| dialyzation | <chemistry> The act or process of dialysis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dialyze | <chemistry> To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. Alternative forms: dialyse. Origin: Dialyzed; Dialyzing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dialyzer | The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diamagnet | A body having diamagnetic polarity. Origin: Pref. Dia- + magnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diamagnetic | Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Diamagnetic attraction. See Attraction. Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc, which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diamagnetic effects | <radiobiology> Application of a magnetic field to a plasma will tend to create circulating current within the plasma that will reduce the strength of the magnetic field. (09 Oct 1997) |
| diamagnetically | In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diamagnetism | 1. The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies. 2. That form or condition of magnetic action which characterises diamagnetics. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diameter | The length of a straight line passing through the centre of a circle and connecting opposite points on its circumference, hence the distance between two specified opposite points on the periphery of a structure such as the cranium or pelvis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| diameter at breast height | The width of a plant stem (for example, tree trunk) as measured at 4.5 feet above the ground surface. (09 Oct 1997) |
| diameter mediana | Distance from the promontory of the sacrum to the upper posterior edge of the pubic symphysis. Synonym: anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic inlet, conjugata vera, conjugate axis, conjugate diameter of pelvic inlet, diameter mediana, internal conjugate, true conjugate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diameter obliqua | A measurement across the pelvic inlet from the sacroiliac joint of one side to the opposite iliopectineal eminence. Synonym: diameter obliqua. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diameter transversa | The transverse diameter of the pelvic inlet, measured between the terminal lines. Synonym: diameter transversa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diametral | Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical. <geometry> Diametral curve, Diametral surface, planes in which two of the axes lie. Origin: Gr. F. Diametral. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diametrical | 1. Of or pertaining to a diameter. 2. As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |