| DIA | a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes |
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| DIA | constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality |
| DIA | microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica |
| DIA | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material |
| DIA | of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms |
| DIA | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material |
| DIA | marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms |
| DIA | (music) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals |
| DIA | based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of Western music |
| DIA | a scale with eight notes in an octave |
| DIA | thunderous verbal attack |
| 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) |