Science
- Doctor of Medicine, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor (MD)
- Macular degeneration, a condition characterized by progressive thinning and atrophy of the macula area of the retina
- Mahalanobis distance, a distance measure introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1936
- Mean difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
- Mendelevium (Md), a symbol for a synthetic chemical element
- Ménière's disease, an inner ear disorder
- Methyldichloroarsine, a blister agent
- Millidarcy (mD), one thousandth of a darcy, a unit of fluid permeability that is sometimes more convenient than the darcy
- Missing data, in statistics, a situation where no data value is stored for the variable in the current observation
- Molecular dynamics, a form of computer simulation where atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a period of time under known laws of physics
- Muscular dystrophy, a genetic and hereditary muscle disease
- Myotonic dystrophy, a type of muscular dystrophy
- Medial dorsal nucleus, a large nucleus in the thalamus
- Mesoscale discussion, a statement produced by the United States Storm Prediction Center when conditions appear favorable for development of severe storms
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“After science comes sentiment.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)