MDP explained

MDP may refer to:

Medicine and psychology

• MDP syndrome, a rare genetic disorder
• Manic depressive psychosis, also known as bipolar disorder
• Mesolimbic dopamine pathway of the brain
• Methylene diphosphonate, a pharmaceutical product used especially in nuclear medicine (^99mTc-MDP)
• Muramyl dipeptide, a component of bacterial cell walls with inflammatory properties
• 10-Methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate, an adhesive monomer for dental adhesive materials
• A brand name for the medication medronic acid
• Monocyte Dendritic-cell Progenitors, a type of progenitor cell

Organizations

• Madison Dearborn Partners, an American private equity firm
• Malaysian Democratic Party, a Malaysian political party
• Maldivian Democratic Party, a Maldivian political party
• Maendeleo Democratic Party, a Kenyan political party
• Maryland Department of Planning, a state agency of Maryland
• Michigan Democratic Party, an American political party
• Microbicides Development Programme, a British organization that studies microbicides
• Ministry of Defence Police, a British civilian police force
• Montana Democratic Party, an American political party
• Movement for Democracy and Progress (Comoros), a politic party in the Comoros
• Movement for Democracy and Progress (Republic of the Congo), a political party in the Republic of the Congo
• Democratic Party (South Korea, 2000), formerly known as the Millennium Democratic Party
• Hungarian Working People's Party (Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja|links=no), the ruling communist party in Hungary between 1949 and 1956
• Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), an American media conglomerate
• Nationalist Democracy Party (Turkish: Milliyetçi Demokrasi Partisi|links=no), a Turkish political party
• Portuguese Democratic Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Português|links=no)
• Article 1 – Democratic and Progressive Movement (Italian: Articolo 1 – Movimento Democratico e Progressista), an Italian political party

Science and engineering

• Minimum Desirable Product, a product with enough features to be desirable for most customers (a stage that follows the Minimum Viable Product)
• Markov decision process, a probabilistic model that is widely used in artificial intelligence
• Mask data preparation, a process in electronic design automation
• Media Dispatch Protocol, a file transfer protocol
• Membrane dipeptidase, an enzyme
• Mini DisplayPort, a digital display interface

Other uses

• Manic Depressive Psychosis (band), an Armenian metal band
• Management Development Programme, a middle-management form of MBA
• Mbala language (ISO 639 code: mdp), a Bantu language
• Medibang Paint, abbreviation and filetype (.mdp) of a graphics editor.