| despeciated antitoxin | An antitoxic serum treated in an appropriate manner to alter the species-specific protein, so that a person sensitised to the animal protein is not likely to have a serious reaction when the antitoxin is administered. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| despeciation | 1. Alteration of, or loss of species characteristics. 2. Removal of species-specific antigenic properties from a foreign protein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desperate | 1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. "I am desperate of obtaining her." (Shak) 2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune. 3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. "Desperate expedients." 4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. "A desperate offendress against nature." (Shak) "The most desperate of reprobates." (Macaulay) Synonym: Hopeless, despairing, desponding, rash, headlong, precipitate, irretrievable, irrecoverable, forlorn, mad, furious, frantic. Origin: L. Desperatus, p. P. Of desperare. See Despair, and cf. Desperado. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| despoil | 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; usually followed by of. "The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair." (Gower) "A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled." (Macaulay) "Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss." (Milton) Synonym: To strip, deprive, rob, bereave, rifle. Origin: OF. Despoiller, F. Depouiller, L. Despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. Spoil, Despoliation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| despond | To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. "I should despair, or at least despond." (Scott's Letters) "Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty." "We wish that . . . Desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong." (D. Webster) Synonym: Despond, Dispair. Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action. Origin: L. Despondre, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spondre to promise solemnly. See Sponsor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| despotat | The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Origin: Cf. F. Despotat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| despumation | 1. The rising of impurities to the surface of a liquid. 2. The skimming off of impurities on the surface of a liquid. Origin: L. De-spumo, pp. -atus, to skim, fr. Spumo, to foam, fr. Spuma, foam (05 Mar 2000) |
| desquamate | <medicine> To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases. Origin: L. Desquamatus, p. P. Of desquamare to scale off; de- + squama scale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| desquamation | <dermatology> The shedding of epithelial elements, chiefly of the skin, in scales or small sheets, exfoliation. Origin: L. De = from, squama = scale (18 Nov 1997) |
| desquamative | Relating to or marked by desquamation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desquamative inflammatory vaginitis | An acute inflammation of the vagina of unknown cause, characterised by grayish pseudomembrane, free discharge, and easy bleeding on trauma; the discharge contains pus and immature epithelial cells, although oestrogen levels are normal. Vaginitis emphysematosa, vaginitis characterised by accumulation of gas in small connective tissue spaces lined by foreign-body giant cells. Synonym: pachyvaginitis cystica, vaginitis cystica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desquamative interstitial pneumonia | Diffuse proliferation of alveolar epithelial cells, which desquamate into the air sacs and become filled with macrophages, accompanied by interstitial cellular infiltration and fibrosis; gradual onset of dyspnea and nonproductive cough occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desquamative pneumonia | Relatively rare form of pneumonia with homogeneous filling of alveolar air spaces with macrophages and a few type II epithelial lining cells, some alveolar septal infiltration with inflammatory and connective tissue cells. Usually idiopathic but some cases have been reported in association with drugs or underlying systemic connective tissue disease. Rarely progresses to end-stage lung disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desquamatory | <surgery> An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dessert | A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc, forming the last course at dinner. ""An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant."" (Pope) Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. Dessert-spoonful, Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams. Origin: F, fr. Desservir to remove from table, to clear the table; pref. Des- (L. Dis-) + servir to serve, to serve at table. See Serve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| descriptive statistics |
Methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way.
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| desiccation |
1. In general, the process of drying up. 2. In climatology, a prolonged decrease or disappearance of water from a region. This may be due to 1) a decrease of rainfall; 2) a failure to maintain irrigation; or 3) deforestation or overcropping. Compare exsiccation.
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| desensitization |
the process of making a person less allergic to a substance by injecting gradually increasing amounts of the substance; sometimes done to prevent anaphylactic shock
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| desmosome |
A patch-like adhesive intercellular junction found in vertebrate tissues that is linked to intermediate filaments.
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when the disc lines the upper tubular part of the hypanthium, or slopes downwards towards the valves
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| DES | as deserved |
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| DES | having sufficient worth |
| DES | the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) |
| DES | make infertile |
| DES | make infertile |
| DES | direct one's libidinous urges into another direction |
| DES | make infertile |
| DES | direct one's libidinous urges into another direction |
| DES | the state of being carelessly or partially dressed |
| DES | a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) |
| DES | lose water or moisture |
| DES | remove water from |