Category: D

  • Door-in-the-face technique

    When an extreme request is refused, it is more likely that a second, smaller request will be granted. Used in labor relations.  

  • Donovania granulomatis

    A bacterium that causes granuloma inguinale. Small Gram-negative organism, pleomorphic and of doubtful classification, causing granulomatous lesions, tropical in distribution. Cultivated on yolk sacs, or on egg yolks in vitro, the organism possesses antigenic components in common with Klebsiella rhino-scleromatis.  

  • Don juan

    A term sometimes used in psychology to describe a person who possesses the personality of a roue, seducer, and profligate.  

  • Dominator unit

    Retinal loci of electrical responsivity to light, modulator unit.  

  • Dominant response tendency

    The response that is learned most thoroughly.  

  • Dominant gene

    A genetic material that is expressed even in the presence of a recessive gene. When one member of a gene pair is dominant and the other is recessive, the dominant gene will exert its effects regardless of what the recessive gene calls for: chromosome.  

  • Dominance hierarchy

    In social groups, the dominance ranking of their members.  

  • Domiciliary care facility

    A nonmedical institution providing room, board, laundry, some forms of personal care, and usually recreational and social services. Licensed by state departments of social services; these facilities are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement, intermediate care facility; skilled nursing facility. A home providing mainly custodial and personal care for persons who do not require…

  • Dom

    An acronym for a synthetic hallucinogen.  

  • Dolophine

    A commercial preparation of methadone.