| DA | dark adaptation; dark agouti [rat]; daunomycin; degenerative arthritis; delayed action; Dental Assis... |
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| DART | developmental and reproductive toxicology |
| DBDG | distobuccal developmental groove |
| DD | dangerous drug; data definition; day of delivery; degenerated disc; degenerative disease; delusional... |
| DDH | developmental dysplasia of the hip; Diploma in Dental Health; dissociated double hypertropia |
| crystalline cataract | A hereditary cataract with a coralliform or needle-shaped accumulation of crystals in the axial region of an otherwise clear lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cuneiform cataract | Cortical cataract in which the opacities radiate from the periphery like spokes of a wheel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cupuliform cataract | A common form of senile cataract often confined to a region just within the posterior capsule. Synonym: saucer-shaped cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hard cataract | A cataract involving the nucleus. Synonym: hard cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| progeria with cataract | A syndrome of bony anomalies of the calvaria, face, and jaw, with brachygnathia, narrow curved nose, and multiple ocular defects including microphthalmia, microcornea, and cataract, often with alopecia overlying skull sutures, or alopecia areata and hypoplasia, or absence of eyebrows. The pattern of inheritance is undecided. Synonym: congenital sutural alopecia, Hallermann-Streiff syndrome, Hallermann-Streiff-Francois syndrome, mandibulo-oculofacial syndrome, oculomandibulodyscephaly, oculomandibulofacial syndrome, progeria with cataract, progeria with microphthalmia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| progressive cataract | A cataract in which the opacification process progresses to involve the entire lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saucer-shaped cataract | A common form of senile cataract often confined to a region just within the posterior capsule. Synonym: saucer-shaped cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary cataract | A cataract that accompanies or follows some other eye disease such as uveitis. Synonym: complicated cataract. A cataract occurring in the retained lens or capsule after a cataract extraction. Synonym: aftercataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentary cataract | A hypermature cataract in which the nucleus gravitates within the capsule. Synonym: sedimentary cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook-shaped cataract | Congenital cataract with hook-like figures between the foetal and embryonic nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| punctate cataract | An incomplete cataract in which there are opaque dots scattered through the lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile cataract | A cataract occurring spontaneously in the elderly; mainly a cuneiform cataract, nuclear cataract, or posterior subcapsular cataract, alone or in combination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyramidal cataract | A cone-shaped, anterior polar cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| siderotic cataract | A cataract resulting from deposition of iron from an iron-containing intraocular foreign body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypermature cataract | A cataract in which the lens cortex becomes liquid, with the nucleus gravitating within the capsule (Morgagni's cataract). Synonym: overripe cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |