Category: D

  • Diagnostic related groups (DRG)

    Classification representing 23 major diagnostic categories that aggregates patients into case types based on diagnosis. A diagnosis related group is a subset of a major diagnostic category. Classes of medical diagnoses in a system devised to control health care costs and used to establish reimbursement for hospital care.  

  • Delusional (paranoid) disorder

    A mental disorder characterized by a persistent mental disorder such as schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, mood disorder, or organic mental disorder. Auditory or visual hallucinations, if present, are not prominent. Delusional (paranoid) disorders are usually subtyped by the predominant delusional theme: erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, or somatic.  

  • Dust

    To sprinkle or coat food lightly with flour or sugar. Minute, fine particles of earth; any powder, especially something that has settled from the air. Finely fragmented substances (such as those used for safeguarding plants) that may or may not be combined with a solvent, intended for use when dry. The term being described here…

  • Duplicates

    Results from units of experiments made under the same conditions.  

  • Duo-trio

    A method of difference testing, that is, one of a pair of samples is identified and presented first. Then the observer receives two more samples as unknowns in random order. The observers task is to pick the different sample.  

  • Du jour

    Literally means “of the day” and generally refers to a given menu item of the day.  

  • Dud detector

    A mechanism designed to identify low vacuum containers and reject them.  

  • Dud

    A container with no vacuum.  

  • Dryness

    Little or no sugar, opposite of sweetness. The state of being dry.  

  • Drained weight

    A measure of the weight of product after draining off the liquid portion or packing medium of that product in a given size of container. The actual weight of food that has been allowed to drain to remove the liquids in which it has been prepared.