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Mastopexy

Mastopexy is a surgical procedure that lifts and reshapes a sagging breast by removing excess skin and repositioning the nipple while preserving breast volume, sometimes combined with implants.

Mastophora (spider)

Mastophora, bolas spiders (Araneidae, Holmberg 1876, 50 species), American orb-weavers whose females swing a sticky silk bolas at male moths lured by mimicked moth sex pheromones; juveniles and tiny males grab Psychoda moth flies instead.

Mastram

Mastram (मस्तराम) is a 2014 Hindi film, Akhilesh Jaiswal's directorial debut, a fictional biography of the anonymous Hindi pulp erotica writer Mastram, starring Rahul Bagga; released 9 May 2014, A-certified, ₹3.35 crore India net, a flop.

Mastram (2020 TV series)

Mastram (मस्तराम) is a 2020 Hindi erotic drama web series on MX Player, starring Anshuman Jha as 1980s pulp writer Rajaram, pen name Mastram; 10 episodes, premiered April 30, 2020, IMDb 6.8/10.

Mastrevirus croci

Mastrevirus croci, virus species Mastrevirus sp. croci (CSAV, exemplar PQ392009), a mastrevirus geminivirus species created in the ICTV 2025 taxonomy round for genomes sharing under 78% identity with all classified mastreviruses.

Masturbate-a-thon

Masturbate-a-thon, also called wank-a-thon, a charity event where participants masturbate for pledges. Originated 1995 in San Francisco via Good Vibrations' Masturbation Month; London's first UK event was 5 August 2006, filmed for Channel 4's Wank Week.

Masturbation

Masturbation, sexual self-stimulation of one's own genitals for pleasure (mutual masturbation when shared with a partner), is safe, common, and endorsed by health organizations; surveys quantify prevalence and its compensatory or complementary relation to partnered sex.

Masturi (Hittite vassal ruler)

Mašturi, also printed Masturi, was a 13th-century BC ruler of the Seha River Land in western Anatolia, a Hittite vassal kingdom; he witnessed a treaty of Tudhaliya IV.

Masubi

Masubi is an active volcanic eruptive center on Jupiter's moon Io, named for a Japanese fire god. Known for a migrating Voyager- and Galileo-observed plume and a ~1,600 km compound lava flow field, the longest active in the solar system.

Masubi Fluctus

Masubi Fluctus, a roughly 500 km volcanic lava flow field (fluctus) in Io's southern hemisphere named for a Japanese fire god; its migrating Promethean plume, seen since Voyager 1979, feeds the longest active flow field in the solar system, about 1,600 km by 2024.

Masud Husain

Masud Husain, British neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Royal Society Fellow (2026), researcher on attention, memory and apathy.

Masud Mirza Zell-e Soltan

Masud Mirza Zell-e Soltan (مسعود میرزا ظل‌السلطان) was a Qajar prince of Iran, the eldest son of Naser al-Din Shah, who governed Isfahan for about 34 years.

Masudaya

Masudaya (増田屋) is a Japanese toy company in Tokyo founded in 1724, known for the 1955 Radicon Bus and the Gang of Five tin robots.

Masukagami

Masukagami (増鏡, The Clear Mirror) is a Japanese historical tale by an unknown author, probably Nijō Yoshimoto, written around 1370 and covering 1180 to 1333.

Masumi Mishina

Masumi Mishina (三科真澄), born 1982 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, is a Japanese softball infielder who won bronze at Athens 2004 and gold at Beijing 2008, plus Asian Games golds in 2002 and 2006.

Masupirdine

Masupirdine (SUVN-502) is Suven Life Sciences' investigational 5-HT6 receptor antagonist, failed a Phase 2 Alzheimer's cognition trial, and is now in a 375-patient Phase 3 trial for agitation in Alzheimer's dementia.

Masuria

Masuria (Mazury, Masuren) is a postglacial lake district in northeastern Poland with over 2,700 lakes, the Great Masurian Lakes, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, and a history under East Prussia until 1945.

Masursky (Martian crater)

Masursky is a 117.90-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 11.96°N, 327.6°E, approved by the IAU in 1997 and named for American astrogeologist Harold Masursky (1922-1990); it contains chaotic terrain imaged by Mars Odyssey.

Masuzo Shikata

Masuzo Shikata (志方益三, 1895–1964) was a Japanese chemist who co-invented the polarograph with Jaroslav Heyrovský in Prague in 1924, then published the first polarographic study of an organic substance, nitrobenzene, in 1925.

Masvingo Province

Masvingo Province, southeastern Zimbabwe province, capital Masvingo city (formerly Fort Victoria); 56,566 km², 1,638,528 people (2022), seven districts, Great Zimbabwe UNESCO site, sugar estates, and Bikita lithium mining.

Masyanya

Masyanya (Масяня) is a Russian flash-animated comedy web series created by Oleg Kuvaev on 22 October 2001, starring Masyanya, Khryundel, and Lokhmaty; a 2000s internet phenomenon later on NTV, now crowdfunded on YouTube and anti-war, with its creator sentenced in absentia in Russia.

Masyu

Masyu (ましゅ, Pearl) is a Nikoli single-loop logic puzzle: draw one closed loop passing straight through white pearls and turning at black pearls. Devised 1999-2000, named 2003 from a kanji misreading; NP-complete.

Masyumi Party

Masyumi (Majelis Syuro Muslimin Indonesia) was an Indonesian Islamic political party active from 1945 to 1960; it placed second in the 1955 election and was banned by Sukarno in 1960.

Mat Bastard

Mat Bastard is the stage name of Mathieu-Emmanuel Monnaert, a French rock singer born in 1979 in Brussels, known as the frontman of Skip the Use.

Mat Best

Mat Best is an American entrepreneur, former Army Ranger, and media personality who co-founded Black Rifle Coffee Company in 2014 and serves as its Chief Branding Officer.

Mat Franco

Mat Franco, Rhode Island-born Las Vegas magician, first magician to win America's Got Talent (Season 9, 2014, $1 million prize); headliner of Magic Reinvented Nightly at The LINQ since 2015.

Mat Fraser (actor)

Mat Fraser (born 1962, England) is an English actor, writer, and disability advocate with thalidomide-related short arms; known as Paul the Illustrated Seal in American Horror Story: Freak Show and for Sealboy: Freak. Not Brendan Fraser or psychic Matt Fraser.

Mat Fraser (athlete)

Mat Fraser (Mathew Fraser), American retired CrossFit athlete, five-time consecutive CrossFit Games champion 2016-2020 after runner-up finishes in 2014 and 2015; former junior national weightlifting champion and founder of HWPO Training.

Mat Hoffman

Mat Hoffman (born 1972), "The Condor", American BMX vert rider from Oklahoma City; ten-time world champion, first BMX 900, high-air record holder, founder of Hoffman Bikes and the Hoffman Sports Association behind the X Games freestyle events.

Mat Ishbia

Mat Ishbia is an American mortgage finance executive, CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage since 2013, who bought the NBA's Phoenix Suns and WNBA's Phoenix Mercury in 2023.