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Morbillivirus caprinae
Morbillivirus caprinae, the peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV), is a morbillivirus of goats and sheep causing peste des petits ruminants, a notifiable disease targeted for global eradication by 2030.
Morcellation
Morcellation is a surgical technique that divides large tissue specimens, such as uterine fibroids, into fragments removable through small incisions during minimally invasive surgery.
Morchella
Morchella, the true morels, is a genus of ascomycete fungi in Pezizales prized as edible spring mushrooms. About 72–78 phylogenetic species in Esculenta (yellow) and Elata (black) clades; East Asia is the diversity center; commercial cultivation achieved mainly in China.
Morchella esculenta
Morchella esculenta, the yellow or sponge morel, is an edible ascomycete fungus (basionym Phallus esculentus L. 1753) in the Esculenta clade, valued for flavor, nutrition, and polysaccharide bioactivities, with the toxic Gyromitra esculenta as its principal lookalike.
Mordechai Choder
Mordechai Choder, known professionally as Motti Choder, is an Israeli molecular biologist and Technion professor in Haifa known for showing that mRNA synthesis and decay are coupled processes.
Mordellidae
Mordellidae, the tumbling flower beetles, is a family of Tenebrionoidea beetles established by Latreille in 1802, with over 2,000 species; wedge-shaped adults feed on flower pollen and nectar while larvae bore in stems and decaying wood.
MORDORIMort trial
MORDORIMort (MORDOR I, NCT02047981), a cluster-randomized phase 4 trial by UCSF in Malawi, Niger, and Tanzania, found biannual azithromycin mass distribution to children 1-59 months lowered mortality 13.5% overall, most in Niger, at the cost of macrolide resistance.
Moreangels M. Mbizah
Moreangels M. Mbizah is a Zimbabwean conservation biologist with a doctorate from Oxford who tracked the lion Cecil and founded Wildlife Conservation Action, winning a 2026 Whitley Award.
Morelia spilota
Morelia spilota, the carpet python or diamond python, is a large non-venomous Australian python up to 4 m long, found across mainland Australia in many habitats, with eight debated subspecies, ambush constriction hunting, and CITES Appendix II listing.
MORFICUS trial
MORFICUS (MORphine use in the Fascia Iliaca Compartment block with UltraSound guidance), EudraCT 2016-004698-42, a Dutch Phase IV randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial of ultrasound-guided levobupivacaine fascia iliaca block versus placebo for preoperative morphine consumption in 120 ED patients with proximal femur fracture.
Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome
Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome, also called hyperostosis frontalis interna, is a rare adult-onset cranial malformation of women, with frontal inner-table skull thickening plus obesity, hirsutism, diabetes, headaches, and neuropsychiatric symptoms; its existence as an entity is debated.
Morgan E. Grams
Morgan E. Grams is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist at NYU Grossman, known for predicting kidney-failure risk in living kidney donors and co-leading the CKD Prognosis Consortium.
Morgan Grove
J. Morgan Grove is an American research forester with the USDA Forest Service in Baltimore, Maryland, who studies urban ecology and co-leads the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
Morgan horse
Morgan horse, American light horse breed tracing to the stallion Figure (foaled 1789, owned by Justin Morgan); registry founded 1909; 14.1-15.2 hands, versatile in driving, riding, endurance, and police work.
Morgan Huse
Morgan Huse is an immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies how immune cells use mechanical force to kill target cells, known for a 2016 Cell paper.
Morgan Sheng
Morgan Sheng is a neuroscientist and physician-scientist known for work on AMPA receptor trafficking and PDZ scaffolds, and Co-Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Morgane Rolland
Morgane Rolland is a virologist and viral geneticist who studies HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, known for developing sieve analysis and leading viral genomics at the US Military HIV Research Program.
Morganella
Morganella: a bacterial genus (Fulton 1943, Morganellaceae, type species M. morganii, opportunistic pathogen) and a homonymous puffball fungus genus (Zeller 1948, Lycoperdaceae, wood-inhabiting).
Morganella morganii
Morganella morganii (Proteus morganii, Morgan's bacillus) is a Gram-negative Morganellaceae rod, an opportunistic pathogen causing UTIs, wounds, and bacteremia, intrinsically colistin-resistant with blaAmpC, and a major histamine producer in spoiled fish.
Morgellons
Morgellons, also called Morgellons disease or unexplained dermopathy, is a controversial skin condition marked by slowly healing lesions and a belief that fibers emerge from the skin.
Morgue
Morgue (mortuary): a facility where dead bodies are kept pending identification, autopsy, or burial. From the Paris morgue of 1804; hospital morgues use 4–8 °C cold storage, minimum 4-body capacity, and tiered NPAAC facility levels.
Moriah Thomason
Moriah Thomason is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who pioneered using functional MRI to measure brain connectivity in human fetuses before birth, receiving the PECASE award in 2019.
Moricin family
Moricin family: lepidopteran-specific alpha-helical antimicrobial peptides, first isolated as moricin, a 42-residue basic peptide, from Bombyx mori hemolymph by Hara and Yamakawa (1995); membrane-targeting, Gram-positive active, 12 genes in the silkworm genome.
Moricizine
Moricizine (Ethmozine), a phenothiazine-derived class I antiarrhythmic synthesized in the USSR in 1964 and FDA-approved in 1990 for ventricular arrhythmias; CAST-II showed excess mortality versus placebo after myocardial infarction.
Morie A. Gertz
Morie A. Gertz is an American hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma, including the 2012 revised staging system.
Morinda
Morinda L. (noni genus, Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia) is a pantropical genus of Rubiaceae in tribe Morindeae with head inflorescences and syncarpous fruits; 39 accepted species, lectotype M. royoc, root bark used as morindin dye.
Morinda citrifolia
Morinda citrifolia (noni, Indian mulberry), a Rubiaceae shrub native to tropical Asia and northern Australia, used in Pacific traditional medicine; its juice is an EU-authorized novel food, with no approved drugs and limited human evidence.
Moringa (genus)
Moringa (murungai) is the sole genus of Moringaceae, 13 species of dry-tropical trees in Brassicales; M. oleifera, the drumstick tree, is grown for food, fodder, ben oil, and seed-based water coagulation.
Moringa oleifera
Moringa oleifera, the drumstick, horseradish, or ben oil tree, is a fast-growing Himalayan-native tree cultivated across the tropics for nutritious leaves, water-purifying seeds, ben oil, and traditional medicine; clinical evidence remains preliminary.
Moringaceae
Moringaceae, the horseradish tree family, is a conserved Brassicales family with one genus, Moringa Adans., of about 13 dry-tropical species native to Africa, Arabia, and India; Moringa oleifera is the widely cultivated drumstick tree.