MD, Md, mD or md may refer to:

Medicine

* M.D. (from Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') or

Doctor of Medicine A Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated MD, from the Latin language, Latin ) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the ''MD'' denotes a professional degree of ph ...

, a medical degree ** MD (Ayurveda), a medical degree in India **

MD (Homeopathy) PhD is the highest degree in homoeopathy. Awarded after a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 8 years in 6 streams as of now in India. Most Homoeopaths who are academics are pursuing PhD. Regulated by the Ministry of AYUSH. Central Council of Homoe ...

, a medical degree in India *

Ménière's disease Ménière's disease (MD) is a disease of the inner ear that is characterized by potentially severe and incapacitating episodes of vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and a feeling of fullness in the ear. Typically, only one ear is affected in ...

, a disorder of the inner ear *

Muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time. The disorders differ as to which muscles are primarily affe ...

, a group of diseases involving breakdown of skeletal muscles

Places

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

(ISO country code MD) *

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...

(US postal abbreviation MD) *

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...

(vehicle plate prefix MD), a city in Germany *

Mödling District Bezirk Mödling is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. Municipalities Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Achau * Biedermannsdorf * Breitenfurt bei Wien * Brunn am Gebir ...

(vehicle plate prefix MD), in Lower Austria, Austria

People

Muhammad (name) Muhammad () is an Arabic given male name meaning 'praiseworthy'. The name comes from the passive participle of the Arabic verb (حَمَّدَ), meaning 'to praise', which itself comes from the Semitic root#Triconsonantal roots, triconsonantal ...

or Mohammed (Md)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ' or ' (MD or m.d.; "right hand"), in piano scores *

Music director A music director, musical director or director of music is a person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert ...

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''MDs'' (TV series), 2002 * ', ("Materials and discussions for the analysis of classical texts"), an Italian journal * '' Murder Drones'', an Australian animated web series, 2021-2024 *

MDTV (Indonesian TV network) PT MDTV Media Televisi (MDTV, formerly known as NET. and Spacetoon Indonesia) is an Indonesian national private television broadcaster owned by MDTV Media Technologies and Industri Mitra Media under the auspices of MD Entertainment. This televis ...

, an Indonesian drama series television channel

Brands and enterprises

Air Madagascar Madagascar Airlines is an airline based in Antananarivo, Madagascar.RE ...

, IATA airline code *

McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas Corporation was a major American Aerospace manufacturer, aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own ...

aircraft model prefix *

MD Helicopters MD Helicopters, LLC. (formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems) is an American aerospace manufacturer. It produces light utility helicopters for commercial and military use. The company was a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft until 1984, when Mc ...

Science and technology

Computing

* .md, Internet top-level domain for Moldova *

Markdown Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used ...

(file extension .md), a format *

Microdrive The Microdrive was a miniature, 1-inch hard disk drive released in 1998 by IBM. The idea was originally created in 1992 by duTimothy J. RileyanThomas R. Albrechtat the Almaden Research Center in San Jose. A team of engineers and designers at ...

, a type of miniature hard drive *

MiniDisc MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale i ...

, a media format used to record and play audio and store data *

mkdir (make directory) command (computing), command in the Unix, DOS, Digital Research, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory (file systems), directory. It is also available in the Unified ...

or md, "make directory" command * Multiple device, as in Linux

mdadm mdadm is a Linux utility used to manage and monitor software RAID devices. It is used in modern Linux distributions in place of older software RAID utilities such as raidtools2 or raidtools. mdadm is free software originally maintained by, and ...

device driver *

Sega Genesis The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master Sys ...

or Mega Drive, a video game console

Other uses in science and technology

Mean absolute difference The mean absolute difference (univariate) is a Statistical dispersion#Measures of statistical dispersion, measure of statistical dispersion equal to the average absolute difference of two independent values drawn from a probability distribution. ...

Mendelevium Mendelevium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Md ( formerly Mv) and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that currently cannot be produced ...

, symbol Md, a chemical element * Mesoscale discussion in Storm Prediction Centers and Weather Prediction Centers *

Methyldichloroarsine Methyldichloroarsine, sometimes abbreviated "MD" and also known as methyl Dick, is an organoarsenic compound with the formula CH3AsCl2. This colourless volatile liquid is a highly toxic vesicant that has been used in chemical warfare. History G ...

, a chemical warfare agent *

Millidarcy Darcy, Darci or Darcey may refer to different people such as: Science * Darcy's law, which describes the flow of a fluid through porous material * Darcy (unit), a unit of permeability of fluids in porous material * Darcy friction factor in the ...

(mD), a unit of fluid permeability *

Molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the Motion (physics), physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamics ( ...

* Membrane distillation * Earthquake duration magnitude ()

Other uses

* MD,

1500 Year 1500 ( MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The year 1500 was the last year of the 15th century and the first year of the 16th century. ...

in Roman numerals *

Majority decision A majority decision (MD) is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact fighting combat sport, sport based on strike (at ...

, in full-contact combat sports *

Managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

, of a company * Marque déposée or trademark in Canada in

Unicode subscripts and superscripts Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals. These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in plain text without using a ...

* Match Director in

International Practical Shooting Confederation The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's largest shooting sport association, and the largest and oldest within practical shooting. Founded in 1976, the IPSC nowadays affiliates over 100 regions from Africa, America ...

match *

Military districts of Russia The military districts in Russia serve as administrative divisions for the Russian Armed Forces. Each has a headquarters administering the military formations within the Russian federal subjects that it includes. As of March 2024, there are five ...

, sometimes abbreviated as MD *

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...

, an administrative sub division (third-tier) in India *

MDMA 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly (crystal form), is an empathogen–entactogenic drug with stimulant and minor Psychedelic drug, psychedelic properties. In studies, it has been used ...

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