| distractile | <botany> Tending or serving to draw apart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| distraction | <procedure> The cognitive strategy of focusing attention on stimuli other than pain or negative emotions that accompany pain. (16 Dec 1997) |
| distraction conus | A conus in which the optic nerve passes through the scleral canal in a markedly oblique direction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distress | 1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. "Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress." (Shak) 2. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. "Affliction's sons are brothers in distress." (Burns) 3. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. 4. The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. "If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle." (Spenser) "The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for." (Blackstone) Abuse of distress. See Abuse. Synonym: Affliction, suffering, pain, agony, misery, torment, anguish, grief, sorrow, calamity, misfortune, trouble, adversity. See Affliction. Origin: OE. Destresse, distresse, OF. Destresse, destrece, F. Detresse, OF. Destrecier to distress, (assumed) LL. Districtiare, fr. L. Districtus, p. P. Of distringere. See Distrain, and cf. Stress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| distributed effort | In psychology, learning that involves small units of work and interpolated rest periods, as contrasted with massed learning, in which the individual works continually until the skill is mastered. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distributing artery | <anatomy, artery> An artery with a tunica media composed principally of circularly arranged smooth muscle. Synonym: distributing artery, medium artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distribution | 1. The specific location or arrangement of continuing or successive objects or events in space or time. 2. The extent of a ramifying structure such as an artery or nerve and its branches. 3. The geographical range of an organism or disease. 4. Probability. Origin: L. Distributio (11 Jan 1998) |
| distribution coefficient | The ratio of concentrations of a substance in two immiscible phases at equilibrium; the basis of many chromatographic separation procedures. Synonym: partition coefficient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distribution curve | A systematic grouping of data into classes or categories according to the frequency of occurrence of each successive value or ranges of such values, resulting in a graph of a frequency distribution. Synonym: frequency curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distribution function | <radiobiology> Function characterising the density of particles located at a given point in phase space (a combination of velocity and/or position coordinates) at a given time. The velocity-space distribution function gives the number of particles with a particular velocity, the position-space distribution function is synonymous with the particle density in position-space. Different combinations of position and spatial coordinates are useful in different problems. (09 Oct 1997) |
| distribution leukocytosis | An abnormally large proportion of one or more types of leukocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distribution volume | The volume throughout which an added tracer substance appears to have been evenly distributed, calculated by dividing the amount of tracer added by its concentration after equilibration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distributive | 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." 2. <logic> Assigning the species of a general term. 3. Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). <mathematics> Distributive operation See Fellowship. Origin: Cf. F. Distributif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| distributive analysis | The analysis of information gained about the patient and its distribution by the physician, as indicated by the patient's complaint and symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| distributive shock | <physiology> A form of shock (low oxygen delivery to the tissues) that results from a decline in vascular tone. This net result is pooling of unoxygenated blood in the tissues. (11 Jan 1998) |
| distal |
In medicine, refers to a part of the body that is farther away from the center of the body than another part. For example, the fingers are distal to the shoulder. The opposite is proximal.
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A nonnegative scalar that describes the length of a path.
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The distance between two points can be defined in ways other than euclidean. In the plane, the L m -distance between points p 1 and p 2 is given by the expression (|x 1 - x 2 | m + |y 1 - y 2 | m ) 1/m . (See page 962)
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Restrictions that prevent the market from equating social benefits and costs of an economic activity. For example, the market price of cigarettes does not reflect the indirect effect (externally) on third parties (other than the producer and the smoker), resulting in too many cigarettes being produced and consumed. The total social cost of smoking is higher than the private cost.
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Nonrealistic reproduction, or nonideal formation. In optics, it is an imperfection in an image caused by an imperfection in the optical system by which the image is produced. In electronics, distortion is a change in waveform of a signal that occurs upon passage of the signal through an instrument. Crystal distortion is the expansion of a crystal lattice near any crystal boundary surface.
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| dist | a distinguishing difference |
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| dist | a distinguishing quality |
| dist | a discrimination between things as different and distinct |
| dist | high status importance owing to marked superiority |
| dist | of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing |
| dist | serving to distinguish or identify a species or group |
| dist | possible to classify |
| dist | an odd or unusual characteristic |
| dist | in an identifiably distinctive manner |
| dist | utter dissimilarity |
| dist | a distinguishing trait |
| dist | clear to the mind |
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