diaspora
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～ the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
diaspora
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～ the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Diaspora
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～ the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
diastasis
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～ separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
diastema
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～ a gap or vacant space between two teeth
diastole
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～ the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
diastolic
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～ of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole
diastrophism
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～ the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust
diathermy
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～ a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents
diathesis
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～ constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality
diatom
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～ microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
diatomic
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～ of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms; "a diatomic molecule"
diatomite
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～ a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material
Diatomophyceae
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～ marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms
diatonic
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～ based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music
diatonic
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～ based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals
diatribe
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～ thunderous verbal attack
Diaz
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～ Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
diazepam
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～ a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning