MDC

MDC may refer to:

Arts

• MDC (band) (Millions of Dead Cops), an American rock band
• Music Directory Canada, Canadian music publisher

Chemistry and biology

• Macrophage-derived chemokine (CCL22), a human cytokine
• Metalloproteinase-like disintegrin-like cysteine-rich proteins, another name for the ADAM protein family
• Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase, an enzyme
• Methylenedioxycathinone, a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class

Computing and electronics

• Management Data Clock, a pin used in the MDIO bus
• Mapped Diagnostic Context, used in distributed computer systems to distinguish logging information from different sources sent to a single place of storage
• MDC-600 and MDC-1200, an AFSK mobile data format used in Motorola two-way radios
• Message digest code, cryptographic hash value
• Metadata controller, which manages file locking, space allocation and data access authorization in a storage area network (SAN)
• Mobile data computer
• Mobile daughter card
• Modification Detection Code
• Mozilla Developer Center, a website
• Multiple description coding, coding technique
• Multi Dimensional Clustering, a data layout scheme incorporated in the IBM DB2 database version 8

Geography

• Manado Airport, Indonesian airport
• Miami-Dade County, Florida
• More developed country

Organizations

• Major Diagnostic Category, diagnostic groupings in the ICD system
• Mater Dei College, Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
• McDonnell Douglas, American aerospace manufacturing corporation
• Medicaid Dental Center, chain of dental clinics in North Carolina
• Metropolitan Detention Centers, US federal prisons
• Metropolitan District Commission, Massachusetts
• Missouri Department of Conservation
• Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida
• Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005), a former Zimbabwean political party (split into MDC-T and MDC-N)
• Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T), a Zimbabwean political party
• Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC-N), a former Zimbabwean political party (merged into UMDC)
• United Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwean political party founded in 2014
• Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), a Malaysian government institution
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
• Myanmar Democracy Congress, a Burmese political party

Sports

• Mon-Dak Conference, junior college conference in Montana and North Dakota
• Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, professional cheerleading squad of the Miami Dolphins
• Million Dollar Corporation, a former World Wrestling Entertainment faction

Other meanings

• 1600 (number), a Roman numeral
• Manuel de Codage, abbr. MdC, a system for transliterating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Miniature detonation cord, a method of rapidly fragmenting an aircraft's canopy prior to ejection
• Major Diagnostic Category, the groupings of the roughly 751 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs)