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  • Day-care center

    A place or institution charged with caring for children, typically during normal work hours. A place for the care of preschool children whose parents are for any reason unable to care for their children during normal working hours.  

  • Dawn

    An acronym for The Drug Abuse Warning Network, a federal government system for reporting drug- related medical emergencies and deaths.  

  • Dauermodification

    A type of acquired characteristic.  

  • Data reduction

    Screening out the information that comes to a person through the senses in greater amounts or intensity than can be used in making sense of the environment, data; database.    

  • Database

    A set of facts determined to be adequate for planning or for problem solving, data; data reduction. A structured collection of information in a computer that can be automatically retrieved and manipulated. A collection of data or information organized with some type of structure, such as records (rows) and fields (columns). A database record is…

  • Darvon

    A commercial preparation of propoxyphene.  

  • Darth vadar syndrome

    Fear of a firefighter, especially one who is attired in special firefighting gear. It is especially likely to occur in children during a fire when the firefighter enters the house in which the child is trapped. The child may hide from the firefighter.  

  • Dartal

    A major tranquilizer.  

  • Dart

    An acronym for Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology.  

  • Danazol

    A drug containing androgens that suppresses production of estrogen. hormone). Danazol (Danocrine) is prescribed to treat endometriosis, fibrocystic breast disease, and hereditary angioedema, which is swelling of different parts of the body. Danazol should not be taken by a woman who is pregnant. This drug prevents the pituitary gland from producing one of its hormones,…

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