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MESA-Eye study

MESA-Eye (MESA Eye ancillary study) is the eye component of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, collecting retinal fundus photographs and refraction data from MESA participants to link retinal microvascular signs with cardiovascular risk, stroke, and eye disease.

Mesa, Arizona

Mesa, Arizona: large Salt River Valley city east of Phoenix, 36th largest in the US, over 515,000 residents, 138 square miles. Founded 1878 by Mormon colonists on Hohokam canal sites; incorporated 1883; council-manager government; diversified Colorado, Salt, and Verde River water supply.

Oct 22, 2026

Meşa'irü'ş-Şu'ara

Meşa'irü'ş-Şu'ara (Meşâ'irü'ş-Şu'arâ, مشاعر الشعراء) is a biographical dictionary of poets (tezkire) written in Ottoman Turkish by Âşık Çelebi, completed in 1568-69 and presented to Sultan Selim II.

Mesa/Boogie Rectifier

The Mesa/Boogie Rectifier is a series of high-gain all-tube guitar amplifiers made by MESA/Boogie of Petaluma, California, introduced in the early 1990s with the Dual Rectifier Solo Head.

Mesabi Range

The Mesabi Range, also known as the Mesabi Iron Range, is an iron-mining district in northeastern Minnesota, the largest of Minnesota's three iron ranges, discovered in 1890.

Mesad Hashavyahu

Mesad Hashavyahu is a small, short-lived late 7th-century BC fortress on a kurkar ridge of Israel's southern coastal plain, about 15 km north of Ashdod, known for the reaper's letter ostracon.

Mesad Hashavyahu Ostracon

The Mesad Hashavyahu ostracon (Yavneh-Yam ostracon) is a 14-line Hebrew letter on pottery from about 630 BCE, in which a reaper petitions a governor for the return of his confiscated garment.

Mesag

Mesag (Me-sag) was a governor (ensi) of the southern Mesopotamian city of Umma during the Sargonic period, ca. 2340–2200 BC, known chiefly as the recipient of a Sargonic letter discussing political intrigue.

Oct 15, 2026

Mesaieed

Mesaieed (مسيعيد), also known as Umm Said, is an industrial city and port about 40 km south of Doha, Qatar, handling crude oil exports and refining.

Oct 15, 2026

Mesaieed CCGT power station

The Mesaieed CCGT power station, also known as Mesaieed A or M Power, is a 2,000-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine plant near Doha, Qatar, completed in 2010.

Mesalazine

Mesalazine (mesalamine, 5-ASA) is a topical anti-inflammatory drug, the active moiety of sulfasalazine, used first-line for mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis and colonic Crohn's disease; delivered via pH-dependent, time-dependent, azo-bonded, and rectal formulations.

Mesalina

Mesalina (Gray, 1838) is a genus of small diurnal lacertid desert lizards, the desert racers, ranging from North Africa to NW India; 28 species, seven main clades, several cryptic species complexes.

Mésalliance

Mésalliance (mesalliance, misalliance): a marriage with a person of lower social position, borrowed into English in 1782 from French; historically the violation of European nobility marriage rules, exemplified by morganatic marriages such as Franz Ferdinand's.

Mesangial cell

Mesangial cells, also called renal or glomerular mesangial cells, are contractile, phagocytic myofibroblast-like stromal cells of the kidney glomerulus that, with mesangial matrix, support glomerular capillaries and drive IgA nephropathy, lupus nephritis, and diabetic nephropathy.

Mesannepada

Mesannepada, also written Mesannepadda, was the first king of the First Dynasty of Ur in Sumer, reigning from about 2563 to 2524 BC and also titled king of Kish.

Mesaverde Group

Mesaverde Formation (Mesaverde Group), Upper Cretaceous sandstone, shale, and coal unit along the Western Interior Seaway margin, first named 1875-1877 at Mesa Verde, Colorado; raised to group rank in several basins and a major tight-gas target in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado.

Mesca Corona

Mesca Corona is a 190 km wide corona on Venus at 27.00°N, 342.60°E, named for an Irish fertility goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1994, mapped on quad v19.

Mescaline

Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid found in peyote and San Pedro cacti, first isolated by Arthur Heffter in 1897 and synthesized in 1929.

Mesclun

Mesclun (Provençal mescla, "to mix") is a blend of young salad greens from Provence and Nice; the classic mix is chervil, arugula, lettuce, and endive, now sold as spring mix.

Mesedi

The Mesedi was the royal bodyguard corps of the Hittite king, whose chief ranked after the King, Queen, and Crown Prince; four future great kings held the office.

Mesehti

Mesehti was a nomarch, the provincial governor of Asyut in Upper Egypt during the late Eleventh Dynasty, best known for the wooden model soldiers found in his tomb.

Meselson–Stahl experiment

The Meselson–Stahl experiment was a 1957–1958 experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl at Caltech showing that each daughter DNA molecule keeps one parental strand and one new strand.

Mesen-ka

Mesen-ka was an ancient Egyptian royal prince of the late Second or early Third Dynasty, known from stone-vessel inscriptions found in Djoser's Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara.

Mesenchymal cell

Mesenchymal cell (CL:0008019, mesenchyme cell): a non-polarized, migratory, matrix-associated cell made by epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; distinct from mesenchymal stem/stromal cells used in wound healing.

Mesenchymal stem cell

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), now usually called mesenchymal stromal cells, are plastic-adherent multipotent bone marrow and tissue cells defined by ISCT CD-marker criteria, named by Caplan in 1991, with few approved therapies such as Ryoncil.

Mesenchymal stem cell of apical papilla

The mesenchymal stem cell of apical papilla (SCAP) is a multipotent stem cell population in the root tips of immature permanent teeth, first isolated in 2006.

Sep 29, 2026

Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation

Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation is a cell therapy that infuses culture-expanded stromal cells from bone marrow, fat, or umbilical cord to treat inflammatory and degenerative conditions.

Sep 29, 2026

Mesenchymal stromal cell therapy

Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy is a cell-based treatment that uses stromal cells from bone marrow, adipose tissue, or umbilical cord to dampen inflammation and support tissue repair.

Mesenchyme

Mesenchyme, also known as mucous or mucoid connective tissue, is a loose embryonic and connective tissue of unspecialized migratory cells that gives rise to collagen, muscle, cartilage, and bone.