Distinguished Conduct Medal
— Noun
– English
~ a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field
dental medicine
— Noun
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~ the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth
Dracunculus medinensis
— Noun
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~ parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
dispersing medium
— Noun
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~ (of colloids) a substance in which another is colloidally dispersed
dispersion medium
— Noun
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~ (of colloids) a substance in which another is colloidally dispersed
Drosophila melanogaster
— Noun
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~ small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
diabetes mellitus
— Noun
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~ diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'"
dead-men's-fingers
— Noun
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~ the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
— Noun
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~ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
Dmitri Mendeleev
— Noun
– English
~ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
Dmitri Mendeleyev
— Noun
– English
~ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev
— Noun
– English
~ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
drop-down menu
— Noun
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~ a menu of options that appears below the item when the computer user clicks on it
dog mercury
— Noun
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~ European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers
dog's mercury
— Noun
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~ European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers
divine messenger
— Noun
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~ a messenger from God; "angel of death"
destructive metabolism
— Noun
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~ breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
dead metaphor
— Noun
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~ a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')