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Diuretic
Diuretic: drug that increases renal sodium and water excretion. Classes include loop diuretics (furosemide, NKCC2), thiazides (chlorthalidone, NCC), and potassium-sparing agents; used for hypertension, heart failure, and edema since chlorothiazide's 1958 introduction.
Diuris
Diuris (donkey orchids, double tails) is a genus of about 102 accepted terrestrial orchid species in tribe Diurideae, native to southern and eastern Australia and the Lesser Sunda Islands, named for the two tail-like lateral sepals.
Diuris filifolia
Diuris filifolia (Cat's Face Orchid) is a rare tuberous orchid endemic to southwestern Western Australia, described by Lindley in 1840, with pale yellow brown-marked flowers, known from three disjunct swamp-edge populations and not seen for many years.
Diurnal enuresis
Diurnal enuresis, or daytime urinary incontinence (DUI), is involuntary daytime urine leakage in children aged 5 or older; over 65% of cases are functional, treated first with urotherapy, though trial evidence for interventions remains weak.
Diurnality
Diurnality: the animal activity pattern of being active by day and resting at night, contrasted with nocturnality, crepuscularity, and cathemerality. Mammals re-evolved it repeatedly after a nocturnal origin; the SCN clock is entrained alike in both, with differences downstream.
Diuron
Diuron is a phenylurea herbicide and algicide that blocks photosynthesis in weeds and algae, used on crops like sugarcane and cotton and as a paint preservative.
Dius of Tyre
Dius of Tyre was a Phoenician historian writing in Greek around the 2nd century BC, whose single surviving fragment on King Hiram I survives only in Josephus.
Div (mythology)
Div (دیو) is the demon, ogre, and giant of Iranian mythology, derived from the demonized Avestan daeva, opposed to the Indian deva. Rulers of epic Mazandaran, blamed in folklore for insanity, and slain by Rostam, notably the White Div.
Diva
Diva, from Italian and Latin for "goddess", is a celebrated female opera singer or prima donna; the term, first attested in English in 1864, now also describes any talented, commanding female performer and, pejoratively, a temperamental or demanding woman.
Diva (1981 film)
Diva is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 French debut thriller about a postman whose bootleg opera recording entangles him with pirates and corrupt police; it won four Césars and launched the cinéma du look movement.
Diva Boy
Diva Boy (Sam Smith Diva Boy) is Sam Smith's unreleased 2008 debut album, recorded at age 16 for London indie Flipbook Music; ten tracks, 34 minutes, single "Momentarily Mine", 2016 release attempt and 2018 lawsuit. Distinct from Pseudo's 2024 single and the AGT contestant.
Diva Zappa
Diva Zappa (Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa, born 1979) is an American artist, actress, and tarot reader in Los Angeles, youngest child of Frank Zappa, known for the mile-long knitted scarf Emilio and the 2011 exhibition Bruce.
Divacancy in silicon carbide
The divacancy in silicon carbide is a point defect of neighboring missing silicon and carbon atoms whose spin-1 state serves as a qubit and quantum sensor with near-infrared emission.
DivaGurl
DivaGurl (also Diva Gurl) is an American R&B girl group formed around Keke Palmer, who performs as Keyana, with Sadé, LaShay, and Monét. Debut single "S.O.B." (2024), EP DivaGurl: A Story By Keke Palmer (2025), tied to the mockumentary The Rise & Fall of DivaGurl.
Divākara
Divākara (दिवाकर), or Siddhasena Divākara, is a Śvetāmbara Jaina logician placed around the 6th century, traditionally credited with the Nyāyāvatāra and the Sanmati-tarka-prakaraṇa, though scholars dispute whether one or several authors bore the name.
Divakarapandita
Divakarapandita was a Brahmin priest of the Khmer court, royal guru of King Suryavarman II, presiding at his 1113 coronation and credited with urging the construction of Angkor Wat.
Divakarasena
Divakarasena (दिवाकरसेन) was crown prince of the Vakataka dynasty's Nandivardhana line, eldest son of Rudrasena II and the Gupta princess Prabhavatigupta, who likely died before reigning.
Divalent metal transporter 1
Divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1, SLC11A2, Nramp2, DCT1) is a proton-coupled mammalian iron transporter, discovered in 1997, that imports dietary non-heme iron in the duodenum and releases iron from endosomes in the transferrin cycle.
Divalia Fossae
Divalia Fossae, also Divalia Fossa, is a Grand Canyon-sized system of equatorial troughs on asteroid 4 Vesta found by NASA's Dawn mission; its origin, from Rheasilvia impact tectonics to jointing, secondary cratering, or spin reorientation, is debated.
Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
The Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (دیوان ابوسعید ابوالخیر) is a collection of Persian mystical quatrains attributed to the Khorasani Sufi master Abu Sa'id (967–1049).
Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani
The Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani is the collected Persian poetry of the Qajar court poet Adib al-Mamalik Farahani, about 22,000 couplets, first printed in 1933.
Divan of Ahmad Shamlu
The Divan of Ahmad Shamlu (دیوان احمد شاملو) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000), pioneer of meterless Persian free verse, written from 1947 to 2000.
Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i
The Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i is the lyric poetry collections of Alisher Navoi (1441–1501), the Chagatai Turkic poet of the Timurid court in Herat, in Turkic and Persian.
Divan of Alisher Navoi
The Divan of Alisher Navoi is the collected lyric poetry of Navoi (1441–1501), the Timurid statesman of Herat regarded as the founder of classical Chagatai literature.
Divan of Amir Khusrau
The Divan of Amir Khusrau (ديوان امير حسرو) is the five collections of lyric poetry that the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusrau Dehlavi assembled during his lifetime.
Divan of Anvari
The Divan of Anvari (دیوان انوری) is the collected poetical works of Awhad al-Din Anvari of Abivard, the leading Persian panegyrist of the 12th-century Saljuq court.
Divan of Attar
The Divan of Attar (دیوان عطار) is the collected lyric poetry of the Persian Sufi poet Farid-al-Din Attar of Nishapur, comprising ghazals, qasidas, and tarji'-bands, assembled by the poet himself.
Divan of Baba Tahir
The Divan of Baba Tahir is the collected poetry, mostly short do-bayti quatrains, attributed to Baba Tahir, a dervish poet of Hamadan in western Iran.
Divan of Babur
The Divan of Babur is the collected poetry of Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, written mostly in Chagatai Turkic and counted a classic of Chagatai literature.
Divan of Bahar
The Divan of Bahar (دیوان بهار) is the collected Persian poetry of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, about 40,000 verses of political and social poems from Iran's Constitutional Revolution era.