| munchausen syndrome | <syndrome> A factitious disorder characterised by habitual presentation for hospital treatment of an apparent acute illness, the patient giving a plausible and dramatic history, all of which is false. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| munchausen syndrome by proxy | A phenomenon in which symptoms of a disease are fabricated by an individual other than the patient causing unnecessary, and often painful, physical examinations and treatments. This syndrome is considered a form of child abuse, since another individual, usually a parent, is the source of the fabrication of symptoms and presents the child for medical care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| munchhausen syndrome | <syndrome> Recurrent feigning of catastrophic illnesses. Named for the fictitious baron who told tales that were whopping lies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Munchhausen, Baron Karl F.H. von | <person> German nobleman, soldier, and raconteur, 1720-1797. See: Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mundificative | Cleansing. A detergent medicine or preparation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mung | <botany> Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Origin: Hind. Mng. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mung bean nuclease | Endonuclease S1 (Aspergillus). (05 Mar 2000) |
| munga | <zoology> See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mungoos | <zoology> See Mongoose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| municipal | 1. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. 2. Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation. "Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." (Blackstone) Origin: L. Municipalis, fr. Municipium a town, particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. Municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. Municipal. Cf. Immunity, and Capacoius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| municipal government | Urban governmental functions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| municipal hospital | A government hospital administered by city officials. (05 Mar 2000) |
| municipal solid waste | Garbage. Refuse offering the potential for energy recovery; includes residential, commercial, and institutional wastes. (05 Dec 1998) |
| munition | 1. Fortification; stronghold. "His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks." (Is. Xxxiii. 16) 2. Whatever materials are used in war for drfense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. "The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war." (Sir W. Raleigh) Origin: F, munition of war, L. Munitio a fortifying, fortification, fr. Munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. Moenia walls, murus (for moirus) a wall, and Skr. Mi to fix, make firm. Cf. Ammunition. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| munjistin | <chemistry> An orangered colouring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |