| DIA | a personal journal (as a physical object) |
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| DIA | a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations |
| DIA | someone who keeps a diary or journal |
| DIA | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500) |
| DIA | armored scales |
| DIA | the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian exile (358 BC) |
| DIA | separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone |
| DIA | the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood |
| DIA | of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole |
| DIA | the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood |
| DIA | the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust |
| DIA | a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents |