All articles starting with M

Melon (cetacean)

Melon (cetacean): fatty, connective-tissue forehead organ of toothed whales (odontocetes) that focuses echolocation clicks; absent from baleen whales; studied via CT across odontocete families.

Melon (music)

Melon (멜론) is a South Korean online music streaming platform launched by SK Telecom in 2004, now operated by Kakao Entertainment, whose chart is a barometer of Korean taste.

Melon Chart

The Melon Chart (멜론차트), also known as Melon Top 100, is the song ranking system of Melon, South Korea's main music streaming platform, operated by Kakao Entertainment since 2004.

Melon Kinenbi

Melon Kinenbi (メロン記念日) was a four-member Japanese idol group formed in 1999 within Hello! Project, produced by Tsunku, disbanded in 2010 and briefly reunited in 2025.

Melon Music Awards (멜론 뮤직 어워드)

The Melon Music Awards (멜론 뮤직 어워드, MMA) is Kakao Entertainment's annual Korean music awards show, held since 2005. Winners are decided mainly by Melon streaming data (60%), with panel review and fan votes at 20% each; physical sales are excluded from top awards.

Melon necrotic spot virus

Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) is a plant virus in the family Tombusviridae that infects melon, cucumber, and watermelon, causing necrotic spots and, in severe cases, plant collapse.

Melonbooks

Melonbooks (メロンブックス) is a Japanese retail chain specializing in doujinshi, doujin music, games, and character goods, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

Melone del Sodo

Melone del Sodo: two Etruscan burial mounds (Tumuli I and II) at Sodo near Cortona, Tuscany, 6th century BC, with a monumental platform-altar staircase and a 1991 intact goldwork burial.

Melones Oil Field

Melones Oil Field is an onshore heavy-oil field in Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, discovered in 1955 by Mene Grande Oil Co. and currently operated by Territorio under a contract with PDVSA.

Meloni

Meloni, styled MELONii, is the stage name of South Korean singer Park Minji, formerly MINJI of the K-pop girl group SECRET NUMBER, who launched a solo career in 2026.

Melonie Diaz

Melonie Diaz, American actress born 1984 in New York City, indie-film lead in Raising Victor Vargas and Fruitvale Station, two Spirit Award nominations, and star of Mel Vera on Charmed (2018–2022).

Melophagus ovinus

Melophagus ovinus, the sheep ked or sheep tick, is a wingless Hippoboscidae fly (Linnaeus 1758) that lives entirely on sheep, gives birth to larvae weekly, causes wool damage, cockle, anemia, and peaks in winter.

Melora Hardin

Melora Hardin (born 1967, Houston) is an American actress, singer, and director known as Jan Levinson on The Office and Trudy Monk on Monk, with an Emmy nomination for Transparent, Broadway roles in Chicago and McNeal, three albums, and collage art brand Storyboards.

Melora Walters

Melora Walters, born 1960 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an American actress, director, and screenwriter known for Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Big Love (Wanda Henrickson), PEN15 (Kathy Kone), and directing Waterlily Jaguar and Drowning.

Melorheostosis

Melorheostosis (Leri's disease, candle wax disease): rare sclerosing bone dysplasia, usually one limb, with flowing hyperostosis on x-ray; caused by somatic MAP2K1 mutations in about half of cases; not inherited.

Melorheostosis with osteopoikilosis

Melorheostosis with osteopoikilosis (mixed sclerosing bone dysplasia, ORPHA:1879, OMIM 166700) is an ultra-rare autosomal dominant bone dysplasia combining dripping candle wax hyperostosis with osteopoikilosis, linked to LEMD3 and somatic MAP2K1 mutations.

Melos Ensemble

Melos Ensemble: London chamber group formed 1950 by Aronowitz, de Peyer, Adeney, and Weil for mixed string-wind repertory; took part in the 1962 premiere of Britten's War Requiem. Distinct from the Melos Quartet and Melos Choir.

Melosh (Martian crater)

Melosh is a 98-km-diameter impact crater on Mars near Aram Chaos at 2.44°N, 344.03°E, named by the IAU on October 23, 2024 for H. Jay Melosh (1947–2020), the American geophysicist and author of Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process.

Melospiza

Melospiza (Baird, 1858) is a North American genus of Passerellidae sparrows with three species: song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), swamp sparrow (M. georgiana), and Lincoln's sparrow (M. lincolnii).

Melotte 111

Melotte 111, also called the Coma Star Cluster, is a nearby open star cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices, visible to the naked eye and about 280 light-years from the Sun.

Melotte 20

Melotte 20, also known as the Alpha Persei Cluster, is a nearby open star cluster in Perseus centered on Mirfak, containing roughly 100 young, hot stars.

Meloukome

Meloukome, printed Melokome in its inscriptions, is a village of ancient Lydia in western Asia Minor, placed near Çapaklı northeast of Sardis and known only from Greek inscriptions, the earliest dated to the 1st century BC.

Meloxicam

Meloxicam, sold as Mobic and Metacam, is a long-acting oxicam NSAID that preferentially inhibits COX-2, used for arthritis in humans and for pain in dogs, cats, and horses.

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Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri

Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri (മേൽപ്പത്തൂർ നാരായണ ഭട്ടതിരി) was a Sanskrit poet and grammarian of Kerala, born around 1560, best known for the Narayaneeyam, a devotional poem of 100 cantos composed at Guruvayur temple.

Melpeia

Melpeia (Μέλπεια), ancient sanctuary of Pan Nomios in the Nomia mountains on Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia/Messenia border, where Pausanias says Pan's pipe melody was first discovered.

Melperone

Melperone (Bunil, FG 5111) is a butyrophenone atypical antipsychotic related to haloperidol, ATC N05AD03, used over 30 years in the EU for schizophrenia, agitation, and elderly confusion, and studied for Parkinson's disease psychosis.

Melphalan

Melphalan, also known as L-phenylalanine mustard and sold as Alkeran, is a nitrogen mustard alkylating agent used mainly to treat multiple myeloma, first synthesized in 1953.

Melphalan flufenamide

Melphalan flufenamide (melflufen; Pepaxto/Pepaxti) is an alkylating peptide-drug conjugate by Oncopeptides for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma; FDA-approved 2021, withdrawn 2024, EU-authorized as Pepaxti since 2022.

Melpomene and Terpsichore (ferns)

Melpomene and Terpsichore are two small genera of Neotropical grammitid ferns, small epiphytes of montane cloud forests named for Greek muses and described in consecutive years, 1992 and 1993.