Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Danon’s disease
A rare X-linked lysosomal storage disease whose clinical features often include cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, and mental retardation.
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Dandy fever
Dengue; an acute, epidemic, febrile disease occurring in tropical areas.
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Dancing disease
In Europe during the Middle Ages, an epidemic chorea supposed to have been caused by the bite of the tarantula.
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Dance movement therapy
The therapeutic use of creative dance for healing.
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Damping
Steady diminution of the amplitude of successive vibrations, as of an electric wave or current.
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Punitive damages
Damages awarded in an amount intended to punish the defendant for the egregious nature of the tort.
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Dam
A thin sheet of latex used in dentistry and oral surgery to isolate a part from the surrounding tissues and fluids.
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Dalton’s law
A law that states that, in a mixture of gases, the total pressure is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of each gas.
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Dale reaction
A test formerly used to demonstrate the ability of muscle tissues from an anaphylactic organism to contract on re-exposure to the antigen.
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Dairy food substitute
A food resembling an existing dairy food in taste and appearance but differing in composition from the dairy food for which it is substituted.
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