| MCD | magnetic circular dichroism; mast-cell degranulation; mean cell diameter; mean of consecutive differ... |
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| MCV | mean cell volume; mean clinical value; mean corpuscular volume; median cell volume; motor conduction... |
| MHD | maintenance hemodialysis; mean hemolytic dose; mental health department; minimum hemolytic dilution;... |
| MPD | main pancreatic duct; maximum permissible dose; mean population doubling; membrane potential differe... |
| MTD | maximum tolerated dose; mean total dose; metastatic trophoblastic disease; Midwife Teacher's Diploma... |
| geometric mean | The mean calculated as the antilogarithm of the arithmetic mean of the logarithms of the individual values; it can also be calculated as the nth root of the product of n values. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| geometric mean diameter | A measure of the central tendency of particle size composition of substrate materials sometimes used as an index of the quality of spawning gravels. Also referred to as D50 size. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mean | <statistics> Average value calculated by taking the sum of all values and dividing by the total number of values. (05 Jan 1998) |
| mean annual increment | The annual average growth rate for a tree, computed over its entire life cycle. (05 Dec 1998) |
| mean arterial pressure | <cardiology, physiology> The average value for arterial pressure. Systolic pressure + diastolic pressure divided by 2. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mean calorie | One hundredth of the energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water from 0캜 to 100캜. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean corpuscular haemoglobin | The haemoglobin content of the average red cell, calculated from the haemoglobin therein and the red cell count, in erythrocyte indices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration | Hgb/Hct;the average haemoglobin concentration in a given volume of packed red cells, calculated from the haemoglobin therein and the haematocrit, in erythrocyte indices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean corpuscular volume | The average volume of red cells, calculated from the haematocrit and the red cell count, in erythrocyte indices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean electrical axis | The average magnitude and direction of all the electromotive forces developed during the cardiac event under consideration; e.g., atrial or ventricular depolarisation, or ventricular repolarization. See: axis deviation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean foundation plane | The mean of the various irregularities in form and inclination of the basal seat; the ideal condition for denture stability exists when the mean foundation plane is most nearly at right angles to the direction of force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean free path | <radiobiology> Average distance a particle travels between occurrences of the given event, for example, between collisions. For collisions, the mean free path is roughly equal to unity divided by the product of the collision cross-section times the particle density. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mean higher high water | <marine biology> The average height of the higher high water over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observation, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the result to the equivalent of a mean 19-year value. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mean high water | <marine biology> The average height of the high water over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observation, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the result to the equivalent of a mean 19-year value. All high-waters heights are included in the average where the type of tide is either semidiurnal or mixed. Only the higher high-water heights are included in the average where the type of tide is diurnal. So determined, mean high water in the latter case is the same as mean higher high water. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mean lower low water | <marine biology> The average height of the lower low waters over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observations, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the result to the equivalent of a mean 19-year value. (09 Oct 1997) |