All articles starting with M

Menart

Menart, also known as Menart Records, is a record label and distributor based in Zagreb, Croatia, founded in 1997 and the official Sony Music representative for eight countries.

Oct 10, 2026

Menas

Menas, also Latinized as Mennas, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 536 to 552, appointed by Emperor Justinian I, consecrated by Pope Agapetus I, and venerated as a saint.

Sep 24, 2026

The Menashi–Kunashir rebellion (クナシリ・メナシの戦い) was an armed 1789 Ainu uprising against Japanese traders and officials on Kunashir island and in Menashi, Hokkaido, in which 71 Japanese were killed before Matsumae domain suppressed it.

Menat Undae

Menat Undae is a dune field on Venus about 100 km across, named by the IAU in 1994 after the Arabian desert goddess Menat and revealed by Magellan radar.

Oct 20, 2026

Menatetrenone

Menatetrenone (メナテトレノン), menaquinone-4 or MK-4, is a synthetic vitamin K2 drug (C31H40O2) sold as Glakay by Eisai; approved in Japan since 1995 at 45 mg/day for osteoporosis, it lowers undercarboxylated osteocalcin but shows uncertain fracture benefit.

Menches

Menches, alias Asklepiades, was a village scribe of Kerkeosiris in the Fayum, Ptolemaic Egypt, active from 119 BC into the 110s BC and known through his papyrus archive.

Mencius (孟子)

Mencius (孟子, Mengzi, Master Meng, c. 372–289 BCE), Confucianism's 'Second Sage,' held that human nature is good through four sprouts of virtue, championed benevolent government and the people over the ruler, and wrote the Mengzi, one of the Four Books.

MEND syndrome

MEND syndrome (male EBP disorder with neurological defects, OMIM 300960) is an X-linked recessive sterol biosynthesis disorder from hypomorphic EBP variants, causing ichthyosis, severe neurological defects, and dysmorphism in males, distinct from mosaic CDPX2.

Mende people

Mende people: West African ethnic group of southern Sierra Leone and Liberia, about 1.5 million people, one-third of Sierra Leone's population; Mande language, Poro and Sande societies, SLPP political base, distinct from the Temne.

Mendel (lunar crater)

Mendel, a 139.65-km lunar impact crater at 48.83°S, 109.86°W near the western limb, IAU-named 1970 for Gregor Mendel; satellite craters Mendel B, J, V; lies in the Mendel-Rydberg Basin.

Sep 21, 2026

Mendel Rosenblum (scientist)

Mendel Rosenblum is an American computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for operating systems and virtualization research, who co-founded VMware in 1998 and served as its Chief Scientist.

Oct 22, 2026

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim (מנדלי מוכר ספרים) was the pen name of Shalom Yaakov Abramovitch, a Yiddish and Hebrew writer regarded as the grandfather of both modern literatures.

Mendeleev (lunar crater)

Mendeleev is a large Nectarian-age impact crater on the lunar farside, about 313-325 km across at 5.4°N, 141.2°E, named for chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, with a smooth light-plains floor and the debated Catena Mendeleev crater chain.

Mendeleev's predicted elements

Mendeleev's predicted elements, known through Mendeleevian nomenclature, are elements Dmitri Mendeleev inferred from gaps in his 1869 periodic table, including eka-aluminum, found as gallium in 1875.

Mendelevium

Mendelevium (formerly Unnilunium) is a synthetic radioactive actinide with symbol Md and atomic number 101, first synthesized in 1955 at Berkeley and named after Dmitri Mendeleev.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference management program and academic social network founded in 2007 by Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, and Jan Reichelt, owned by Elsevier since 2013.

Mendelian inheritance

Mendelian inheritance, or Mendelian genetics, is the pattern by which traits pass from parents to offspring through genes, following the laws Gregor Mendel derived from pea plants.

Mendelian randomization

Mendelian randomization, or MR, is a method in genetic epidemiology that uses inherited genetic variants as instrumental variables to test causal effects, reducing confounding in observational studies.

Mendelson syndrome

Mendelson syndrome, or acid aspiration syndrome, is chemical pneumonitis from inhaling sterile gastric contents under anesthesia, first described by Curtis Mendelson in 1946 in obstetric patients; distinct from bacterial aspiration pneumonia.

Mendelssohn (Mercurian crater)

Mendelssohn is a 291-km-diameter impact basin on Mercury at 70.07°N, 257.45° in the H-01 quadrangle near the north pole. IAU-approved in 2012 and named for German composer Felix Mendelssohn, it lies in Mercury's northern volcanic plains and appears once nearly filled with lava.

Mendenhall Glacier

Mendenhall Glacier, known in Tlingit as Sitaantaagu, is a 13-mile glacier near Juneau, Alaska, that flows from the Juneau Icefield and has retreated several kilometers since the Little Ice Age.

Oct 15, 2026

Mendenhall Order

The Mendenhall Order, an 1893 administrative decision issued by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, defined the US yard and pound as derived from the international prototype meter and kilogram, replacing British standards.

Mendes

Mendes, also known as Djedet and Tell el-Ruba, is an ancient city in the east central Nile Delta of Egypt, capital of the 16th Lower Egyptian nome and cult center of the ram god Banebdjedet.

Mendes Pinto (Mercurian crater)

Mendes Pinto is a 214 km (also listed 192 km) impact crater on Mercury at about 61°S, 18°W, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for the Portuguese prose author Fernão Mendes Pinto (c. 1510–1583).

Mendes Stele

The Mendes Stele, or Great Mendes Stela, is a hieroglyphic stela of Pharaoh Ptolemy II found at Mendes in the Nile Delta and kept in Cairo.

Mendez v. Westminster

Mendez v. Westminster, formally Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al., was a 1945-1947 federal class action in which five Mexican-American families ended segregated Mexican schools in California, influencing Brown v. Board of Education.