Category: M

  • Message interference

    Stimuli that interfere with the message being communicated interrupting the attention of the message’s destination.    

  • Message from the senate or house

    Official communication from the opposite house read into the official record.  

  • Message

    Encoded information that the source-encoder intends to share with others.  

  • Mesophilic

    Descriptive of organisms that grow at medium range temperatures, esp. microorganisms. Describing organisms, especially bacteria, that grow best at temperatures of about 20-45°C. Compare psychrophilic, thermophilic.  

  • Mesonephric

    The duct system within the male embryo that gives rise to several internal reproductive structures.  

  • Meson

    An unstable nuclear particle that has a mass between that of an electron and a proton.  

  • Mesolimbic dopamine system

    A group of dopamine-containing neurons that have their cell bodies in the midbrain and their terminals in the forebrain; the plays an important role in the effect of antipsychotic medications.  

  • Mesoderm

    The middle tissue developed in the gastrula stage of the embryo lying between the ectoderm and the endoderm. The middle layer of an embryo, which develops into muscles, bones, blood, kidneys, cartilages, urinary ducts and the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems. In the embryo, middle germ cell layer from which muscle, bone, cartilage, blood, vascular and…

  • Mesmerize

    The first term referring to hypnosis, after Anton Mesmer.  

  • Meserole

    Marijuana from Central or South America.