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Dignity of risk
Dignity of risk, also called the right to take reasonable risks, is a care ethics principle coined by Robert Perske in 1972 for people with intellectual disabilities, now embedded in disability and aged care law including Australia's Aged Care Act 2024.
Dignity therapy
Dignity therapy is a brief psychotherapy for patients with advanced illness, in which a recorded life-story interview is edited into a legacy document to bequeath to loved ones.
Digory Kirke
Digory Kirke is the C. S. Lewis Narnia character, boy of The Magician's Nephew (1955) who wakes Jadis in Charn and witnesses Narnia's creation, and the Professor (1888–1949) who hosts the Pevensies.
Digoxigenin
Digoxigenin is a cardenolide steroid from Digitalis foxglove plants and the aglycone of digoxin, used as a hapten for non-radioactive labeling of DNA and RNA probes.
Digoxin
Digoxin, a cardiac glycoside from Digitalis lanata, treats mild to moderate heart failure and controls ventricular rate in chronic atrial fibrillation; neutral mortality in trials, narrow therapeutic window.
Digoxin toxicity
Digoxin toxicity, also called digitalis intoxication, is poisoning by the cardiac glycoside digoxin, marked by GI, visual, and cardiac symptoms, hyperkalemia, and arrhythmias; treated with digoxin immune Fab (DigiBind, DigiFab).
Digraph (orthography)
Digraph (orthography): a pair of letters, also called a bigraph, representing one sound, such as English sh, th, ph. Covers consonant and vowel digraphs, trigraphs, ligatures, and the early medieval origin of th, ch, uu in Germanic writing.
Digri
Digri (ڈگری; ڊگهڙي) is a town and tehsil in Mirpur Khas District, Sindh, Pakistan, the district's second largest town; 2023 census: 234,578 tehsil and 41,774 town residents, with Digri Sugar Mills as its main industry.
DIGS study
The Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS) is a longitudinal cohort study at the University of California, San Diego, running since 1995 to find the best methods for detecting glaucoma progression.
DIgSILENT PowerFactory
DIgSILENT PowerFactory is a commercial power system analysis software for modeling generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial electrical networks, developed by DIgSILENT GmbH in Gomaringen, Germany.
Digte
Digte (Danish for "poems") is the body of lyric poetry by Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Denmark's leading eighteenth-century lyricist, whose "Kong Christian stod ved højen Mast" (1779) became one of Denmark's two national songs.
Digua Robotics (地瓜机器人)
Digua Robotics (地瓜机器人) is a Shenzhen company spun out of Horizon Robotics in 2024 that sells chips, developer kits, and software to robot makers rather than building robots.
Diguanylate cyclase Dgc-like, bacteria
Diguanylate cyclase (DGC, Dgc-like, GGDEF domain) enzymes in bacteria synthesize the second messenger c-di-GMP from two GTP molecules as homodimers, regulating biofilm formation, motility, and virulence; balanced by EAL and HD-GYP phosphodiesterases.
Digvijaya Singh (दिग्विजय सिंह)
Digvijaya Singh (दिग्विजय सिंह), Indian National Congress leader, two-term Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh 1993–2003, Rajya Sabha MP 2014–2026, known as Diggy Raja.
Digvijaynath
Digvijaynath, the Mahant of the Gorakhnath Math, was an Indian political leader. He joined the Hindu Mahasabha in 1937 and was involved in the Ayodhya movement.
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji (दिग्विजयसिंहजी) was the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, reigning from 1933 to 1948, best known for sheltering Polish refugee children during World War II.
Digwa
Digwa, also spelled Deggua (Ge'ez ድጓ), is the main antiphonary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, a collection of Ge'ez hymns for the whole liturgical year, traditionally attributed to Saint Yared.
Dihedral angle
A dihedral angle is the angle between two intersecting planes, measured on a plane normal to their shared edge; it describes faces of polyhedra and molecular torsion.
Dihedral group
The dihedral group is the group of symmetries of a regular n-sided polygon, consisting of n rotations and n reflections for 2n elements, and is a standard first example of a finite non-abelian group.
Dihedral group of order 8
The dihedral group of order 8, also called the symmetry group of a square, is the group of the eight symmetries of a square: four rotations and four reflections.
Dihmit South
Dihmit South, also printed Dehmit South, is a fortified ancient mining settlement east of Aswan, Egypt, on the east bank of Lake Nasser, first surveyed in 2023.
Dihok
Dihok (Duhok, Dohuk; Syriac Nohadra) is the capital of Duhok Governorate in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, founded as a town in 1887 under Ottoman rule, a governorate seat since 1969, a university city, and a major refuge for displaced people since 2014.
Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid
Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA), also known as bishomo-gamma-linolenic acid, is a 20-carbon omega-6 fatty acid formed from gamma-linolenic acid and convertible to arachidonic acid, known as a precursor of anti-inflammatory eicosanoids such as prostaglandin E1.
Dihua Yu
Dihua Yu is a cancer biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she chairs Molecular Oncology and studies breast and pancreatic cancer metastasis and therapy resistance.
Dihuang Yinzi
地黄饮子 (Dihuang Yinzi), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Liu Wansu's Jin-dynasty Xuanming Lunfang; 12 herbs tonifying kidney yin and yang, originally for yinfei (speech loss, leg paralysis), now studied for Parkinson's disease and dementia.
Dihuixin (广州迪会信医疗器械有限公司) (迪会信)
Dihuixin (Guangzhou Dihuixin Medical Instrument Co., Ltd.) is a Guangzhou-based distributor of imported in-vitro diagnostic products, founded in 2015 and majority owned by Dian Diagnostics since 2022.
Dihya
Dihya, also known as al-Kahina (الكاهنة), was a Berber leader based in the Aurès mountains of eastern Algeria who resisted the Umayyad conquest until her death between 698 and 703.
Dihybrid cross
Dihybrid cross: a mating between two organisms identically hybrid for two traits, first performed by Mendel in 1865 pea experiments; yields a 9:3:3:1 F2 phenotypic ratio under independent assortment, altered by linkage or epistasis.
Dihydralazine
Dihydralazine (Nepresol), a hydralazine-family direct arteriolar vasodilator, half-life 4-5 h, used mainly for severe hypertension in pregnancy in Germany; declining due to frequent adverse effects.
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PPQ, DP, Duo-Cotexin) is a fixed-dose artemisinin combination therapy for uncomplicated malaria: fast dihydroartemisinin plus long-acting piperaquine, superior to artemether-lumefantrine in Africa but failing in the Greater Mekong subregion.