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Dictature
- - Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Didactics
- noun - the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
Diduction
- - The act of drawing apart; separation.
Dietetics
- noun - the scientific study of food preparation and intake
Dietetist
- - A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.
Dietitian
- noun - a specialist in the study of nutrition
Digastric
- - Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. (b) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
Digesters
- noun - autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
Digesting
- verb -
- arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
- become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"
- convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
- make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
- soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
- soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
- systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"
Digestion
- noun - learning and coming to understand ideas and information; "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion"
- the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
- the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat