MED or med may refer to:

Healthcare

* Medical extrication device, a device for extricating an injured patient from an accident site, such as the

Kendrick extrication device A Kendrick extrication device (KED) is a device used in vehicle extrication, extrication of victims of traffic collisions from motor vehicles. Commonly carried on ambulances, a KED is typically used by an emergency medical technician, paramedic, ...

Medication Medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal product, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to medical diagnosis, diagnose, cure, treat, or preventive medicine, prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmaco ...

, often used in the plural "meds" *

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

(or medical) * Minimal erythemal dose, the minimum dose of radiation that produces skin

erythema Erythema (, ) is redness of the skin or mucous membranes, caused by hyperemia (increased blood flow) in superficial capillaries. It occurs with any skin injury, infection, or inflammation. Examples of erythema not associated with pathology inc ...

Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED), also known as Fairbank's disease, is a rare genetic disorder (dominant form: 1 in 10,000 births) that affects the growing ends of bones. Long bones normally elongate by expansion of cartilage in the growth pl ...

, a rare genetic disorder * Title of Medic, the first Physician degree in Argentina * Minimum effective dose

Places

* MED, the IATA code for

Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Airport Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport () or Medina Airport is a regional airport in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Opened in 1950, it handles domestic flights, while it has scheduled international services to regional destinations such as ...

in Medina, Saudi Arabia *

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

People

* M.E.D. (rapper), American Hip hop artist signed to Stones Throw Records *

Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletche ...

(born 1958), American academic, author, and radio host

Technology

* .med filename extension, used for: ** tracker modules created by

OctaMED OctaMED is a music tracker for the Amiga, written by Teijo Kinnunen. The first version, 1.12, was released in 1989 under the name MED, which stands for Music EDitor. In April 1990, version 2.00 was released with MIDI support as the main improvem ...

MEDLINE MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medic ...

documents ** backup files created by

WordPerfect WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, disp ...

's macro editor *

Manhattan Engineer District The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the ...

, US project to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II (colloquially known as the Manhattan Project) * Media Endpoint Discovery, an enhancement of the Ethernet data communications

Link Layer Discovery Protocol The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, and neighbors on a local area network based on IEEE 802 technology, principally wired Ether ...

* Multi-Exit Discriminator, a network traffic routing protocol in the

Border Gateway Protocol Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, and it ...

Multiple-effect distillation Multiple-effect distillation or multi-effect distillation (MED) is a distillation process often used for sea water desalination. It consists of multiple stages or "effects". In each stage the feed water is heated by steam in tubes, usually by spr ...

* Music EDitor, by Tejio Kinnunen, predecessor of

UTA MED The Ulster Transport Authority Multi-Engined Diesel (UTA MED) was an early diesel powered railcar, used in Northern Ireland."Report and Accounts, Volume 14". Ulster Transport Authority, Belfast. 1962. 6. The 12-mile Belfast-Bangor railway line ...

, a type of diesel multiple unit railcar of Northern Ireland Railways * M_Ed – design

bending moment In solid mechanics, a bending moment is the Reaction (physics), reaction induced in a structural element when an external force or Moment of force, moment is applied to the element, causing the element to bending, bend. The most common or simplest ...

according to

Eurocodes The Eurocodes are the ten European standards (EN; harmonised technical rules) specifying how Structural engineering, structural design should be conducted within the European Union (EU). These were developed by the European Committee for Standar ...

* Magneto-electric disk (''OceanStor Arctic'' from

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei" sometimes stylized as "HUAWEI"; ; zh, c=华为, p= ) is a Chinese multinational corporationtechnology company in Longgang, Shenzhen, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its main product lines include teleco ...

)

Other

* ''Macmillan English Dictionary'', by

Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be on ...

Marine Equipment Directive 96/98/EC The Marine Equipment Directive, also known as Directive 2014/90/EU, often called MED (or M.E.D.) in everyday language, is an approval of equipment and products for the Marine industry. Initiative of the European Commission It was first i ...

(M.E.D. 96/98/EC), an authorization by the European Union of equipment and products for the marine industry *

Master of Education The Master of Education (MEd or M.Ed. or Ed.M.; Latin ''Magister Educationis'' or ''Educationis Magister'') is a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum an ...

(M.Ed.), a postgraduate academic degree *

Ministry of Economic Development (New Zealand) The Ministry of Economic Development () was a New Zealand public sector organisation tasked with promoting development of New Zealand's economy. Known as the Ministry of Commerce until 2000, it was renamed in 2000 under the Fifth Labour Gove ...

Minister of Entrepreneur Development (Malaysia) The latest Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development (Malay language, Malay: ''Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi''; Jawi script, Jawi: is currently Ewon Benedick since 3 December 2022. The minister administers the portfolio ...

* ''

Mediocalcar ''Mediocalcar'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to New Guinea, eastern Indonesia, and the islands of the western Pacific. The orchid abbreviation is ''Med''.honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of pl ...

Metra Electric District The Metra Electric District is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station (formerly Randolph Street Station), in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs. As of 2018, it is the fif ...

, commuter rail line serving the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
''Med'', a hybrid Cell Press journal

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