DPage 230
- 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.
- English Word Diatessaron Definition The interval of a fourth.
- English Word Diatessaron Definition A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
- English Word Diatessaron Definition An electuary compounded of four medicines.
- English Word Diathermal Definition Freely permeable by radiant heat.
- English Word Diathermancy Definition Alt. of Diathermaneity
- English Word Diathermaneity Definition The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.
- English Word Diathermanism Definition The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.
- English Word Diathermanous Definition Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.
- English Word Diathermic Definition Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.
- English Word Diathermometer Definition An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.