Category: D

  • Design

    In research, a translating of questions, hypotheses, or models into choices of subjects, situations, treatments, observations, or measurement, basis for sensing attributes or changes, and procedure so that greater under¬ standing or validation of the former results.  

  • Desiccation

    Dried up. A form of mummification in which the body is allowed to dehydrate. Drying out of plant tissue, especially foliage. Process of drying, often to an abnormal extent.  

  • Desiccate

    To remove water from any substance, e.g., by heating or by storage with a hygroscopic materials.  

  • Desexualization

    Desexualize.  

  • Desertion

    In family relations, the act of abandoning a marriage partner.  

  • Desertification

    Erosion of the soil in a region resulting in climatic changes, drought, and loss of vegetation.  

  • Desensitization

    In psychology, lowered arousal due to frequent exposure. A fairly brief and transient decrease in the responsiveness of cellular receptors to drug effects. Removal of the sensation of pain, as by cutting a nerve. Procedure for making a person insensitive to an antigen; antianaphylaxis. A therapy for treating extreme fears (phobias) in which a person…

  • Desegregation

    The process of correcting past practices of racial or any other form of illegal segregation. In education, the transfer of students from some schools to others to achieve racial balance or to end other kinds of discrimination (such as separation of the handicapped), often mandated by the court in cases of segregation, whether de jure…

  • Des daughters

    Daughters of mothers who were administered DES during pregnancy.  

  • Descriptive study

    A research approach that describes a phenomenon as it exists or occurs in nature, e.g., case study, survey.