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Desmond J. Fitzgerald
Desmond J. Fitzgerald, also published as D J Fitzgerald, is an Irish cardiologist and clinical pharmacologist whose research established that platelet activation drives unstable coronary artery disease.
Desmond King (American football)
Desmond King II, Detroit-born cornerback from Iowa, won the 2015 Jim Thorpe Award and was a unanimous All-American; a 2017 fifth-round pick, he earned 2018 first-team All-Pro with the Chargers and retired in December 2025.
Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999), Welsh actor who played Q, James Bond's gadget-master, in 17 EON Bond films from From Russia with Love (1963) to The World Is Not Enough (1999); WWII Royal Welch Fusiliers POW; died in a car crash.
Desmond Mason
Desmond Mason (Desmond Tremaine Mason, born 1977) is a former NBA small forward/shooting guard, 17th overall pick in 2000 by Seattle, 2001 Slam Dunk Contest winner, who became a full-time painter in Oklahoma City after a 10-year career.
Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (1928–2026), English zoologist, ethologist, surrealist painter, and broadcaster; London Zoo curator of mammals, presenter of Granada's Zoo Time, author of the 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape, and researcher of the painting chimpanzee Congo.
Desmond Noonan
Desmond "Dessie" Noonan, Manchester gangland fixer of the Cheetham Hill Noonan crime family, ex-Hacienda bouncer, stabbed to death in Chorlton in March 2005 days before Donal MacIntyre's Channel 5 documentary Gangster aired.
Desmond O’Neill
Desmond O'Neill is an Irish geriatrician and medical gerontologist, senior academic in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin's Tallaght University Hospital campus, and consultant in geriatric and stroke medicine.
Desmond Ridder
Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati Bearcats quarterback (2017-2021), 44 career wins, 87 TD passes, first Group of Five CFP team; Falcons 2022 third-round pick, later Cardinals, Raiders, Bengals, Packers.
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a South African Anglican archbishop who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for opposing apartheid, then chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Desmond U. Patton
Desmond Upton Patton is an American social work scholar at the University of Pennsylvania known for founding SAFELab and creating the CASM social media analysis method.
Desmond's
Desmond's is a British sitcom set in a Peckham barbershop run by Guyanese barber Desmond Ambrose (Norman Beaton), broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994.
Desmoplakin
Desmoplakin (DSP): plakin-family protein anchoring intermediate filaments to cardiac and skin desmosomes. DSP gene mutations cause desmoplakin cardiomyopathy, a left-dominant, fibrotic, inflammation-prone arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy distinct from PKP2 disease, plus Carvajal and Naxos syndromes.
Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/ganglioglioma
Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/ganglioglioma (DIA/DIG, ICD-O 9412/1) is a rare WHO grade 1 infant brain tumor, a large cystic supratentorial desmoplastic mass driven by BRAF/RAF1 MAPK alterations, treated mainly by surgery with favorable prognosis.
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT), also DSRCT, an ultra-rare aggressive sarcoma of young males defined by t(11;22)(p13;q12) EWSR1::WT1 fusion, presenting as abdominopelvic nodules with 5-year survival of 10-20%.
Desmopressin
Desmopressin (DDAVP, 1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin), synthetic V2-agonist analog of vasopressin synthesized 1967; treats central diabetes insipidus, enuresis, nocturia, and bleeding disorders; main risk hyponatremia.
Desmos
Desmos is a free online suite of mathematics tools, best known for its web-based graphing calculator, founded by Eli Luberoff in 2011 and used by over 75 million people annually.
Desmosine
Desmosine is a pyridinium amino acid formed from four lysine residues that cross-links the protein elastin; its detection in body fluids marks elastin breakdown in COPD.
Desmosomal cadherin
Desmosomal cadherins (desmogleins Dsg1–4, desmocollins Dsc1–3) are calcium-dependent transmembrane adhesion proteins forming the desmosome's adhesive core, anchoring intermediate filaments in skin and heart; defects cause pemphigus and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
Desmosome
Desmosome: intercellular adhesive junction anchoring intermediate filaments via desmoglein/desmocollin cadherins, plakoglobin, plakophilins, and desmoplakin; key in skin and heart, disrupted in pemphigus and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
Desmosterolosis
Desmosterolosis (OMIM 602398), an ultra-rare autosomal recessive cholesterol biosynthesis disorder caused by DHCR24 mutations, with desmosterol accumulation, congenital anomalies, spasticity, and intellectual disability; about 9 reported cases.
Desmoteplase
Desmoteplase (DSPAα1), a fibrin-selective plasminogen activator from vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) saliva, was developed as a 3-9 hour window stroke thrombolytic; trials showed recanalization gains but no functional benefit.
Desna
Desna (Десна), longest left tributary of the Dnipro, rising in Russia's Smolensk Highland and joining the Dnipro 6 km above Kyiv; 1,130 km long, 88,900 km² basin, mean discharge 360 m³/s, main tributaries Seim, Sudost, Snov, Oster.
Desnianskyi Biosphere Reserve
Desnianskyi Biosphere Reserve (Деснянський біосферний резерват) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in northern Ukraine, designated in 2009 to protect floodplain, wetland, and forest landscapes along the Desna River.
Desnianskyi raion
Desnianskyi raion (Деснянський район) is an administrative district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on the left bank of the Dnipro; created in 1987 as Vatutinskyi district, it was renamed in 2001 after the Desna river.
Desogestrel
Desogestrel, a third-generation synthetic progestogen prodrug of etonogestrel, used in the 75-microgram progestogen-only pill (Cerazette) and combined oral contraceptives; 12-hour missed-pill window, 2026 EMA meningioma warning.
Desolación
Desolación is the first book of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, a collection of poems and prose published in New York by Columbia University's Instituto de las Españas in 1922.
Desolation Island (novel)
Desolation Island (1979) is Patrick O'Brian's fifth Aubrey/Maturin naval novel: Jack Aubrey sails HMS Leopard with convicts and the spy Mrs Wogan to Australia, pursued by the Dutch Waakzaamheid into Antarctic waters.
Desomorphine
Desomorphine (krokodil, крокодил) is a semi-synthetic opioid about ten times more potent than morphine, first synthesized in 1932, sold briefly as Permonid, and now infamous as the homemade codeine-based street drug krokodil causing severe tissue necrosis; Schedule I in the US.
Desonide
Desonide, also marketed as Desowen, Desocort, Tridesilon, and Desonate, is a synthetic nonfluorinated low-potency topical corticosteroid used at 0.05% strength to treat inflammatory skin conditions since 1972.
Desorption
Desorption is the reverse of adsorption: the release of a substance adsorbed on a surface into a gas or liquid phase, central to catalysis and vacuum technology.