Glossary

Man-Machine Interface

Matrix Metalloproteinases

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

Maintenance Management System

Murine Minute Virus

A symbol chosen to assist human memory and understanding; e.g., an abbreviation such as "MPY" for multiply.

Monoclonal Antibody

Material of Construction

A laboratory animal or other organism useful for research.

A product which simulates a group of similar products.

Construction of programs used to model the effects of a postulated environment for investigating the dimensions of a problem for the effects of algorithmic processes on responsive targets.

The use of statistical analysis, computer analysis, or model organisms to predict outcomes of research.

(ISO) A functional unit that modulates and demodulates signals. One of the functions of a modem is to enable digital data to be transmitted over analog transmission facilities. The term is a contraction of modulator-demodulator.

Using a modem to communicate between computers. MODEM access is often used between a remote location and a computer that has a master database and applications software, the host computer.

(ICH Q6A) Dosage forms whose drug-release characteristics of time course and/or location are chosen to accomplish therapeutic or convenience objectives not offered by conventional dosage forms such as a solution or an immediate release dosage form. Modified release solid oral dosage forms include both delayed and extended release drug products.

Preparations where the rate and/or place of release of the active substance(s) is different from that of a conventional-release dosage form administered by the same route. This deliberate modification is achieved by a special formulation design and/or manufacturing method. Modified-release dosage forms include prolonged-release, delayed-release, and pulsatile-release dosage forms.

(ICH Q3C (R4)) A factor determined by professional judgment of a toxicologist and applied to bioassay data to relate that data safely to humans.

A structured software design technique, breaking a system into components to facilitate design and development. Synonymous: Functional Decomposition, Hierarchical Decomposition.

(IEEE) Software composed of discrete parts.

(IEEE) The degree to which a system or computer program is composed of discrete components such that a change to one component has minimal impact on other components.

Varying the characteristics of a wave in accordance with another wave or signal, usually to make user equipment signals compatible with communication facilities.

Converting signals from a binary-digit pattern [pulse form] to a continuous wave form (analog).

In programming languages, a self- contained subdivision of a program that may be separately compiled.

A discrete set of instructions usually processed as a unit, by an assembler, a compiler, a linkage editor, or similar routine or subroutine.