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Meanings of Diapason:

noun

An organ stop sounding a main register of flue pipes, typically of eight-foot pitch.

Usage examples:

Etherington adopts an apt change in registration, giving vent to the diapasons that would have been…

Meanings of Diapasons:

noun

An organ stop sounding a main register of flue pipes, typically of eight-foot pitch.

Usage examples:

Etherington adopts an apt change in registration, giving vent to the diapasons that would have been…

Meanings of Diapause:

noun

A period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavourable environmental conditions.

Usage examples:

These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditi…
verb

(of an insect or other animal) undergo a period of suspended development.

Usage examples:

The eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw

Meanings of Diapaused:

verb

(of an insect or other animal) undergo a period of suspended development.

Usage examples:

The eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw
noun

A period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavourable environmental conditions.

Usage examples:

These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditi…

Meanings of Diapauses:

noun

A period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavourable environmental conditions.

Usage examples:

These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditi…
verb

(of an insect or other animal) undergo a period of suspended development.

Usage examples:

The eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw

Meanings of Diapausing:

verb

(of an insect or other animal) undergo a period of suspended development.

Usage examples:

The eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw
noun

A period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavourable environmental conditions.

Usage examples:

These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditi…

Meanings of Diapedesis:

noun

The passage of blood cells through the intact walls of the capillaries, typically accompanying inflammation.

Usage examples:

In 1870, woodward observed a photomicrograph from the stomach of a mare with gastroenteritis demons…

Meanings of Diaper:

noun

A piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

In the west, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.
verb

Put a nappy on (a baby).

Usage examples:

Washing, drying, and salting the chicken felt strangely like bathing and diapering a baby - a very …

Meanings of Diapered:

verb

Put a nappy on (a baby).

Usage examples:

Washing, drying, and salting the chicken felt strangely like bathing and diapering a baby - a very …
noun

A piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

In the west, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.

Meanings of Diapering:

verb

Put a nappy on (a baby).

Usage examples:

Washing, drying, and salting the chicken felt strangely like bathing and diapering a baby - a very …
noun

A piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

In the west, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.

Meanings of Diapers:

noun

A piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

In the west, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.
verb

Put a nappy on (a baby).

Usage examples:

Washing, drying, and salting the chicken felt strangely like bathing and diapering a baby - a very …

Meanings of Diaphanous:

adjective

(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.

Usage examples:

A diaphanous dress of pale gold

Meanings of Diaphanously:

adjective

(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.

Usage examples:

A diaphanous dress of pale gold
adverb

Involving materials that are so delicate and thin that you can see through them

Usage examples:

Diaphanously costumed dancers floated about the stage., the pancakes themselves are diaphanously li…

Meanings of Diaphorase:

noun

An enzyme of the flavoprotein type, able to oxidize a reduced form of the coenzyme nad.

Usage examples:

Active enzyme systems not consistently resolved for this species were: aco, adenylate kinase, diaph…

Meanings of Diaphoresis:

noun

Sweating, especially to an unusual degree as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug.

Usage examples:

The first phase of toxicity includes anorexia, nausea, vomiting, malaise, and diaphoresis - symptom…

Meanings of Diaphoretic:

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) inducing perspiration.

Usage examples:

Yin medicines have a superficial action on the body or cause some type of elimination through their…

Meanings of Diaphoretical:

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) inducing perspiration.

Usage examples:

Yin medicines have a superficial action on the body or cause some type of elimination through their…

Meanings of Diaphoretics:

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) inducing perspiration.

Usage examples:

Yin medicines have a superficial action on the body or cause some type of elimination through their…

Meanings of Diaphragm:

noun

A dome-shaped muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen in mammals. it plays a major role in breathing, as its contraction increases the volume of the thorax and so inflates the lungs.

Usage examples:

Contraction of the expiratory muscles displaces the abdomen inward and the diaphragm upward into th…

Meanings of Diaphragmatic:

adjective

Relating to the diaphragm in the body.

Usage examples:

A diaphragmatic hernia

Meanings of Diaphragms:

noun

A dome-shaped muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen in mammals. it plays a major role in breathing, as its contraction increases the volume of the thorax and so inflates the lungs.

Usage examples:

Contraction of the expiratory muscles displaces the abdomen inward and the diaphragm upward into th…

Meanings of Diaphyses:

noun

The shaft or central part of a long bone.

Usage examples:

Interposed between the epiphysis and the diaphysis is the cartilaginous epiphyseal plate.

Meanings of Diaphysis:

noun

The shaft or central part of a long bone.

Usage examples:

Interposed between the epiphysis and the diaphysis is the cartilaginous epiphyseal plate.

Meanings of Diapir:

noun

A domed rock formation in which a core of rock has moved upward to pierce the overlying strata.

Usage examples:

Essentially, this means that over geological timescales, diapirs flow through the sub-surface.

Meanings of Diapirs:

noun

A domed rock formation in which a core of rock has moved upward to pierce the overlying strata.

Usage examples:

Essentially, this means that over geological timescales, diapirs flow through the sub-surface.

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