Category: M

  • Management

    The process of organizing, coordinating, directing, evaluating, and utilizing human and financial resources to achieve the objectives of an organization, leadership. The organization and control of human activity directed toward specific ends. The organising or running of an organisation such as a hospital, clinic or health authority. The organisation of a series of different treatments…

  • Mammoplasty

    The surgical procedure for reshaping the breasts. Plastic surgery to alter the shape or size of the breasts. Plastic surgery of the breasts, in order to alter their shape or increase or decrease their size. In the case of sagging breasts skin and glandular tissue are removed and the remaining breast tissue is fixed in…

  • Mammography

    A diagnostic technique using radiation to detect breast cancer in its early developmental stages. Examination of the breast using a special X-ray technique. Procedure in which the soft tissues of the breast are x-rayed to detect benign or malignant tumors. Periodic mammography is generally recommended for women thought at high risk for breast cancer and…

  • Mammillary body

    Either of two small structures located in the hypothalamus and consisting of nuclei. A rounded body of gray matter found in the diencephalon. It forms a rounded eminence projecting into the anterior portion of the interpeduncular fossa, and its nucleus constitutes an important relay station for olfactory impulses.  

  • Marrary glands

    Milk-producing glands located in the female breasts, mammary.  

  • Mammary

    Pertaining to the breast, mammary glands. pertaining to breast tissue or ducts.  

  • Mammals

    Animals that are warm-blooded who bear live young. An animal of the class Mammalia, marked by having hair and by having mammary glands that produce milk to nourish the newborn  

  • Mammalian diving reflex

    A complex series of bodily responses that reduce oxygen requirements of the major body organs occurring when a person’s face and head are submerged in cold water.  

  • Mamillary

    Like a nipple. Originally, this term referred strictly to a nipple of the breast, but it is now commonly employed to describe anything related to the female breast.  

  • Malunion

    Improper healing or lack of healing of a fracture. A bad join of the pieces of a broken bone. A union of the fragments of a fractured bone in a crooked or faulty position. Tibial malunion can cause alignment problems in the ankles and knees. The condition may be treated by surgically refracturing and properly…