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As D - Symbol for diffusing capacity, dalton, deciduous, density, deuterium, died, diopter, distal, dorsal vertebrae (D1 through D12), dose, duration, dwarf (colony), and decimal reduction time.
As d - Symbol for day, deci-, and deoxyribose (In specifying nucleosides and nucleotides, e.g., A is adenosine, dA is deoxyadenosine).
As d - Symbol for density and diameter.
Broken down with age; worn-out.
As D - Symbol for diffusing capacity, dalton, deciduous, density, deuterium, died, diopter, distal, dorsal vertebrae (D1 through D12), dose, duration, dwarf (colony), and decimal reduction time.
As d - Symbol for day, deci-, and deoxyribose (In specifying nucleosides and nucleotides, e.g., A is adenosine, dA is deoxyadenosine).
As d - Symbol for density and diameter.
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A placenta or type of placentation in which the decidua or maternal parts of the placenta separate from the uterus and are cast off together with the fetal (or more precisely, trophoblastic) parts.
The chemical name for fructose.
Fanconi's syndrome (definition 2).
Falling off or shedding at maturity; the term is used to designate the teeth of the first dentition in animals and humans.
Symbol for heavy water.
Having had the amino group, --NH2, removed from a compound.
See membranae deciduae.
As dA - Symbol for deoxyadenosine.
As Da - Symbol for dalton.
Removal of the amino group, —NH2, from a compound.
One tenth of a liter; 100 milliliters.
1. Pleasing to the taste.
2. Delicately pretty.
3. Having or showing delicate taste; also, fastidious.
The cessation of life; permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions. For legal and medical purposes, the following definition of death has been proposed—the irreversible cessation of all of the following: (1) total cerebral function, (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system, and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system.
A system of counting or measurement, the units of which are powers of 10: the numerical system in common worldwide use.
An arbitrary unit of mass, being 1/12 the mass of the nuclide of carbon-12, equivalent to 1.657 x 10-24 g. Symbol D or Da. Called also atomic mass unit .
1. The loss of calcium salts from a bone or tooth.
2. The process of removing calcareous matter.
An announcement or affirmation.
See definition for "dalton."
Having been deprived of calcium salts.
1. The period or stage of the abatement of a disease or paroxysm.
2. A gradual deterioration or wasting away of the physical and mental faculties.
Histoplasmosis.
The state of having the carboxyl group removed from a molecule.
Something which bleaches or removes color.
The material or collection of facts on which a discussion, a calculation, or an inference is based.
1. The gradual decomposition of dead organic matter.
2. The process or stage of decline, as in aging.
The act of freeing from color; bleaching.
Any cell formed by the division of a mother cell.
1. Deception.
2. Trick.
Having been freed from color; bleached.
Symbol for deoxycytidine.
1. To cause to believe an untruth.
2. To use or practice deceit.
See decompensation.
Abbreviation for 1-desamino-8-D- arginine vasopressin.
1. The act of deceiving.
2. The fact or condition of being deceived.
3. Trick.
1. Failure of compensation; cardiac decompensation is marked by dyspnea, venous engorgement, and edema.
2. In psychiatry, failure of defense mechanisms resulting in progressive personality disintegration.
Also DDAVP. Trademark for preparation of desmopressin.
The endometrium of the pregnant uterus, all of which, except the deepest layer, is shed at parturition. Called also membranae deciduae, caduca, decidual or deciduous membrane, and tunica decidua.
See "decomposition."
Cisplatin (cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum).
See membranae deciduae.
The separation of compound bodies into their constituent principles by whatever process.
(From Latin) Over again; anew.
Characterized by shedding.
Broken down with age; worn-out.