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Demaurex Deltabot

The Demaurex Deltabot is a family of Delta parallel robots sold by the Swiss company Demaurex SA, which made the first Delta robot packaging installation in 1992.

Demba Ba

Demba Ba is a Senegalese former center forward, born in France in 1985, who scored 43 Premier League goals and won the Turkish title with İstanbul Başakşehir in 2020.

Sep 19, 2026

Dembe FM

Dembe FM is a Luganda-language commercial radio station on 90.4 FM in Kampala, Uganda, launched in 2002, closed in 2023, and relaunched in 2025 by Nation Media Group.

Oct 22, 2026

Dembo revolts

The Dembo revolts were armed resistance by the Kimbundu-speaking peoples of the Dembos region near Luanda, Angola, to Portuguese colonial rule, from 1631 until final defeat in 1919.

Sep 19, 2026

Dembow

Dembow, also known as the dembow riddim, is the boom-ch-boom-chick drum pattern that serves as the rhythmic foundation of reggaeton, named for Shabba Ranks' 1990 song "Dem Bow".

Demcon

Demcon is a Dutch technology developer and producer headquartered in Enschede, founded in 1993 by engineers Dennis Schipper and Peter Rutgers as a University of Twente spin-off.

Sep 19, 2026

Demdike Stare are a British electronic music duo from Manchester, England, formed by Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty, whose records combine dark ambient, dub techno, and jungle, released mainly on Modern Love.

DEME

DEME, formally DEME Group NV, is a Belgian marine engineering and dredging contractor with about 6,000 employees that provides dredging, offshore wind installation, and environmental services worldwide.

Demecarium

Demecarium (demecarium bromide, Humorsol, Tosmilen, BC-48) is a long-acting cholinesterase inhibitor miotic for glaucoma, FDA approved 1959 and now discontinued; it survives in veterinary use via compounding pharmacies.

Demeclocycline

Demeclocycline, also known as demethylchlortetracycline and marketed as Declomycin, is a tetracycline antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces aureofaciens in 1957, used for infections and to raise serum sodium in SIADH hyponatremia.

DeMeco Ryans

DeMeco Ryans, former Alabama and NFL linebacker (Texans 2006-11, Eagles 2012-15, AP DROY 2006), is head coach of the Houston Texans since January 31, 2023, after coordinating the 49ers defense.

Demecolcine

Demecolcine, also sold under the name Colcemid, is a colchicine alkaloid isolated from the autumn crocus in 1950 that arrests dividing cells in metaphase for chromosome analysis.

Dementia

Dementia: progressive syndrome of memory and cognitive decline from brain-damaging diseases; also called senile dementia historically. Alzheimer disease causes 60–70% of 57 million cases; no cure, symptomatic drugs and risk-factor prevention only.

Oct 3, 2026

Dementia 13

Dementia 13 (1963) is Francis Ford Coppola's first commercial feature, a black-and-white Irish axe-murder horror film made for Roger Corman on about $22,000, shot in nine days at Ardmore Studios, Bray, and released by AIP on a double bill with X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.

Dementia Discovery Fund

The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) is a venture capital fund focused exclusively on dementia drug discovery, managed from London by SV Health Investors since its 2015 founding.

Dementia due to Alzheimer disease

Dementia due to Alzheimer disease (ICD-11 6D80) is the most common dementia, an insidious amnestic dementia from amyloid-beta and tau pathology, with early-onset, late-onset, and mixed ICD-11 subtypes.

Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease

Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease (ICD-11 6D81), or vascular dementia, is dementia from ischemic or hemorrhagic brain injury, with prominent processing-speed and executive deficits, stepwise or progressive course, and frequent overlap with Alzheimer's pathology.

Dementia due to Down syndrome

Dementia due to Down syndrome (ICD-11 6D85.9) is an Alzheimer-like neurodegenerative disorder caused by chromosome 21 triplication and APP overexpression; dementia prevalence rises from about 3.4% at ages 30-39 to roughly 70% after age 50.

Dementia praecox

Dementia praecox, also demence precoce, was Kraepelin's disused diagnosis for a chronic, deteriorating adolescent-onset psychosis; Bleuler renamed it schizophrenia in 1908, keeping Kraepelin's hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid subtypes.

Dementia with Lewy bodies

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), a Lewy body dementia, is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's, caused by alpha-synuclein Lewy bodies, with hallucinations, fluctuating cognition, parkinsonism, and REM sleep behavior disorder.

Demerara

Demerara: Dutch colony on the Demerara River in Guyana, constituted 1745 under the Dutch West India Company, taken by Britain 1796 and 1803, ceded 1814, merged into British Guiana 1831; site of the 1823 slave rebellion.

Oct 22, 2026

Demerara rebellion of 1823

The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising of over 10,000 enslaved people on East Coast plantations of Demerara-Essequibo, now Guyana, beginning in August 1823.

Oct 20, 2026

Demerara-Mahaica Region

Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) is Guyana's most populous administrative region, containing the capital Georgetown. Created in 1980, it spans the Demerara to Mahaica rivers, with 347,759 people (39.58% of Guyana) at the 2022 census.

Demerit point system

A demerit point system is a licensing sanction that adds points for traffic offenses, triggering license suspension once a threshold is crossed within a set period.

Demersal fish

Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, are fish that live and feed on or near the seabed, unlike pelagic fish; familiar examples include cods, groupers, flatfishes, and rockfishes.

Demerzel

Demerzel (Eto Demerzel) is a Foundation universe character: in Asimov's novels the First Minister to Cleon I and secret identity of robot R. Daneel Olivaw; in Apple TV+'s Foundation, Laura Birn's android majordomo of the Genetic Dynasty, last surviving robot, reprogrammed by Cleon I.

Demes in the Byzantine Empire

Demes (Greek dēmoi, Latin factiones) were the Blue, Green, Red, and White chariot-racing factions of the Roman and Byzantine empires, which became political bodies in Constantinople, Antioch, and Alexandria, peaking from Theodosios II to Herakleios and disappearing by the twelfth century.