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Diurnal
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Diurnal Recurring daily, or in the daytime.
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Diuresis
Increased elimination of urine.
Diuretic
A medication that lowers blood pressure.
Diuril
Diuril 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): chlorothiazide.
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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.
Diurnal
Dyspareunia
A condition or syndrome of difficult or painful coitus, of variable etiology, in men and women [from Greek, dyspareunos, badly mated]. The term is used chiefly in reference to women, but applies equally well to men. the experience of pain, especially in the sex organs or within the pelvis, during sexual intercourse. It may also include coital migraine headache. It may occur in either sex, but traditionally has been named dyspareunia in women and coital pain in men. Dyspareunia may be a manifestation of hypophilia.
Dystrophy
Partial atrophy of tissue or an organ as a result of imperfect cell nutrition.
Dendrophilia
Love of trees. It is not a paraphilia.
Displacement paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an intrinsic element becomes developmentally dislocated and repositioned in the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
Dominatrix
A female in the sadomasochistic role of total domination and discipline.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Diuresis
Increased elimination of urine.
Diuretic
A medication that lowers blood pressure.
Diuril
Diuril 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): chlorothiazide.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Diurnal
Dyspareunia
A condition or syndrome of difficult or painful coitus, of variable etiology, in men and women [from Greek, dyspareunos, badly mated]. The term is used chiefly in reference to women, but applies equally well to men. the experience of pain, especially in the sex organs or within the pelvis, during sexual intercourse. It may also include coital migraine headache. It may occur in either sex, but traditionally has been named dyspareunia in women and coital pain in men. Dyspareunia may be a manifestation of hypophilia.
Dystrophy
Partial atrophy of tissue or an organ as a result of imperfect cell nutrition.
Dendrophilia
Love of trees. It is not a paraphilia.
Displacement paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an intrinsic element becomes developmentally dislocated and repositioned in the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
Dominatrix
A female in the sadomasochistic role of total domination and discipline.
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