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Dacryocystography

Dacryocystography (DCG) is a radiographic technique that injects iodinated contrast into a tear duct canaliculus to image the lacrimal drainage system and locate the site of obstruction in patients with overflowing tears.

Dacryocystorhinostomy

Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is eye surgery that creates a new path for tears to drain between the eyes and the nose when the tear duct is blocked, treating epiphora and dacryocystitis.

Dacryodes

Dacryodes is a genus of about 71 evergreen, resin-producing trees in the frankincense family Burseraceae, native to humid tropical forests of tropical America and Asia.

Dacryolith

Dacryolith (tear stone, 涙石): a concretion of the lacrimal drainage system, ICD-11 9A11.6, found in 6-18% of DCR patients, composed mainly of proteins, mucins, and TFF peptides, treated by extraction.

Dacryopinax spathularia glycolipids

Dacryopinax spathularia glycolipids (AM-1, Nagardo, E 246) are long-chain glycolipids fermented from the edible jelly fungus D. spathularia MUCL 53181, used as a natural antimicrobial beverage preservative; EFSA ADI 10 mg/kg bw per day, US GRAS (GRN 740).

Dactolisib

Dactolisib (BEZ235, NVP-BEZ235) is an oral imidazoquinoline dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor developed by Novartis; the first such agent in trials, discontinued for toxicity and limited efficacy, distinct from gedatolisib.

Dactylioceras

Dactylioceras is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopods, the type genus of Dactylioceratidae, that lived from the late Pliensbachian into the Toarcian of the Early Jurassic.

Dactylis

Dactylis is a small genus of tufted perennial grasses in the grass family, best known for Dactylis glomerata, the cultivated forage grass called orchardgrass or cocksfoot.

Dactylis glomerata

Dactylis glomerata, known as orchardgrass in North America and cocksfoot in Europe, is a cool-season perennial bunchgrass and a major forage grass for grazing and hay in temperate climates.

Dactylogyrus

Dactylogyrus is a genus of monogenean flatworms, commonly called gill flukes, that parasitize the gills of freshwater fishes, chiefly cyprinids, with more than 900 described species.

Dactylorhiza

Dactylorhiza, the marsh and spotted orchids, is a genus of about 34 temperate Northern Hemisphere orchid species with digitate tubers, defined by frequent hybridization, the incarnata/maculata polyploid complex, and disputed species limits.

Dactyly

Dactyly: the number and arrangement of digits in vertebrate limbs (pentadactyly, polydactyly, oligodactyly, syndactyly). Patterned by Shh from the ZPA and Turing-like mechanisms; early tetrapods were polydactylous before five digits stabilized.

DAD-IS

DAD-IS (Domestic Animal Diversity Information System) is FAO's global clearing-house database for livestock breed data, holding over 15,000 national breed populations from 182 countries, with risk-of-extinction classifications feeding SDG Indicators 2.5.1 and 2.5.2.

Daddy (dog)

Daddy (c. 1994–2010) was an American Pit Bull Terrier who served as Cesar Millan's primary mentor dog on Dog Whisperer, appearing in more than 50 episodes before dying at 16 in 2010.

Dadhika ghrta

Dadhika ghrta (Dādhika ghṛta), a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee with curd four times the ghee's weight, defined in Sushruta Samhita for gulma; AFI000421, 12 g dose, about 60 ingredients.

Dadimadi ghrta

Dadimadi ghrta (Dāḍimādi Ghṛta, दादिमादी घृत) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee of pomegranate, coriander, citraka, ginger, and pippali in cow ghee, standardized in the API and used mainly for anemia (Pandu) and pregnancy-related conditions.

Dadimastaka Curna

Dadimastaka Curna (Dāḍimāṣṭaka cūrṇa), an Ayurvedic pomegranate-based polyherbal powder (AFI000549, dose 5–10 g) used for diarrhea, indigestion, and perinatal care; standardized by HPLC/HPTLC markers.

DADZ

DADZ (zinc-dimethylditiocarbamate), EU ID 597, is a zinc dithiocarbamate formerly assessed as an EU pesticide active substance; it is not approved, was non-included by Regulation 2002/2076, and carries a default MRL of 0.01 mg/kg.

Daehan Hospital

Daehan Hospital (대한의원) was the state hospital of the Korean Empire, established in 1907 and opened in 1908; its main building in Seoul is now a designated Historic Site.

Daeyeol Lee

Daeyeol Lee (이대열) is a South Korean-born neuroscientist who studies decision making in the primate brain and helped found neuroeconomics, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins since 2019.

Daflon

Daflon 500 mg (micronized purified flavonoid fraction, MPFF; diosmin 450 mg plus hesperidin 50 mg) is a Servier venoactive drug for chronic venous insufficiency and hemorrhoids, widely prescribed in Europe but not available in the USA.

Dafna Bar-Sagi

Dafna Bar-Sagi is a cancer biologist who studies how the Ras oncogene drives tumor growth, especially in pancreatic cancer, and leads science at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dafna D. Gladman

Dafna D. Gladman is a Canadian rheumatologist and University of Toronto professor who built the world's largest psoriatic arthritis cohort and founded the lupus research group SLICC.

Dag Aarsland

Dag Aarsland is a Norwegian old age psychiatrist and dementia researcher who is professor and head of the Department of Old Age Psychiatry at King's College London.

DAG1

DAG1 (dystroglycan 1, HGNC 2666, OMIM 128239) is a human gene on 3p21.31 encoding dystroglycan, cleaved into alpha- and beta-dystroglycan subunits of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex; mutations cause dystroglycanopathies including LGMDR16 and Walker-Warburg syndrome.

Dagmar Klostermeier

Dagmar Klostermeier is a biochemist who heads the Chair of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Münster, studying RNA helicases and DNA topoisomerases as ATP-driven molecular machines.

Dagmar Ringe

Dagmar Ringe is a biochemist and Professor Emerita at Brandeis University, a pioneer of structural enzymology known for her work on pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes and for inventing solvent mapping, a fragment-based drug discovery method.

Dahlia

Dahlia (Nahuatl: acocoxochitl, "water pipe flower") is a genus of about 42 tuberous perennials native to Mexico and Central America and grown worldwide for its showy summer and autumn blooms.

DAI trial

DAI trial (NCT05471180), a withdrawn randomized double-blind Brazilian trial testing 660 nm diode laser photobiomodulation plus protective spray film versus sham for incontinence-associated dermatitis in 78 hospitalized adults.

Daifuku (大福)

Daifuku (大福) is a Japanese wagashi of sweet bean paste wrapped in mochi or gyuhi dough, once called harabuto-mochi; varieties include mame, kusa, shio, and ichigo (strawberry) daifuku, distinct from the daifuku bean.