| D&E | <abbreviation> Dilation and evacuation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| d'Arcet | Jean, French chemist, 1725-1801. See: d'Arcet's metal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Arcet's metal | An alloy of lead, bismuth, and tin; used in dentistry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Arsonval current | An alternating electric current having a frequency of 10,000 or more per second; it produces no muscular contractions and does not affect the sensory nerves. Synonym: d'Arsonval current, Tesla current. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Arsonval, Jacques Arsene | <person> French biophysicist, 1851-1940. See: d'Arsonval current, d'Arsonval galvanometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| D'Espine's sign | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: Bronchophony over the spinous processes heard, at a lower level than in health, in pulmonary tuberculosis, an echoed whisper following a spoken word, heard in the stethoscope placed over the seventh cervical or first or second dorsal spine, in cases of tuberculosis of the mediastinal glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| D'Espine, Jean | <person> French physician, 1846-1930. See: D'Espine's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Herelle phenomenon | The lysis of bacteria by bacteriophage. Synonym: bacteriophagia, d'Herelle phenomenon, Twort phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Herelle, Felix | <person> Canadian physician and bacteriologist, 1873-1949. See: d'Herelle phenomenon, Twort-d'Herelle phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Ocagne nomogram | An alignment chart consisting of an arrangement of three or more graduated lines (straight or curved), each constituting a scale of values of a variable, constructed so that any straight line crossing these scales connects the simultaneously compatible values; from values for any two variables, the values of all other variables can be determined. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d'Ocagne, Philbert | <person> French mathematician, 1862-1938. See: d'Ocagne nomogram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d(-)-alpha-aminobenzylpenicillin | <drug> Penicillin derivative with broad spectrum activity, ampicillin resistance is often used as a marker for plasmid transfer in genetic engineering (for example pBR322 is ampicillin resistant). (13 Nov 1997) |
| D-(-)-phenylglycyl-beta-lactamide amidohydrolase | <enzyme> Highly specific for substrates containing an alpha-aminophenylacetic group in the acyl moiety; from xanthomonas sp. Registry number: EC 3.5.1.- Synonym: pg-lactamide amidohydrolase (26 Jun 1999) |
| D-(-)-tartrate dehydratase | <enzyme> From rhodopseudomonas spheroides; does not act on l-(+)-tartrate; forms oxaloacetate Registry number: EC 4.2.1.- Synonym: d-(-)-tartrate hydrolyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| D-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase | <enzyme> Substrate may be a specific hydroxy acid; enzyme from trypanosoma cruzi; has been sequenced; genbank u31175 (ddh gene product) Registry number: EC 1.1.99.6 Synonym: alpha-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase, ddh gene product, staphylococcus aureus, d-lactate dehydrogenase (nad) (26 Jun 1999) |