Category: D
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Dilation
A condition in which an opening of the body is stretched, during childbirth, during a medical procedure, or as a result of disease. A widening of the cervical opening. Prior to delivery, the cervix dilates 3.5—4 in. During labor, the widening of the cervix, generally to about four inches, in preparation for the actual delivery…
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Dilated
Expanded, widened. To expand or widen as dilation of the pupils of the eyes.
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Digynous
With two separate carpels or styles. Having two pistils or styles.
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Digonous
With two angles.
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Digitate
Like fingers; (Of a compound leaf) when the leaflets emerge, diverge from the same point. Resembling the fingers of a human hand, that is, with various alike structures arising at a general point. Said of a compound leaf when the leaflets are given off from the apex of the petiole. Compound with the leaflets attached…
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Digestive zone
That part of a carnivorous plant where the trapped insects decompose and where the nutrients are assimilated.
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Digamous
With flowers of two different sexual ‘types’: male and female, female and bisexual or male and bisexual.
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Diffuse-parietal
With ovules scattered over the inner carpel wall.
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Diffuse
Loosely spreading. Widely spreading; not concentrated or localized. Widely and irregularly spreading. Growing into many branches, usually used of shrubs to suggest an open, rangy habit of growth rather than a compact one. To spread through tissue, or cause something to spread. Forming many branches, usually used of shrubs to suggest an open, rangy habit…
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Differentiation
Development into more than one form or into a more specialised form. The degree to which an individual identifies the self as separate or distinct from others. The process of development of new characters in cells or tissues. Process whereby cells take on functions and forms different from those of the cells from which they…