| deltoid tuberosity | A rough elevation about the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus, giving attachment to the deltoid muscle. Synonym: tuberositas deltoidea, deltoid crest, deltoid eminence, deltoid impression. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| deltoideopectoral triangle | A triangular depression bounded by the clavicle and the adjacent borders of the deltoid and pectoralis major muscles. Synonym: fossa infraclavicularis, deltoideopectoral triangle, deltoideopectoral trigone, infraclavicular triangle, Mohrenheim's fossa, Mohrenheim's space, regio infraclavicularis, trigonum deltoideopectorale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deltoideopectoral trigone | A triangular depression bounded by the clavicle and the adjacent borders of the deltoid and pectoralis major muscles. Synonym: fossa infraclavicularis, deltoideopectoral triangle, deltoideopectoral trigone, infraclavicular triangle, Mohrenheim's fossa, Mohrenheim's space, regio infraclavicularis, trigonum deltoideopectorale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deltopectoral flap | An axial pattern skin flap of the deltoid and pectoral regions, based on the internal mammary vessels. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deluge | 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah . 2. Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." "A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed." (Milton) "As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge." (F. Harrison) "After me the deluge. (Apres moi le deluge)" (Madame de Pompadour) Origin: F. Deluge, L. Diluvium, fr. Diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. To lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium. 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. "The deluged earth would useless grow." (Blackmore) 2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. "At length corruption, like a general fl . . . Shall deluge all." (Pope) Origin: Deluged; Deluging. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| delundung | <zoology> An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| delusion | A false belief, seen most often in psychosis (for example schizophrenia). (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of control | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of grandeur | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of negation | A delusion in which one imagines that the world and all that relates to it have ceased to exist. Synonym: nihilistic delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of passivity | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of persecution | A false notion that one is being persecuted, characteristic symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of reference | A delusional idea that external events, etc., refer to the self. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusional | Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| delusional disorder | A severe mental disorder characterised by the presence of delusions. The delusions may be related to paranoid, grandiose, somatic, or erotic themes. (05 Mar 2000) |