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Menno V. Huisman
Menno V. Huisman, born 1956, is a Dutch internist and professor emeritus at Leiden University Medical Center, known for the YEARS algorithm and Hestia rule for pulmonary embolism.
Menno van Coehoorn
Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704) was a Dutch soldier and military engineer who rebuilt the Dutch Republic's frontier defenses and created the New Dutch fortification system, a rival to Vauban's.
Mennonite and Amish parochial schools
Mennonite and Amish parochial schools are small private schools run by Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada, teaching through eighth grade.
Mennonite migrations to the Chaco
The Mennonite migrations to the Chaco brought German-speaking settlers to Paraguay in three waves between 1926 and 1948, founding the colonies Menno, Fernheim, and Neuland.
Mennonites
Mennonites, historically called Menists, are a Christian Anabaptist denomination named for Menno Simons, arising in 1525 in Zurich and known for believer's baptism, congregational discipline, and nonresistance.
Menny Shalom
Menny Shalom (Hebrew: מני שלום) is an Israeli solid-state chemist and professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who develops carbon nitride and nickel-based electrocatalysts for renewable energy.
Meno
Meno (Μένων), Plato's dialogue on whether virtue can be taught, featuring Meno's paradox of inquiry, the theory of recollection, the slave-boy geometry lesson, and the knowledge versus true belief distinction.
Menologion of Basil II
The Menologion of Basil II is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript made in Constantinople around 1000 for Emperor Basil II, with 430 gold-ground miniatures of saints and feasts.
Menominee
The Menominee are a federally recognized Native American nation of Wisconsin, named for wild rice, whose 235,000-acre reservation holds part of their 10,000-year homeland; terminated in 1954, the tribe was restored in 1973.
Menominee oral literature
Menominee oral literature is the body of stories, teachings, and songs transmitted by speech among the Menominee people of Wisconsin, including the Manabozho trickster cycle.
Menongue
Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto until 1975, is the capital of Cubango Province in southeastern Angola, terminus of the Namibe railway, at 1,355 m elevation near the Cuebe and Luauca rivers.
Menopausal or female climacteric states
Menopausal or female climacteric states (ICD-11 GA30.00) is the diagnostic category for perimenopausal conditions such as cessation of menstruation, infertility, flushing, sleeplessness, headache, and poor concentration, also called climacteric syndrome or change of life.
Menopausal transition
Menopausal transition (perimenopause, ICD-11 GA30.01): the phase of irregular cycles and declining ovarian estrogen before menopause, staged by STRAW+10; typically begins ages 45-55, FSH >25 IU/L marks late transition.
Menopause
Menopause is the point when a woman's ovaries stop releasing eggs and producing estrogen and progesterone, ending her reproductive years, usually between 45 and 55.
Menoponidae
Menoponidae (Mjöberg, 1910), avian body lice, is the largest family of chewing lice in the suborder Amblycera, with about 68 genera and 1,039 species parasitizing birds, including poultry pests Menopon gallinae and Menacanthus stramineus.
Menorca
Menorca (Catalan: Menorca), second largest Balearic Island in the western Mediterranean, Spain. Known for Talayotic Menorca, UNESCO World Heritage since 2023 with cyclopean monuments from 1600 BCE to 123 BCE, and for being an entire-island UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993.
Menotropin
Menotropin (human menopausal gonadotropin, hMG; brand Menopur) is a urinary gonadotropin from postmenopausal urine with 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH activity per vial, used for ovarian stimulation in fertility treatment.
Menotti Del Picchia
Menotti Del Picchia (Paulo Menotti del Picchia, 1892–1988) was a Brazilian poet and co-organizer of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna, best known for his long poem Juca Mulato.
Menouthis
Menouthis was a settlement and sanctuary of Isis in the northwestern Nile Delta near Canopus, whose pagan cult was succeeded by a church of the healing saints Cyrus and John.
Menri style
The Menri style (Tibetan: sman ris) is a classical tradition of Tibetan thangka painting founded in the fifteenth century by Menla Dondrup, becoming central Tibet's standard.
Menrva (crater on Titan)
Menrva is the largest impact crater on Titan, a 400-450 km two-ring basin at 20°N, 87°W, shallow (d/d 0.0012), modeled to breach Titan's ice shell and release methane.
Mens rea
Mens rea, Latin for "guilty mind," is the mental state required to convict a defendant of a crime, paired with the actus reus; the Model Penal Code sorts it into four levels of blameworthiness.
Mens sana in corpore sano
Mens sana in corpore sano, 'a sound mind in a sound body', a Latin phrase from Juvenal's Satire X (line 356), originally a prayer for health over wealth or power, now a common motto and shorthand for the exercise-mental health link.
Mensa Bonsu
Mensa Bonsu was Asantehene, king of the Asante, from 1874 to 1883, taking the throne after the British sack of Kumasi and pursuing reconstruction and harsh rule.
Mensa Brands
Mensa Brands is an Indian e-commerce roll-up founded by Ananth Narayanan in Bengaluru in 2021 to buy and scale small digital-first consumer brands; it was rebranded BRND.ME.
Mensa International
Mensa International, also known as the Mensa society, is the international high-IQ society, founded in Oxford in 1946 and open to anyone scoring in the top 2 percent.
Mensa Ponderaria
Mensa ponderaria (plural mensae ponderariae; Greek sekomata): Roman stone or marble tables with standard-volume cavities in public places for checking trade measures. Best examples at Pompeii (VII.7.31, Oscan-to-Roman reworking after 80 BC) and Tivoli (Augustan, funded by freedman Marcus Varenus Diphilus).
Mensagem (journal)
Mensagem, subtitled A Voz dos Naturais de Angola, was a literary magazine published in Luanda in 1951 and 1952, regarded as the founding landmark of Angolan literature.
Mensalão scandal
The Mensalão scandal was a 2005 Brazilian corruption affair in which Workers' Party operatives paid monthly stipends to allied members of Congress for legislative support.
Mensheviks
Mensheviks (меньшевики), the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, split from the Bolsheviks at the 1903 second congress. Led by Julius Martov, they favored a two-stage revolution and a broad party, joined the 1917 Provisional Government, and were suppressed and exiled under Bolshevik rule.