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Mucosectomy
Mucosectomy is an endoscopic procedure, known in the digestive tract as endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), that removes a disk of mucosa to treat early cancers and precancerous lesions without surgery.
Mucous membrane
A mucous membrane, or mucosa, is the moist epithelial lining of body cavities such as the gut, respiratory passages, and mouth, which produces mucus and aids immunity.
Mucous membrane pemphigoid
Mucous membrane pemphigoid, also called cicatricial pemphigoid, is a chronic autoimmune subepithelial blistering disease of mucous membranes, mainly oral (85%) and ocular (65%), targeting BP180, BP230, laminin 332, and type VII collagen.
Mud Therapy
Mud therapy (pelotherapy, fangotherapy) is the therapeutic application of matured mineral-rich mud, peat, or clay, practiced in at least 40 countries mainly as an adjunct for osteoarthritis pain, with meta-analytic support and mild adverse effects.
Muehrcke's nails
Muehrcke's nails, also called Muehrcke's lines or leukonychia striata, are transverse white bands across the fingernails signaling low blood albumin, first described by Robert Muehrcke in 1956.
Mueller-Hinton agar
Mueller-Hinton agar is a microbiological growth medium developed by J. Howard Mueller and Jane Hinton at Harvard in 1941, now the standard medium for Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility testing.
Mueller-Weiss syndrome
Mueller-Weiss syndrome (Müller-Weiss disease, Brailsford disease) is rare spontaneous osteonecrosis of the adult tarsal navicular causing midfoot pain, navicular collapse, and talonavicular arthritis, treated with fusion surgery.
Muenke syndrome
Muenke syndrome (FGFR3-related coronal synostosis, MNKES, OMIM 602849) is the most common syndromic craniosynostosis, an autosomal dominant disorder caused by the FGFR3 p.Pro250Arg variant, with hearing loss, developmental delay, and reduced penetrance.
Mufemilast
Mufemilast (Hemay005), pronounced myoo-FEM-i-last, is an oral nonselective PDE4 inhibitor by Hemay Pharmaceutical, NMPA-approved in 2025 for plaque psoriasis, with trials in Behçet's, ulcerative colitis, and atopic dermatitis.
MUGGLE study
MUGGLE (NCT05616273) is a completed University of Exeter observational study of 62 people with type 1 diabetes testing whether stimulated glucagon after a mixed meal or arginine predicts hypoglycemia risk.
Muhimbili National Hospital
Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, is Tanzania's national tertiary referral and teaching hospital under the Ministry of Health, with Upanga and Mloganzila campuses, about 2,000 beds, and a planned USD 468 million rebuild.
Mukfadi mahanjana
Mukfadi Mahanjana, an Ayurvedic anjana (medicated eye collyrium) from Bhaisajyaratnavali, Netrarogadhikara 242-243, listed in The Ayurvedic Formulary of India among external eye medicines with Vartti and Netrabindu.
MUKKAMUKKATUVADI GUTIKA
Mukkamukkatuvadi Gutika (Mukkamukkatuvadi Gulika) is a Kerala Ayurvedic polyherbal tablet for fever, especially fever of gastric origin; 21 herbal ingredients plus Nirgundi, listed by CGHS and Rajasthan rules, profiled in AYUSH COVID-19 research.
Mukta bhasma
Mukta bhasma (Muktā Bhasma, Moti Bhasma) is the Ayurvedic calcined-pearl calx of Rasashastra: aragonite CaCO3 converted to calcite, ~46% calcium, nanoscale particles, used for cough, eye, and bone disorders.
Mukta Pisti
Mukta Pisti (Mukta Pishti), Ayurvedic pearl powder made by cold trituration of pearl with rose distillate (Gulab Arka), retaining aragonite calcium carbonate; milder, non-calcined alternative to Mukta Bhasma used for Pitta conditions.
Muktadi Mahanjana
Muktadi Mahanjana (मुक्तादि महदञ्जन), Great Pearl Collyrium, is an Ayurvedic anjana eye salve of pearl and coral bhasma for paittika eye disorders, sourced from Bhaisajyaratnavali and Sahasrayoga and CGHS-listed.
MUKTAPANCAMRTA RASA
Muktapanacamrta Rasa (Mukta Panchamrita Rasa, मुक्ता पंचामृत रस) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral medicine of five bhasmas, pearl, coral, conch, oyster shell, and tin, used for cough, fever, and pitta disorders.
Muktasukti bhasma
Muktasukti bhasma (Mukta Shukti Bhasma), an Ayurvedic calcined calx of pearl oyster shell, calcium carbonate converted from aragonite to calcite; used as antacid, antipyretic, calcium source at 250–500 mg, with anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory experimental evidence.
Mulago Hospital
Mulago National Referral Hospital, on Mulago Hill in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 1913 by Albert Ruskin Cook, is the country's largest public tertiary and teaching hospital of Makerere University, with about 1,500 official beds.
Mulaka Ksara
Mulaka Ksara (Mūlaka Kṣāra) is an official Ayurvedic alkaline ash powder made from radish (Raphanus sativus) ash and water, dosed at 1 g daily for dysuria, urinary calculi, and abdominal lump (gulma).
Mulibrey nanism
Mulibrey nanism (MUL, Perheentupa syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive TRIM37 (17q22) multisystem disorder with prenatal growth failure, constrictive pericarditis, insulin resistance, hypogonadism, and Wilms tumor risk, concentrated in Finland.
Müllerian aplasia and hyperandrogenism
Müllerian aplasia and hyperandrogenism, also called WNT4 deficiency or Biason-Lauber syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant WNT4-gene disorder in 46,XX females causing absent or underdeveloped uterus, primary amenorrhea, infertility, and hyperandrogenism with acne and facial hirsutism, distinct from classic MRKH syndrome.
Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome
Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome, or Urioste syndrome (ORPHA:1655, OMIM 235255), is an extremely rare genetic disorder of male newborns with persistent Müllerian duct derivatives, lymphangiectasia, protein-losing enteropathy, polydactyly, and renal anomalies, fatal in infancy.
Multi-cancer early detection
Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) is a screening approach that uses one blood test to look for signals of many cancer types at once in people with no symptoms.
Multi-stage fitness test
Multi-stage fitness test (beep test, bleep test, PACER, Léger test, 20mSRT): a 20-metre progressive shuttle run to audio beeps estimating VO2max; validated by Léger and Lambert in 1982, validity r 0.66–0.84.
Multibacillary leprosy
Multibacillary (MB) leprosy, the severe pole of Hansen disease, defined by WHO as over five skin lesions, nerve involvement, or a positive slit-skin smear; treated with 12 months of rifampicin, clofazimine, and dapsone.
Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial
MADIT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial), a 1996 University of Rochester randomized trial showing prophylactic ICDs cut mortality 54% in post-infarction patients; followed by MADIT II, MADIT-CRT, and MADIT-RIT.
Multicenter cohort study
A multicenter cohort study is an observational design recruiting and following a cohort at multiple centers under a common protocol, reaching larger samples to detect rare effects.
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (MRH), also called lipoid dermatoarthritis, is a rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis causing destructive arthritis and papulonodular skin lesions, associated with malignancy in about a quarter of cases.
Multifetal pregnancy reduction
Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) is a first-trimester procedure that terminates one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy to improve survival of the remaining fetuses.