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Diaphanospondylodysostosis
Diaphanospondylodysostosis (DSD, ORPHA:66637, OMIM 608022) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive BMPER-related skeletal dysplasia with vertebral and rib ossification defects, small thorax, renal cysts, and usually perinatal lethality.
Diapheromeridae
Diapheromeridae, a family of stick insects (Phasmida) established by Kirby in 1904 with type genus Diapheromera; about 446 valid species in 62 genera, two subfamilies, worldwide in tropical and warm temperate regions.
Diapherotrites
Diapherotrites, also known as Candidatus Iainarchaeota, is a candidate phylum of archaea known almost entirely from genome sequences, proposed in 2013 as a founding member of the DPANN superphylum.
Diaphorina citri
Diaphorina citri, the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), is a 3-mm hemipteran insect vector of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, cause of citrus huanglongbing; it spreads HLB worldwide and is managed with insecticides, parasitoids, and quarantine.
Diaphragm (optics)
A diaphragm, or iris diaphragm, is an adjustable opening in an optical system, typically of overlapping metal leaves, that controls how much light passes through.
Diaphragm compressor
A diaphragm compressor is a reciprocating compressor in which a flexible metal diaphragm compresses gas without contamination, making it the standard choice for hydrogen refueling stations.
Diaphragm pacing
Diaphragm pacing is a technique that electrically stimulates the phrenic nerve or diaphragm muscle to generate breaths, used mainly in high spinal cord injury and central hypoventilation.
Diaphragm pump
The diaphragm pump, also called a membrane pump, is a positive displacement pump that moves fluid by flexing a flexible membrane, handling corrosive and hazardous media without leakage.
Diaphragm wall
A diaphragm wall is a continuous underground wall of abutting concrete panels excavated under bentonite slurry and filled with concrete, serving as basement walls, foundations, and seepage cutoffs.
Diaphragmatic breathing
Diaphragmatic breathing is a behavioral relaxation technique in which a person deliberately engages the diaphragm to slow breathing to 6–10 breaths per minute, producing abdominal breaths that lower stress and blood pressure.
Diaphragmatic hernia
Diaphragmatic hernia (DD50.0): protrusion of abdominal organs into the chest through a diaphragm defect; congenital (Bochdalek, Morgagni, hiatal) or acquired from trauma, with neonatal respiratory distress and surgical repair.
Diaphragmatic hernia repair
Diaphragmatic hernia repair is surgery that returns abdominal organs displaced into the chest to the abdomen and closes the diaphragm, most often in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Diaphyseal medullary stenosis-bone malignancy syndrome
Diaphyseal medullary stenosis-bone malignancy syndrome, also called Hardcastle syndrome or DMS-MFH (OMIM 112250), is a very rare autosomal dominant bone dysplasia and tumor predisposition syndrome caused by MTAP mutations at 9p21, causing pathological fractures, bone infarction, and bone sarcoma in about 35% of affected individuals.
Diapriidae
Diapriidae (diapriids) is a worldwide family of tiny 2-3 mm parasitoid wasps in Hymenoptera, superfamily Diaprioidea; about 4,000 estimated species, mostly endoparasitoids of fly larvae and pupae, some associated with ants.
Diapycnal mixing
Diapycnal mixing is the turbulent transport of heat, salt, and tracers across density surfaces in stratified fluids, driven mainly by breaking internal waves and supplying the energy the ocean's overturning circulation needs.
Diarchy
Diarchy (dyarchy) is government by two joint rulers or authorities, from Greek di (twice) and arche (rule). Historical examples include Sparta and Rome; modern ones are Andorra and San Marino; British India's 1919 dyarchy divided provincial subjects.
Diaries of Leo Tolstoy
The diaries of Leo Tolstoy are private notebooks he kept from 1847 until days before his death in 1910, filling 13 volumes of his complete works.
Diario d'Algeria
Diario d'Algeria is the second poetry collection by the Italian poet Vittorio Sereni, published in Florence in 1947 from his experience of war and imprisonment in North Africa between 1942 and 1945.
Diário de Notícias
Diário de Notícias was a liberal morning newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, published from 1930 to 1976 and remembered for opposing the Vargas dictatorship.
Diario de Poesía
Diario de Poesía was an Argentine poetry magazine published in Buenos Aires and Rosario from 1986 to 2012, directed throughout by poet Daniel Samoilovich and sold at newsstands like a newspaper.
Diario de un gigoló
Diario de un gigoló (Diary of a Gigolo) is a 2022 Netflix erotic thriller series in Spanish, created by Sebastián Ortega, starring Jesús Castro as escort Emanuel, 10 episodes, premiere 7 September 2022.
Diário Oficial da União
The Diário Oficial da União (DOU) is the official journal of the Brazilian federal government, publishing laws, decrees, and official acts since 1862; it has been exclusively electronic since 2017.
Diarmait Mac Murchada
Diarmait Mac Murchada (Dermot MacMurrough), king of Leinster (d. 1171), abducted Derbforgaill in 1152, was expelled in 1166, and recruited Cambro-Normans under Strongbow, triggering the 1169 Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is a public health scientist who heads the World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Unit in Geneva and helps lead the annual Lancet Countdown reports.
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, born 1937 in New York, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Reagan in 1986 and on senior status since 2016.
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Dermot O'Dyna), Fenian Cycle hero of the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne: Fianna warrior, foster-son of Aengus Óg, bearer of the love-spot, killed by a boar on Ben Bulben.
Diarra from Detroit
Diarra from Detroit (no alternate titles) is an American comedy-mystery series created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick, premiering on BET+ March 21, 2024, with season two on Paramount+ July 29, 2026.
Diarrhea
Diarrhea, also diarrhoea: passage of 3+ loose stools daily, from osmotic, secretory, inflammatory, or motility mechanisms. Treated with reduced-osmolarity ORS (245 mOsm/l) and zinc; still kills ~444,000 children under 5 yearly.
Diary
Diary: a chronological record of personal experiences, thoughts, or feelings kept daily or at frequent intervals. Also covers diary versus memoir and journal, the genre's literary history from Pepys to 1887, and diary methods in research.
Diary (novel)
Diary is a 2003 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, a modern horror story with dark humor, written as a diary by Misty Wilmot, a waitress on Waytansea Island.