Megalomania Megalomania is a psychopathology condition characterised by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. It includes an obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. It is sometimes symptomatic of manic or paranoid disorders.
	Megaloptera Megaloptera, from the Greek words mega, meaning large, and ptera, meaning wing, is a Scientific classification of insects closely related to the order Neuroptera. containing the Sialidae, Dobsonfly and Fishfly. It is sometimes considered a separate order.
	Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period of what is now southern England.
	Megaphone A megaphone is a portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device whose application is to send a persons natural voice toward a targeted direction for a specified purpose. This is accomplished by channeling the sound through a funnel. The natural human voice tends to spread evenly in all directions, whereas when it is sent through a megaphone, the sound is concentrated in a given direction.
	Megatherium Megatheriinae were a group of elephant-sized ground sloths that lived from 2 million to 8,000 years ago. Their smaller ground sloth cousins were the Mylodon. Characteristics The biggest known living sloth is the 'North Atlantic Giant Sloth' that hails from south abingdon.
	Meiosis In biology, meiosis is the process that allows one diploid cell to divide in a special way to generate haploid cells in eukaryotes. The word "meiosis" comes from the Greek meioun, meaning "to make smaller," since it results in a reduction in chromosome number.
	Meister Eckhart Johannes Eckhart, also known as Eckhart von Hochheim and widely referred to as Meister Eckhart, was a Germany theology, philosopher and German mysticism, born near Erfurt, in Thuringia. Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title he obtained in Paris.
	Meitnerium Meitnerium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is a synthetic element whose most stable isotope is Mt-276 with a half-life of 720 millisecond.
	Mekong The Mekong is one of the world's major rivers. It is the 12th-longest in the world, and the 10th-largest by volume. Its estimated length is 4180 km. It drains an area of 795,000 km: From Tibet it runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
	Mel Gibson Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson is an Academy Award winning United States actor, film director, and film producer. Between 1968 and 1985 he resided in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in 1993's The Man Without a Face and 1995's Academy Award-winning Braveheart.
	Melamine Melamine is a strong organic base with chemical formula carbonhydrogennitrogen, with the IUPAC name 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine. Its Simplified_Molecular_Input_Line_Entry_Specification string is NC1=NC(N)=NC(N)=N1. It is primarily used to produce melamine resin, which when combined with formaldehyde produces a very durable thermoset plastic.
	Melampodium Melampodium, commonly called blackfoot, is a genus of about 40 flowering plants in the sunflower family. They are rugged plants native to the tropical regions that include SW United States, California, Florida, the Caribbean, Central America and South America. They consist of annual plant and perennial plant or bushy plants, growing to a height of 1 m.
	Melancholia Melancholia is a mood of non-specific depression . It is characterised by low levels of enthusiasm and low levels of eagerness for activity. It was previously described as a distinct disease as early as the 5th century BC and 4th century BC in the Hippocratic writings.
	Melanerpes Melanerpes is a genus of woodpeckers Picidae.
	Melanesia Melanesia is a region extending from the western side of East Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. The term was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands distinct from Polynesia and Micronesia.
	Melanie Klein Melanie Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalysis. Born in Vienna, she built on the work of Sigmund Freud, particularly in the area of child psychology. Klein is one of the cofounders of object relations theory. Invited by Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein came to London in 1926, where she worked until her death in 1960.
	Melanin Broadly, melanin is any of the polyacetylene, polyaniline, and polypyrrole "blacks" and "browns" or their mixed copolymers. The most common form of biological melanin is a polymer of either or both of two monomer molecules: indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid.
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	Melanoma Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes and, less frequently, of retinal pigment epithelial cells. While it represents one of the rarer forms of skin cancer, melanoma underlies the majority of skin cancer-related deaths. Despite many years of intensive laboratory and clinical research, the sole effective cure is surgical resection of the primary tumor before it achieves a thickness of greater than 1 mm.
	Melanthiaceae Melanthiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied. Many authors have considered these plants to belong to the family Liliaceae. The APG II system, of 2003, does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots.
	Melasma Melasma is a tan or dark facial skin discoloration. Although it can affect anyone, melasma is particularly common in women, especially pregnant women and those who are taking oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy medications. It is also prevalent in men and women of Native American descent and in men and women of German/Russian Jewish descent.
	Melastoma Melastoma is a genus in the family Melastomatacease. It has about 50 species distributed around South-east Asia, India and Australia. It undergoing taxonomic revision. Many species have been planted around the world for the aesthetic value of their bright purple flowers. This has led to the unavoidable consequence of these plants turning into weeds.
	Melastomataceae The family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicots flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees. The leaves of melastomes are somewhat distinctive, being opposite, decussate, and usually with 3-7 longitudinal veins arising either from the base of the blade, plinerved, or pinnately nerved with three or more pairs of primary veins diverging from the mid-vein at successive points above the base.
	Melatonin Melatonin, 5-methoxy-N-acetyltryptamine, is a hormone found in all living creatures from algae to humans, at levels that vary in a diurnal cycle. In higher animals melatonin is produced by pinealocytes in the pineal gland and also by the retina and gastrointestinal tract.
	Melbourne Melbourne is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city in the Australian States and territories of Australia of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.7 million.Australian Bureau of Statistics Melbourne is the southernmost city in the world to have a population of over one million people.
	Meliaceae The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales, They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarpous, apparently bisexual flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes, or clusters.
	Melilot Melilot, also known as Sweet Clover, is a genus in the family Fabaceae. Members are known as common grassland plants and as weeds of cultivated ground. Originally from Europe and Asia, it is now found worldwide. Melilotus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including case-bearers of the genus Coleophora including C.
	Melilotus officinalis Yellow Sweet Clover, also known as Yellow Melilot, is a legume sometimes grown for forage. Its characteristic sweet odor, intensified by drying, is derived from coumarin. It has been used in herbal medicine. Yellow sweet clover is a Northern Nectar Sources for Honeybees for an apiary.
	Melina Mercouri Melina Mercouri was a Greece actress and political activist. She was born Maria Amalia Mercouri, and became well-known to international audiences when she starred in the 1960 film Never on Sunday, directed by her husband Jules Dassin. In fact, she had been making movies since 1955, first appearing in the Greek language film Stella.
	Melocactus Melocactus is genus of cactus with about 40 species. They are native to the Caribbean, northern South America, with some species along the Andes down to southern Peru, and a concentration of species in northeastern Brazil. The genus Cactus Nathaniel Lord Britton & Joseph Nelson Rose has been brought into synonymy with this genus.
	Melodrama A melodrama in a more neutral and technical sense of the term is a play, film, or other work in which plot and action are emphasized in comparison to the more character-driven emphasis within a drama. Melodramas can be distinguished from tragedy by the fact that they are open to having a happy ending.
	Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord . However, this succession must contain change of some kind and be perceived as a single entity to be called a melody. Most specifically this includes patterns of changing pitch es and durations, while most generally it includes any interacting patterns of changing events or quality.
	Melolontha Melolontha is a genus of beetles in the family of the Scarab beetles. The European cockchafers belong to this genus.
	Melon Melon is a term used for various members of the Cucurbitaceae family with fleshy fruits, or may specify the typically sweet-fruiting members, muskmelon and watermelon. Melon can refer to either the plant or the fruit, which is a false berry. Many different cultivar have been produced, particularly of muskmelons.
	Melosa Melosa is a fictional character created for the cult television program, '. The Amazons character is played by actress Alison Bruce.
	Melphalan Melphalan hydrochloride is a chemotherapy medication belonging to the class of nitrogen mustard alkylating agents. It is used primarily to treat multiple myeloma and ovarian cancer, and occasionally malignant melanoma. Otherwise known as L-Phenylalanine Mustard, or L-PAM, melphalan is a phenylalanine derivative of mechlorethamine.
	Melpomene Melpomene was a Muse in Greek mythology. She was the muse of tragedy, despite her sad singing. She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other.
	Melvil Dewey Melvil Dewey was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey was born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey in Adams Center, New York in the United States. He attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
	Melvin Calvin Melvin Calvin was a chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father was Lithuanian and his mother Georgian. Calvin earned his Bachelor of Science from the Michigan Technological University in 1931 and his Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935.
	Mem Mem is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician language, Aramaic language, Hebrew language and Arabic alphabet . Its value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek alphabet Mu, Etruscan alphabet , Latin alphabet M, and Cyrillic alphabet ?.
	Memento Memento is a neo-noir/psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on his brother Jonathan Nolan's short story "Memento mori." It stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. The film was released in 2000 in film to widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for Academy Awards for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and Academy Award for Film Editing, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
	Memento mori Memento mori is a list of Latin phrases that may be freely translated as "Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death". It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose, which is to remind people of their own mortality.
	Memorial A memorial is an object served as a memory of something, usually a person or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as statues or fountains. The most common type of memorial is the gravestone. Also common are war memorials commemorating those that have died in wars.
	Memorial Day Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May . It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union Army soldiers who died during the American Civil War.
	Memory In psychology, memory is the ability of an organism to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Although traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century put memory within the paradigms of cognitive psychology.
	Menachem Begin Menachem Wolfovich Begin was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begins legacy remains highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership.
	Menadione Menadione is a polycyclic aromatic ketone, based on 1,4-Naphthoquinone, with a 2-methyl substituent. It is sometimes called vitamin K3, although derivatives of naphthoquinone without the sidechain in the 3-position cannot exert all the functions of the K vitamins.
	Ménage à trois A mnage trois is the French language term describing a relationship, domestic arrangement, or sexual act in which three people, often a marriage and another lover, live together or are romantic love or sex involved. The French language phrase literally translates as "household of three".
	Menagerie Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity and therefore a predecessor of the modern zoological garden. The term was foremost used in seventeenth century France originally for the management of the household or domestic stock, but later primarily for an aristocratic or royal animal collection.
	Menai Strait The Menai Strait is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 14 miles long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales. The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron Menai Suspension Bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Bridge.
	Menander Menander, Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso.
	Mendenhall Glacier Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau, Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier was originally named Auke Glacier by John Muir, but was renamed in honor of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1892.
	Mendicant The term mendicant refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religion followers or asceticism who rely exclusively on charity to survive. In principle, mendicant orders or followers do not own property, either individually or collectively, and have taken a vow of poverty, in order that all their time and energy could be expended on preaching their religion or way of life and serving the poor.
	Menhaden Menhaden are fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae.
	Menhir A menhir is a large, single upright standing stone, of prehistoric European origin. The word menhir was adopted, via French language, by 19th century archaeologists on the basis of words in the Breton language meaning "long stone". In modern Breton the word peulvan is used.
	Ménières M?ni?res is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the Broye (district), in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
	Meningitis Meningitis is the inflammation of the membranes covering the brain, usually due to bacterium or virus infections elsewhere in body that has spread into the blood and into the cerebrospinal fluid . Other causes of meningitis such as fungal, protozoal, or certain non-infectious Etiology are much rarer.
	Meniscus A meniscus is a curve in the surface of a liquid and is produced in response to the surface of the container or another object. It can be either convex set. A convex meniscus occurs when the molecules of the liquid repel the molecules of the container or object. This may be seen between Mercury and glass in barometers.
	Menispermaceae Menispermaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family and places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots.
	Mennonite The Mennonites are a group of Christianity Anabaptist denominations named after and influenced by the teachings and tradition of Menno Simons . As one of the historic peace churches, Mennonites are committed to non-violence, non-resistance, and pacifism.
	Menorah The menorah , is a seven branched candelabrum to be lit by Olive oil in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem. The menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people. It is said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by Moses on Biblical Mount Sinai .
	Menshevik The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. At the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP, Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters.
	Menstrual cycle The menstrual cycle is a recurring cycle of physiology changes in the females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility. This article concentrates on the menstrual cycle as it occurs in human beings.
	Mentha Mentha is a genus of about 25-30 species of flowering plants in the Family Lamiaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution distribution, seven from Australia, one in North America, and the others from Europe and Asia; several hybrids also occur.
	Menthol Menthol is a covalent organic compound #Synthesis or obtained from peppermint or other Mentha oils. It is a waxy, crystalline substance, clear or white in color, which is solid at room temperature and melts slightly above. The main form of menthol occurring in nature is-menthol, which is assigned the Cahn Ingold Prelog priority rules.
	Menyanthaceae The Menyanthaceae are a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the Order Asterales. There are approximately 70 species in five genus distributed worldwide. Characters that define the family include a sympetalous corolla, storage of carbohydrate as inulin, and the production of seco-loganin.
	Menyanthes Menyanthes is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Menyanthaceae. M. trifoliata is characterized by a horizontal rhizome with Phyllotaxis, trifoliate leaves. The inflorescence is an erect raceme of white flowers. Menyanthes trifoliata occurs in bogs and marshes in Europe and North America.
	Mephenytoin Mephenytoin is a hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant. It was introduced approximately 10 years after phenytoin, in the late 1940s. The significant metabolite of mephenytoin is nirvanol, which was the first hydantoin. However, nirvanol is quite toxic and mephenytoin was only considered after other less toxic anticonvulsants had failed.
	Mephistopheles Mephistopheles is a name given to one of the chief demons of Christian mythology that figure in European literary traditions. While the name is frequently used as an alternative form of Satan or Devil, it evolved during the Renaissance; the name Mephistopheles makes no appearance in the Bible.
	Meprobamate Meprobamate is a carbamate derivative which is used as an anxiolytic drug. It was the best-selling minor tranquilizer for a time, but has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepines.