Mx
PluralMXs
- 1A courtesy title used before a person's name in place of gendered titles such as Mr or Mrs.
Mx Okafor chaired the committee with calm authority.
We've reserved a table under the name Mx Delacroix.
Note
A title built by analogy: Mr and Ms supplied the frame, and x was picked as a wildcard letter. It was first proposed, jokingly, in print in 1977. Like its models, it goes directly before a name, as in Mx Justin Vivian Bond or Mx. LoSchiavo, with or without the period. Heinz Duthel in 2013 ties it to intersex people. By 2015, Elizabeth A. Harris uses it plainly in reporting on Barnard College.
- 2SayMAN-ij-muhnt/ˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/Abbreviation of management.
The consultant outlined the Mx for the chronic condition in her referral letter.
Early Mx of sepsis improves survival rates significantly.
Note
Clinical shorthand, unrelated to the gender-neutral title despite the identical spelling. In medicine, management means the planned handling or treatment of a condition, as distinct from its diagnosis. Mx is how referral letters and case notes abbreviate it. It is uncountable: write Mx of sepsis, never an Mx. Position tells the two apart: the title stands before a name, and the abbreviation comes before "of" and a condition.
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Origin
Coined on the model of Mr and Ms, with x chosen as a "wildcard" character. It was first proposed jokingly in print in 1977.