Category: D

  • Dust cell

    A macrophage in the walls of the alveoli of the lungs that ingests pathogens and particles of air pollution.  

  • Duroziez murmur

    The systolic and diastolic murmur heard over peripheral arteries in patients with aortic insufficiency. The murmur is audible when pressure is applied to the area just distal to the stethoscope.  

  • Duroarachnitis

    Inflammation of the dura and the arachnoid membrane.  

  • Duritis

    Inflammation of the dura.  

  • Durham rule

    A legal standard that limits the culpability of those with psychological or neurological diseases who have committed criminal acts. It states that an unlawful act is not a criminal act if it was committed by someone mentally ill, e.g., psychotic at the time, or was committed by someone with profound neurological disease, e.g., with severe…

  • Durematoma

    Accumulation of blood between the arachnoid and the dura.  

  • Duraplasty

    Plastic repair of the dura mater.  

  • Dupp

    In cardiac auscultation, the expression for the second heart sound heard over the apex. This sound is shorter and of higher pitch than lubb, the first heart sound.  

  • Duplicitas

    A fetal abnormality in which an organ or a part is doubled or apparently doubled.  

  • Duodenotomy

    An incision into the duodenum.