| damsel | 1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. 2. A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. "With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum." (Dryden) "Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot." (Tennyson) 3. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe. Origin: OE. Damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. Damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. Demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. Damoisel young nobleman, F. Damoiseau; fr. LL. Domicella, dominicella, fem, domicellus, dominicellus, masc, dim. Fr. L. Domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| damson | A small oval plum of a blue colour, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; called also damask plum. Origin: OE. Damasin the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See Damascene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Damus-Kaye-Stancel procedure | A procedure for subaortic stenosis, entails the creation of an end-to-side pulmonary trunk/aortic anastomosis, performed along with a Fontan procedure, particularly for patients with a double inlet left ventricle. Synonym: Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis | A procedure for subaortic stenosis, entails the creation of an end-to-side pulmonary trunk/aortic anastomosis, performed along with a Fontan procedure, particularly for patients with a double inlet left ventricle. Synonym: Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dan | A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. "Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell." (Spenser) "What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land." (Thomson) Origin: OE. Dan, danz, OF. Danz (prop. Only nom), dan, master, fr. L. Dominus. See Dame. <chemical> A small truck or sledge used in coal mines. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dana's operation | Section of posterior spinal root. Synonym: Dana's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dana, Charles | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1852-1935. See: Dana's operation, Putnam-Dana syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| danaite | <chemical> A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite. Origin: Named after J. Freeman Dana. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| danalite | <chemical> A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish colour. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur. Origin: Named after James Dwight Dana. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| danazol | <drug> A synthetic androgen frequently prescribed for endometriosis. (09 Oct 1997) |
| danburite | <chemical> A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dance | 1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically. "Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance." (Wiher) "Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther?" (Shak) 2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. "Then, 'tis time to dance off." (Thackeray) "More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw." (Shak) "Shadows in the glassy waters dance." (Byron) "Where rivulets dance their wayward round." (Wordsworth) To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged. Origin: F. Danser, fr. OHG. Dansn to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. Apinsan, and prob. From the same root (meaning to stretch) as E. Thin. See Thin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dance therapy | The use of dancing for therapeutic purposes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Dance's sign | <clinical sign> A slight retraction in the neighborhood of the right iliac fossa in some cases of intussusception. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dance, Jean | <person> French physician, 1797-1832. See: Dance's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |