| maucaco | <zoology> A lemur; applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs. Origin: From the native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Mauchart's ligaments | One of a pair of short stout bands that extends from the side of the dens of the axis to the tubercle on the medial aspect of the occipital condyle. Synonym: check ligaments of odontoid. Synonym: alar folds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mauchart, Burkhard | <person> German anatomist. Lived: 1696-1751. See: Mauchart's ligaments. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maudeline | <botany> An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| maudlinwort | <botany> The oxeye daisy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| maukin | 1. See Malkin. 2. <zoology> A hare. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| maul | A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. Alternative forms: mall. See: Mall a hammer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| maul-stick | A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. Alternative forms: mahl-stick. Origin: G. Malerstock; maler a painter + stock stick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| maule | <botany> The common mallow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Maurer's clefts | Finely granular precipitates or irregular cytoplasmic particles that usually occur diffusely in red blood cells infected with the trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum, occasionally those of P. Malariae; rarely observed in P. Falciparum blood smears because its trophozoites seldom are seen in peripheral blood. Synonym: Maurer's clefts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Maurer's dots | Finely granular precipitates or irregular cytoplasmic particles that usually occur diffusely in red blood cells infected with the trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum, occasionally those of P. Malariae; rarely observed in P. Falciparum blood smears because its trophozoites seldom are seen in peripheral blood. Synonym: Maurer's clefts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Maurer, Georg | <person> German physician in Sumatra, *1909. See: Maurer's clefts, Maurer's dots. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mauriac's syndrome | <syndrome> Dwarfism with obesity and hepatosplenomegaly in children with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mauriac, Pierre | <person> French physician, *1882. See: Mauriac's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mauriceau's manoeuvre | <obstetrics> A method of assisted breech delivery in which the infant's body is astraddle the right forearm, and the middle finger of the right hand is in the foetal mouth to maintain flexion while traction is made upon the shoulders by the other hand. Synonym: Mauriceau-Levret manoeuvre. (05 Mar 2000) |