Category: D

A bile salt that stimulates production of bile from the liver.  

A sterol found in the skin and other tissues that forms vitamin D after activation by irradiation.  

A previously used name for dehydroepiandrosterone.  

A device for removing moisture from the air.  

Loss of human qualities, as occurs in psychotic or in previously normal people subjected to torture or mental stress imposed by others. The decline in traits that distinguish a human being from an animal.  

The sense of taste; the function or act of tasting.  

A rare form of vasculitis that damages small blood vessels. The disease initially results in tissue infarction within the skin, but in some instances causes widespread and occasionally fatal tissue infarction in the gastrointestinal tract and other organs.  

Nerve fiber degeneration progressing toward the periphery from the original lesion.  

The ability of structurally differing molecules to perform overlapping, redundant, or equivalent functions. This ability is a characteristic of some nucleic acid codons (which code for the same amino acid despite having differing base pairs) and some molecules used by the immune system.  

To remove a fuse from an explosive device. A mindfulness process of preventing the fusing or merging of the self with disturbing or stressful thoughts.