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Didactic
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Didactic Taught with explicit rules and precepts.
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Didanosine
Didanosine is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): didanosine.
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Defeminization
The developmental process in which feminization is inhibited or suppressed. In females the term applies chiefly to defeminization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Demasculinization
The developmental process in which masculinization is inhibited or suppressed. In males, the term applies chiefly to demasculinization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Depo-Provera
The trade name of the hormone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, manufactured by Upjohn in the United States. The hormone is progestinic and antiandrogenic. It has several clinical applications, one of which is to help sex offenders gain personal governance of their sexuoerotic conduct.
Diethylstilbestrol
A synthetic drug, not a steroid, that acts as a female sex hormone. Structural variants include dipropionate, dilaurate, and dibutyrate esters, and C14-diethylstilbestrol dibutyrate, the radioactive form used only for special investigative procedures.
Deviant
Not in conformity with what is considered ideal, standard, or normal, according to a given criterion standard that may itself be deviantly radical, conventional, despotic, or arbitrary.
Didactic
Diecious
Denoting Sspecies in which male and female reproductive organs occur not in the same individual but in two different individuals.
Dihydrotestosterone
A powerful androgenic hormone formed from testosterone in peripheral target cells by the action of the enzyme, 5-reductase.
Dimorphism
Having two forms or manifestations, though of the same species, as in a juvenile and adult form, or a male and a female form. Though usually used to refer to physical form and appearance, the meaning of this term can be extended by analogy to apply to sex differences in behavior and language.
Dirty joke
A sexual example of what in anthropology is known as a joking relationship, that is a socially permissible manner of communication between people who are otherwise socially forbidden to talk together, either in general or on a specific topic, like sex.
Dissociate
To separate or sunder that which is developing as a unity, or has become one, so that it becomes two or more unrelated or partially related entities. In mental life and its expression, these entities are experienced phenomenologically as trance states, alternative states of consciousness, fugue states, or multiple personalities.
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Didanosine
Didanosine is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): didanosine.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Defeminization
The developmental process in which feminization is inhibited or suppressed. In females the term applies chiefly to defeminization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Demasculinization
The developmental process in which masculinization is inhibited or suppressed. In males, the term applies chiefly to demasculinization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Depo-Provera
The trade name of the hormone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, manufactured by Upjohn in the United States. The hormone is progestinic and antiandrogenic. It has several clinical applications, one of which is to help sex offenders gain personal governance of their sexuoerotic conduct.
Diethylstilbestrol
A synthetic drug, not a steroid, that acts as a female sex hormone. Structural variants include dipropionate, dilaurate, and dibutyrate esters, and C14-diethylstilbestrol dibutyrate, the radioactive form used only for special investigative procedures.
Deviant
Not in conformity with what is considered ideal, standard, or normal, according to a given criterion standard that may itself be deviantly radical, conventional, despotic, or arbitrary.
Didactic
Diecious
Denoting Sspecies in which male and female reproductive organs occur not in the same individual but in two different individuals.
Dihydrotestosterone
A powerful androgenic hormone formed from testosterone in peripheral target cells by the action of the enzyme, 5-reductase.
Dimorphism
Having two forms or manifestations, though of the same species, as in a juvenile and adult form, or a male and a female form. Though usually used to refer to physical form and appearance, the meaning of this term can be extended by analogy to apply to sex differences in behavior and language.
Dirty joke
A sexual example of what in anthropology is known as a joking relationship, that is a socially permissible manner of communication between people who are otherwise socially forbidden to talk together, either in general or on a specific topic, like sex.
Dissociate
To separate or sunder that which is developing as a unity, or has become one, so that it becomes two or more unrelated or partially related entities. In mental life and its expression, these entities are experienced phenomenologically as trance states, alternative states of consciousness, fugue states, or multiple personalities.
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