Category: D

  • Detane

    A commercial preparation that may be placed on the glans penis to delay ejaculation. There is no scientific evidence that such ointments are effective.  

  • Detail representative

    Detail man.  

  • Desuppression

    The removal of a mechanism that controls or suppresses a process.  

  • Destination of message

    In information theory, the point at which Information results in some form of reaction; one of the components of the information theory destruction of perception and affect. In psychology, feelings of extreme urgency and anticipation together with the conviction that neutral events have special, personal significance, suggestive of potential psychotic breakdown.  

  • Des syndrome

    The occurrence of neoplasms of the vagina in young women whose mothers were given DES during pregnancy: DES daughters.  

  • Despondency

    Depression of spirits.  

  • Desire prephase

    The second of two prophases to the sexual response cycle during which the person develops a desire for sexual involvement, desire phase.  

  • Desire phase

    A necessary first step in the sequence of human sexual responses, hypoactive sexual desire; satisfaction phase; desire prephase.  

  • Desire

    To wish for or want some object or condition related to psychobiological needs.  

  • Desirable weight

    The range of weights for a particular height as compiled by life insurance companies.