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MeetsMore Inc.

MeetsMore Inc. (株式会社ミツモア) is a Tokyo technology company co-founded in 2017 by Ayako Ishikawa that operates the Mitsumore quote-comparison platform, which returns up to five quotes across about 600 categories, and the ProOne field-service SaaS.

MEF Forum

MEF Forum, originally the Metro Ethernet Forum, is a non-profit industry association founded in 2001 that developed standards, certifications, and APIs for Carrier Ethernet services.

MEF2A

MEF2A (myocyte enhancer factor 2A, Gene ID 4205, 15q26.3) is a human MADS-box transcription factor gene regulating cardiac, muscle, vascular, and neuronal gene programs; its proposed CAD-causing 21-bp deletion was not replicated.

MEF2C

MEF2C (myocyte enhancer factor 2C, MCHS, NEDHSIL) is a MADS-box transcription factor gene at 5q14.3 central to heart, muscle, and brain development; haploinsufficiency causes a severe neurodevelopmental disorder.

MEF2D

MEF2D (myocyte enhancer factor 2D), HGNC 6997, is a MADS-box transcription factor gene on chromosome 1 regulating muscle, photoreceptor, and immune differentiation; it acts as tumor suppressor in breast cancer, promoter in gastric cancer, and forms recurrent fusions in B-ALL.

Mefatinib maleate tablets (美凡厄替尼)

Mefatinib maleate tablets (美凡厄替尼, trade name 迈瑞东, mifanertinib maleate, MET-306) is an NMPA-approved Class 1 irreversible EGFR/HER2 inhibitor for first-line EGFR L858R NSCLC, approved October 2025 after a phase III head-to-head win over gefitinib.

Mefenacet

Mefenacet (CAS 73250-68-7), also called BAY FOE 1976 or HINOCHLOA, is an oxyacetamide rice herbicide, HRAC group K3, inhibiting very long chain fatty acid synthesis; used mainly against Echinochloa grass weeds, often mixed with bensulfuron-methyl, and not EU-approved.

Mefenamic acid

Mefenamic acid (Ponstel, Ponstan) is a fenamate NSAID, a COX-1/COX-2 inhibitor introduced in the 1960s, used for mild to moderate pain and primary dysmenorrhea, limited to one week, with NSAID boxed warnings.

Mefenorex

Mefenorex (Rondimen), N-(3-chloropropyl)-alpha-methylphenethylamine, a racemic amphetamine-derivative anorectic for obesity, metabolized to amphetamine; withdrawn from the EU market in 2000 and now controlled.

Mefentrifluconazole

Mefentrifluconazole (Revysol, BAS 750 F), a BASF triazole DMI fungicide, FRAC Code 3, inhibiting fungal CYP51; EU-approved 2019, used on cereals, fruits, vegetables; low-to-medium pathogen resistance risk via CYP51 overexpression.

Mefitis

Mefitis, also Mephitis or Mefite, an Italic goddess of fields, flocks, and waters, worshipped 7th c. BC to 2nd c. AD, chiefly at the sulphurous Ansanto sanctuary of the Hirpini and at Rossano di Vaglio; her name became the word mephitic.

Mefloquine

Mefloquine (Lariam) is a synthetic quinoline antimalarial blood schizontocide developed at Walter Reed, used for malaria treatment and prophylaxis; known for neuropsychiatric adverse effects, a 2013 FDA boxed warning, and Pfmdr-1-mediated resistance.

Mefluidide

Mefluidide (Embark) is a trifluoromethanesulphonanilide plant growth regulator, CAS 53780-34-0, that inhibits 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthases in very-long-chain fatty acid biosynthesis; used on turf for seedhead suppression, reregistered by EPA in 2007 but withdrawn in the EU in 2004.

Mefruside

Mefruside (Baycaron, BAY 1500) is a thiazide-like sulfonamide diuretic, ATC C03BA05, DDD 25 mg oral, developed in Germany in 1968; it inhibits NCC and carbonic anhydrase, raises uric acid, and lowers blood pressure.

MEFV

MEFV (pyrin, marenostrin) is a chromosome 16p13.3 gene encoding the innate-immunity regulator pyrin; mutations cause familial Mediterranean fever, with M694V severe and E148Q low-penetrance.

Meg 2: The Trench

Meg 2: The Trench is a 2023 science fiction action film directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Jason Statham and the sequel to The Meg (2018).

Meg Bellamy

Meg Bellamy (born 2002, Wokingham, Berkshire) is a British actress cast at 19 as Kate Middleton in The Crown season 6, her first professional role, won via a self-taped open-call audition while working at Legoland Windsor.

Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot (born 1967, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American author of The Princess Diaries, the Mediator series, and over 100 books sold in 38 countries, adapted into Disney films.

Meg Donnelly

Meg Donnelly (born 2000, New York City) is an American actress and singer known for Addison in Disney's Zombies films, Taylor Otto on American Housewife, voicing Supergirl in DC animation, and her Broadway debut as Satine in Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

MEG Energy

MEG Energy was a Canadian oil sands company producing roughly 100,000 barrels of bitumen per day at Christina Lake in Alberta using steam-assisted gravity drainage.

MEG experiment

MEG, the Muon to Electron and Gamma experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, searches for the rare decay of a muon into a positron and a photon.

Meg Foster

Meg Foster (born 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, also credited as Margaret Wilson Foster, known for Cagney & Lacey, Evil-Lyn in Masters of the Universe, They Live, and The Lords of Salem.

Meg Griffin

Meg Griffin (Megan/Megatron Griffin) is the teenage daughter of Peter and Lois in Family Guy, voiced by Lacey Chabert then Mila Kunis, famous as the family's scapegoat and the 'Shut up, Meg' running gag.

Meg Harris

Meg Harris (born 2002) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer with two Olympic relay golds (Tokyo, Paris), 50m freestyle silver in Paris, world 50m title in 2025, and six golds at Glasgow 2026.

MEG II

MEG II is a particle physics experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland searching for the rare muon decay into a positron and a gamma ray.

Meg Jay

Meg Jay is an American clinical psychologist and University of Virginia faculty member who specializes in twentysomethings; her TED talk "Why 30 Is Not the New 20" has over ten million views.

Meg Johnson

Meg Johnson, American poet and editor, author of Inappropriate Sleepover (2014), The Crimes of Clara Turlington (2015), and Without: Body, Name, Country (2020); NEOMFA MFA; distinct from the Utah motivational speaker of the same name.

Meg Lanning

Meg Lanning (born 1992, Singapore) is an Australian cricketer, former Australia women's captain 2014-2023, winner of five World Cups as captain, Commonwealth Games gold, and record 17 international centuries; retired internationally in November 2023.

Meg Loughran Cappel

Meg Loughran Cappel is an American politician and educator serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from the 49th district since December 2020, chairing the Senate Education Committee.

Meg Mason

Meg Mason (born 1978) is a New Zealand-born novelist in Sydney, author of Sorrow and Bliss (2020), a Women's Prize-shortlisted international bestseller, and Sophie, Standing There (2026).