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Diapsids
- noun - reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Diarists
- noun - someone who keeps a diary or journal
Diarrhea
- noun - frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
Diascope
- unknown - an optical projector for displaying transparencies
Diaspora
- noun - refugee population
- the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
- the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
- the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Diaspore
- - A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase
- - A soluble enzyme, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Diastema
- noun - a gap or vacant space between two teeth
Diastole
- noun - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
Diastyle
- - See under Intercolumniation.