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noun
- a grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C
proper noun
- (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off
abbreviation
- Defense
- (US politics) Democrat
- Deny
- Divorced
- Down
- Drive
- Dutch language.
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verb (denatures, denaturing, denatured, denatured)
- to take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of a thing or a person
- (in reference to alcohol) to add something that makes alcohol unsuitable for consumption but leaves the alcohol suitable for other purposes
- While you cannot drink denatured alcohol, you can still use it to remove sticker glue from most surfaces.
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noun
- (steroid hormone) A steroid hormone, produced in the adrenal cortex; sometimes manufactured synthetically for use in cases of adrenal insufficiency.
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| deoxyribose |
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noun
- (biochemistry) A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent the nucleotides that comprise the biopolyer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
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| detoxification |
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noun
- The act of remove, removing toxins.
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| dextrin |
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noun - (chemistry) a range of polymers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives
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| dextrose |
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noun
- the naturally-occuring dextrorotatory form of glucose
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| DHA |
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initialism - DocosaHexaenoic? Acid
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| dialytic |
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adjective
- Pertaining to dialysis
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| diastase |
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noun
- (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes which catalyses the breakdown of starch into maltose; mostly amylase
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| digest |
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noun
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- Comyn's Digest
- the United States Digest
- Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- Reader's Digest is published monthly.
verb (rfc-level, Verb at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- to laws
- (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- (context, transitive, chemistry) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- (intransitive) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
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| dinucleotide |
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noun - (biochemistry) any molecule consisting primarily of two nucleotide units
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| dipeptide |
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noun - (chemistry) an organic compound formed from two amino acids joined by a peptide bond
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| dopamine |
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noun
- (neurotransmitter) A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention, learning, and the brain's pleasure and reward system.
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| dopaminergic |
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adjective
- The quality of containing, involving, or transmitting dopamine.
- The nucleus accumbens is one of the most studied nuclei in the system.
- The quality of being related to dopamine.
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