Category: M

  • Mannans

    Polysaccharides consisting of mannose units. Any of several polysaccharides of mannose.  

  • Manifest

    Being the part or aspect of a phenomenon that is directly observable : concretely expressed in behaviour.  

  • Manic

    Affected with mania. Characterized by excitement, euphoria, expansive or irritable mood, hyperactivity, pressured speech, flight of ideas, decreased need for sleep, distractibility and impaired judgment. Delusions consistent with elation and grandiosity may be present. Mood state characterized by excessive energy, poor impulse control, psychosis, agitation, flight of ideas, frenzied movement, and decreased sleep.  

  • Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF)

    A mononuclear phagocyte colony-stimulating factor synthesized by mesenchymal cells. The compound stimulates the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of hematopoietic cells of the monocyte-macrophage series. M-CSF is a disulfide-bonded glycoprotein dimer with a MW of 70 kDa. It binds to a specific high affinity receptor (receptor, macrophage colony-stimulating factor). A colony stimulating factor (CSF) that stimulates…

  • Myxogenic

    Referring to hairs that swell on contact with water, producing a slime- or jelly-like excretion.  

  • Myrmecophyte

    Any plant associated with ants often with specialised structures to feed or house them.  

  • Myrmecophilous

    (Of plants) with an affinity for ants, sometimes with specialised structures thought to harbour or feed ants.  

  • Myrmecodomatia

    (Of domatia) believed to be visited or inhabited by ants.  

  • Myrmecochory

    Myrmecochory

    Dispersal of seeds or other diaspores by ants.  

  • Myrmecochorous

    Dispersed by ants.