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Dumping syndrome

Dumping syndrome: postprandial gastrointestinal and vasomotor symptoms from rapid gastric emptying after esophageal, gastric, or bariatric surgery; early (within 30 min) and late (hypoglycemic, 1-3 h) forms; diagnosed by modified OGTT; treated with diet, acarbose, somatostatin analogues.

Dumplin' (film)

Dumplin' (2018) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Anne Fletcher, based on Julie Murphy's YA novel, starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, with a Dolly Parton soundtrack and a Golden Globe-nominated song.

Dumpling

Dumpling: small dough parcel, filled or plain, boiled, steamed, fried, or baked; also called jiaozi, gyoza, pierogi, mandu, ravioli. Chinese jiaozi date back over 1,800 years; soup dumpling market exceeds $6.8 billion.

Dumplings (饺子)

Dumplings (餃子, Gaau ji) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film by Fruit Chan, expanded from a Three... Extremes segment, starring Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, and Tony Leung Ka-fai as customers of youth-restoring dumplings made from aborted fetuses.

Dumpster

Dumpster, originally a 1935 Dempster Brothers trademark from Knoxville, Tennessee, is the American common name for a large steel waste container emptied mechanically into a garbage truck, the British equivalent being the skip.

Dumpster diving

Dumpster diving, also called skip dipping or bin-diving, is recovering usable goods, especially food, from waste receptacles; it spans food insecurity, freegan anti-consumerism, and legality under California v. Greenwood.

Dumsor

Dumsor, also written Dum-Sor or Dum So, is the Ghanaian term from Akan words for "off" and "on" for the country's persistent, erratic power outages and load shedding.

Dumuzi Fossa

Dumuzi Fossa, a 619-km fossa (graben) on Pluto in Viking Terra, approved by the IAU on Feb 3, 2021; named for the Sumerian harvest god Dumuzi, husband of Inanna, running parallel to Inanna Fossa.

Dumuzid

Dumuzid (Dumu-zi, Akkadian Tammuz), Sumerian shepherd god and consort of Inanna, dies and descends to the netherworld in Inanna's Descent and Dumuzid's Dream; later equated with Adonis, but modern scholarship rejects his resurrection.

Dumuzid the Fisherman

Dumuzid the Fisherman, also known as Dumuzi the Fisherman, is a legendary king of Uruk in the Sumerian King List who succeeded Lugalbanda and preceded Gilgamesh.

Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) is an American commercial data and analytics company, founded in 1841, that assigns D-U-N-S Numbers and sells business credit and risk insights.

Dún Ailinne

Dún Ailinne (Knockaulin Hill), near Kilcullen, Co. Kildare: Iron Age royal site and ceremonial enclosure of the Kings of Leinster, 13 ha bank-and-internal-ditch henge with White, Rose, and Mauve timber-structure phases, excavated 1968–1975 by Bernard Wailes.

Dún Aonghasa

Dún Aonghasa is a prehistoric stone fort on Inis Mór, the largest of Ireland's Aran Islands, perched on a sea cliff and more than 3,000 years old.

Dun Carloway

Dun Carloway (Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is an Iron Age broch near Carloway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Built around 200 BC, it stands about 9 m tall, is the best-preserved broch in the Western Isles, and is a scheduled monument in Historic Environment Scotland's care.

Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire, formerly Dunleary and Kingstown (1821–1920), is a coastal town 12 km south of Dublin, population about 26,500, built around its 1817 asylum harbour, Ireland's first railway (1834), and a former ferry port.

Duna Aszfalt

Duna Aszfalt is a Hungarian road-construction company based in Tiszakécske, founded and wholly owned by entrepreneur László Szíjj, with most work funded by the state.

Duna Surf Lounge

Duna Surf Lounge is a surf venue and beach bar at Praia de Mira, Portugal, organizer of the Secret Surf Fest with Secret Surf School, and the name of a beginner A-frame beach break nearby.

Dunaliella bardawil

Dunaliella bardawil, a halotolerant green microalga isolated near Bardawil lagoon, Israel, in 1976; a form of D. salina that accumulates over 10% dry weight beta-carotene and is GRAS (GRN 351) as a food ingredient.

Dunam

The dunam, from Ottoman dönüm and also spelled dunum, is a Middle Eastern land unit of 1,000 square meters, still used in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Dunama Dabbalemi

Dunama Dabbalemi, also written Dunama Dibalemi, was mai of the Kanem Empire from about 1221 to 1259, ruling at its peak and declaring jihad against neighboring peoples.

Dunama I of Kanem

Dunama I of Kanem (دونما بن هومه) was a king of the Kanem kingdom on Lake Chad, of the Sayfawa dynasty, who expanded the kingdom to the middle Nile and reigned until 1150.

Dunamu

Dunamu (두나무) is a Seoul-based fintech company founded in 2012, best known as the operator of Upbit, South Korea's largest digital asset exchange, launched in October 2017.

Dunant (submarine cable)

Dunant is a private transatlantic submarine communications cable owned by Google, running from Virginia Beach to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France, and entering service around 2020 to 2021.

Dunăreni

Dunăreni, a village in Aliman commune, Constanța County, Romania, beside the Roman auxiliary fort Sacidava on Dealul Muzait; excavated 1969-1979 and since 2014, with the DUNĂRENI 1 coin hoard of AD 378-383.

Dunaujvaros

Dunaujvaros (Dunaújváros), industrial Hungarian town on the Danube 70 km south of Budapest; home of Dunaferr SE, Hungarian football champions 2000, later Dunaújváros FC/PASE, excluded from NB III in 2026.

Dunav

Dunav (Дунав), FC Dunav Ruse, Bulgarian football club founded 16 February 1949, playing at Ruse's Gradski Stadium in sky blue and white; 1962 cup finalists, 1975 UEFA Cup winners over Roma, 2025/26 Second League champions back in the First League.

Dunbar Armored robbery

Dunbar Armored robbery: $18.9 million armed takeover of the Dunbar Armored depot in Los Angeles on September 13, 1997, led by fired guard Allen Pace III; largest U.S. cash armed robbery until the 2024 GardaWorld heist.

Dunbar's number

Dunbar's number is the ~150-person limit on stable human social relationships proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar from primate neocortex size, with layers of 5, 15, 50, and 150 and contested empirical support.

Dunblane massacre

The Dunblane massacre: 13 March 1996 school shooting at Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, where Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and teacher Gwen Mayor, prompting the Cullen Inquiry and the UK handgun ban.

Dunc Gray

Dunc Gray (Edgar Laurence Gray, 1906-1996), Australian track cyclist from Goulburn; won Australia's first Olympic cycling medal (bronze, 1928) and first cycling gold (1932 time trial, world record 1:13); Dunc Gray Velodrome named for him.