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Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing (DTP) is the use of personal computers to compose and produce print-ready documents, founded in 1985 with the Apple Macintosh, Aldus PageMaker, and LaserWriter.
Desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization, also known as Workspace as a Service, creates a virtual desktop that runs in a data center or cloud, its best-known variant being Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Deslandres (crater)
Deslandres is a heavily eroded lunar walled plain southeast of Mare Nubium, about 227 km across and named for French astrophysicist Henri Alexandre Deslandres in 1948.
Deslanoside
Deslanoside (deacetyllanatoside C, Cedilanid-D) is a Digitalis lanata cardiac glycoside for heart failure and supraventricular arrhythmias; Na-K-ATPase inhibitor, half-life 38-77 h, discontinued in the US but available in Brazil, China, and Japan.
Desloratadine
Desloratadine, sold as Clarinex in the United States and Aerius in the European Union, is a long-acting second-generation antihistamine and the active metabolite of loratadine, approved in 2001 for allergic rhinitis and urticaria.
Desmana
Desmana is a monotypic genus of semi-aquatic moles (Talpidae, tribe Desmanini) holding only the Russian desman, Desmana moschata (Vykhukhol'), a musk-glanded, web-footed insectivore of slow Russian waters, now IUCN Critically Endangered with 8,000-10,000 individuals left.
Desmedipham
Desmedipham (CAS 13684-56-5), a phenylcarbamate photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide, demethylated analog of phenmedipham, used post-emergence in sugar beet; EU approval non-renewed 2019, still registered in the US.
Desmetramadol
Desmetramadol (O-desmethyltramadol, M1, O-DSMT) is tramadol's active mu-opioid metabolite, studied as an investigational analgesic (20 mg equals 50 mg tramadol) and temporarily DEA Schedule I in the US since August 2026.
Desmetryn
Desmetryn (desmetryne, G 34360, trade name Semeron) is a methylthio-s-triazine herbicide introduced by Ciba-Geigy in 1964 for Brassica vegetables; it inhibits photosystem II and is no longer approved in the EU or marketed in the US.
Desminopathy
Desminopathy (desmin-related myofibrillar myopathy, MFM1, OMIM 601419) is a rare genetic muscle disease caused by DES gene mutations, causing progressive distal-onset weakness, cardiomyopathy, and respiratory insufficiency.
Desmoceras
Desmoceras (Zittel, 1884) is a smooth-shelled Cretaceous ammonoid genus in the family Desmoceratidae, type species Ammonites latidorsatus; known from Albian-Turonian strata of Japan, Sakhalin, Madagascar, and South Africa.
Desmodium
Desmodium (ticktrefoil, tickclover) is a genus of ~178 accepted Fabaceae species with lomentaceous pods bearing hooked hairs, native to the New World, Tropical Africa, and the southern Arabian Peninsula, used as forage legumes and in push–pull pest control.
Desmodium styracifolium total flavonoids capsules
Desmodium styracifolium total flavonoids capsules (广金钱草总黄酮胶囊, Guang Jing) are a Chinese category 1.2 TCM drug approved in 2022 for ureteral stones with damp-heat pattern; phase 3 trial showed 44.6% vs 33.8% stone passage by day 28.
Desmodus
Desmodus is a monotypic genus of vampire bats (Phyllostomidae) whose sole living species, the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, feeds exclusively on blood, transmits rabies to livestock, and ranges from northern Mexico to central Chile and Argentina.
Desmoglein-2
Desmoglein-2 (DSG2) is a cardiac desmosomal cadherin at 18q12 whose variants cause arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, accounting for roughly 2.5–10% of cases, with founder variant p.Phe531Cys common in China.
Desmognathus
Desmognathus, known as the dusky salamanders, is a genus of 39 lungless salamander species in eastern North America, ranging from aquatic to fully terrestrial adults.
Desmoid tumor
Desmoid tumor (desmoid-type fibromatosis, aggressive fibromatosis): a rare, locally aggressive, non-metastasizing fibroblastic soft-tissue tumor driven by CTNNB1 or APC mutations, now managed first with active surveillance, with nirogacestat approved in 2023.
Desmond Bane
Desmond Bane (born 1998) is an American NBA guard for the Orlando Magic, formerly the Memphis Grizzlies; drafted 30th in 2020 from TCU, traded to Orlando in 2025 for four first-round picks.
Desmond Bradley
Desmond J. Bradley is a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for identifying the snapdragon centroradialis gene and for work on snapdragon flower color evolution.
Desmond Child
Desmond Child (John Charles Barrett, born 1953) is a Cuban-American songwriter and producer behind Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer," KISS's "I Was Made For Lovin' You," and Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca," with 80-plus Billboard Top 40 singles and Songwriters Hall of Fame induction in 2008.
Desmond Dekker
Desmond Dekker (Desmond Adolphus Dacres, 1941-2006), Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae singer with the Aces; "Israelites" was the first reggae UK number one and a US top-ten hit.
Desmond Doss
Desmond Doss (1919–2006), also known as the Wonderman of Okinawa, was a Seventh-day Adventist Army medic and conscientious objector who saved 75 men at Hacksaw Ridge and received the Medal of Honor in 1945.
Desmond Eastwood
Desmond Eastwood (born 1994, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor known as Niall in Normal People (2020, IFTA nomination) and DS Murray Canning in Blue Lights, with film roles alongside Brosnan and Neeson.
Desmond G. Julian
Desmond G. Julian (1926–2019) was a British cardiologist whose 1961 Lancet paper first proposed coronary care units, and who established Europe's first such unit in Edinburgh in 1964.
Desmond Hart
Desmond Hart is a fictional soldier in HBO's Dune: Prophecy (2024), played by Travis Fimmel; an original character not from Frank Herbert's novels, he survives a sandworm attack on Arrakis, gains burning powers, and is revealed as the son of Tula Harkonnen and Orry Atreides.
Desmond Hayde
Desmond E. Hayde (1926-2013), Indian Army officer of Irish-Indian descent, commanded 3 Jat at the Battle of Dograi in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, won the Maha Vir Chakra, retired as Brigadier in 1978, and wrote The Battle of Dograi and Batapore.
Desmond Haynes
Desmond Leo Haynes, born 1956, is a Barbadian former cricketer who opened for West Indies from 1978 to 1994, scoring 7,487 Test runs in a record partnership with Gordon Greenidge.
Desmond Henley
Desmond Charles Henley (OBE, FBIE) was an English master embalmer with J.H. Kenyon, London, from 1941 to 1992; he embalmed George VI, Churchill, Mountbatten, Hendrix, and Bon Scott, and led disaster mortuary teams.
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard (born 1970, Cleveland) is a former Michigan wide receiver who won the 1991 Heisman Trophy, the Super Bowl XXXI MVP with the 1996 Green Bay Packers on a 99-yard kickoff return, and the NFL's single-season punt return yardage record (875), now an ESPN College GameDay analyst.
Desmond Hume
Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the American series Lost, played by Henry Ian Cusick, who becomes the show's chief vehicle for time travel.