| dietitian | An expert in dietetics. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Dietl | Jozef, Polish physician, 1804-1878. See: Dietl's crisis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dietl's crisis | Intermittent pain, sometimes with nausea and emesis, caused by intermittent proximal obstruction of ureter. Originally believed due to a mobile kidney that caused ureter to kink with positional changes. Synonym: incarceration symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dieuaide diagram | The figure resulting from rearranging the lines of derivation of the three standard limb leads of the electrocardiogram (as represented in Einthoven's triangle) so that, instead of forming the sides of an equilateral triangle, they bisect one another. Synonym: Dieuaide diagram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dieulafoy's erosion | Acute ulcerative gastroenteritis complicating pneumonia, possibly caused by overproduction of adrenal steroid hormones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dieulafoy's theory | An obsolete theory that appendicitis is always the result of the transformation of the appendicular canal into a closed cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dieulafoy, Georges | <person> French physician, 1839-1911. See: Dieulafoy's erosion, Dieulafoy's theory. (05 Mar 2000) |