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Medicine Garden
Medicine garden (hortus medicus; German Arzneigarten): a cultivated garden of medicinal plants for teaching, research, and display. European university physic gardens began at Pisa in 1543; modern beds are organized by active constituents, body systems, or medical history.
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat, Alberta: city of over 65,000 in southeast Alberta on the South Saskatchewan River, nicknamed after the Blackfoot 'Saamis'; known for its 1883 gas discovery, Kipling's 'all hell for a basement', and municipally owned gas and electric utilities.
Medicine Hat Oil and Gas Field
The Medicine Hat oil and gas field is a shallow natural gas field under the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, first discovered by a railway crew in 1883.
Medicine in Goryeo
Medicine in Goryeo (고려 의학) was the medical system of Korea's Goryeo dynasty from 918 to 1392, combining Chinese medical frameworks with native hyangyak herb medicine.
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world: medical theory, practice, and institutions of Muslim-ruled societies, 8th-15th centuries, built on Graeco-Arabic translation (Hunayn ibn Ishaq), bimaristan hospitals funded by waqf, and Avicenna's Canon, later transmitted to Europe.
Medicine Lake Volcano
Medicine Lake Volcano, also known as Medicine Lake Highlands, is a large shield volcano in the Cascade Range of northern California, the largest in the range by volume.
Medicine Lake Wetland Management District
Medicine Lake Wetland Management District, officially the Northeast Montana Wetland Management District, is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unit protecting waterfowl habitat in northeastern Montana.
Medicine Lodge Treaty
Medicine Lodge Treaty: three October 1867 treaties at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, between a U.S. peace commission and the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, relocating them to Indian Territory reservations; Article 12's three-fourths consent rule later reached the Supreme Court in Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.
Medicine Man (film)
Medicine Man is a 1992 American adventure-drama film directed by John McTiernan, starring Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco as biochemists searching the Amazon rain forest for a cancer cure.
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) is the UK executive agency of DHSC, established 1 April 2003 from the MCA and MDA merger, regulating medicines, medical devices, and blood components for transfusion.
MedicQuant ApS
MedicQuant ApS is a Danish point-of-care diagnostics company in Aarhus, spun out of Aarhus University in 2019, whose DoaQuant test rapidly measures blood-thinner drug levels in stroke patients.
Medicrea
Medicrea International is a French spinal implant manufacturer based near Lyon, founded in 1993, that pioneered patient-specific spinal rods and was acquired by Medtronic in 2020.
Medicxi
Medicxi is a European life sciences venture capital firm based in London, Geneva, and Jersey, launched in 2016 as a spinout of Index Ventures' life sciences team.
Medidata
Medidata is a New York company founded in 1999 that provides cloud-based software for clinical trials, best known for Rave EDC and owned by Dassault Systèmes since 2019.
Medidata Rave
Medidata Rave is an electronic data capture system for clinical trials, launched by Medidata Solutions in June 1999 and sold since its 2019 acquisition as a Dassault Systèmes brand.
Medieval (film)
Medieval (2022), marketed in Czechia as Jan Žižka, is Petr Jákl's English-language historical action drama starring Ben Foster as the Bohemian commander Jan Žižka; the most expensive Czech film, with Michael Caine and Til Schweiger.
Medieval art
Medieval art: European and Mediterranean art from the fall of Rome (476 CE) to the 15th-century Renaissance, chiefly Byzantine and Western Romanesque/Gothic traditions, mostly religious in purpose and Church-patronized.
Medieval bans and burnings of the Talmud
The medieval bans and burnings of the Talmud were papal and royal condemnations of the Talmud in Europe, beginning with the Paris trial of 1240.
Medieval Chess
Medieval chess: the European form of chess from the 10th to late 15th century, descended from shatranj, with a one-square queen (fers), two-square leaping bishop (alfil), and the king's leap, transformed around 1475 into modern chess; famous survivals include the Lewis Chessmen and Alfonso X's 1283 Libro de los juegos.
Medieval City of Rhodes
Medieval City of Rhodes: walled old town of Rhodes, Greece, built as a stronghold by the Knights of St John (1309–1523), later Ottoman and Italian; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, criteria ii, iv, v.
Medieval commune
A medieval commune, part of the communal movement in Europe, was a sworn association of townspeople that obtained rights of self-government, justice, and taxation from feudal lords, bishops, or kings.
Medieval contraception
Medieval contraception: fertility control in Europe and the Islamicate world, c. 500-1500, also called birth control in the Middle Ages. Herbal recipes, pessaries, and coitus interruptus coexisted with strict Church condemnation; effectiveness debated between Riddle and Biller.
Medieval courts and tribunals, 12th–15th centuries
Medieval courts and tribunals of the 12th to 15th centuries in England evolved from Henry II's unspecialized royal court into common law courts, assizes, and manor courts.
Medieval cuisine
Medieval cuisine is the food and eating culture of Europe from the 5th to the 15th century, strongly shaped by social rank, religious fasting, and grain staples.
Medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb
The medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb were small gravity dams, weirs, and earthen embankments built under Islamic rule after the Marib Dam's decline.
Medieval demography
Medieval demography studies European population size, structure, and dynamics from the 5th to 15th centuries using tax records like Domesday Book, the 1377 poll tax, and the 1427 catasto, plus skeletal palaeodemography, with wide error margins.
Medieval Dynasty
Medieval Dynasty (Render Cube, Toplitz Productions) is a first-person medieval survival and village-building RPG, Early Access September 2020, full release 23 September 2021, with seasons, heirs, and 4-player crossplay co-op; over 1.75 million copies sold by December 2023.
Medieval European magic
Medieval European magic: ritual practices of Europe c. 500-1500, spanning folk charms, healing, and twelfth-century learned magic from Greco-Arabic translations; defined by Kieckhefer as demonic or natural magic, with Christian liturgical charms and late medieval witch-hunt groundwork.
Medieval field system
Medieval field system: the organized arable-field patterns of medieval Europe, especially English open fields with intermingled strips, two- and three-field rotation, mouldboard plough, peak in the 13th–14th centuries, later enclosure.
Medieval fortification
Medieval fortification is the defensive architecture built in Europe between roughly the 5th and 15th centuries, dominated by the castle, whose design evolved against siege warfare.