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Military medicine
Military medicine is the branch of medicine treating battlefield casualties from point of injury through evacuation, surgery, and rehabilitation, and maintaining the health of armed forces.
Military sexual trauma
Military sexual trauma (MST) is the VA term for sexual assault or sexual harassment during military service. About 1 in 3 women and 1 in 50 men screened in VA report it; free MST-related care and disability compensation are available.
Milium
Milium (milletgrass) is a small genus of Poaceae grasses, published by Linnaeus in 1753, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere with six accepted species including the woodland grass Milium effusum.
Milium effusum
Milium effusum (wood millet, American milletgrass, 粟草) is a perennial Poaceae grass native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, a shade-tolerant deciduous woodland herb up to 1.8 m with open effuse panicles, 2n=14/28, and the cultivar 'Aureum'.
Milk
Milk, the mammary secretion of dairy animals (cow, buffalo, goat, sheep, yak, camel), is a nutrient-dense drink and cheese/butter source; water is 83-91%, cow fat 3-4%, pasteurization mandated from 1908, world output ~950 Mt in 2024.
Milk albumin
Milk albumin, or lactalbumin, denotes the albumin-class whey proteins of milk: blood serum albumin and α-lactalbumin, water-soluble heat-coagulable proteins distinct from casein, with α-lactalbumin dominant in human milk and driving lactose synthesis.
Milk basic protein
Milk basic protein (MBP), or bovine milk basic protein fraction, is a whey-derived fraction rich in lactoferrin and lactoperoxidase, GRAS in the US since 2006 (GRN 196), used at 10–40 mg per serving for bone health.
Milk protein concentrate
Milk protein concentrate (MPC), also called MPC powder, is a dairy ingredient of 40–85% protein made by ultrafiltration and diafiltration of skim milk, keeping milk's 80:20 casein-to-whey ratio; MPI exceeds 90% protein.
Milk sickness
Milk sickness, or tremetol poisoning, is human poisoning from milk of cows that ate white snakeroot or rayless goldenrod; it killed thousands of Midwest settlers, including Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and was identified by Anna Pierce Hobbs around 1834.
Milk snake
Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum complex), a non-venomous American colubrid with coral-snake-like banding, a Batesian mimic; formerly 25 subspecies, now split into at least seven species; constrictor eating rodents and reptiles.
Milk-cap morphology and latex chemistry
Milk-cap mushrooms, chiefly the genera Lactarius and Lactifluus, are defined by the milky latex that exudes from cut flesh, and share a brittle texture with Russula.
Milkfish
Milkfish (Chanos chanos), called bangus in the Philippines, is a herbivorous food fish of the tropical Indo-Pacific and a main farmed finfish in Southeast Asia for centuries.
Milking
Milking is the extraction of milk from dairy animals by hand, machine, or robotic systems. Key facts: oxytocin let-down lasts 5-7 minutes; machine milking generally improves hygiene and udder health; robotic milking produced 6% of U.S. milk in 2021.
Milking machine
A milking machine extracts milk from dairy animals by vacuum with pulsation, using teat cups, a pulsator, and a vacuum pump to milk up to 200 cows an hour.
Milking parlour
A milking parlour is a purpose-built farm facility where cows are brought to be milked by an operator in a sunken pit, with herringbone, parallel, and rotary layouts.
Milking pipeline
A milking pipeline, also called a milk pipeline, is a permanently mounted vacuum pipe carrying milk from cows in a barn to a central receiver and bulk tank.
Millepora alcicornis
Millepora alcicornis, branching fire coral, a stinging hydrozoan reef builder of the tropical Atlantic, the only amphi-Atlantic Millepora species, growing 1 to 40 m deep and listed Endangered by IUCN in 2024.
Miller Fisher syndrome
Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS, Fisher syndrome) is a rare variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome defined by the triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia, linked to anti-GQ1b antibodies and usually self-limiting recovery.
Millet
Millets are a group of small-seeded cereal grasses, among the first plants domesticated, and a staple for millions in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with India the largest producer.
Millettia
Millettia (崖豆藤属) is a genus of Fabaceae legume trees, shrubs, and lianas of the tropical and subtropical Old World, with about 128 accepted species. Molecular studies show it is polyphyletic; Asian and African species are being split into Millettia s.str., Pongamia, Otosema, and other genera. Sources of wenge timber, rotenoid fish poisons, and traditional medicines.
Millipede
Millipedes (Diplopoda) are myriapod arthropods with two pairs of legs per diplosegment, about 13,000 described species, 22-750 legs, detritivore habits, ancient Silurian fossils, and defensive chemical glands.
Millipede burn
Millipede burn: chemical skin or eye injury from millipede defensive secretions (benzoquinones, phenols, hydrogen cyanide), not a bite. Causes burning, blistering, and months-long hyperpigmentation; treated with soap-and-water washing, steroids, and eye irrigation.
Mills syndrome
Mills syndrome is a rare, acquired motor neuron disease marked by slowly progressive spastic hemiparesis on one side of the body with no sensory loss, first described in 1900.
Milnesium
Milnesium is a genus of large carnivorous eutardigrade water bears (Doyère, 1840; type species Milnesium tardigradum) in the order Apochela, family Milnesiidae, defined by double-clawed legs, Jurassic origin, and rapid growth from one to 52 species.
Milnesium alpigenum
Milnesium alpigenum (Ehrenberg, 1853) is a valid tardigrade species in Apochela, Milnesiidae, synonymised with M. tardigradum by Marcus in 1928 and restored by the 2019 integrative redescription, which also described its pseudocryptic sister species M. inceptum.
Milnesium lagniappe
Milnesium lagniappe is a tardigrade species described in 2013 by Meyer, Hinton, and Dupré from Lake Charles, Louisiana, with claw formula [2-3]-[3-2] and nine sculptured cuticle bands, native to the continental US.
Milnesium tardigradum
Milnesium tardigradum is a relatively large, omnivorous tardigrade, or water bear, described in 1840, that survives desiccation in a tun state and serves as a model for anhydrobiosis research.
Milo Gibaldi
Milo Gibaldi was a pharmaceutical scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics who served as dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy for 17 years.
Milrinone
Milrinone, formerly sold as Primacor, is a type III phosphodiesterase inhibitor given by intravenous infusion to treat severe heart failure and low cardiac output, including as a bridge to heart transplantation.
Milroy disease
Milroy disease (hereditary lymphedema type I, Nonne-Milroy lymphedema): autosomal dominant congenital lower-limb lymphedema, usually from FLT4/VEGFR3 mutations at 5q35.3, named after W. F. Milroy's 1892 family report.