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Drakes Bay Oyster Company
Drakes Bay Oyster Company, the historic oyster farm in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California; farmed from 1935, run by the Lunny family 2004-2014, closed December 31, 2014 after the Salazar permit decision and Ninth Circuit litigation; the name now covers a Baja oyster importer.
Draksadi (afi afi-draksadi)
Draksadi (द्राक्षादि, Drākṣādi) is a family of Ayurvedic formulations named for draksha, the dried grape or raisin, their lead ingredient, with forms including decoctions, pills, and powders.
Draksadi Gutika
Draksadi Gutika (Drākṣādi guṭikā, द्राक्षादि गुटिका) is an Ayurvedic polyherbal tablet (AFI000455) of grape, haritaki, and sugar, dosed 6-12 g, used mainly for amlapitta (hyperacidity, non-ulcer dyspepsia).
Draksadi kvatha curna
Draksadi kvatha curna (Drākṣādi kvātha cūrṇa), also Drakshadi Kashayam, is an Ayurvedic Formulary of India grape-based powdered decoction (AFI000306, 48 g) for vomiting, vata-pitta fever, thirst, and syncope.
Draksarista
Draksarista (Draksharishta, Drākṣāriṣṭa) is a fermented Ayurvedic liquid medicine with raisins (Vitis vinifera) as chief ingredient, jaggery, and eight herbs; 5–10% self-generated alcohol, used for digestion, respiration, and weakness.
Draksasava
Draksasava (द्राक्षासव, Drakshasava), a fermented Ayurvedic grape-based asava from the Ayurvedic Formulary of India; dose 12–24 ml, 5–10% self-generated alcohol, used for anorexia, heart disease, anemia, and weakness.
Draksavaleha
Draksavaleha (Drakshavaleha, Drākṣāvalēha) is a classical Ayurvedic grape-based semisolid avaleha from Ashtanga Hridaya, listed in India's Essential Drugs List for Pandu (anemia), Kamala, Daurbalya, and Kshaya, dose 6-12 gm.
Drama therapy
Drama therapy is an active, experiential psychotherapy that uses role-play, storytelling, improvisation, and projective tools to achieve psychological growth and change, improving anxiety, depression, and social skills.
Dramatherapy
Dramatherapy is a psychotherapy method using drama techniques such as role play, improvisation, storytelling, puppets, and masks to help clients explore emotions, with a medium overall effect in controlled studies.
Drapetomania
Drapetomania, from Greek drapetes (runaway slave) plus mania, was a pseudoillness coined in 1851 by physician Samuel A. Cartwright to explain enslaved people fleeing captivity; now rejected as scientific racism.
Dravet syndrome
Dravet syndrome, formerly severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy starting in infancy, usually from de novo SCN1A mutations causing Nav1.1 loss in inhibitory interneurons, with drug-resistant seizures, intellectual disability, and elevated SUDEP risk.
Dravyagunavigyan
Dravyagunavigyan (Dravyaguna Vigyana, द्रव्यगुण विज्ञान) is Ayurveda's pharmacology and materia medica, analyzing drugs through Rasa, Guna, Virya, Vipaka, and Prabhava; taught as a 400-hour BAMS subject and covered by WHO training benchmarks.
Drawer test (orthopedics)
The drawer test is a knee examination maneuver that checks ACL and PCL laxity by pulling the tibia against the femur with the knee flexed to 90 degrees.
Drazoxolon
Drazoxolon (CAS 5707-69-7), an obsolete isoxazolone fungicide first reported in 1967, inhibits fungal nucleic acid synthesis; not EU-approved, toxic if swallowed, very toxic to aquatic life.
DRD1
DRD1 (dopamine receptor D1, D1R, DADR) is the human chromosome 5q35.2 gene encoding the D(1A) dopamine receptor, a 446-amino-acid intronless GPCR, the most abundant CNS dopamine receptor, coupled to Gs/Golf-cAMP signaling and a drug target without an approved central ligand.
Dream
Dream: spontaneous experiences, mostly visual and emotional, occurring during sleep, most vividly in REM sleep. Key theories include Freud's 1900 psychoanalysis, Hobson and McCarley's 1977 activation-synthesis, and memory-consolidation accounts.
DREAM trial (NCT02128763)
DREAM (Dry Eye Assessment and Management, NCT02128763) was a 27-site NIH-funded randomized trial of 535 patients testing 3000 mg daily omega-3 versus olive oil placebo for dry eye disease; neither symptoms nor signs differed between groups.
DreaminLMBC study
DreaminLMBC (NCT05550090, ZCHBC022) is an observational study using DCE-MRI combined with IVIM-DWI to predict early chemotherapy sensitivity of breast cancer liver metastases in about 40 patients.
Dreissena rostriformis bugensis
Dreissena rostriformis bugensis, commonly the quagga mussel, is a small freshwater bivalve mollusk native to the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine that invaded the Great Lakes in the mid-1980s and displaced the zebra mussel.
Drentse Patrijshond
Drentse Patrijshond (Drentsche Patrijshond, Drentsche Partridge Dog), a Dutch spaniel-type pointing dog from Drenthe, derived from 16th-century Spioenen; recognized 1943, FCI Group 7 standard 224, white-and-brown versatile gundog.
Drepanidae
Drepanidae, hooktip and false owlet moths, is a moth family in Drepanoidea with four subfamilies (Drepaninae, Oretinae, Thyatirinae, Cyclidiinae), about 660 species, sister to Geometridae, with hooked forewings in Drepaninae and quadrifid hindwing venation.
Drepanodus
Drepanodus, conodont genus established by Pander in 1856, Ordovician marine chordate known from curved phosphatic elements; type species D. arcuatus ranges practically throughout the Ordovician worldwide.
Dressler syndrome
Dressler syndrome, also called post-myocardial infarction syndrome, is an immune-mediated pericarditis that develops 1 to 8 weeks after heart injury, most often a myocardial infarction, first described by William Dressler in 1956.
Drew E. Altman
Drew E. Altman is an American health policy expert who founded and has led KFF for more than 30 years and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Drew M. Pardoll
Drew M. Pardoll is a Johns Hopkins oncologist who discovered the PD-1 ligand PD-L2, helped lead early clinical trials of PD-1 immunotherapy, and directs the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
Drew Pinsky
Drew Pinsky, known publicly as Dr. Drew, is an American physician board-certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine who hosted the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline for 32 years and the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab.
Drew Weissman
Drew Weissman is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for modified mRNA research.
DRF-7295
DRF-7295 (DRF 7295) was Dabur Research Foundation's peptide-based anticancer vaccine candidate, a mix of four neuropeptide analogues, in Indian Phase 1 (2002) and Phase 2 (2004) trials, abandoned after 2008.
Dried and salted cod
Dried and salted cod (bacalhau, baccalà, klippfisk) is cod cured with salt and dried for preservation without refrigeration; distinct from unsalted stockfish, it is soaked 24-48 hours before dishes like bacalhau à brás and brandade.
Dried blood spot testing
Dried blood spot testing is a clinical method in which a drop of capillary blood is dried on filter paper and analyzed, underpinning newborn screening.