and water, associated especially with Naples and best known in macaroni and cheese.