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Mafenide
Mafenide (mafenide acetate, Sulfamylon), 4-(aminomethyl)benzenesulfonamide, is a topical sulfonamide-related antimicrobial for burn wounds; it penetrates eschar, acts differently from sulfonamides, and can cause metabolic acidosis.
Maffucci syndrome
Maffucci syndrome, also called enchondromatosis with hemangiomata or Kast syndrome, is a rare non-hereditary disorder of multiple enchondromas plus hemangiomas, caused by somatic mosaic IDH1/IDH2 mutations, with high chondrosarcoma risk.
Mafia
Mafia: organized crime born in 19th-century western Sicily, tied to citrus exports and weak post-1860 rule of law; comprises Cosa Nostra, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita; defined by protection rackets, omertà, initiation rites.
Mafia (party game)
Mafia, also called Werewolf, is a social deduction party game created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986 at Moscow State University: an informed mafia minority kills secretly at night while uninformed civilians debate and vote by day.
Mafia (series)
Mafia (series) is a narrative-driven action/adventure video game series about organized crime, established in 2002. It features storylines like Mafia III, where Lincoln Clay builds a criminal empire.
Mafia (video game)
Mafia (2002) is an action-adventure game by Czech studio Illusion Softworks, published by Gathering of Developers, following taxi driver Thomas Angelo in 1930s Lost Heaven; it spawned Mafia II (2010), Mafia III, and the 2020 Definitive Edition remake.
Mafia Commission Trial
The Mafia Commission Trial, formally United States v. Anthony Salerno, was a 1985–1986 federal RICO prosecution led by Rudolph Giuliani that convicted eight bosses of La Cosa Nostra.
Mafia II
Mafia II is a 2010 open-world action-adventure game by 2K Czech and 2K Games, following Vito Scaletta's rise in organized crime in 1940s-50s Empire Bay; remastered as Mafia II: Definitive Edition in 2020.
Mafia III
Mafia III (Mafia 3) is a 2016 action-adventure game by Hangar 13 and 2K Games, set in 1968 New Bordeaux, a fictional New Orleans, starring Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay. Praised story, criticized repetitive rackets; Metacritic 68 PS4, 62 PC.
Mafia Lover
Mafia Lover is a 2025 British vertical BL short drama on DramaBox: 20 episodes, 58 minutes, about London mob boss Ace, the stranger Max who saves him, and Jack's planted bodyguard scheme. Directed by Dan Lowenstein, produced by Onset Octopus.
Mafia Queens of Mumbai
Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands, a 2011 Tranquebar Press true-crime book by S. Hussain Zaidi with Jane Borges profiling 13 women of Mumbai's underworld; source of the 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Mafia: Chapter 1
Mafia: Chapter 1 is a 2020 Tamil action crime film by Karthick Naren, starring Arun Vijay, Prasanna, and Priya Bhavani Shankar; an NCB officer hunts a drug kingpin in Chennai, released 21 February 2020.
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Mafia: Definitive Edition is Hangar 13's 2020 ground-up remake of the 2002 game Mafia, retelling Tommy Angelo's Salieri-family story in 1930s Lost Heaven on the Mafia III engine, released September 25, 2020.
Mafia: The Old Country
Mafia: The Old Country is a 2025 Hangar 13/2K action-adventure prequel set in early 1900s Sicily, following Enzo Favara's rise in Don Torrisi's crime family; first Mafia game on Unreal Engine 5, released August 8, 2025, Metacritic 73.
Mafic
Mafic, also known as basic rock, describes dark-colored igneous rocks and minerals rich in magnesium and iron, such as basalt and gabbro, contrasting with felsic rocks.
Mafra National Palace
The Mafra National Palace (Palácio Nacional de Mafra) is a vast Baroque palace, basilica, and convent complex in Mafra, Portugal, begun in 1717 by King João V.
Mafra, Portugal
Mafra is a town and municipality in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal, seat of an 86,521-inhabitant municipality, famous for the 1717–1730 Palace-Convent of D. João V, the Tapada hunting reserve, and the surfing village of Ericeira.
Maftivimab
Maftivimab (REGN3479) is a fully human monoclonal antibody against Zaire ebolavirus glycoprotein GP2 fusion loop, a component of the Inmazeb cocktail (with atoltivimab and odesivimab), FDA-approved 2020 and WHO-prequalified 2023.
Mafuike Patera
Mafuike Patera is a roughly 148-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io, one of the larger paterae, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for a Hawaiian fire demigoddess.
Mafumeira oil field
Mafumeira is an oil and gas field in Block 0 offshore Cabinda province, Angola, discovered in 1998 and developed by Chevron's subsidiary CABGOC in two stages.
Mafumeira Sul Oil and Gas Field
Mafumeira Sul, or Mafumeira South, is an offshore oil and gas field in Block 0 off Cabinda province, Angola, operated by Chevron and producing since 2016.
MAGA movement
MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement: right-wing populist movement around Donald Trump, born of his 2016 campaign, dominant in the Republican Party, identity- and status-driven, fractured by 2026.
Magabala Books
Magabala Books is an Aboriginal-owned, not-for-profit publishing house in Broome, Western Australia, founded in 1987, that has published more than 320 titles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creators.
Magabula
Magabula (Ptolemy's Megaloula, Μεγάλουλα) was a Roman road station in Pontus Polemoniacus on the Tabula Peutingeriana, between Gagonda and Danae on the Comana-Nicopolis road, tentatively placed at Akarçay near Almus, Turkey.
Magach (מגח)
Magach (מגח) is the Israeli designation for a family of main battle tanks rebuilt from American M48 and M60 Patton tanks from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Magadan (Магадан)
Magadan (Магадан) is the port capital of Magadan Oblast in the Russian Far East, 7,110 km from Moscow, holding 71.4% of the oblast's population and serving a gold- and silver-mining region with no railway.
Magadha (मगध)
Magadha (मगध) was the ancient Bihar kingdom that rose above the sixteen mahajanapadas under the Haryanka, Shishunaga, and Nanda dynasties, ruling from Rajgir and Pataliputra until Chandragupta Maurya's c. 321 BCE takeover.
Magadha–Kosala war under Ajatashatru
The Magadha–Kosala war under Ajatashatru (अजातशत्रु-प्रसेनजित युद्ध) was a series of battles between Ajatashatru, king of Magadha, and Prasenajit, king of Kosala, fought over a prosperous village in Kashi.
Magadha–Vajji war
The Magadha–Vajji war (वैशाली की घेराबंदी) was a sixteen-year conflict, 484 to 468 BC, in which King Ajatashatru of Magadha defeated the Vajji confederacy led by the Licchavis of Vaishali.
Magadhan conquest of Anga
The Magadhan conquest of Anga (अंग विजय) was the annexation of the eastern Indian kingdom of Anga by Magadha under Bimbisara, who defeated and killed King Brahmadatta.