| merry-andrew | One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mersalyl | <chemical> (3-((2-(carboxylatomethoxy)benzoyl)amino)-2-methoxypropyl)hydroxymercurate(1-) sodium. A toxic thiol mercury salt formerly used as a diuretic. It inhibits various biochemical functions, especially in mitochondria, and is used to study those functions. Pharmacological action: diuretics, mercurial, enzyme inhibitors, sulfhydryl reagents. Chemical name: Mercurate(1-), (3-((2-(carboxylatomethoxy)benzoyl)amino)-2-methoxypropyl)hydroxy-, sodium (12 Dec 1998) |
| merulidan | <zoology> A bird of the Thrush family. Origin: L. Merula, merulus, blackbird. See Merle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mery | <plant biology> The number of parts per whorl that characterises a particular flower (generally constant for the perianth whorls and less often for the whorl of stamens also). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Mery's gland | One of two small compound racemose glands, that produce a mucoid secretion, lying side by side along the membranous urethra just above the bulb of the corpus spongiosum; they discharge through a small duct into the spongy portion of the urethra. Synonym: glandula bulbourethralis, Cowper's gland, Mery's gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Merzbacher | Ludwig, German physician in Argentina, 1875-1942. See: Merzbacher-Pelizaeus disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Merzbacher-Pelizaeus disease | A sudanophilic leukodystrophy with a tigroid appearance of the myelin resulting from patchy demyelination. Type 1-classic, nystagmus and tremor appearing in the first few months of life, followed by slow motor development sometimes with choreoathetosis, spasticity, optic atrophy and seizures, with death in early adulthood, X-linked recessive inheritance; type 2-contralateral form with death in months to years after birth, X-linked recessive inheritance; type 3-transitional, with death in the first decade; type 4-adult form associated with involuntary movements, ataxia and hyperreflexia, but without nystagmus; type 5-variant forms. Cockayne is sometimes included as a sixth form. Synonym: Merzbacher-Pelizaeus disease. (05 Mar 2000) |