Category: M
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Mental retardation
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. Low intelligence that renders a person to some extent ineffective in dealing with his or her affairs. The absence of normal mental development, usually measured by the intelligence quotient and considered to be present in individuals scoring…
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Monomania
Pathological preoccupation with one subject. A compulsive preoccupation with one idea or activity. A state of mental disorder in which a person concentrates attention on one idea. The state in which a particular delusion or set of delusions is present in an otherwise normally functioning person. A form of mental illness, in which the affected…
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Megalomania
Pathological preoccupation with delusions of power or wealth. A delusion of grandeur in which a person believes that he or she is an unusually great person or is carrying out spectacular plans and events. A psychiatric disorder in which a person believes they are very powerful and important. Abnormal state of mind in which the…
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Major affective disorders
In DSM-III a group of disorders in which there is a prominent and persistent disturbance of mood {depression or mania) and a full syndrome of associated symptoms. The category includes bipolar disorder and major depression. The disorders are usually episodic but could be chronic. In DSM-IIl-R the term major affective disorders has been changed to…
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Mixed
Characterized by concomitant manic and depressive symptoms. Consisting of two or more intermingling substances.
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Mylar
A polyester resin used in food packaging.
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Mycelium
A microscopic thread like filament, a part of the mold. Mass of hyphae making up the main growing body of a fungus; typically embedded in soil, wood, etc. A mass of hyphae or fungus filaments; the assimilative portion of a fungus that is obtaining nutrients. A collective term applied to a mass of hyphae. A…
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Mustard
An annual vegetable related to the turnip. The seeds are used whole, ground or powdered and used as a condiment. Although the mustard you put on a hamburger is made from the mustard plant, it was the condiment, not the plant, that was originally named mustard. The condiment acquired its name because it was made…
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Must
Crushed fruit or juice ready for fermentation. The unfermented juice derived from grapes, consumed in the moments preceding and during the fermentation procedure that is essential in generating wine.
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Mulligatawny
Thick soup of Indian origin with curry. This spicy soup, native to India but adopted by the English and then especially by the Australians, takes its name from milagutannir, a Tamil phrase meaning pepper-water. Mulligatawny appeared in English in the late eighteenth century, which is why some etymologists have proposed that mulligan stew, which appeared…