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Mucor
Mucor (pin mold genus) is a genus of fast-growing, coenocytic molds in Mucoraceae, order Mucorales, phylum Mucoromycota; saprobic, generally non-pathogenic, identified by ITS sequencing, with Mucor circinelloides as the best-studied species.
Mucorales
Mucorales (pin molds), an order of Mucoromycotina fungi with zygospores and sporangiospores; soil saprobes including Rhizopus, Mucor, and Lichtheimia, agents of mucormycosis.
Mucormycosis
Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a rare fungal infection caused by Mucorales molds, killing roughly half of those affected and requiring amphotericin B and surgery.
Mucoromycotina
Mucoromycotina, a subphylum of Mucoromycota fungi (formerly zygomycetes), includes Mucorales, Endogonales, and Umbelopsidales; chitosan cell walls, columella, saprotrophs, liverwort symbionts, and mucormycosis agents.
Mucorpepsin (Rhizomucor miehei aspartic protease)
Mucorpepsin (EC 3.4.23.23), also called Miehei coagulant, is the aspartic protease from Rhizomucor miehei and R. pusillus used as the major microbial rennet substitute, cleaving κ-casein at Phe105-Met106 for cheesemaking.
Mucosal ablation
Mucosal ablation is an endoscopic procedure that destroys abnormal mucosal tissue, most commonly precancerous Barrett's esophagus epithelium, using thermal methods like radiofrequency ablation and argon plasma coagulation, or nonthermal cryoablation.
Mucosal administration
Mucosal administration is a drug delivery route giving medication across mucosal membranes, including nasal, buccal, sublingual, rectal, vaginal, and ocular surfaces, allowing rapid uptake and avoiding first-pass metabolism.
Mucosal cyst of postmastoidectomy cavity
Mucosal cyst of postmastoidectomy cavity (ICD-11 AB91, ICD-10 H95.13, formerly ICD-9 383.31): a mucosa-lined cyst forming in the mastoid after mastoidectomy, presenting with discharge and hearing loss, treated by complete cyst wall removal.
Mucosal Immunity
Mucosal immunity: immune defense at the gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urogenital mucous membranes, mediated mainly by secretory IgA, distinct from systemic immunity and central to mucosal vaccine development.
Mucosal melanosis
Mucosal melanosis (ICD-11 ED61.1) is benign flat pigmentation of oral, genital, or conjunctival mucosa with normal melanocyte counts; it mimics mucosal melanoma, and conjunctival primary acquired melanosis can progress to melanoma.
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.
Mucous neck cell of gastric gland
Mucous neck cell (MUC6, Gkn3, Tff2-expressing) of the gastric corpus gland neck; long-lived secretory cell that migrates basally and transdifferentiates without division into pepsinogen-secreting chief cells.
Mucuna
Mucuna is a pantropical genus of about 112 accepted liana species in Fabaceae, tribe Phaseoleae, first published in 1763. Known for irritant pod hairs, explosive mammal pollination, floating seeds, and the velvet bean Mucuna pruriens.
Mucuna pruriens
Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean, cowitch, kapikacchu), a tropical Fabaceae climbing legume with irritant pod hairs, whose seeds contain 4–6% levodopa and have been trialed as a Parkinson's disease treatment and nitrogen-fixing cover crop.
Mucus
Mucus: viscoelastic secretion of goblet and mucous cells lining organs exposed to the external world; 90-98% water plus mucin glycoproteins; forms protective, lubricating barriers in airways and gut.
Mud dauber
A mud dauber, also called a dirt dauber or dirt dobber, is a solitary wasp that builds mud nests and stocks them with paralyzed spiders for its young.
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.
Mudhol Hound
Mudhol Hound, also Caravan Hound or Karwani, an Indian sighthound from Bagalkot district, Karnataka, revived by ruler Malojirao Ghorpade; first indigenous breed in the Indian Army, ITBP, SSB, and reportedly the SPG.
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 cell
Mueller cells (Müller glia) are the principal radial glia of the vertebrate retina, spanning its full thickness; discovered by Heinrich Müller in 1851, they buffer potassium, recycle glutamate, guide light, and hold latent regenerative potential.
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.
Muesli
Muesli (Müesli), a raw oat-based breakfast dish with nuts and fruit created around 1900 by Swiss doctor Bircher-Benner; unbaked, unlike granola, with lower calories and sugar per serving.
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.
Muga silk
Muga silk is a naturally golden silk from the wild silkworm Antheraea assamensis, produced mainly in Assam, which supplies about 90 percent of world output.
Mugger crocodile
Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), also called marsh crocodile or Magar-Machh: a medium-sized Vulnerable South Asian crocodilian of freshwater habitats from Iran and Pakistan to Sri Lanka, 3–4 m typically, 5,700–8,700 mature individuals, known for double annual breeding.
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.