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Words starting with D
735 words from the Lexfall vocabulary, each with a definition and an example sentence.
- dacryocystitis Inflammation of the lacrimal sac, usually secondary to obstruction of the nasolacrimal...
- dainty A choice and delicious morsel of food; a delicacy.
- dalliance A brief and casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- damage control Action taken to limit the harm caused by a scandal or blunder.
- damages A sum of money claimed or awarded as compensation.
- damages-based agreement A funding arrangement under which the lawyer's fee is a share of any damages recovered.
- damages in lieu of an injunction A monetary award granted in equity as a substitute for restraining or compelling conduct.
- damning Strongly indicating guilt or wrongdoing.
- dangerousness The statutory assessment of an offender's risk of causing serious future harm.
- dantrolene A skeletal muscle relaxant that inhibits calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum,...
- dappled Marked with patches of light and shade or of contrasting colour.
- dark academia An aesthetic romanticising classic study, old libraries and tweed.
- dark social Sharing and referral traffic that flows through private channels and cannot be traced by...
- data clean room A secure environment where two parties match audience data without exposing raw records...
- data controller The natural or legal person that determines the purposes and means of the processing of...
- data lineage The documented trail of where a data element originates and every transformation it...
- data minimisation The principle that personal data must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is...
- data processing agreement A contract required by Article 28 that governs the processing carried out by a processor...
- data processor A natural or legal person that processes personal data on behalf of, and under the...
- data protection by design and by default The obligation to embed appropriate technical and organisational safeguards into...
- data protection impact assessment A documented assessment of the risks to individuals arising from processing that is...
- data protection officer An independently acting individual appointed to advise on and monitor an organisation's...
- data storytelling The practice of framing analysis as a clear narrative with context and a recommendation,...
- data subject The identified or identifiable living individual to whom personal data relates.
- data subject access request A request by which a data subject exercises their right to obtain confirmation of, and a...
- database right A right protecting the substantial investment made in obtaining and presenting the...
- dating scan An early ultrasound that estimates gestational age and confirms the expected date of...
- dauntless Showing determination and no fear in the face of difficulty or danger.
- dawdle To move or walk slowly and idly, wasting time.
- dawn raid An unannounced on-site inspection of a company's premises by a competition authority to...
- day-one hypothesis An initial best-guess answer to the client's question formed at the very start of a...
- dayparting Scheduling ads for the times of day when the target audience is most receptive.
- de bene esse Provisionally, allowed to stand for now subject to later challenge.
- de-escalate To reduce the intensity of a tense or agitated situation through calm communication.
- de-escalation The practice of narrowing antibiotic therapy to a more targeted agent once culture and...
- de facto Existing in fact, whether or not by legal right.
- de facto merger doctrine A judicial theory that recharacterises an asset sale as a merger so the buyer inherits...
- de jure Existing by right or according to law, whether or not that is the position in fact.
- de minimis So trivial or minor that the law will not take account of it.
- de minimis breach A trivial non-performance too slight to justify termination or substantial damages.
- de minimis non curat lex The law does not concern itself with trifling matters.
- de minimis threshold A floor below which individual warranty claims are disregarded entirely.
- de-risk To take deliberate action that reduces the likelihood or impact of a threat to a project.
- de-scope To deliberately remove agreed features or work from a project to protect its budget or...
- dead-hand pill A poison pill redeemable only by the directors who adopted it, disabling a newly elected...
- dead-hand provision A poison-pill feature that only the incumbent directors who adopted it may redeem.
- dead stock Inventory that no longer sells yet keeps tying up space and capital.
- deadfreight Damages payable by a charterer who fails to load a full and complete cargo, representing...
- deadhead To run a vehicle empty, without revenue-generating cargo aboard.
- deadlock A complete standstill in decision-making caused by an even division of votes or interests.
- deadpan Delivering humour with a deliberately expressionless, matter-of-fact manner.
- deadstock Inventory that is unsold and unlikely to sell, tying up capital and warehouse space.
- deadweight loss The net economic value destroyed when a tax or distortion prevents mutually beneficial...
- deadwood Employees regarded as unproductive or no longer contributing.
- deal-breaker A condition serious enough to end the whole negotiation if unmet.
- deal desk The cross-functional team that vets, structures, and approves nonstandard pricing and...
- Dear Dr The formal salutation used when the recipient's name is known, taking a comma and the...
- dearth A scarcity or lack of something, frequently cited when identifying a gap in the...
- debacle A sudden, complete, and often humiliating failure or collapse.
- debarment Formal exclusion from an activity, office, or eligibility to contract.
- debasement The deliberate reduction of a currency's value or metallic content.
- debenture A long-term debt instrument, usually secured against a company's assets.
- debit An entry on the left side of an account that increases an asset or expense or reduces a...
- debottlenecking The practice of removing capacity constraints in a process to raise its overall output.
- debridement Removal of damaged tissue from a wound to aid healing.
- debrief To review an event together afterwards to share information and learn from it.
- debt pushdown The practice of transferring acquisition debt onto the balance sheet of the target...
- debt service cover ratio A financial covenant comparing cash flow available for debt service with scheduled...
- debtor A party that owes money to the business.
- debulking Surgical removal of as much of a tumour as possible to improve the effect of subsequent...
- debunk To expose the falseness of a belief, theory or claim.
- decacorn A privately held startup valued at over ten billion dollars.
- decant To transfer goods from a bulk container into smaller units for storage or sale.
- decarbonization The strategic reduction of a company's or portfolio's reliance on carbon-intensive...
- decay The gradual erosion of an option's value as it approaches expiry.
- deceit The tort of knowingly making a false representation intending that another rely on it to...
- deceleration A transient drop in the foetal heart rate seen on the trace, which may be a sign of...
- decentralise To distribute authority or functions away from a central point to lower or local units.
- deception The act of deliberately misleading another, often as the basis of an offence of...
- deceptiveness The tendency of a trade mark to mislead consumers about the nature, quality, or origin of...
- decerebrate Describing an abnormal extensor posturing of the limbs that indicates severe brainstem...
- decertify To withdraw a union's official recognition as the bargaining representative of a...
- deciduous Relating to the first set of temporary teeth that are later shed.
- decision-maker The person in an organisation who has the authority to approve a purchase.
- decision rights The formally agreed allocation of who is authorised to make which decisions.
- decisiveness The quality of making firm decisions quickly and acting on them.
- declaim To speak or recite rhetorically and with studied, often theatrical, emphasis.
- declaration A court order stating the legal position or rights of the parties without compelling any...
- declaration of incompatibility A judicial declaration that a statutory provision cannot be read compatibly with...
- declaratory Concerning a judgment that authoritatively states the parties' legal rights without...
- déclassé Having fallen or been lowered in social class or status.
- decolonisation The eradication of a colonising organism from a carrier to prevent infection or spread.
- decommissioning The controlled retirement of a system, service or asset once it is no longer needed.
- decompensate To lose the ability to maintain normal function, so that a previously stable condition...
- decompilation The conversion of object code back into readable form, permitted in limited cases to...
- decomposition The breaking down of a large deliverable into progressively smaller, manageable work...
- deconditioning The loss of physical fitness and function that follows a period of inactivity or bed rest.
- deconflict To resolve overlaps or clashes between competing plans or teams.
- deconfliction The active reconciliation of competing schedules, resources, or teams so their plans stop...
- deconsolidation Breaking a bulk inbound shipment into smaller loads bound for different destinations.
- decorous Characterised by dignified propriety in conduct, manners and appearance.
- decorticate Describing an abnormal flexor posturing of the arms with leg extension, indicating a...
- decorum Behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety.
- decouple To separate stages of a process so that disruption in one does not immediately halt the...
- decoupling The deliberate reduction of economic interdependence between two countries.
- decoy An inferior option deliberately introduced to make another choice appear more attractive.
- decoy effect The nudge created by introducing a deliberately inferior option to steer buyers toward a...
- decree absolute The final court order that legally ends a marriage and leaves both parties free to...
- decree nisi A provisional court order stating that a couple is entitled to divorce but which does not...
- decriminalise To cease to treat an act as a criminal offence.
- decry To publicly denounce or condemn something.
- decubitus A position in which the patient lies on one side, often used to detect free fluid or air.
- decumulation The drawing-down of accumulated savings to fund spending in retirement.
- deductible Capable of being subtracted from gross income in computing taxable profit.
- deduction The process of reasoning from general premises to a specific, logically certain...
- deductive Reasoning from general premises to a conclusion that follows with logical certainty.
- deduplication The removal of redundant duplicate records from a dataset.
- deed A formal legal document that is signed, witnessed and delivered to transfer property or...
- deed poll A deed made and executed by one party only.
- deem To treat something as being the case, by law or agreement.
- deemed Treated by the drafting as being the case, whether or not it is so in fact, in order to...
- deep dive A thorough and detailed examination of a specific topic or dataset.
- deepening insolvency The prolongation of a doomed company's life that swells its debts and destroys further...
- deepfake Synthetic audio or video that convincingly impersonates a real person.
- defalcation The misappropriation of money or property held in a fiduciary capacity.
- defamation The act of damaging someone's reputation with a false statement.
- defamatory Tending to injure a person's reputation by a false statement.
- default A failure to perform a legal or contractual duty, especially to pay.
- default judgment A judgment entered for the claimant because the defendant failed to respond in time.
- defeasance A collateral provision or condition that, on a stated event, defeats or annuls an estate...
- defeasible Capable of being overturned or annulled by further evidence or considerations.
- defect rate The proportion of produced units that fail to meet the required quality standard.
- defection The loss of a customer to a competitor.
- defendant The person accused or sued in a court case.
- defenestration The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
- defensibility How well a business can protect its position against competitors.
- defensible Describing a market position or advantage that can be protected against competitors over...
- defensive Describing an asset expected to hold its value relatively well during downturns.
- defer To postpone a task to a later time or hand the decision to someone more appropriate.
- defer to you To yield to someone else's greater authority or expertise on a matter.
- deference A court's willingness to defer to the assessments of the legislature or executive,...
- deferential Showing respectful submission to the judgement or authority of another.
- deferral The postponement of a tax liability to a later period.
- deferred compensation Pay withheld until a later date to encourage retention and long-term performance.
- deferred revenue Money received in advance for goods or services not yet delivered, recorded as a...
- deferred sentence Postponement of sentencing to test the offender's conduct over a set period.
- defibrillate To deliver a controlled electric shock to the heart to correct a life-threatening...
- defibrillation The delivery of an unsynchronised electric shock to terminate a lethal ventricular...
- defibrillator A device that delivers a controlled electric shock to the heart to restore a normal...
- deficiency The shortfall remaining owed to a creditor after the realisation of security or...
- deficit The amount by which spending exceeds income.
- defined benefit A pension that pays a guaranteed income based on salary and length of service rather than...
- defined contribution A pension whose eventual value depends on the sums paid in and how the invested funds...
- definition of done The shared, explicit checklist that a piece of work must satisfy before it counts as...
- deflation A sustained fall in the general price level, which tends to depress spending as consumers...
- deflationary Tending to cause a general fall in prices.
- deflator A statistical index used to convert nominal values into real ones by stripping out the...
- deflection The diversion of support requests away from live agents to self-service channels.
- deformity An abnormal shape or position of a body part.
- defraud To illegally deprive someone of money or rights through deception.
- defray To provide money to meet part or all of a cost.
- deftness Neat, quick and assured skill in movement or action.
- defuse To reduce the tension or danger in a difficult situation.
- deglutition The act or process of swallowing.
- degrading Humiliating a person or diminishing their dignity to a serious degree.
- degrouping The charge arising when a company leaves a group still holding assets transferred to it...
- degustation The careful, appreciative tasting or sampling of food and drink.
- dehiscence The partial or complete reopening of a surgical wound along its incision line.
- dehydration A harmful reduction in the body's water content when fluid loss exceeds intake.
- deindustrialisation The decline of a country's manufacturing base, often as production shifts abroad.
- del credere Describing an agent who, for extra commission, guarantees that the buyers they introduce...
- delayering Removing levels of middle management to flatten a hierarchy.
- delectable Delicious and extremely pleasing to the taste.
- delegable Capable of being entrusted to another to perform.
- delegate To assign a task to another team member while retaining accountability for its outcome.
- delegated Describing an act by which the Commission supplements or amends non-essential elements of...
- delegated legislation Rules made by a body other than the legislature under powers conferred by an enabling...
- delegation The entrusting of the performance of a contractual duty to another person.
- deleterious Causing harm or damage.
- deleverage To reduce the amount of debt a company or household carries.
- deleveraging The reduction of a company's debt burden relative to its equity or assets.
- deliberation Careful consideration or discussion before making a decision.
- deliberative Concerned with the careful discussion and weighing of matters before a decision.
- delict A civil wrong giving rise to an obligation to make reparation, especially in civil-law...
- delictual Relating to or arising from a delict.
- delineate To describe or define something precisely, marking out its boundaries.
- delinquency Criminal or antisocial behaviour, especially on the part of the young.
- delinquent Overdue and unpaid, or having failed to make a required payment.
- deliquesce To melt away or dissolve gradually, as if into liquid.
- delirium An acute, confused state with restlessness.
- delist To remove a company's securities from trading on a stock exchange.
- delisting The removal of a company's securities from trading on a stock exchange.
- deliverability The likelihood that an email will successfully reach the recipient's inbox.
- deliverable A defined, tangible output that a consulting team is contractually committed to producing.
- delivery up A court order compelling an infringer to surrender or destroy infringing articles and the...
- delocalisation The idea that an arbitration can float free of the legal system of its seat.
- delocalise To detach an arbitration from the law of the place where it is held.
- delta The sensitivity of a derivative's price to a change in the price of its underlying asset.
- deluge A severe flood or a very heavy fall of rain.
- delulu Happily delusional, especially about romantic or career prospects.
- delusion A fixed false belief held with certainty despite clear evidence to the contrary and not...
- delusions of reference The false belief that neutral events, objects or remarks carry special personal meaning.
- demagogue A leader who wins support by stoking popular prejudice.
- demagoguery Political persuasion that exploits popular prejudice and emotion rather than rational...
- demand-driven Determined chiefly by the level of buyer demand rather than by supply-side factors.
- demand forecasting The practice of estimating future customer demand to guide production and purchasing...
- demand-side substitutability The extent to which customers would switch to alternative products in response to a price...
- demarcation The dividing of work between different trades or unions, and disputes over who may do...
- démarche A formal diplomatic representation of one government's official position, request or...
- dematerialisation The conversion of paper share certificates into electronic book-entry form.
- dematerialise To convert physical share or bond certificates into electronic book entries.
- demeanour A person's outward manner and behaviour, observed to gauge their general and mental state.
- dementia A progressive decline in memory and reasoning.
- demerger The separation of part of a company's business into an independent entity, often by...
- demesne Land attached to a manor and retained for the owner's own use; a domain.
- demise The grant of property by lease.
- demographic A defined section of a population.
- demonetisation The withdrawal of a currency unit from legal-tender status.
- demonstrate To show clearly through evidence or reasoning that something is the case.
- demonstrative Denoting evidence, such as models or diagrams, used to illustrate testimony.
- demotion The reduction of an employee to a lower rank, grade, or pay, sometimes as a disciplinary...
- demur To raise a polite objection or hesitate.
- demure Reserved and modest - revived online as an ironic compliment.
- demurrage Liquidated damages payable to a shipowner for detaining a vessel beyond the agreed...
- demurrer A pleading that concedes the facts but denies they establish a legal claim.
- demyelination Loss or destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibres, which slows or blocks...
- denaturalisation The revocation of a person's acquired citizenship, usually for fraud in the...
- denigrate To criticise unfairly in order to belittle or disparage.
- denitrogenation The washout of nitrogen from the lungs by breathing pure oxygen before induction.
- denizen An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.
- denominator The chosen level of activity over which fixed overhead is spread to derive a unit rate.
- denormalization The deliberate introduction of redundancy into a schema to speed up reads at the cost of...
- denouement The final part of a narrative in which secrets are revealed and matters resolved.
- densification The process of increasing the number of dwellings or occupants within a given area of...
- densitometry The measurement of tissue density, most often bone mineral density, from an imaging...
- dental implant A titanium screw surgically placed in the jawbone to serve as an artificial root for a...
- dentine The mineralised connective tissue forming the bulk of the tooth beneath the enamel and...
- denture A removable appliance carrying artificial teeth that replaces some or all of the natural...
- denunciation The public condemnation of criminal conduct expressed through the imposition of a...
- deontology The ethical theory that the morality of an action depends on duty and rules, not...
- dependant A family member who relies on a principal applicant and derives immigration status from...
- dependence A state in which the body needs a medicine to function normally.
- dependency A relationship in which one task or deliverable cannot proceed until another is completed...
- dependent relative revocation The doctrine treating a revocation as ineffective where it rested on a mistaken...
- depersonalisation A sense of being detached from or unreal within one's own body, thoughts or feelings.
- depletion The allocation of the cost of extracting a natural resource over the period during which...
- deploy To bring resources into effective action for a particular task.
- depolarising muscle relaxant A neuromuscular blocker that mimics acetylcholine to persistently depolarise the motor...
- deponent A person who gives sworn testimony, especially in a deposition or affidavit.
- deportable Liable to be deported by reason of unlawful status or a specified ground.
- deportation The formal removal of a foreign national from a state's territory.
- deportee A person who is being, or has been, deported from a country.
- depose To give sworn testimony, especially in writing or before trial.
- deposit A part-payment, usually ten per cent, paid by the buyer on exchange as security for...
- deposition Sworn out-of-court testimony recorded for later use.
- depository A central entity that holds securities in electronic form and records their ownership.
- depot A drug formulation designed to release its active agent slowly from a site of injection...
- depreciable Subject to depreciation over its useful life.
- depreciate To fall in value relative to other currencies.
- depreciation The allocation of the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life for tax or accounting...
- depreciation recapture The taxing as ordinary income, on disposal, of gain attributable to previously claimed...
- depredation An act of attacking, plundering, or laying waste.
- deprescribe To plan and supervise the withdrawal of a medicine that is no longer needed.
- deprescribing The planned and supervised process of reducing or stopping medicines that may no longer...
- depression A prolonged and severe contraction in economic activity.
- deputise To act on behalf of a more senior person in their absence.
- deputy A person appointed to act on behalf of, or as second-in-command to, a superior.
- deracinate To uproot someone from their natural or familiar environment.
- derate To lower the valuation multiple applied to a company, usually on weaker prospects.
- derealisation A sense that one's surroundings are unreal, distant or dreamlike.
- derecognise To remove an asset or liability from the balance sheet.
- derecognition The withdrawal by an employer of a trade union's status for collective bargaining.
- deregulation The reduction or removal of government rules governing an industry.
- dereliction A shameful failure to carry out a duty one is bound to perform.
- deride To express contempt for; to ridicule.
- derision Contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
- derivative Describing an action brought by a shareholder on behalf of the company to enforce a right...
- derivative action A suit a shareholder brings on the company's behalf against those who harmed it.
- derivative claim A claim brought by a shareholder on behalf of the company against a director for a wrong...
- dermabrasion The controlled mechanical abrasion of the skin surface to remove superficial layers and...
- dermatomal distribution A pattern of skin involvement confined to the area supplied by a single spinal sensory...
- dermatome An area of skin supplied by a single spinal nerve root, used to gauge block height.
- dermatophyte A fungus that invades and grows in keratinised tissue such as skin, hair and nails.
- dermographism A form of physical urticaria in which firm stroking of the skin raises a linear weal.
- dermoscopy The examination of skin lesions with a magnifying instrument that illuminates subsurface...
- derogate To depart from or partially repeal a right, rule or standard.
- derogation A formal measure by which a state temporarily suspends certain rights obligations in a...
- derogatory treatment A distortion or mutilation of a work that prejudices the author's honour or reputation.
- desaturate For blood oxygen levels to fall, typically shown by a dropping pulse oximeter reading.
- desaturation A fall in the oxygen saturation of haemoglobin, signalling impaired oxygenation.
- descope To formally remove features or work from a project's agreed scope, usually to protect...
- descriptive mark A mark that merely describes a characteristic of the goods and is therefore generally...
- descriptiveness The quality of a sign that merely describes a characteristic of goods, rendering it prima...
- deseasonalize To remove recurring seasonal patterns from a data series.
- desensitisation A reduction in receptor responsiveness following prolonged or repeated exposure to an...
- desflurane A volatile anaesthetic with very low blood solubility permitting rapid onset and offset,...
- desiccate To remove the moisture from something; to dry out thoroughly.
- desistance The process by which an offender gradually stops committing crime.
- deskill To reduce the level of skill required for a job, often through automation or...
- deskilling The erosion of the skill content of jobs as tasks are automated or broken into simple...
- desmoplasia The growth of dense fibrous connective tissue in response to an invasive tumour.
- desmopressin A synthetic analogue of vasopressin used to treat central diabetes insipidus and...
- desolation A state of bleak and dismal emptiness, loneliness or misery.
- despatch money A payment made by the owner to the charterer as a reward for completing loading or...
- despoil To plunder or strip a place of possessions by force.
- despondent In low spirits from a loss of hope or courage.
- despot A ruler who wields absolute power, often cruelly.
- despotism The exercise of absolute power in an oppressive and arbitrary manner.
- desquamation The shedding of the outer layers of the skin in scales or sheets.
- desquamative Characterised by the shedding of cells, as in a form of interstitial pneumonia filling...
- destitute Without the basic necessities of life.
- destitution The state of lacking the means to meet essential living needs, often relevant to support...
- desuetude A state of disuse or inactivity into which something has fallen.
- desufflation The release of gas from a body cavity that had been distended for surgery.
- desultory Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm; occurring randomly.
- detailed assessment The court procedure for quantifying the costs one party must pay another when they cannot...
- detainee A person held in immigration custody pending a decision on their status or removal.
- detainer A formal request that a jail hold a prisoner for another jurisdiction once his current...
- detente An easing of strained relations, especially after conflict or hostility.
- detention The lawful holding of a person in hospital for assessment or treatment against their...
- deteriorate To become progressively worse in clinical condition.
- deteriorated Became progressively worse, used to describe a decline in the patient's clinical...
- deteriorating patient A patient whose clinical condition is worsening and who is at risk of a serious adverse...
- deterioration A measurable worsening in a patient's clinical state, often the trigger for escalation at...
- determinable Of an interest or estate, liable to be brought to an end automatically on a specified...
- determinable fee A fee simple that automatically comes to an end on the happening of a specified event.
- determinate Fixed in length and known at the point of sentencing.
- determination The bringing to an end of a contract, lease, or interest.
- determinative Having the power to settle a question conclusively.
- determinism The doctrine that every event is fixed by prior causes, leaving no room for genuine...
- deterministic Such that a given initial state completely fixes the outcome, leaving no role for chance.
- deterrence The use of punishment to discourage the offender or the public at large from committing...
- detinue An action for the wrongful detention of goods and their recovery or value.
- detractor An unhappy customer likely to discourage others from buying.
- detrend To remove the underlying trend from a data series so that other patterns become visible.
- detriment Harm, loss, or disadvantage suffered by a person.
- detrimental Tending to cause harm or damage.
- detrusor The smooth muscle of the bladder wall whose contraction expels urine.
- devaluation A deliberate downward adjustment of a country's currency relative to others.
- devalue To officially lower the value of a currency against others.
- devastavit A breach of duty by a personal representative that wastes or diminishes the assets of the...
- developmental milestone A skill such as sitting, walking or talking that most children reach by a particular age.
- deviated nasal septum A displacement of the nasal septum from the midline that may obstruct airflow through one...
- deviation An unjustified departure by a vessel from the contractual or customary route of the...
- devise A gift of real property made by will.
- devisee The person to whom real property is given by a will.
- devolution The statutory transfer of powers from a central legislature to subordinate regional or...
- devolve To transfer power or responsibility from a central authority to a lower level.
- dewclaw A vestigial digit set higher up the leg of a dog or cat that does not normally touch the...
- dexmedetomidine A selective alpha-2 agonist producing sedation and analgesia with minimal respiratory...
- dexterity Skill and coordination in using the hands to manipulate objects, especially small ones.
- dexterous Skilful and adept in the use of the hands, or in handling a situation.
- dextrocardia A congenital condition in which the heart points towards the right side of the chest.
- diabetes specialist nurse A nurse with advanced training who supports patients in managing their diabetes and...
- diabetic foot ulcer A wound on the foot of a person with diabetes that heals poorly and is prone to infection.
- diabetic ketoacidosis A life-threatening emergency of severe insulin deficiency causing high blood glucose,...
- diabetic nephropathy Progressive kidney damage resulting from diabetes, often first detected as protein in the...
- diabetic neuropathy Nerve damage caused by long-standing high blood glucose, typically affecting the feet.
- diabetic retinopathy Damage to the small blood vessels of the retina caused by diabetes, a leading cause of...
- diagnose To identify the nature and cause of a problem through careful examination.
- diagnosis The identification of a condition from its signs, symptoms and investigations.
- dialectic Reasoning through the dialogue of opposing ideas.
- dialysis access The route through which blood is drawn for and returned during dialysis, such as a...
- diaphanous Light, delicate and translucent.
- diaphoresis Profuse sweating, often accompanying acute respiratory or cardiac distress.
- diaphoretic Sweating profusely, often as a sign of illness or physiological stress.
- diaphragm The dome-shaped muscular sheet separating the thorax from the abdomen and driving...
- diaphysis The elongated cylindrical shaft or central portion of a long bone.
- diarrhoea The frequent passage of loose or watery stool, which can rapidly cause dehydration.
- diaspora The dispersion of a people from their original homeland across the wider world.
- diastasis Abnormal separation of two normally adjacent bones or of the parts of a single bone.
- diastema A visible space or gap between two adjacent teeth, most commonly the upper central...
- diastole The phase of the cardiac cycle in which the ventricles relax and fill with blood.
- diathermy The use of a high-frequency electric current to cut tissue or coagulate vessels during...
- diatribe A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
- dichotomy A division into two sharply opposed or contrasted parts.
- dicker To argue over small details of a price or deal.
- dictum A formal or authoritative pronouncement, or a widely accepted saying laying down a...
- didactic Intended to teach, often with a moral lesson.
- diegesis The internal world of a story as narrated, including everything the characters can...
- dietetics The science and practice of applying nutrition to the management of health and disease.
- differential The set of possible diagnoses considered for a presentation.
- differential diagnosis The range of conditions being considered to explain the patient's presentation.
- differentiate To make a product distinct from competing offerings.
- differentiation The degree to which tumour cells resemble their normal tissue of origin.
- differentiator A feature or quality that distinguishes a product from its competitors.
- diffidence Shyness and a lack of self-confidence.
- diffident Shy and lacking in self-confidence.
- diffusion The process by which an innovation spreads through a population of adopters over time.
- digital transformation The strategic overhaul of a business's operations and models through digital technology.
- digress To move away temporarily from the main topic being discussed.
- dilapidations Disrepair for which a tenant is held liable at the end of a lease.
- dilatation The progressive opening of the cervix during labour, measured in centimetres up to full...
- dilate To make the pupil widen, either naturally in dim light or with drops for examination.
- dilatory Slow to act, or intended to cause delay.
- diligence Careful and persistent effort in one's work or duties.
- dilute To reduce existing shareholders' ownership percentage or per-share value by issuing new...
- dilution The reduction in existing shareholders' proportionate interest caused by the issue of new...
- dilutive Describing an issue of shares that reduces existing shareholders' proportionate stake or...
- dimensional weight A billable weight derived from a package's volume rather than its actual mass.
- dimensionality The number of features or variables describing each data point.
- diminished responsibility A partial defence to murder that reduces liability to manslaughter where an abnormality...
- diminution A reduction, especially the measure of damages based on lost value.
- diminution in value The measure of damages taken as the fall in the thing's worth caused by the wrong, rather...
- dioptre The unit used to express the focusing power of a lens or the degree of a refractive error.
- diplophonia The simultaneous perception of two distinct pitches in the voice.
- diplopia Double vision, in which a single object is perceived as two images.
- dipsomania An uncontrollable, often episodic craving for alcohol.
- direct discrimination Treating a person less favourably than others because of a protected characteristic.
- direct laryngoscopy The technique of visualising the larynx directly with a rigid blade in order to pass a...
- direct report An employee who reports straight to a given manager.
- direct taxation Taxation levied directly on the income, profits or gains of the person or entity that...
- direct the jury For the judge to instruct the jury on the relevant law and how to approach their...
- directions The instructions on a prescription telling the patient how and when to take the medicine,...
- directive A Union legislative act binding as to the result to be achieved but leaving the choice of...
- director An officer appointed to manage a company's business and owing statutory and fiduciary...
- directorship The office or position of being a director of a company.
- dirge A slow, mournful piece of music, typically for a funeral.
- dirigisme An economic approach in which the state exercises strong directive influence over...
- dirty surplus Gains and losses routed directly to equity rather than through profit or loss, bypassing...
- disablement The state of being incapacitated by injury or illness.
- disabuse To free someone from a mistaken belief or illusion.
- disaffirm To repudiate or renounce a contract, treating it as no longer binding.
- disaggregate To separate combined data into its component parts for closer analysis.
- disaggregation The breaking up of a value chain or business into its separate component activities.
- disallowable expenditure Expenditure that, though charged in the accounts, cannot be deducted in computing taxable...
- disallowance The refusal by the revenue authority to permit a claimed deduction.
- disappearance The abduction of a person by the state followed by a refusal to acknowledge their...
- disarticulation Amputation performed through a joint rather than across a bone.
- disavow To deny any knowledge of, responsibility for, or connection with something.
- disavowal A denial of knowledge, responsibility, or connection.
- disbenefit A measurable negative outcome a change imposes on some stakeholder even when the overall...
- disbursement An expense paid out by a solicitor on the client's behalf and recoverable as part of the...
- discectomy Surgical excision of part or all of an intervertebral disc, usually to relieve nerve...
- discernment The ability to judge well and perceive subtle distinctions.
- discharge The formal release of a patient from hospital or a clinician's care.
- discharge an obligation To fully perform or bring to an end a duty owed under a contract.
- discharge summary A letter summarising a patient's admission, treatment and follow-up needs, sent to the...
- disciplinary Relating to the formal process used to address misconduct or serious performance issues.
- disciplinary procedure The formal process an employer follows to address misconduct or poor performance before...
- disclaimer A statement limiting responsibility or clarifying the status of information provided.
- disclosable Required to be reported to the tax authority under the disclosure rules.
- disclose To reveal information that was previously secret or private.
- disclosure The act of giving out relevant information, such as the risks of a procedure, to a...
- disclosure letter A document by which the seller qualifies the warranties by disclosing matters that would...
- disclosure of conflicts An arbitrator's duty to reveal any circumstances that might give rise to justifiable...
- discomfort A mild feeling of pain or physical unease.
- disconsolate Hopelessly unhappy and unable to be comforted.
- discontinuance The voluntary termination of a civil action by the party who brought it.
- discontinue To stop a treatment or medication.
- discordance A lack of agreement or consistency between findings or accounts.
- discordant Not in agreement or consistent with other information.
- discount for lack of marketability The reduction applied to a private holding's value because it cannot be readily sold.
- discounted cash flow A valuation method that estimates a company's worth by projecting its future cash flows...
- discounting The process of converting future cash flows into their equivalent present value.
- discoverable Of a document or information, subject to compulsory disclosure to the opposing party.
- discovery The pre-hearing exchange of evidence, typically far narrower in arbitration than in...
- discovery assessment An assessment raised outside the ordinary window where the revenue later uncovers an...
- discovery call An early conversation used to understand a prospect's needs, situation, and priorities...
- discredit To undermine the credibility or reliability of a witness or account.
- discrepancy A difference or inconsistency between two things that should match.
- discrepant Describing results that disagree with each other or with expected findings.
- discrete Describing lesions that remain separate and distinct from one another rather than merging.
- discretion The quality of behaving and speaking so as to avoid causing offence or revealing...
- discretionary Left to individual judgement rather than fixed by rule.
- discretionary accruals The portion of accrued items that management can flex through judgment, often used as a...
- discretionary effort The extra work an employee chooses to give beyond the minimum their role strictly demands.
- discriminatory Treating a person less favourably on grounds of a protected characteristic.
- discursive Proceeding by reasoning or argument step by step rather than by intuition.
- disease-free survival The length of time after treatment during which a patient shows no signs of cancer.
- disenfranchise To deprive someone of a right, especially the right to vote.
- disenfranchisement The deprivation of a person's right to vote.
- disengagement A loss of motivation and emotional commitment to one's work and employer.
- disentail To free land from an entail so that it may be dealt with as an ordinary fee simple.
- disequilibrium A state of imbalance in which market forces have not yet brought supply and demand into...
- disfluency An interruption to the smooth flow of speech, such as a repetition, prolongation or block.
- disgorge To give up gains wrongfully obtained.
- disgorgement A remedy requiring a wrongdoer to surrender profits improperly gained.
- disgruntled Angry or dissatisfied, especially with an employer.
- disguised remuneration Arrangements, often using loans or trusts, that channel reward for employment in a form...
- dishonesty Conduct that ordinary people would regard as dishonest, a required element of many...
- dishonour To refuse to pay or accept a cheque or bill of exchange when it is presented.
- disinflation A slowing in the rate of inflation, so that prices are still rising but more slowly than...
- disinformation False information spread deliberately to deceive.
- disingenuous Insincere while pretending to be candid and straightforward.
- disinhibited Showing a loss of the normal social restraint over behaviour, speech or impulses.
- disinhibition A reduced ability to control impulses, leading to socially inappropriate behaviour.
- disinterested Free from personal stake or bias in a matter.
- disintermediate To remove intermediaries by connecting producers directly with customers.
- disintermediation The cutting out of intermediaries between a producer and the end customer.
- dislocation The complete displacement of a bone from its normal position in a joint.
- dismemberment The breakup of a company into separate, independently sold parts.
- dismiss the appeal To reject an appeal and uphold the decision of the lower court.
- dismiss without notice To terminate a contract of employment immediately, lawful only where the employee has...
- dismissal The act of ending someone's employment.
- dismissive Showing that something is regarded as unworthy of serious consideration.
- disparage To speak of someone or something as being of little worth.
- disparagement A false statement that denigrates another's goods, title or business, causing economic...
- disparate Essentially different in kind and not able to be compared readily.
- disparate impact A facially neutral policy that falls disproportionately on a protected group without...
- dispense To prepare and supply a prescribed medicine to a patient.
- dispensing error A mistake made during the preparation or supply of a medicine, such as the wrong drug,...
- dispersion The extent to which data values are spread around a central point.
- displace To force a competitor out of the position it occupies.
- displaced fracture A fracture in which the bone fragments have moved out of their normal alignment.
- disponent owner A party who charters in a vessel and then sub-charters it out, so acting as owner towards...
- disposable Describing income left over after tax and essential costs are met.
- dispositive Serving to settle or finally determine a legal question or issue.
- disproportionate Too large or too small in relation to something else.
- disputant A party involved in a dispute.
- disqualification The removal of an arbitrator held unfit to continue by reason of bias or incapacity.
- disqualify To judge a prospect unfit to proceed in the sales process against defined criteria.
- disquiet A feeling of anxiety or unease.
- disrupt To radically change an established market with a new model that displaces the incumbent...
- disruptive Radically changing an existing market or industry.
- disruptor A company whose innovation upends the established order of an industry.
- dissection A tear in an arterial wall allowing blood to split its layers and create a false lumen.
- disseisin The wrongful dispossession of a person from the seisin of their freehold land.
- dissemble To conceal one's true feelings or motives by putting on a false appearance.
- disseminate To distribute information widely across an organisation or audience.
- dissension Disagreement that provokes discord within a group.
- dissent A difference of opinion from an official or majority view.
- dissenting Describing an arbitrator's separate opinion disagreeing with the majority's award.
- dissenting opinion A separate opinion by an arbitrator who disagrees with the majority's decision or...
- dissident A person who openly opposes the policies of an authoritarian state.
- dissimulate To hide or disguise one's thoughts, feelings, or character.
- dissimulation The concealment of one's true feelings or symptoms behind a false appearance.
- dissociation A sense of detachment from one’s thoughts, body or surroundings.
- dissolute Lacking moral restraint and given to dissipation and indulgence.
- dissolution The legal process of formally ending a civil partnership, equivalent to divorce for...
- dissonance A harsh, unresolved combination of sounds lacking harmony.
- distal Situated away from the centre of the body or point of attachment.
- distension Swelling or enlargement of a body part caused by internal pressure, such as gas or fluid.
- distil To extract and express the essential meaning of something.
- distill To extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of something.
- distinctive brand assets Non-name sensory elements such as colors, characters, shapes, or sounds that trigger...
- distinctive character The quality of a mark that enables consumers to identify the commercial origin of goods...
- distinctiveness The capacity of a sign to distinguish the goods or services of one undertaking from those...
- distrain To seize a tenant's goods as security or in satisfaction of unpaid rent or other...
- distraint The seizure of a delinquent taxpayer's goods to enforce payment of an outstanding...
- distress Extreme emotional or physical suffering or discomfort.
- distressed Describing a company, asset or debt whose value is impaired by financial difficulty or a...
- distributable Describing profits lawfully available to be paid out as a dividend.
- distributable reserves The accumulated realised profits of a company that are lawfully available for paying...
- distribution waterfall The tiered order in which fund proceeds flow between investors and managers.
- distributive Relating to bargaining in which a fixed value is divided so one side's gain is the...
- distributorship A commercial arrangement granting a party the right to resell a supplier's goods,...
- disutility The dissatisfaction or negative value a person derives from something.
- diuresis An increased production and excretion of urine.
- diuretic A drug that increases the production of urine to remove excess fluid from the body, often...
- divergence A difference or separation between two things that were previously similar or aligned.
- diversification The spreading of risk across many uncorrelated exposures so that no single loss is...
- diversify To spread activities or investments to reduce risk.
- diversion The illicit rerouting of goods to a market or buyer other than the one intended.
- diversity and inclusion The organisational effort to build a varied workforce and ensure everyone feels valued...
- diverticular disease A condition in which small pouches form in the wall of the colon and may cause pain or...
- diverticulitis Inflammation or infection of colonic diverticula, typically presenting with left iliac...
- diverticulosis The asymptomatic presence of multiple outpouchings of the colonic mucosa through the...
- divest To sell off or dispose of a business, asset, or shareholding.
- divestiture A structural remedy requiring the sale of a business, brand or asset to a suitable...
- divestment The disposal of a subsidiary, business unit, or holding.
- dividend A distribution of a company's profits to its shareholders, usually in proportion to their...
- dividend recapitalisation A transaction in which a company raises new debt to pay a special dividend to its...
- dividend recapitalization A refinancing that raises fresh debt to fund a large one-off dividend to shareholders.
- dividend stripping The buying of shares cum-dividend and selling them ex-dividend to convert taxable income...
- divisible Of a contract, made up of separable obligations that can be performed and paid for in...
- divisional A later application carved out of an earlier one, retaining its filing date but claiming...
- divulge To make known something private or secret.
- diworsification Value-destroying expansion into unrelated businesses that a company manages poorly.
- dizziness A feeling of spinning or being off balance.
- do not hesitate to contact me A standard closing courtesy offering further contact, usually preceded by a conditional...
- do not resuscitate A recorded decision that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should not be attempted if the...
- docket A court's list or register of the cases and proceedings before it.
- document in the notes To record an event, observation, or intervention in a patient's clinical record.
- document of title A document whose transfer operates to pass constructive possession of, and the right to...
- document production The disclosure phase in which parties request and produce specified categories of...
- does that make sense so far A checking question used to confirm the patient is following an explanation before...
- dog-whistle A coded message that carries a particular meaning for a target group while seeming...
- dogged Showing tenacious and grim persistence despite difficulty.
- doggerel Comic or clumsy verse of irregular rhythm and trite rhyme, usually of poor quality.
- dogmatic Inclined to assert opinions as if they were unquestionable facts.
- dogmatism The tendency to assert opinions as unquestionable truths without regard to evidence.
- doli incapax Presumed incapable of forming criminal intent by reason of youth.
- dollarisation A country's adoption of the US dollar in place of, or alongside, its own national...
- dolour A state of great sorrow or distress.
- domestic abuse Controlling, coercive, threatening, violent or abusive behaviour between people who are...
- domesticate To make a foreign award or judgment enforceable within one's own jurisdiction.
- domesticity The state of being at home and the life of running a household.
- domicile The place that a person treats as their permanent and principal home.
- domiciliary Provided in or relating to the patient's own home.
- dominance Controlling power or command over a market relative to competitors.
- dominant position A position of economic strength enabling an undertaking to behave to an appreciable...
- dominant tenement The land that enjoys the benefit of an easement over neighbouring property.
- donatio mortis causa A gift made in contemplation of imminent death, conditional on the donor actually dying...
- donning and doffing The putting on and taking off of required protective gear, often litigated as compensable...
- doom spending Spending to soothe anxiety about a future that feels out of reach.
- doomer Someone convinced that the future is hopeless.
- doomscroll To keep scrolling through bad news even though it makes you feel worse.
- doomscrolling Compulsively scrolling through bad news you cannot look away from.
- dormant Describing an account or customer that is inactive but not formally lost.
- dorsiflexion The movement that raises the foot or hand upward, decreasing the angle at the joint.
- dosage The amount and frequency of a medicine to be taken.
- dose adjustment A change to the amount of a drug given to suit the patient's needs or organ function.
- dosimeter A device worn by staff to measure their cumulative exposure to ionising radiation.
- dosimetry The calculation and measurement of radiation dose received by a patient or worker.
- dote To show excessive and often uncritical fondness for someone.
- dotted-line Describing a secondary, advisory reporting relationship rather than a direct one.
- dotted-line reporting A secondary reporting relationship in which someone is accountable to a manager other...
- double-click To explore a particular point in greater depth during a discussion.
- double down To commit even more strongly to a chosen strategy rather than change course.
- double-entry Relating to the bookkeeping system in which every transaction is recorded as an equal...
- double jeopardy The constitutional bar against trying or punishing a person twice for the same offense.
- double tax treaty A bilateral agreement allocating taxing rights between two states and providing relief...
- double taxation The imposition of comparable taxes by two or more jurisdictions on the same income or...
- doughty Brave, resolute, and steadfast, especially in a struggle.
- dour Relentlessly severe, stern or gloomy in manner.
- dovetail To fit together neatly so that two things complement one another.
- dovish Favouring low interest rates and looser policy to support employment and growth.
- dower A widow's common-law right to a life interest in a portion of her deceased husband's land.
- down round A financing round in which a company raises capital at a lower valuation than in its...
- down to the wire Describing a deal that is being decided right up until the very last moment.
- downgrade To move a customer to a lower-priced tier with reduced features.
- downplay To make something seem less important or severe than it actually is.
- downregulation A decrease in the number of receptors expressed by a cell, often in response to sustained...
- downround A funding round in which shares are issued at a lower price than in the previous round.
- downsell To offer a cheaper or smaller product when a customer balks at the original price.
- downside risk The potential for an investment to lose value under unfavourable conditions.
- downsize To reduce the size of a workforce or organisation.
- downsizing The deliberate reduction of the number of employees to lower costs.
- downstaging A reduction in the extent or stage of a cancer, usually achieved through treatment.
- downtime Any period during which equipment or a process is not operating, whether planned or...
- downturn A period during which economic or business activity weakens and declines.
- doyen The most respected and senior expert or practitioner in a particular field.
- drag-along A right forcing minority holders to join a sale approved by the majority.
- drag-along right A right allowing majority shareholders to compel the minority to join in a sale of the...
- drag-along rights A provision letting majority owners force minority holders to join a sale.
- drain A tube left in a wound or cavity to allow fluid, blood, or pus to escape and be measured...
- draw An advance against future commissions paid to steady a rep's income during ramp.
- draw on To make use of a source of information, theory, or experience in developing an argument.
- draw the line To set a limit on what one is willing to do or accept.
- drawdown The act of withdrawing funds from an available credit facility, or the peak-to-trough...
- drawee The party, usually a bank, on which a bill of exchange or cheque is drawn and which is...
- drayage Short-haul trucking of containers between a port or rail terminal and a nearby facility.
- dread Great fear or apprehension about something that is going to happen.
- dress a wound To clean a wound and apply a suitable dressing to it.
- dressing A covering placed over a wound to protect it.
- drill-down An interactive move from summary figures to the detailed data beneath them.
- drip campaign An automated series of messages sent to prospects on a set schedule or in response to...
- drivel Silly, nonsensical talk regarded as absurd.
- driving pressure The difference between plateau pressure and PEEP, reflecting the cyclic strain applied to...
- droit de suite The artist's inalienable right to a royalty on secondary sales of their original works.
- droll Amusing in a quaint, odd or wry way.
- drollery Quaint or whimsical humour, especially of a dry and understated kind.
- dromotropic Affecting the conduction velocity of electrical impulses through the heart.
- drop a line To send someone a short, informal message.
- droplet precautions Infection-control measures against pathogens spread by respiratory droplets over short...
- dropship To have a supplier ship goods directly to the end customer without the seller holding...
- drowsy Feeling sleepy and not fully alert.
- drudgery Hard, menial and dull work that requires effort but little skill.
- drug history A record of all the medications a patient takes, including doses, over-the-counter drugs...
- drug interaction A change in a medicine's effect caused by taking it together with another drug, food, or...
- drug of choice The medicine generally regarded as the best option for a particular condition.
- drug round The scheduled process of administering prescribed medications to patients across a ward.
- drusen Yellowish extracellular deposits accumulating beneath the retina, a hallmark of macular...
- dry cough A cough that does not produce any sputum.
- dry powder Cash or reserves held ready to deploy when the moment is right.
- dry weight The target weight of a dialysis patient once excess fluid has been removed.
- dual-class share structure A capital arrangement giving founders' shares more votes than ordinary ones.
- dual ladder A structure that lets technical specialists rise in pay and status without moving into...
- dual sourcing The practice of using two suppliers for the same item to reduce reliance on either one.
- dualism The doctrine that mind and body are two distinct kinds of substance.
- dudgeon A feeling of deep resentment or indignation.
- due diligence The investigation of a target company's legal, financial and commercial affairs before a...
- due-diligence defense An underwriter's or director's defense to statutory liability based on a reasonable...
- due process The requirement that the law be applied fairly to everyone.
- dulcet Sweet and soothing to the ear.
- dullness A percussion note that is short and flat, indicating underlying fluid or solid tissue...
- duly In the proper manner and in accordance with the required formalities or authority.
- dumping The export of goods at a price below cost or below the home-market price in order to...
- dunnage Loose packing material or bracing used to keep cargo from shifting in transit.
- dunning The process of persistently reminding a customer to pay an overdue debt.
- duopolistic Relating to a market controlled by just two dominant sellers.
- duopoly A market controlled by exactly two producers or suppliers.
- dupe A cheaper product that convincingly imitates a luxury one - a badge of savvy, not shame.
- duplicitous Deceptively two-faced, saying one thing while intending another.
- duplicity Deceitful double-dealing; contradictory conduct intended to deceive.
- duration The length of time for which a symptom has been present.
- duress Constraint or pressure, especially unlawful, used to force someone into an act they would...
- duress of circumstances A defence where objective threatening circumstances, rather than a person's demand,...
- Dutch disease The harm to a country's manufacturing when a resource boom drives up the value of its...
- dutiful Conscientiously fulfilling one's obligations and responsibilities.
- duty A tax charged on goods, transactions or documents.
- duty drawback A refund of import duties paid on goods that are later re-exported or used to make...
- duty of care A legal obligation to take reasonable care not to harm others.
- duty of fair representation A union's legal obligation to represent every member of the bargaining unit without...
- duty of loyalty A director's obligation to put the company's interests ahead of any personal gain.
- duty to give reasons The obligation on a decision-maker to explain the basis of its decision so that fairness...
- duty to warn An obligation to alert others to a known risk of harm so that they may protect themselves.
- dwell time How long a visitor actively engages with content before leaving.
- dwindle To become gradually smaller or weaker over time.
- dying declaration A statement about the cause of one's impending death, admissible despite the hearsay rule.
- dynamic capabilities A firm's capacity to sense change and reconfigure its resource base fast enough to keep...
- dynamism Vigorous energy and capacity for growth and change within an organization or market.
- dynamometry The measurement of muscle strength or grip using a calibrated instrument.
- dysaesthesia An abnormal, often unpleasant sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked, such as burning...
- dysarthria Slurred or poorly articulated speech caused by weakness or poor control of the muscles...
- dysautonomia Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, affecting functions such as blood pressure,...
- dyscalculia An impaired ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations.
- dyscrasia A general term for any abnormal or pathological state of the blood, especially of its...
- dysdiadochokinesia An impaired ability to perform rapid alternating movements, characteristic of cerebellar...
- dyserythropoiesis Abnormal and ineffective maturation of red-cell precursors within the marrow.
- dysfunction A persistent failure of parts of an organisation to work together properly.
- dysgeusia A distortion or alteration of the sense of taste.
- dysgraphia An acquired impairment of the ability to write.
- dyshidrosis A vesicular eczema of the palms and soles characterised by deep-seated, intensely itchy...
- dyskaryosis Abnormality of the cell nucleus, particularly in premalignant cervical cells.
- dyskeratosis Abnormal, premature keratinisation of individual epidermal cells below the granular layer.
- dyskinesia Abnormal, involuntary movements, notably those emerging as a complication of long-term...
- dyslipidaemia An abnormal concentration of lipids or lipoproteins in the blood.
- dysmetria A cerebellar impairment in judging distance or range of movement, causing overshooting or...
- dysmorphia A preoccupying and distressing belief that some aspect of one's appearance is grossly...
- dyspepsia Persistent or recurrent discomfort centred in the upper abdomen, commonly felt as...
- dysphagia Difficulty in swallowing.
- dysphonia Any impairment in the production of vocal sound, perceived as hoarseness or altered voice...
- dysphoria A pervasive state of unease, dissatisfaction or generalised discontent.
- dysplasia Abnormal, disordered maturation of cells within a tissue, regarded as a premalignant...
- dyspnea Difficult or laboured breathing that is perceived as uncomfortable or distressing by the...
- dyspnoea Difficult or laboured breathing.
- dyspraxia Difficulty planning and coordinating purposeful movement, affecting everyday motor tasks.
- dysprosody An impairment of the normal rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.
- dysthymia A chronic, low-grade depressive disorder in which depressed mood persists for most of the...
- dystocia Difficult or obstructed labour, such as when the shoulders fail to deliver easily after...
- dystonia A movement disorder characterised by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions...
- dystrophy A progressive, usually inherited disorder marked by degeneration and weakening of muscle...
- dysuria Pain or discomfort felt when passing urine.
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