Category: D

Continual use of and physiological dependence upon certain drugs, addiction; drug habituation; drug abuse. Generally used synonymously with drug dependence, sometimes used to mean physical drug dependence, often wrongly assumed to be synonymous with drug abuse, and very irregular in meaning. A person who is physically and mentally dependent on taking a particular drug regularly.…

The sudden increase in a disease condition (drug abuse) in a particular population or locality.  

To suffocate by submersion, especially in water. To die by inhaling liquid.  

In education, a student who leaves school before graduation. A student who has stopped attending school before graduating or completing a given course of study, whether under compulsory school age or over. Considerable attention, effort, and analysis have gone into understanding why students drop out and how to keep them from doing so. Some schools…

Organisms that are projected in droplets of water when an infected person coughs or sneezes and are received in the eyes, nose, or mouth of a nearby person.  

Minute particles from the evaporation of droplets of moisture. Spray or mist in which infectious particles are suspended in air (e.g., from the cough or sneeze of an infected person). Many common contagious pathogens are spread by droplets, including adenovirus, corona virus, and influenza virus.  

A means of spreading disease whereby tiny droplets of saliva containing the microorganisms are spread by coughs or sneezes. An infection developed by inhaling droplets containing a virus, e.g. from a sneeze. An infection acquired through the sneezing and coughing of another person. An infection acquired by the inhalation of a microorganism in the air,…

A means of indirectly transmitting a communicable disease. by droplets in the spray from an infected person’s coughing or sneezing.  

Slang term for gay men who dress in leather and other very masculine fashion and who favor sadomasochism.