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Dorsa Sadigh
Dorsa Sadigh is a computer scientist and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research helps robots learn from and adapt to humans.
Dorsa Smirnov
Dorsa Smirnov, a 221.78-km lunar wrinkle ridge system in eastern Mare Serenitatis, northern half of the Serpentine Ridge; IAU named 1976 for Soviet Earth scientist Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov.
Dorsa Sorby
Dorsa Sorby is a lunar wrinkle ridge system in southern Mare Serenitatis, near side, about 76 km long at 18.65°N 13.70°E, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for British Earth scientist Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908).
Dorsa Tetyaev
Dorsa Tetyaev is a 187.53-km lunar wrinkle ridge system along the eastern edge of Mare Crisium, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for Soviet geologist Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev (1882-1956).
Dorsa Whiston
Dorsa Whiston (Whiston Dorsum system) is a ~221 km linear wrinkle ridge in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon's nearside, formed by thrust faulting of mare basalt and named for astronomer William Whiston.
Dorsal cochlear nucleus
Dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN), part of the cochlear nucleus with the ventral cochlear nucleus; a laminar, cerebellum-like auditory brainstem nucleus processing spectral cues for sound localization and implicated in tinnitus and hyperacusis.
Dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway
Dorsal column–medial lemniscus (DCML) pathway: ascending CNS tract carrying fine touch, vibration, two-point discrimination, and conscious proprioception from the body (excluding the face) via dorsal root ganglion, dorsal column nuclei, medullary decussation, thalamic VPL, to postcentral gyrus.
Dorsal rhizotomy
Dorsal rhizotomy, also known as selective dorsal rhizotomy, is a neurosurgical procedure that divides sensory nerve rootlets to reduce spasticity, most often in children with cerebral palsy.
Dorsal root ganglion
Dorsal root ganglion (DRG, spinal ganglion): cluster of pseudo-unipolar sensory neuron cell bodies in each spinal nerve's dorsal root, within the neuroforamen; also the stimulation target FDA-approved in 2016 for chronic CRPS pain.
Dorsal root ganglion stimulation
Dorsal root ganglion stimulation is an implanted neuromodulation therapy for chronic focal neuropathic pain, FDA approved in 2016 for lower-limb complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
Dorsal root of spinal nerve
Dorsal root of spinal nerve (posterior root): the entirely sensory bundle of afferent axons, with cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglion, carrying touch, pain, and temperature from the periphery into the spinal cord's dorsal horn.
Dorsal slit
Dorsal slit (preputiotomy): a surgical incision through both foreskin layers at the penis's upper surface, relieving phimosis and paraphimosis and serving as a step in many circumcision techniques; quicker and less bloody than circumcision but cosmetically less uniform.
Dorsal veins of the penis
Dorsal veins of the penis: the superficial and deep dorsal veins, midline vessels draining the penile skin, glans, and corpora; deep vein empties into the prostatic venous plexus, with additional cavernosal and para-arterial veins described.
Dorsalis pedis artery
The dorsalis pedis artery, also called the arteria dorsalis pedis, is the artery on the upper surface of the foot and a continuation of the anterior tibial artery.
Dorset
Dorset, a county in South West England, has been run since 1 April 2019 by two unitary councils, Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, replacing nine councils; rural, ageing population, Jurassic Coast, £8.1 billion economy.
Dorset culture
Dorset culture: Paleo-Inuit Arctic culture named by Jenness in 1925 after Cape Dorset, Baffin Island; final phase Late Dorset (about 500-1300 CE) from Victoria Island to Labrador, replaced by Thule Inuit around 1250 CE with little genetic exchange.
Dorset Cursus
The Dorset Cursus is the largest Neolithic cursus monument in the British Isles, a roughly 10 km bank-and-ditch enclosure on Cranborne Chase, Dorset, built in two stages (Gussage and Pentridge) around 3610–3380 cal BC.
Dorsey Converter Station
Dorsey Converter Station is an HVDC converter station in Rosser, Manitoba, where electricity from northern Nelson River hydro stations is converted back to AC, carrying over 70% of Manitoba's power.
Dorsey Island
Dorsey Island (Spanish: Dorsey, Isla) is an ice-covered Antarctic island at about 70°22'S, 71°30'W in the Wilkins Ice Shelf region near Alexander Island, notable for a rare 2-by-2-km sea lake at its northeast end.
Dorsey Levens
Dorsey Levens, nicknamed "The Horse," is a former NFL running back who starred for the Green Bay Packers, winning Super Bowl XXXI and making the 1997 Pro Bowl.
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC, dlPFC), Brodmann areas 9 and 46 in the middle frontal gyrus: executive-control hub for working memory manipulation, planning, and self-control, and a leading tDCS/TMS target in depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dorsten-Holsterhausen
Dorsten-Holsterhausen is a district of Dorsten, Germany, known for traces of up to ten Roman military camps from the campaigns around the turn of the era.
Dorsum Arduino
Dorsum Arduino, a 99.73 km lunar wrinkle ridge centered at 24.77N, 36.27W, IAU-approved 1976 and named for Giovanni Arduino, Italian Earth scientist (1713-1795) who coined Tertiary.
Dorsum Azara
Dorsum Azara is a lunar wrinkle ridge about 103 km long in western Mare Serenitatis, west of Dorsa Smirnov, with a low crest under 200 m.
Dorsum Bucher
Dorsum Bucher, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) 84.65 km across at 30.76°N, 39.55°W, IAU-approved 1976 and named for American geologist Walter Herman Bucher (1889–1965).
Dorsum Buckland
Dorsum Buckland, a 396 km wrinkle ridge in western Mare Serenitatis on the Moon, IAU-named 1976 for geologist William Buckland; basalt-compression ridge with boulders imaged by LROC.
Dorsum Cayeux
Dorsum Cayeux, a lunar wrinkle ridge in Mare Fecunditatis at 0.76°N 51.22°E, 95.14 km long, IAU-named 1976 for French sedimentary petrographer Lucien Cayeux (1864-1944).
Dorsum Cloos
Dorsum Cloos is a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) about 103 km long near 1.15°N, 90.41°E on the Moon, IAU-named in 1976 for German geologist Hans Cloos (1885–1951).
Dorsum Cushman
Dorsum Cushman, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) near 1.4°N 49.2°E, 85.65 km across, IAU-approved 1976 and named for American micropaleontologist Joseph Augustine Cushman (1881–1949).
Dorsum Grabau
Dorsum Grabau, a 123.69 km wrinkle ridge in Mare Imbrium on the Moon north of Timocharis crater, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for American paleontologist Amadeus William Grabau (1870-1946).