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Myelon
- - The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.)
Mygale
- - A genus of very large hairy spiders of the family Ctenizidae, having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (Mygale cancerides) are among the largest species. They are also called trapdoor spiders. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (Mygale Hentzii).
Mykiss
- - A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. Salmo purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.
Mynahs
- noun - tropical Asian starlings
Myolin
- - The essential material of muscle fibers.
Myopes
- noun - a person with myopia; a nearsighted person
Myopia
- noun - (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
Myopic
- adjective - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
- Short sighted either in reality or figuratively.
- unable to see distant objects clearly
Myopus
- noun - a genus of Cricetidae
Myoses
- noun - an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
- reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller