| diplacusis echoica | A condition in which sound heard in the affected ear is repeated. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| diplacusis monauralis | A condition in which one sound is perceived as two in the same ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diplanar | <mathematics> Of or pertaining to two planes. Origin: Pref. Di- + plane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diplecolobous | Of cotyledons in a seed: twice folded transversely. (09 Oct 1997) |
| diplegia | Paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body. Synonym: double hemiplegia. Origin: G. Di-, two, + plege, a stroke (05 Mar 2000) |
| dipleidoscope | <astronomy, instrument> An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian. Origin: Gr. Double + image + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diplo- | Double, twofold. See: haplo-. Origin: G. Diploos, double (05 Mar 2000) |
| diploalbuminuria | The coexistence of nephritic, or pathologic, and nonnephritic, or physiologic, albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diplobacillus | Two rod-shaped bacterial cells linked end to end. Origin: diplo-+ bacillus (05 Mar 2000) |
| diplobacteria | Bacterial cells linked together in pairs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diploblastic | Describes an animal which, as an embryo, had two distinct embryonic tissue layers - the ectoderm and endoderm. This is in contrast to animals which are triploblastic (has three distinct tissue layers) and those which do not have any distinct tissue layers as an embryo (nor organs and distinct tissues as an adult). Jellyfish and comb jellies are diploblastic animals. (09 Oct 1997) |
| diplocardia | An anomaly in which the two lateral halves of the heart are separated to varying degrees by a central fissure. Origin: diplo-+ G. Kardia, heart (05 Mar 2000) |
| diplocardiac | <anatomy> Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary. Origin: Gr. Double + E. Cardiac. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diplocephalus | Symmetrical conjoined twins with two separate heads. See: conjoined twins. Synonym: bicephalus, diplocephalus. Origin: G. Di-, two, + kephale, head (05 Mar 2000) |
| diplocheiria | Synonym: dicheiria. Origin: diplo-+ G. Cheir, hand (05 Mar 2000) |