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DisplayPort

DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard developed by VESA, first released in 2006 to carry video, audio, and data from a source device to a display.

Disposable Equipment

Disposable equipment: apparatus, devices, or supplies intended for one-time or temporary use (MeSH D004209); in medicine, single-use devices like syringes and catheters, regulated for reprocessing by FDA and EU MDR Article 17, with waste and carbon trade-offs versus reusables.

Disposable household and per capita income

Disposable household income is the income a household can spend or save after direct taxes and social contributions; it is the standard measure of living standards and inequality.

Disposal of human corpses

Disposal of human corpses (body disposition): burial, cremation, embalming, and newer methods alkaline hydrolysis and human composting; worldwide scale, FTC Funeral Rule, environmental impacts, and country-by-country regulation.

Disposition Matrix

The Disposition Matrix is a US government database, first reported in 2012, that catalogs terrorism suspects and the plans to track, capture, or kill them.

Disproportionality analysis

Disproportionality analysis is a family of statistical methods, including PRR, ROR, IC, and EBGM, used to detect higher-than-expected reporting of drug–adverse-event pairs in spontaneous-reporting databases.

Disproportionation

Disproportionation, also called dismutation, is a redox reaction in which a single substance is both oxidized and reduced, yielding products in higher and lower oxidation states.

Disputation of Barcelona

The Disputation of Barcelona was a 1263 public debate before King James I of Aragon between Rabbi Nahmanides and the convert Pablo Christiani over whether the Talmud proves the Messiah had come.

Disputation of Paris

The Disputation of Paris, also called the Trial of the Talmud (משפט פריז), was the 1240 trial of the Talmud in Paris under King Louis IX, ending in its condemnation and burning.

Disputation of Tortosa

The Disputation of Tortosa, also known as the Controversy of Tortosa, was a forced Christian–Jewish debate before antipope Benedict XIII at Tortosa in 1413–1414, ending in a decree against the Talmud.

Dispute between a man and his Ba

The Dispute between a Man and his Ba is a Middle Egyptian dialogue where a despairing man debates death with his vital element, the Ba.

Dispute resolution

Dispute resolution is the set of processes by which contending parties settle a disagreement, from court adjudication to out-of-court methods such as mediation, arbitration, and negotiation.

Dispute review board

A dispute review board (DRB) is a panel of neutral construction experts appointed before or early in a project to help avoid disputes and issue real-time recommendations.

Disraeli Gears

Disraeli Gears is Cream's second studio album, released November 1967 on Atco; recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, produced by Felix Pappalardi, engineered by Tom Dowd, featuring Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, and Tales of Brave Ulysses.

Disruption (fusion)

A disruption in magnetic confinement fusion is the sudden loss of tokamak plasma confinement, releasing stored energy in milliseconds; research focuses on prediction, avoidance, and mitigation.

Disruptive behaviour

Disruptive behaviour (ICD-11 MB23.8) is a symptom category for behaviour causing disorder and turmoil in others or one's environment, such as angry outbursts, arguments, and disobedience, excluded from the related disruptive behaviour or dissocial disorders grouping.

Disruptive innovation

Disruptive innovation, also known as disruptive technologies, is a process in which a smaller entrant starts in a low-end market foothold and eventually displaces established incumbents.

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), a DSM-5 depressive disorder added in 2013, involves chronic childhood irritability and frequent severe temper outbursts; created to curb pediatric bipolar misdiagnosis, with 3.3% community prevalence and no FDA-approved medications.

DissEcT trial

DissEcT (NCT06992453), Disentangling Microbiome Engraftment by Multi-omics of the Gut Ecosystem During Fecal Transplant, is a Rome-based trial using multi-omics to study FMT engraftment in rCDI, ulcerative colitis, and metabolic syndrome.

Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp

Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp (perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens, Hoffman's disease) is a chronic inflammatory follicular occlusion disorder causing painful scalp nodules, sinus tracts, and scarring alopecia, mainly in African American men aged 20-40.

Dissection

Dissection is cutting and separating tissues for surgery, autopsy, or anatomy teaching. Revived at medieval Bologna, advanced by Vesalius, sustained today by body donation, prosections, and virtual dissection tables.

Dissection (band)

Dissection, Swedish black/death metal band founded 1989 by Jon Nödtveidt and Peter Palmdahl, known for The Somberlain and Storm of the Light's Bane; ended 2006 after Reinkaos and Nödtveidt's death.

Dissection of cerebral arteries

Dissection of cerebral arteries (ICD-11 8B22.0) is a hematoma within an intracranial artery wall, causing ischemic stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage; rare, mostly in young adults, diagnosed by imaging, treated with antithrombotics or endovascular or surgical occlusion.

Disseminated adiaspiromycosis

Disseminated adiaspiromycosis (ICD-11 1F2L.0, Emmonsiosis) is the severe bilateral pulmonary form of adiaspiromycosis, caused by inhaled Emmonsia crescens conidia that swell into nonreplicating adiaspores, provoking granulomas, respiratory failure, and rare deaths.

Disseminated and systemic microsporidiosis

Disseminated and systemic microsporidiosis is microsporidia infection, most often from Encephalitozoon species, spreading beyond the gut to kidneys, lungs, or brain in profoundly immunosuppressed people.

Disseminated aspergillosis

Disseminated aspergillosis (ICD-10 B44.7, systemic aspergillosis): hematogenous spread of invasive Aspergillus infection, usually A. fumigatus, to two or more non-contiguous organs in immunocompromised patients, with mortality near 88-90%.

Disseminated coccidioidomycosis

Disseminated coccidioidomycosis (DCM), severe extrapulmonary Valley fever: hematogenous spread of Coccidioides immitis or posadasii to skin, bones, joints, or meninges; about 1% of infections, 25% untreated mortality, treated with fluconazole or amphotericin B.

Disseminated cryptococcosis

Disseminated cryptococcosis: spread of Cryptococcus neoformans or C. gattii from the lungs to two or more noncontiguous organs, mainly CNS; affects immunocompromised, especially advanced HIV; treated with amphotericin B plus flucytosine then fluconazole.

Disseminated dermatophytosis

Disseminated dermatophytosis (ICD-11 1F28.5) is rare systemic spread of dermatophyte fungi, usually Trichophyton rubrum, to lymph nodes and internal organs in immunodeficient hosts, treated with systemic antifungals.

Disseminated gonococcal infection

Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI): bloodstream spread of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from a mucosal site, causing septic arthritis, tenosynovitis, and skin lesions; treated with ceftriaxone, rare but rising in Alaska and California.