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- English Word Diapophysical Definition Pertaining to a diapophysis.
- English Word Diapophysis Definition The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
- English Word Diarchy Definition A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.
- English Word Diarial Definition Alt. of Diarian
- English Word Diarian Definition Pertaining to a diary; daily.
- English Word Diaries Definition of Diary
- English Word Diarist Definition One who keeps a diary.
- English Word Diarrhea Definition Alt. of Diarrhoea
- English Word Diarrheal Definition Alt. of Diarrhoeal
- English Word Diarrhetic Definition Alt. of Diarrhoetic
- English Word Diarrhoea Definition A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
- English Word Diarrhoeal Definition Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
- English Word Diarrhoetic Definition Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
- English Word Diarthrodial Definition Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
- English Word Diarthrosis Definition A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.
- English Word Diary Definition A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
- English Word Diary Definition lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.
- English Word Diaspore Definition A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
- English Word Diastase Definition A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
- English Word Diastasic Definition Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
- English Word Diastasis Definition A forcible of bones without fracture.
- English Word Diastatic Definition Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.
- English Word Diastem Definition Intervening space; interval.
- English Word Diastem Definition An interval.
- English Word Diastema Definition A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
- English Word Diaster Definition A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
- English Word Diastole Definition The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
- English Word Diastole Definition A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
- English Word Diastolic Definition Of or pertaining to diastole.
- English Word Diastyle Definition See under Intercolumniation.