- Muryangsu Hall (hall, Pusŏk Temple, Yŏngju, South Korea)
Korean architecture: Koryŏ period (918–1392): …of chusimp’o architecture is the Muryangsu Hall (Hall of Eternal Life) of Pusŏk Temple. Dating from the 13th century, this is believed to be one of the oldest wooden structures in Korea.
- Mürz (valley, Austria)
Alps: …industries in the Mur and Mürz valleys of southern Austria that used iron ore from deposits near Eisenerz. Hydroelectric power development at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, often involving many different watersheds, led to the establishment in the lower valleys of electricity-dependent industries,
- Murzuk (oasis, Libya)
Murzuk, oasis, southwestern Libya. It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuk Sand Sea (Idhān Murzuk). An ancient assembly place for caravans to Lake Chad and the Niger River, it was the traditional capital of the Fezzan province (16th–19th century) and a centre of the Arab slave and arms trade.
- Mürzzuschlag (Austria)
Mürzzuschlag, town, east-central Austria, at the junction of the Fröschnitz and Mürz rivers, northeast of Bruck an der Mur. First mentioned in 1227, it was chartered in 1318 and has been an ironworking centre since the 14th century. It has medieval houses and a former Cistercian abbey with a church
- Muş (Turkey)
Muş, city, eastern Turkey. It lies at the mouth of a gorge on the slopes of Kurtik Mountain, at the south side of a wide plain in the Murat River valley. The surrounding hills are covered with vineyards and oak scrub. The castle (now in ruins) and the town were reputedly founded by the Armenian
- Mus (rodent genus)
mouse, (genus Mus), the common name generally but imprecisely applied to rodents found throughout the world with bodies less than about 12 cm (5 inches) long. In a scientific context, mouse refers to any of the 38 species in the genus Mus, which is the Latin word for mouse. The house mouse (Mus
- Mus booduga (rodent)
mouse: Natural history: …deserts of India, the little Indian field mouse (M. booduga) bears from 1 to 13 young per litter and breeds throughout the year. In Southeast Asia, the fawn-coloured mouse (M. cervicolor) has been reported to produce litters of two to six young in July and December. In East Africa, the…
- Mus caroli (rodent)
mouse: Natural history: …mice is exemplified by the Ryukyu mouse (M. caroli). This mouse loosens soil with its incisor teeth, carrying a load of debris in its mouth and piling it outside the burrow entrance or sometimes stacking loose soil inside the burrow and then pushing the pile out with its hind feet.…
- Mus cervicolor (rodent)
mouse: Natural history: In Southeast Asia, the fawn-coloured mouse (M. cervicolor) has been reported to produce litters of two to six young in July and December. In East Africa, the pygmy mouse breeds during the wet seasons from April to June and September to December and bear litters of two to eight…
- Mus crusiduroides (rodent)
mouse: General features: …the other extreme are the shrew-mice from Sumatra (M. crociduroides) and Java (M. vulcani), whose soft, short, and dense coat appears woolly or velvety. All the other species have a soft or slightly coarse, moderately thick coat with short or long hairs. A colour combination common to many mice is…
- Mus minutoides (rodent)
mouse: General features: The smallest is probably the pygmy mouse (M. minutoides) of sub-Saharan Africa, weighing 3 to 12 grams (0.11 to 0.42 ounce), with a body 6 to 8 cm (2.3 to 3.1 inches) long and a short tail of 3 to 6 cm (1.2 to 2.3 inches).
- Mus musculus (rodent)
house mouse, (Mus musculus), rodent native to Eurasia but introduced worldwide through association with humans. Highly adaptive, the house mouse has both behavioral and physiological traits—such as the ability to survive in buildings and aboard ships, a tendency to move into agricultural fields and
- Mus platythrix (rodent)
mouse: General features: …of the largest is the flat-haired mouse (M. platythrix) of peninsular India, weighing about 18 grams (0.6 ounce), with a body 10 to 12 cm (4 to 4.7 inches) long and a shorter tail (7 to 8 cm [2.8 to 3.1 inches]). The smallest is probably the pygmy mouse (M.…
- Mus shortridgei (rodent)
mouse: Geographic distribution and habitat: Shortridge’s mouse (M. shortridgei), for example, has been found living in tall grasses and pygmy bamboo growing among teak forests in Thailand.
- Mus sorella (rodent)
mouse: Geographic distribution and habitat: …contains the most efficient burrowers: Thomas’s pygmy mouse (M. sorella) and its relatives have protruding upper incisors, longer claws than most species of Mus, and shorter tails relative to body length. They are rarely seen and are caught only by being dug out of their burrows.
- Mus terricolor (rodent)
mouse: Geographic distribution and habitat: The earth-coloured mouse (M. terricolor) is native to peninsular India, Nepal, and Pakistan, but it has been introduced into northern Sumatra. The fawn-coloured mouse has a natural distribution throughout mainland Southeast Asia and southern China but also inhabits rice fields on Sumatra and Java, where it…
- Mus triton (rodent)
mouse: Natural history: The gray-bellied pygmy mouse (M. triton) of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, apparently does not burrow but uses pathways made by larger rodents.
- Mus vulcani (rodent)
mouse: General features: crociduroides) and Java (M. vulcani), whose soft, short, and dense coat appears woolly or velvety. All the other species have a soft or slightly coarse, moderately thick coat with short or long hairs. A colour combination common to many mice is gray to brown upperparts, white underparts,…
- Mus, Paul (French scholar)
Paul Mus was a French scholar of Southeast Asian civilizations, especially Vietnamese society and culture. Taken to Vietnam as a small child, Mus grew up in Hanoi, where he attended high school with upper-class Vietnamese students, forming a keen perception of Vietnamese life that is reflected in
- Musa (emperor of Mali)
Mūsā I of Mali was the mansa (emperor) of the West African empire of Mali from 1307 (or 1312). Mansa Mūsā left a realm notable for its extent and riches—he built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu—but he is best remembered in the Middle East and Europe for the splendour of his pilgrimage to Mecca (1324).
- Musa (Greek mythology)
Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, the chief center of whose cult was Mount Helicon in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival
- Musa (plant genus)
Zingiberales: Inflorescences: Musa flowers are individually not conspicuous, but the large main bracts are quite conspicuous; the bracts curl back in turn to expose the flowers they have protected while in bud. Musa species (including cultivated bananas) with pendulous inflorescences and dull purplish bracts have flowers with…
- Musa (queen of Parthia)
Musa, mother and wife of Phraates V (q.v.), king of
- Musa (cosultan of Egypt)
Aybak: …still dangerous, the emirs elected Musa, one of the Syrian branch of the family, as cosultan, and his name appeared on documents and coins. Aybak, however, was the effective ruler. His administration revealed a certain rough vigour, but he lacked the higher qualifications for leadership in the circumstances of Mamlūk…
- Musa acuminata (plant)
banana: Nomenclature: …are either interspecific hybrids of Musa acuminata and M. balbisiana or hybrids of the subspecies of M. acuminata, a genome-based system has led to an overhaul of the nomenclature of domesticated bananas. Unlike most plants, these varieties are identified by their ploidy (number of sets of chromosomes) and parent plant…
- Mūsā al-Hādī (ʿAbbāsid caliph)
al-Hādī was the fourth caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (reigned 785–786). Al-Hādī’s persecution of the ʿAlids, representatives of the Shīʿīte sect of Islām, precipitated revolts in Medina, Egypt, and Iraq, all of which were put down brutally. Throughout his short reign, he struggled with the
- Mūsā al-Kāẓim (Islamic imam)
imam: Imamate in Shiʿi Islam: …that the imamate passed to Mūsā al-Kāẓim, another son of Jaʿfar. The strength of this faction was seen in the decision of the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn to name as his heir the faction’s eighth imam, ʿAlī al-Riḍā. This decision was highly controversial from the start, however, and ʿAlī died before…
- Musa balbisiana (plant)
banana: Nomenclature: …hybrids of Musa acuminata and M. balbisiana or hybrids of the subspecies of M. acuminata, a genome-based system has led to an overhaul of the nomenclature of domesticated bananas. Unlike most plants, these varieties are identified by their ploidy (number of sets of chromosomes) and parent plant rather than traditional…
- Mûsa Bey (Ottoman leader)
Mehmed I: …and then sent another brother, Mûsa, against Süleyman. Mûsa was victorious over Süleyman (1410) but then declared himself sultan in Edirne and undertook the reconquest of the Ottoman territories in Rumelia. Mehmed, assisted by the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, defeated Mûsa in 1413 at Camurlu (in Serbia) and declared…
- Musa coccinea (plant)
Musaceae: …of wild bananas, such as M. coccinea, have ornamental scarlet flowers but inedible fruit. M. textilis from the Philippines furnishes Manila hemp, also called abaca fibre. The genus Ensete of Africa produces no edible bananas, but the flower stalk of one species, E. ventricosa, is edible after cooking. Species of…
- Mūsā I of Mali (emperor of Mali)
Mūsā I of Mali was the mansa (emperor) of the West African empire of Mali from 1307 (or 1312). Mansa Mūsā left a realm notable for its extent and riches—he built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu—but he is best remembered in the Middle East and Europe for the splendour of his pilgrimage to Mecca (1324).
- Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr (Muslim leader)
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād: Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr, the Arab conqueror of Morocco, left his general Ṭāriq to govern Tangier in his place. Spain at this time was under Visigothic rule but was rent by civil war. The dispossessed sons of the recently deceased Visigothic king of Spain, Witiza, appealed…
- Musa paradisiaca (fruit and plant, Musa genus)
plantain, major group of banana varieties (genus Musa) that are staple foods in many tropical areas. The edible fruit of plantain bananas has more starch than the common dessert banana and is not eaten raw. Because plantains have the most starch before they ripen, they are usually cooked green,
- Musa sapientum (plant)
Musaceae: The common banana (M. sapientum) is a subspecies of the plantain (M. paradisiaca). Both are important food plants.
- Musa textilis (plant)
abaca, (Musa textilis), plant of the family Musaceae, and its fibre, which is second in importance among the leaf fibre group. Abaca fibre, unlike most other leaf fibres, is obtained from the plant leaf stalks (petioles). Although sometimes known as Manila hemp, Cebu hemp, or Davao hemp, the abaca
- Mūsā, Banū (Islamic historian)
mathematics: Origins: …three brothers known as the Banū Mūsā, whose treatises on geometry and mechanics formed an important part of the works studied in the Islamic world.
- Mūsā, Jabal (mountain, Egypt)
Mount Sinai, granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, Janūb Sīnāʾ (South Sinai) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. Mount Sinai is renowned as the principal site of divine revelation in Jewish history, where God is purported to have appeared to Moses and given him the Ten Commandments
- Musa, Said (prime minister of Belize)
Said Musa is a Belizean lawyer and politician who served as prime minister of Belize (1998–2008). He was the first prime minister of Belize to be elected to two consecutive terms since the country became independent in 1981. Musa was instrumental in negotiating independence and helped to draft the
- Musaceae (plant family)
Musaceae, the banana family of plants (order Zingiberales), consisting of 2 genera, Musa and Ensete, with about 50 species native to Africa, Asia, and Australia. The common banana (M. sapientum) is a subspecies of the plantain (M. paradisiaca). Both are important food plants. The slender or conical
- musaddas (Islamic literature)
Islamic arts: Other poetic forms: …a six-line stanza known as musaddas became the form used for the mars̄īyeh (dirge for the martyrs of Karbala). Because it had come to be associated with lofty feeling and serious thought, musaddas later was used for the first reformist modern poems.
- Musae Sioniae (work by Praetorius)
Michael Praetorius: …collections of his works are Musae Sioniae (nine parts, 1605–10), consisting of more than 1,200 settings of chorales, partly for 8 to 12 voices in Venetian double choir style, partly in simple two-, three-, and four-part style; and the Puericinium (1621), where the chorale strophes receive varied treatment, foreshadowing the…
- Musaeus (Greek mythology)
Eumolpus: …son, father, or pupil of Musaeus, a mythical singer closely allied with Orpheus.
- musaf (Judaism)
musaf, (Hebrew: “additional sacrifice”), in Jewish liturgy, the “additional service” recited on the sabbath and on festivals in commemoration of the additional sacrifices that were formerly offered in the Temple of Jerusalem (Numbers 28, 29). The musaf, which usually follows the recital of the
- Musafir (film by Mukherjee [1957])
Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Early career: His directorial debut, Musafir (1957; “Traveller”), was an ambitious, if unsuccessful, experiment in episodic structuring and starred Dilip Kumar, one of the era’s leading actors. The effort attracted the attention of actor-director Raj Kapoor, who was impressed by the film’s content and technique, which were far ahead of…
- musakkʾa (food)
moussaka: The Arabic musakkʾa is a meatless dish of eggplants, tomatoes, chickpeas, and onions stewed in olive oil.
- Musala Peak (mountain, Bulgaria)
Rila: …9,596 feet (2,925 metres) at Musala peak and contains the headstreams of the Iskŭr, Maritsa, and Mesta rivers. Scattered mineral deposits include lead, copper, zinc, magnetite, oil shale, and marble (near Pernik).
- musālimah (Spanish Muslims)
Spain: The conquest: …had converted to Islam, the musālimah, and their descendants, the muwallads; many of them were also mawālī (i.e., connected by patronage with an Arab) or even themselves of Amazigh lineage. This group formed the majority of the population because during the first three centuries social and economic motives induced a…
- muṣallā (Muslim sanctuary)
Islamic arts: The mosque: It was called a muṣallā, literally “a place for prayer,” and muṣallās were usually located outside city walls. Nothing is known about the shape taken by muṣallās, but in all probability they were as simple as pre-Islamic pagan sanctuaries: large enclosures surrounded by a wall and devoid of any…
- musāmarah (Islamic literature)
Islamic arts: Prose: …of Bedouin life is the musāmarah, or “nighttime conversation,” in which the central subject is elaborated not by plot but by verbal associations that direct the listener’s mind from topic to topic. Thus, the language as language played a most important role. The musāmarah form inspired the later maqāmah literature.
- Musamman Burj (tower, Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Agra Fort: …Private Audience stands the tall Octagonal Tower (Musamman Burj), the residence of Shah Jahān’s favourite empress, Mumtaz Mahal. In the Hall of Public Audience (Diwan-i-ʿAm), the emperor would listen to public petitions and meet state officials. The elegant marble walls of the Khas Mahal (the emperor’s private palace) were once…
- Musandam Peninsula (peninsula, Arabia)
Musandam Peninsula, peninsula, a northeastern extension of the Arabian Peninsula, separating the Gulf of Oman on the east from the Persian Gulf on the west to form the Strait of Hormuz to the north. The Ruʾūs al-Jibāl (“the Mountaintops”), the northernmost extremity of the Al-Ḥajar al-Gharbī
- musang (mammal)
kopi luwak: …and then excreted by the Asian palm civet—popularly called a luwak in Indonesia but found throughout South and Southeast Asia. The coffee bean produced in that manner was discovered and collected by native farmers in Indonesia during the colonial period of the 19th century, when the Dutch forbade local workers…
- musaph (Judaism)
musaf, (Hebrew: “additional sacrifice”), in Jewish liturgy, the “additional service” recited on the sabbath and on festivals in commemoration of the additional sacrifices that were formerly offered in the Temple of Jerusalem (Numbers 28, 29). The musaf, which usually follows the recital of the
- Musar (Judaism)
Musar, a religious movement among Orthodox Jews of Lithuania during the 19th century that emphasized personal piety as a necessary complement to intellectual studies of the Torah and Talmud. Though the Hebrew word musar means “ethics,” the movement was not directed primarily toward exposition of
- Musar Ab (work by ibn Tibbon)
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon: …wrote a well-known ethical will, Musar Ab (about 1190; “A Father’s Admonition”), to his son Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, who subsequently also became a noteworthy translator.
- Musarurwa, Willie (Zimbabwean journalist)
Willie Musarurwa was a Zimbabwean journalist who campaigned against oppression by both Rhodesia’s white minority government and, after independence, Zimbabwe’s black majority government. Musarurwa was certified as a teacher and attended Princeton University (1961–62) before getting a degree in
- Musarurwa, Wirayi Dzawanda (Zimbabwean journalist)
Willie Musarurwa was a Zimbabwean journalist who campaigned against oppression by both Rhodesia’s white minority government and, after independence, Zimbabwe’s black majority government. Musarurwa was certified as a teacher and attended Princeton University (1961–62) before getting a degree in
- Musashi (Japanese battleship)
warship: The last capital ships: …laid down the Yamato and Musashi. These two 72,800-ton ships, armed with 18.1-inch guns, were the largest battleships in history.
- Musashi (crane)
crane: The Musashi, a large crane of this type built in Japan in 1974, can lift a 3,000-ton load.
- Musashino (Japan)
Musashino, city, Tokyo to (metropolis), eastern Honshu, Japan. It lies on the eastern border of Tokyo city, just north of Mitaka. Kichijōji, the centre of the city, was founded in 1659 in the Kichijō-ji shinden (newly developed rice fields of Kichijō Shrine). Musashino grew as a farming village and
- Muṣaṣir (ancient city, Turkey)
Muṣaṣir, ancient city probably located near the upper Great Zab River between Lake Urmia and Lake Van in what is now Turkey. Muṣaṣir was particularly important during the first half of the 1st millennium bc and is known primarily from reliefs and inscriptions of the Assyrian king Sargon II, who
- Musäus, Johann Karl August (German writer)
Johann Karl August Musäus was a German satirist and writer of fairy tales, remembered for his graceful and delicately ironical versions of popular folktales. Musäus studied theology at Jena but turned instead to literature. His first book, Grandison der Zweite, 3 vol. (1760–62), revised as Der
- Musavi, Ruhollah (Iranian religious leader)
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shiʿi cleric who led the revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 (see Iranian Revolution) and who was Iran’s ultimate political and religious authority for the next 10 years. Khomeini was the grandson and son of mullahs (Shiʿi religious
- Musawi, Ruhollah (Iranian religious leader)
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shiʿi cleric who led the revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 (see Iranian Revolution) and who was Iran’s ultimate political and religious authority for the next 10 years. Khomeini was the grandson and son of mullahs (Shiʿi religious
- Mūsawī, ʿAbbās al- (Lebanese religious leader)
ʿAbbās al-Mūsawī was a Lebanese Shīʿite Muslim cleric and secretary-general (1991–92) of the militant Hezbollah (“Party of God”) movement. Mūsawī studied at a Shīʿite madrasah (religious college) in Al-Najaf, Iraq, where he was strongly influenced by the teachings of Iranian cleric Ayatollah
- Muṣawwar, Al- (Egyptian journal)
Amīnah al-Saʿīd: …the staff of the journal Al-Muṣawwar and began writing columns, work that she continued until shortly before her death. In 1973 she became that publication’s editor, and three years later she became chair of the publishing group that produced it, a position she held until 1985. Saʿīd also served in…
- Musaylimah (Arab religious leader)
riddah: …Bakr’s strongest opponent, the prophet Musaylimah and his followers in Al-Yamāmah. It culminated in a notoriously bloody battle at ʿAqrabāʾ in eastern Najd (May 633), afterward known as the Garden of Death. The encounter cost the Muslims the lives of many anṣār (“helpers”; Medinan Companions of the Prophet) who were…
- Musayʿīd (Qatar)
Umm Saʿīd, town and port situated in Qatar, on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula, in the Persian Gulf. It was established in 1949 as a tanker terminal by the Qatar Petroleum Company on an inhospitable, previously uninhabited site, along the sabkhah (salt flat) terrain characteristic of the
- Musca (constellation)
Musca, constellation in the southern sky at about 13 hours right ascension and 70° south in declination. Its brightest star is Alpha Muscae, with a magnitude of 2.7. This constellation was invented by Pieter Dircksz Keyser, a navigator who joined the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies in
- Musca domestica (insect)
housefly, (Musca domestica), a common insect of the family Muscidae (order Diptera). About 90 percent of all flies occurring in human habitations are houseflies. Once a major nuisance and hazard to public health in cities, houseflies are still a problem wherever decomposing organic waste and
- muscadine grape
grape: Major species: The thick-skinned muscadine grape (V. rotundifolia) of the southeastern United States is used in artisanal wines and jellies.
- muscardine (disease of silkworms)
Agostino Bassi: …de segno (commonly known as muscardine), which was causing serious economic losses in Italy and France. After 25 years of research and experimentation, he was able to demonstrate that the disease was contagious and was caused by a microscopic, parasitic fungus. He concluded that the organism, later named Botrytis paradoxa…
- Muscari (plant)
grape hyacinth, (genus Muscari), genus of about 50 species of small bulbous perennials (family Asparagaceae, formerly Hyacinthaceae) native to the Mediterranean region. Grape hyacinths often are planted as spring-flowering garden ornamentals. Some cultivated species readily naturalize and can
- muscarine (drug)
drug: Autonomic nervous system drugs: …two foreign substances, nicotine and muscarine, could each mimic some, but not all, of the parasympathetic effects of acetylcholine. Nicotine stimulates skeletal muscle and sympathetic ganglia cells. Muscarine, however, stimulates receptor sites located only at the junction between postganglionic parasympathetic neurons and the target organ. Muscarine slows the heart, increases…
- muscarinic receptor (biology)
antiparkinson drug: Muscarinic receptor antagonists: …the binding of acetylcholine to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain (the receptors are named for their sensitivity to the chemical muscarine and their selectivity for acetylcholine). Thus, agents that block the receptors, such as benztropine mesylate and trihexyphenidyl, are administered to reduce symptoms, though their actions are modest. These…
- muscarinic receptor antagonist (drug)
antiparkinson drug: Muscarinic receptor antagonists: Abnormal activity of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is responsible for producing certain symptoms of parkinsonism. This activity is mediated by the binding of acetylcholine to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain (the receptors are named for their sensitivity to the chemical muscarine and…
- Muscat (national capital, Oman)
Muscat, town, capital of Oman, located on the Gulf of Oman coast. The town long gave its name to the country, which was called Muscat and Oman until 1970. Situated on a cove surrounded by volcanic mountains, the town is connected by road to the west and the south. In 1508 the Portuguese gained
- Muscat and Oman
Oman, country occupying the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula at the confluence of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Much of the country’s interior falls within the sandy, treeless, and largely waterless region of the Arabian Peninsula known as the Rubʿ al-Khali. The region is still the
- Muscat Securities Market (stock exchange, Oman)
Oman: Finance: A stock exchange, the Muscat Securities Market, was opened in 1988.
- Muscat, Joseph (prime minister of Malta)
Malta: Modern history: …that two of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s cabinet ministers, including his chief of staff, owned offshore companies in Panama. Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who had been investigating the Panama Papers, claimed that Muscat’s wife also owned an offshore company the following year. Amid the fallout and calls for his…
- muscatel (wine)
wine: Fortified wines: Muscatels, produced in many countries, are often of this type.
- Muscatine (Iowa, United States)
Muscatine, city, seat (1837) of Muscatine county, eastern Iowa, U.S., on the Mississippi River, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Davenport. The first settlers arrived in 1834, and a trading post was established the following year. It was originally called Bloomington but was renamed (1850), probably
- Muschelkalk (geology)
geochronology: Completion of the Phanerozoic time scale: …units, the Bunter Sandstone, the Muschelkalk Limestone, and the Keuper Marls and Clays, as constituting the Trias or Triassic System.
- Muschelkalk Sea (ancient ocean, Middle Triassic Epoch)
Mesozoic Era: Mesozoic geology: …Triassic time, a marine incursion—the Muschelkalk Sea—covered the continental interior of Europe. Seas again transgressed upon the continents between the Early and Late Jurassic and in the Early Cretaceous, leaving extensive beds of sandstone, ironstone, clays, and limestone (see Solnhofen Limestone). A last major transgression of marine waters flooded large…
- Muscheln pattern (pottery ornament)
pottery: Stoneware: …and grinding into facets (the Muscheln pattern) was also practiced. The same methods were used to give a plain surface a high polish. Metal mounts, common Rhenish stoneware, also were sometimes accompanied by insetting precious and semiprecious stones.
- Musci (plant class)
bryophyte: Annotated classification: Class Bryopsida (or Musci; mosses) Protonema an extensive many-branched filament that precedes gametophore production; rhizoids multicellular, branched; gametophore leafy, with leaves spirally arranged, usually in more than 3 rows; gametophore usually not strongly flattened; sex organs usually with paraphyses among them; leaves unlobed and often with…
- Musci and Hepaticae East of the Mississippi River, The (work by Sullivant)
William Starling Sullivant: …and liverworts were published in The Musci and Hepaticae East of the Mississippi River (1856). These plants suited Sullivant’s inclination for fine detail and scrupulous accuracy, and he produced elaborate illustrations for his works. Though his own collecting expeditions were limited to the United States, he received many plant specimens…
- Muscicapidae (bird family)
Muscicapidae, family of songbirds in the order Passeriformes. Considered in the narrow sense, the family is thought to include the Old World flycatchers (subfamily Muscicapinae) and the wattle-eyes (subfamily Platysteirinae). Considered broadly, the family is thought also to include Old World
- Muscicapinae (bird)
tyrant flycatcher: Like the Old World flycatchers of the family Muscicapidae, the fly-catching tyrannids dart from a perch to seize insects on the wing. The bills of such forms of flycatcher are broad, flattened, and slightly hooked, with bristles at the base that appear to serve as aids in…
- muscle (anatomy)
muscle, contractile tissue found in animals, the function of which is to produce motion. Movement, the intricate cooperation of muscle and nerve fibres, is the means by which an organism interacts with its environment. The innervation of muscle cells, or fibres, permits an animal to carry out the
- Muscle Beach (beach area, Santa Monica, California, United States)
physical culture: Bodybuilding: …center of physical culture was Muscle Beach, also in Santa Monica. Starting with a single platform on the beach in 1938, a collection of acrobats, gymnasts, weightlifters, and recreational athletes gathered to have fun and enjoy the sun and fresh air. Wholesomeness and spontaneity prevailed as bodybuilders, including most Mr.…
- Muscle Brook (New South Wales, Australia)
Muswellbrook, town, eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in the upper Hunter River valley, about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Newcastle. The town was founded in 1827 and called Muscle Brook (for mussels found in a local stream); the name was subsequently further corrupted to
- muscle bundle (biology)
meat processing: Meat grain: …by the physical size of muscle bundles. Finer-grained meats are more tender and have smaller bundles, while coarser-grained meats are tougher and have larger bundles. Meat grain varies between muscles in the same animal and between the same muscle in different animals. As a muscle is used more frequently by…
- muscle car (automobile)
automobile: American compact cars: …General Motors created the “muscle car,” an intermediate-size car with a large engine from the top of the line, as typified by the Pontiac GTO.
- muscle cell (biology)
muscle: The muscle fibre: Muscle is composed of many long cylindrical-shaped fibres from 0.02 to 0.08 mm in diameter. In some muscles the fibres run the entire length of the muscle (parallel fibres), up to several tens of centimetres long. In others a tendon extends along each…
- muscle contraction (physiology)
muscle: Whole muscle: Striated muscle contracts to move limbs and maintain posture. Both ends of most striated muscles articulate the skeleton and thus are often called skeletal muscles. They are attached to the bones by tendons, which have some elasticity provided by the proteins collagen and elastin, the major…
- muscle disease (pathology)
muscle disease, any of the diseases and disorders that affect the human muscle system. Diseases and disorders that result from direct abnormalities of the muscles are called primary muscle diseases; those that can be traced as symptoms or manifestations of disorders of the nervous system or other
- muscle fibre (biology)
muscle: The muscle fibre: Muscle is composed of many long cylindrical-shaped fibres from 0.02 to 0.08 mm in diameter. In some muscles the fibres run the entire length of the muscle (parallel fibres), up to several tens of centimetres long. In others a tendon extends along each…
- muscle hypertrophy (biology)
resistance training: Muscular: …muscle fibres, also known as muscle hypertrophy. Hypertrophy of muscle occurs in type I (slow-twitch) and type II (fast-twitch) muscle fibres; however, type II muscle fibres have a greater response. Manipulation of volume and intensity of resistance training will cause more or less hypertrophy to those respective muscle fibre types.…
- Muscle of Love (album by Alice Cooper)
Alice Cooper: ” However, Muscle of Love, issued later in 1973, was less successful, both commercially and musically, and it proved to be the last album recorded by the band Alice Cooper.