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Miao Haiyuan / Chris Miao (缪海源)
Miao Haiyuan (缪海源), known as Chris Miao, is a partner and Head of Human Capital at HongShan, which he joined in 2015 when it was Sequoia China.
Miao Health (妙健康)
Miao Health (妙健康) is a Beijing-based digital health company founded in 2015 that built a health-behavior data platform for insurers and employers, raising over RMB 1 billion.
Miao Hongbing
Miao Hongbing (苗鸿冰) is a Chinese fashion entrepreneur who left the Ministry of Petroleum Industry in 1992 and founded the WHITE COLLAR high-end womenswear brand in 1994.
Miao Kui
Miao Kui (苗夔, 1783 to 1857) was a Qing dynasty classical scholar from Suning, known for his work on Old Chinese phonology and the Shuowen Jiezi.
Miao people
Miao (苗) is China's official ethnonym for several Hmong-Mien-speaking groups: Hmu, Qo Xiong, A-Hmao, and Hmong proper. About 11 million people, over a third in Guizhou; diaspora Hmong reject the term as pejorative.
Miao Zhongying
Miao Zhongying (缪忠应) is a Chinese businessman who founded the P2P lending platform Youyi Wang, which collapsed in 2012; he received 13 years for fundraising fraud.
Miaoli County
Miaoli County (苗栗縣), a county in north-central Taiwan between Hsinchu and Taichung, area 1,820.31 km², population about 534,000, Hakka-majority, known for Sanyi wood sculpture, Dahu strawberries, Taian hot springs, and tung blossoms.
Miaoshou Doctor (妙手医生)
Miaoshou Doctor (妙手医生) is the online healthcare brand of Beijing Yuanxin Technology, a Beijing company founded in 2015 that combined remote doctor consultations, pharmacies, and insurance.
Miaowei hydroelectric plant
Miaowei hydroelectric plant (苗尾水电站) is a 1,400 MW hydropower station on the upper Lancang (Mekong) River in Yunlong County, Yunnan, China, fully commissioned in June 2018.
Miaoyijia (iPanda/ Miaoyijia)
Miaoyijia, known in English as Miao Health, is a Beijing-based digital health-management company founded in 2015, serving insurance members and corporate employees.
Miaphysitism (Μιαφυσιτισμός)
Miaphysitism (Μιαφυσιτισμός), also called henophysitism, is the Christological doctrine that Christ is one nature of divinity and humanity, held by the six Oriental Orthodox churches.
Miasma theory
Miasma theory, or the miasma theory of disease, was the medical doctrine that epidemics are caused by bad air from rotting matter, dominant until germ theory replaced it in the late 1800s.
Miass
Miass (Миасс) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the Miass River in the Southern Urals; founded 1773 as a copper plant, a 19th-century gold-mining center, now home to UralAZ trucks and the Makeyev rocket bureau.
MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Монголын Иргэний Агаарын Тээвэр)
MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Монголын Иргэний Агаарын Тээвэр), meaning Mongolian Civil Air Transport, is the state-owned flag carrier of Mongolia. Founded in 1956, it flies international routes from Ulaanbaatar.
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Miatta Fahnbulleh (born 1979) is a British Labour politician, MP for Peckham since 2024 and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2026.
MIAX Options
MIAX Options is an SEC-registered national securities exchange for listed equity options, launched in December 2012 by Miami International Holdings as the first of four MIAX options exchanges.
MIB1
MIB1 (mind bomb 1, MIB E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1, HGNC:21086) is a human RING E3 ubiquitin ligase gene at 18q11.2 that ubiquitinates Notch ligands to enable their endocytosis; loss-of-function mutations cause autosomal-dominant left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC7).
Mibefradil
Mibefradil, sold as Posicor, is a calcium channel blocker marketed by Roche for hypertension and chronic stable angina until its voluntary withdrawal in June 1998.
MIBEL
MIBEL (Mercado Ibérico de la Electricidad; Mercado Ibérico de Electricidade) is the Iberian Electricity Market, the common wholesale electricity market of Spain and Portugal, created by treaty and fully launched in 2007.
MIBG & SSTR NB study
MIBG & SSTR NB (NCT07064746) is a prospective observational Nanjing First Hospital trial comparing 123I-MIBG SPECT/CT with 68Ga-DOTA-TATE SSTR PET for diagnosing and staging neuroblastoma in 150 Chinese children aged 0-18.
MIBG scintigraphy
MIBG scintigraphy is a nuclear medicine scan using radioiodinated MIBG, a norepinephrine analog, to image the heart's sympathetic innervation and adrenergic tumors like pheochromocytoma and neuroblastoma, first reported in 1981.
MIBGAS
MIBGAS (Mercado Ibérico del Gas, Iberian Gas Market) is the organized wholesale natural gas market for Spain and Portugal, matching buy and sell orders daily since December 2015.
MIBRAG
MIBRAG, until 2023 formally the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft, is a German lignite mining company based in Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, operating the Central German district's last two large open pits, Profen and Vereinigtes Schleenhain.
Mibtahiah
Mibtahiah, also read Miptahiah, was a Judaean landholder at the Jewish garrison of Elephantine in fifth-century BC Egypt, known from an archive of eleven Aramaic legal papyri.
Mibu no Tadamine
Mibu no Tadamine (壬生忠岑) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period, active around 898 to 920, and one of the four compilers of the Kokin Wakashū.
Mic drop
Mic drop: deliberately dropping or miming dropping a microphone to end a speech or performance triumphantly. 1980s rap and comedy origins; popularized by Eddie Murphy (1983) and Obama's 2012 Fallon and 2016 Correspondents' Dinner drops.
Mic Drop (song)
MIC Drop is a 2017 BTS song from Love Yourself 承 'Her'; its Steve Aoki remix featuring Desiigner debuted at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first K-pop top-40 debut.
Mica
Mica is a group of 37 layered silicate minerals whose perfect cleavage lets crystals split into thin, flexible sheets used for electrical insulation and cosmetics.
MICA (missile)
MICA, short for Missile d'Interception, de Combat et d'Autodéfense, is a French air-to-air missile produced by MBDA and carried by the Rafale and Mirage 2000-5.
Mica Dam
Mica Dam is a 244-meter-high earthfill dam on the Columbia River in British Columbia that impounds Kinbasket Lake and houses an underground BC Hydro generating station.