Word Net

Md

1 a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) [syn: mendelevium, Mv, atomic number 101]

2 a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, Dr., medico]

3 a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Maryland, Old Line State, Free State]

4 a doctor's degree in medicine [syn: Doctor of Medicine]

Moby Thesaurus

Doctor of Medicine, GP, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, coroner, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, intern, leech, medical, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, physician, physician in ordinary, resident, resident physician, sawbones

Acronyms

MD Make Directory (DOS, OS/2)

MD Management DOMAIN

MD Mini Disk (Sony)

Translingual

MD

1. (Roman numerals) 1500

English

MD

1. Maryland, a state of the United States of America.
2. Moldova, a member state of the United Nations.

MD

1. Symbol indicating a medical degree; medical physician or doctor.
2. Managing director.
3. Mini Disc.

MD, Md or md may stand for:

Music

• MiniDisc
• Musical director
• Main droite (French) or mano destra (Italian), indicating "right hand" in piano music
• My December

Geography

• Maryland, United States postal abbreviations for American state
• Moldova, ISO country code
• Magdeburg, city in Germany
• Miami-Dade County, in Florida in the United States

Companies

• Managing director, term used for the chief executive of many companies
• McDonnell Douglas, formerly a major American aerospace manufacturer
• Air Madagascar, IATA airline code
• MediaDefender, a company that tries to thwart P2P file sharing

Science

• Mendelevium (Md), symbol for the synthetic chemical element
• millidarcy (mD), a common unit of fluid permeability
• 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, genetic and hereditary muscle disease
• Myotonic dystrophy, a type of Muscular dystrophy
• Medical Doctor
• Medial Dorsal thalamic nucleus

Computing

• Mega Drive, a 16-bit console by Sega
• Microdrive, the term for a small hard drive designed to interoperate with CompactFlash
• MiniDisc, a magneto-optical data storage device initially intended for storage of up to 80 minutes of digitised audio
• MonoDevelop
• Message digest, a cryptographic hash function
• md, The Linux (kernel) multiple disk Software RAID driver
• md or mkdir, a DOS command that makes a directory
• md(4) memory disc driver in the FreeBSD operating system

Miscellaneous

• Doctor of Medicine, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor (MD)

• Muscular Development, a bodybuilding magazine
• Muhammad (name) or Mohammad (name) or Muhammed (name) or Mohammed (name), "Md." is often used as a shortened version of the name
• Mountain Dew, a soda
• Main Deck in Magic: The Gathering cards
• Muhan Dojeon, a South Korean comic-variety TV Programme
• Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Moldova

See also