| DA | dark adaptation; dark agouti [rat]; daunomycin; degenerative arthritis; delayed action; Dental Assis... |
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| DAGT | direct antiglobulin test |
| DAP | data acquisition processor; depolarizing afterpotential; diabetes-associated peptide; diaminopimelic... |
| DAPT | diaminophenylthiazole; direct agglutination pregnancy test |
| DASD | direct access storage device |
| MID-CABG | Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting |
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| MTD | Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test |
| TDH | Thermostable direct haemolysin |
| direct zoonosis | A zoonosis transmitted between animal and humans from an infected to a susceptible host by contact, by airborne droplets or droplet nuclei, or by some vehicle of transmission; the agent requires a single vertebrate host for completion of its life cycle and does not develop or show significant change during transmission; may include anthropozoonoses (rabies), zooanthroponoses (amoebiasis), and amphixenoses (certain streptococcoses). (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fluorescent antibody technique, direct | A form of fluorescent antibody technique utilizing a fluorochrome conjugated to an antibody, which is added directly to a tissue or cell suspension for the detection of a specific antigen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lateral direct veins | One or more veins running a subependymal course in a coronal plane over the thalamus, terminating in the internal cerebral vein. Synonym: lateral direct veins, surface thalamic veins. (05 Mar 2000) |