| demagnetize | 1. To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize. "If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized." (A. Cyc) 2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. Demagnetiza"tion, Demag"netizer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
|---|---|
| demand | A quantity of a substance, commodity, or service wanted or required. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demand pacemaker | A form of artificial pacemaker usually implanted into cardiac tissue because its output of electrical stimuli can be inhibited by endogenous cardiac electrical activity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demand pulse generator | A generator which suppresses its output in response to natural ventricular activity but which, in the absence of such activity, functions as an asynchronous pulse generator. Synonym: demand pulse generator, standby pulse generator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demandress | A woman who demands. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| demantoid | <chemical> A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name. Origin: G. Demant diamond. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| demarcation | A setting of limits; a boundary. Origin: Fr. Fr. L. De, from, + Mediev. L. Marco, to mark (05 Mar 2000) |
| demarcation current | The current set up when an injured part of a nerve, muscle, or other excitable tissue is connected through a conductor with the uninjured region; the injured tissue is negative to the uninjured. Synonym: demarcation current. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demarcation line of retina | Junction of avascular and vascular retina in retinopathy of prematurity; line marking the limits of an old retinal detachment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demarcation potential | The difference in potential recorded when one electrode is placed on intact nerve fibres or muscle fibres and the other electrode is placed on the injured ends of the same fibres; the intact portion is positive with reference to the injured portion. Synonym: injury potential. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Demarquay's symptom | Absence of elevation of the larynx during deglutition, said to indicate syphilitic induration of the trachea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Demarquay, Jean | <person> French surgeon, 1811-1875. See: Demarquay's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demasculinizing | Depriving of male characteristics or inhibiting development of such characteristics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dematerialise | To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. "Dematerialising matter by stripping if of everything which . . . Has distinguished matter." (Milman) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dematiaceae | A family of soil-inhabiting, brown or black melanin-producing fungi found in decaying vegetables, rotting wood, and forest carpets, and including several of the dark-coloured genera that cause chromoblastomycosis in man, such as Phialophora, Fonsecaea, and Cladosporium. (05 Mar 2000) |