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Merya language The Merya language was the Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Merya tribe, which lived in what is today the Moscow region. Next to nothing is known about the language, but it was probably related to the other Finno-Ugric languages of the region.
Merykara The Teaching for King Merykara is a literary composition in Middle Egyptian, the classical phase of the Egyptian language, probably of Middle Kingdom date (2025 BC-1700 BC). In it, the author has a king of Egypt address his son, the future king Merykara, advising him how to be a good king, and to avoid evil deeds.
Meryta Meryta is a genus in the flowering plant family Araliaceae. There are about 30 species in the genus, all small, resinous trees of the subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean, characterized by huge, simple leaves and a dioecious sexual system, a unique combination in Araliaceae.
Merz & McLellan Merz & McLellan was a British electrical engineering consultancy founded in Newcastle in 1902 by Charles Merz and William McLellan. It was formed when McLellan joined Merz's existing company that Merz had set up in 1899.
Merz Apothecary The Merz Apothecary, located in Chicago, is a historic German health care store that has been family owned and operated since it was opened by Peter Merz in 1875. Since it's inception, it focuses heavily on herbal medicines and traditional formulas common in Europe.
Merz Peninsula Merz Peninsula () is an irregular, ice-covered peninsula, about 15 miles long in an east-west direction and averaging 25 miles wide, between Hilton Inlet and Violante Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the US Antarctic Service (USAS).
Merz Pharma Merz Pharmaceuticals (Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA), a member of Merz Pharma, is an international healthcare company specializing in the research, development and marketing of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Merzbow Merzbow (Japanese; メルツバウ) is the name used by Japanese musician Masami Akita (秋田昌美 Akita Masami) for most of his experimental noise records, and is considered by many to be the earliest project among others in what has become known as the 'Japanese noise scene'. He has released many CDs, LPs and cassettes since the early 1980s.
Mesa (Honorverse) Mesa is a fictional star nation that appears in David Weber's Honorverse, as well as in some anthology stories based in the same universe written by Eric Flint. In the more recent novels and stories of the Honorverse, Mesa has been slowly replacing Haven as the main antagonist nation.
Mesa (programming language) Mesa is a programming language developed at Xerox PARC that was used to program the Xerox Alto (one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface), and later the Xerox Star workstations, and later the GlobalView desktop environment. The name Mesa was chosen as a pun, to signify that it is a "high-level" programming language.
Mesa 3D Mesa 3D is a free software/open source graphics library, initially developed by Brian Paul in August 1993, that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. Though Mesa is not an officially licensed OpenGL implementation, the structure, syntax and semantics of the API is that of OpenGL.
Mesa Community College Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, is the largest of the 10 community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District. Enrollment in the spring of 2002 topped 24,000 full- and part-time students.
Mesa Leventhal Baker Mesa Leventhal Baker is a pediatrician and specialist in the treatment of child abuse. She received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and obtained her Medical Degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1988.
Mesa Mall Mesa Mall is a shopping mall located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is owned and operated by The Macerich Company and is Western Colorado's premier shopping venue serving this expanding marketplace of Grand Junction and Western Colorado.
Mesa of Lost Women Mesa of Lost Women is a 1953 science-fiction film that was in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. The movie also won the award of "Most Primitive Male Chauvinist Fantasy" in the 1986 book, Son of Golden Turkey Awards.
Mesa Redonda Internacional Mesa Redonda Internacional (in English International Round Table) is a Cuban television program broadcast by Cubavision International. In addition the program is also broadcast by Venezuelan television network teleSUR.
Mesa Ridge High School Mesa Ridge High School is a school in Widefield School District 3, a school district in El Paso County, Colorado. The school is zoned to receive students from Fountain, Colorado and the Colorado Springs suburbs of Security and Widefield.
Mesa State College Mesa State College is a public, co-educational, liberal-arts college centered in Grand Junction, Colorado. The college has its primary campus in Grand Junction, a separate vocational campus known as Western Colorado Community College, and a smaller campus in Montrose, Colorado.
Mesabi Range The Mesabi Iron Range is a vast deposit of iron ore and the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. It is the chief deposit of iron ore in the United States.
Mesalands Community College Mesalands Community College, located on 23 acres in Tucumcari, New Mexico, is a two-year higher education institution offering instruction at the associate's degree level. Program offerings include Business, Computer Science, Farrier Science, Fine Arts Bronze, Commercial Truck Driving, Paleontology, Education, and Nail Technology.
Mesalazine Mesalazine (BP), also known as Mesalamine (USAN) or 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA), is an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat inflammation of the digestive tract (Crohn's disease) and mild to moderate ulcerative colitis. Mesalazine is a bowel-specific aminosalicylate drug that is metabolized in the gut and has its predominant actions there, thereby having fewer systemic side effects.
Mesangium The mesangium is an inner layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries. This term is often used interchangably with mesangial cell, but in this context refers specifically to the intraglomerular mesangial cells.
Mesanjarz of Funk Mesanjarz of Funk are a Latin hip hop group from New York City, composed of members D-Vell (of Cuban descent), Pearl Pizazz (of Puerto Rican and West Indian descent)and DJ Royal Tech (of Colombian descent). Their untitled album came out in 1993 and featured bilingual rhymes and state of the art underground hip hop music.
Mesaoud Mesaoud an Arabian stallion, was one of the foundation sires of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England, bred in Egypt by Ali Pasha Sherif, imported to England by Wilfred and Lady Anne Blunt in 1891. His is recognized as an Al Khamsa Arabian, with verifiable lineage tracing to the Bedouin of the desert.
Mescal Range The Mescal Range is a small mountain range in the eastern Mojave Desert in California about 12 miles from the Nevada state line. The range lies just to the south of Interstate 15 near Mountain Pass, north of the Ivanpah Mountains.
Mescalbean The Mescalbean, Mescal Bean or Frijolito (Calia) is a genus of three or four species of shrubs or small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The genus is native to southwestern North America from western Texas to New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, and south through Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo LeĂłn in northern Mexico.
Mescalero Mescalero (or Mescalero Apache) is a Native American tribe of Southern Athabaskan heritage currently living on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southcentral New Mexico. The Mescaleros opened their doors to other Apache bands, the Chiricahua who were imprisoned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and the Lipan Apaches .
Mesclun Mesclun is a salad mix of assorted small, young, salad leaves, that may include lettuces, spinach, arugula (rocket), Swiss chard, mustard greens, endive, dandelion leaves, and/or other leafy vegetables. The name comes from Provencal (Southern France)—mescla, "to mix"—and literally means "mixture".
Mesela (woreda) Mesela is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Hararghe Zone, Mesela is bordered on the southwest by the Galetti River which separates it from Chiro, on the northwest by Tulo, and on the east by the Misraq Hararghe Zone.
Meselson-Stahl experiment The Meselson-Stahl experiment was an experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl to prove that DNA replication was semiconservative. Semiconservative replication means that when the double stranded DNA helix was replicated, each of the two double stranded DNA helices consisted of one strand coming from the original helix and one newly synthesized.
Mesenet In Egyptian mythology, Mesenet (also spelt Meskhenet, Meskhent, and Meshkent) was the goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul. In particular, in early Egypt, women delivered babies by squatting over a pair of bricks, known as birth bricks, and Mesenet was the goddess associated with this form of delivery.
Mesenchymal stem cell Mesenchymal stem cells or MSCs are multipotent stem cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types. Cell types that MSCs have been shown to differentiate into in vitro or in vivo include osteoblasts, chondrocytes, myocytes, adipocytes, neuronal cells, and, as described lately, into beta-pancreatic islets cells.
Meserete Kristos Church Meserete Kristos Church , meaning "Christ is the foundation Church" (based on I Cor. 3:11) is an Ethiopian Protestant (P'ent'ay) church with 144,600 baptized membersMennonite Weekly Review, 2006-11-02, MKC makes decisions on polygamy, women in leadership and a worship community of over 246,000 persons as of August 2004.
Meseta (Phantasy Star) The meseta is the universal currency of the Algol star system in the Phantasy Star series of video games. It was introduced in Phantasy Star, the first game of the series, and has since been established as one of the trademarks of the series.
Mesfin Woldemariam Professor Mesfin Woldemariam (also spelled Mesfin Wolde Mariam; born 1930) is an Ethiopian peace activist who was active during the Meles Zenawi era. He is a founding member of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRC), and later founded the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice.
Mesh A mesh is similar to fabric or a web in that it has many connected or weaved pieces. In clothing, a mesh is often defined as fabric that has a large number of closely-spaced holes, frequently used for modern sports jerseys.
Mesh analysis In electrical engineering, mesh analysis (sometimes referred to as loop analysis) or the mesh current method is a method of circuit analysis that uses simultaneous equations, Kirchhoff's voltage law, and Ohm's law to solve for the voltages and currents at any point in a circuit. It usually involves fewer unknowns and equations than nodal analysis, and does not use Kirchhoff's current law, making it simpler.
Mesh Arsad Al Rashid Mesh Arsad Al Rashid is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Suit leads to disclosure of 5,000 pages of transcripts from secret hearings, The Scotsman, March 5 2006
Mesh Computers MESH Computers Ltd is a computer company based in London, England, owned by its directors Ramiz Padashifard and Mehdi Sharafati through their holding company MESH Acquisitions Ltd. Mesh sells custom and pre-built notebooks, desktop PCs, and media center PCs.
Mesh magazine Mesh Magazine is a free, bimonthly publication that covers independent music, art, fashion and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. The magazine's first issue was released in September, 2003 and has featured musicians like Rogue Wave, Comets on Fire, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Black Heart Procession and Lyrics Born.
Mesh networking Mesh networking is a way to route data, voice and instructions between nodes. It allows for continuous connections and reconfiguration around broken or blocked paths by "hopping" from node to node until the destination is reached.
Mesh subdivision Mesh Subdivision is a technique used to add detail to a polygon mesh by breaking into smaller pieces the polygons in the mesh. Mesh subdivision techniques are often used in 3D computer games, and in other programs such as Google Earth (tm).
Mesha Stele The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the "Moabite Stone") is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC Moabite King Mesha, discovered in 1868. The inscription of 34 lines, the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine, was written in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
Meshack Franklin Meshack Franklin (1772 - December 18, 1839) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, North Carolina, in 1772; Brother of Jesse Franklin. member of the State house of commons in 1800 and 1801; served in the State senate in 1828, 1829, and 1838; elected as a Republican to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1815); died in Surry County, N.
Meshanticut Interchange The Meshanticut Interchange is a highway interchange complex in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA. It was one of the first interchange complexes in Rhode Island, opening around the same time as the Olneyville Bypass, the RI 2/RI 117 interchange and relocated RI 3 (now I-95) (and long after the Point Street Viaduct, opened in 1940 and has not been changed since its opening in the early 1950s].
Meshawah Meshawah is the traditional dish in the UAE made out of dried fish and mix of spices with water and salt that is kept in the sun for the period of 30 days. It is eaten with bread or rice and usually mixed with onions.
Meshes of the Afternoon Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by husband and wife team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper-like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean.
Meshfree methods Meshfree methods are a particular class of numerical simulation algorithms for the simulation of physical phenomena. Traditional simulation algorithms relied on a grid or a mesh, meshfree methods in contrast use the geometry of the simulated object directly for calculations.
Meshchera Lowlands Meshchera Lowlands (Meshchyora Lowlands), also referred to as simply "Meshchera"/"Meshchyora" () is a spacious lowland in the middle of the European Russia. It is named after the Finno-Ugric Meshchera tribe, which used to live there.
Meshcherian language Meshcherian was the Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Meshchera tribe, in what is today the Oka River basin in Russia. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya.
Meshkinshahr Meshkinshahr (Persian: مشگين شهر; also known as Meshkin Shahr or Meshkin-Shahr) is a historic city in the Ardabīl Province of north-western Iran, near the mountain of Sabalan and the coast of the Caspian Sea.
Meshullam ben Jacob Rabbeinu Meshullam son of Jacob (Meshullam ben Ya'akov) also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol (Rabbi Meshullem the great) was a Franco-Jewish Talmudist of the twelfth century CE. He had a Talmudic Yeshiva in Lunel which produced several famous men, and was an intimate friend of Abraham ben Isaac, Av beth din of Narbonne, who addressed to him several responsa, and spoke of him in high terms.
Mesić monastery The Mesić Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Месић / Manastir Mesić) is a Serb Orthodox monastery situated in the Banat region, in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. The monastery is situated near the village of Mesić, in the Vršac municipality.
Mesilau East River Mesilau East River is a river which passes through the Mesilau area on the East Ridge of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. It is one of six principal rivers in the watershed areas, which also include the Mesilau West, Padas, Pegalan and Kagibagan rivers.
Mesilau Nature Resort Mesilau Nature Resort is a tourist resort situated within the World Heritage Site of Kinabalu National Park, Malaysia. It was constructed in 1998 and offers top-end accommodation for ecotourists coming to stay in the park.
Mesillat Yesharim The Mesillat Yesharim ("Path of the Just") is an ethical text composed in 1740 by the influential Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746). It was written and published while he was living in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
Mesirow Financial Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, Mesirow Financial is an independent employee-owned firm with more than $22 billion in assets under management and more than 1,100 employees in locations across the United States and in Puerto Rico.
Mesitylene In organic chemistry, mesitylene or 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene (C9H12) is an aromatic hydrocarbon with three methyl substituents attached to the benzene ring. It is prepared from distillation of acetone with sulfuric acid or by the trimerization of propyne in sulfuric acid, which in both cases acts as a homogeneous catalyst and dehydrating agent.
Meskalamdug Meskalamdug ("hero of the good land") was an early king of Ur who is not named on the Sumerian king list. His tomb, found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur, contained numerous gold artifacts, which are now lost, including a golden helmet.
Meskanena Mareko Meskanena Mareko is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Gurage Zone, Meskanena Mareko is bordered on the south by Silte, on the southwest by Gumer, on the west by Ezhana Wolene, on the northwest by Kokir Gedebano Gutazer, on the north by Sodo, and on the east by the Oromia Region.
Meskel Meskel (Ethiopic: መሰቀል), in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, is an annual religious holiday commemorating the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (Saint Helena) in the fourth century. Meskel occurs on 17 Meskerem in the Ethiopian calendar (27 September, Gregorian calendar, or 28 September in leap years).
Mesker Park Zoo The Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden is a zoo located in Evansville, Indiana. Set on a spacious 50-acre park, the zoo features 200 species and more than 625 animals roaming freely in natural habitats surrounded by exotic plants, wildflowers, and trees.
Meskheti Meskheti is a mountainous area and a former province in the South-West of Georgia. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi (later Moskh) and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region, identified by some authors with the Mushki known from 12th century BC Assyrian sources.
Meskhetian Turks Meskhetian Turks are the former Muslim inhabitants of Meskheti (Georgia), along the border with Turkey. They were deported to Central Asia in 1944 by Josef Stalin and settled within Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Today they are dispersed over a number of other countries of the former Soviet Union. A majority (more than 80%) of Meskhetian Turks are ethnic Turks (Yerli (Turkish-speaking agriculturalists) and Terekeme (Azerbaijani-speaking pastoralists)) with Kurds and Hamshenis. A minority (about 20%) are descendants of indigenous Georgians who became Muslim in the 17th-18th centuries. The estimated population of Meskhetian Turks is around 300,000. They are known as Ahıska Türkleri (Akhaltsikhe Turks) in Turkey.
Meskwaki language Meskwaki (also known as Fox) is an Algonquian language spoken by approximately 700 people in and around Tama, Iowa, most of whom are elderly or middle-aged. There are no children learning the language, and its future prospects seem unsure at best.
Mesmer (Artemis Fowl) The mesmer is a magical power that most of the fairy familes from the Artemis Fowl book series are able to use, since only a small amount of magic is needed to mesmerize someone. The mesmer can be used on fellow fairies, but this is against fairy law as someone who is mesmerized has very little control over their actions.
Meso compound A meso compound or meso isomer is a chemical compound with molecules that contain 2 or more asymmetric atoms (stereocenters) but which is optically inactive (or achiral) because it contains an internal plane of symmetry. For example one of the isomers of tartaric acid is a meso compound:
Mesoamerica The term Mesoamerica refers to a geographical region that extends roughly from the Tropic of Cancer in central Mexico south through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, and the pacific lowlands of Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica. It is characterized by a particular cultural homogeneity exhibited by the indigenous cultures within it its limits.
Mesoamerican architecture Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, traditions which are best known in the form of public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures. The distinctive features of Mesoamerican architecture encompass a number of different regional and historical styles, which however are significantly interrelated.
Mesoamerican ballgame The Mesoamerican ballgame, known in Spanish as juego de pelota, was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the peoples of Mesoamerica in Pre-Columbian times, and in a few places continues to be played by the local Amerind inhabitants.
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System stretches from the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula down to the Bay Islands of Honduras, this reef structure is the largest coral reef in the Western Hemisphere, the second largest coral reef in the world.
Mesoamerican Biological Corridor The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor is a large habitat corridor stretching from Mexico through most Central American nations, connecting several national parks. It was started in 1998 to keep 106 critically endangered species from going extinct.
Mesoamerican calendars The Pre-Columbian people of Mesoamerica kept track of time with a variety of calendars tracking lunar cycles, years, and continuous day counts of 365 and 360 days. All of the Mesoamerican cultures shared a 260-day ritual calendar, the Tzolk'in of the Maya civilization.
Mesoamerican chronology Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica into a number of named successive eras or periods, from the earliest evidence of human habitation through to the early Colonial period which followed the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Mesoamerican literature The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. Many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are known to have been literate societies, who produced a number of Mesoamerican writing systems of varying degrees of complexity and completeness.
Mesoamerican Linguistic Area The Mesoamerican Linguistic Area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is defined by an array of syntactic, lexical and phonological traits as well as a number of ethnolinguistic traits found in the languages of Mesoamerica, which belong to a number of linguistic families, such as Uto-Aztecan, Mayan, Totonacan, Oto-Mangue and Mixe-Zoquean languages as well as some language isolates and unclassified languages known to the region.
Mesoamerican pine-oak forests The Mesoamerican pine-oak forests is a composite ecoregion of southern Mexico and Central America, designated by the World Wildlife Fund as one of their Global 200 ecoregions, a list of priority ecoregions for conservation.
Mesoamerican pyramids Mesoamerican pyramids, pyramid-shaped structures, are an important part of Ancient Mesoamerican architecture. These structures were usually step pyramids with temples on top – more akin to the ziggurats of Mesopotamia than to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
Mesoamerican River Turtle The Mesoamerican River Turtle (Dermatemys mawii) locally known as the "hickatee" or "tortuga blanca"-(white turtle) is the only species in the family Dermatemydidae. It is a nocturnal, aquatic turtle that lives in larger rivers and lakes in Central America, from southern Mexico to northern Honduras.
Mesoamerican world tree "World trees" are a prevalent motif occurring in the mythical cosmologies, creation accounts and iconographies of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which also serve to represent the four-fold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi which connects the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial realm.
Mesoarchean The Mesoarchean (IPA: , also spelled Mesoarchaean) is a geologic era within the Archean, spanning 3200 Ma to 2800 Ma (million years ago). The period is defined chronometrically and is not referenced to a specific level in a rock section on Earth.
Mesocarp Sarcocarp (Gr. "flesh" + "fruit"), or mesocarp, is a botanical term for the succulent and fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of drupaceous fruit, between the exocarp and the endocarp; it is usually the part of the fruit that is eaten.
Mesocompact space In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudocompact if every open cover has a compact-finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover, we can find an open refinement with the property that every compact set is contained in finitely many members of the refinement.
Mesocyclone A mesocyclone is a cyclonic vortex of air, between approximately 2 and 10 km diameter within a convective storm. They can often be found in association with a updrafts in supercells, where tornadoes may form.
Mesoeconomics Mesoeconomics is a neologism used to describe the study of economic arrangements which are not based either on the microeconomics of buying and selling and supply and demand, nor on the macroeconomic reasoning of aggregate totals of demand, but on the importance of under what structures these forces play out, and how to measure these effects. It dates from the 1980s as several economists began questioning whether there would ever be a bridge between the two main economic paradigms in mainstream economics, without wanting to discard both paradigms in favor of some other basic methodology and paradigm.
Mesogeion Avenue Mesogeion Avenue, also (Messogeion-) is an avenue linking with Feidippou Street with serves access with Kifissias, Vasileias Sofias and Alexandras Avenue and with Marathonos Avenue at the Gerakas Street/GR-81 junction between Glyka Nera and Gerakas with an overpass. It is rarely a part of Greek National Road 54.
Mesoglea Mesoglea, also known as ectoplasma, is the clear, inert, jellylike substance that makes up most of the bodies of jellyfish, comb jellies and certain other primitive sea creatures. It acts as the creatures' structural support in water, as they lack bones, cartilage or other more common means of support.
Mesohippus Mesohippus Greek (meso meaning "half" and hippus meaning "horse") lived some 32 million years ago in the mid- Oligocene. It had longer legs than its predecessor Hyracotherium and stood about two feet tall.
Mesolect A mesolect is term referring to a register or range of registers of spoken language whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect. Mesolectic speech, where it is distinguished from acrolectic speech, is often the most widely spoken form of a language, generally being used by lower and lower-middle classes.
Mesolimbic pathway The mesolimbic pathway is one of the neural pathways in the brain that link the ventral tegmentum in the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens in the limbic system. It is one of the four major pathways where the neurotransmitter dopamine is found.
Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the 'Middle Stone Age'This translation can be ambiguous since Middle Stone Age is an older African prehistoric period.) was a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age.
Mesomeric effect The mesomeric effect or resonance effect in chemistry is a property of substituents or functional groups in a chemical compound. The effect is used in a qualitative way and describes the electron withdrawing or releasing properties of substituents based on relevant resonance structures and is symbolized by the letter M.
Meson In particle physics, a meson is a strongly interacting boson, that is, it is a hadron with integral spin. In the Standard Model, mesons are composite (non-elementary) particles composed of an even number of quarks and antiquarks.
Mesonephric tubules Mesonephric tubules are genital ridges are next to the mesonephros. In males, some of the mesonephric kidney tubules, instead of being used to filter blood like the rest, they "grow" over to the developing testes, penetrate it, and become connected to the seminiferous tubules of the testes.
Mesonic molecule A mesonic molecule is a set of two or more mesons bound together by the strong force. Unlike baryonic molecules, which form the nuclei of all elements in nature save hydrogen, a mesonic molecule has yet to be definitively observed.
Mesonychid Mesonychids are an extinct order of even-toed carnivorous ungulates (hoofed animals) which looked like wolves, and were scavengers for carrion and hunters of fish. These animals possessed unusual triangular teeth that are similar to those of whales.
Mesonyx Mesonyx ("middle nail") was a member of the Mesonychia, the best known family of the Acreodi - which may have been ancestral to cetaceans. It was a wolflike predator from the Middle Eocene of Wyoming and East Asia (around 45 million years ago).
Mesoplanet Mesoplanet is a term coined by Isaac Asimov to refer to planetary bodies with sizes smaller than Mercury but larger than 1 Ceres. Assuming "size" is defined by linear dimension (or by volume), mesoplanets should be approximately 950 km to 4879 km in diameter.
Mesoplodont whale Mesoplodont whales are fourteen species of whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order. Two species were described as recently as 1991 and 2002, and marine biologists predict the discovery of more species in the future.
Mesopotamia Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. The toponym comes from the Greek words μέσος "between" and ποταμός "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between.

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