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Dressing
Sterile gauze or compresses of various sizes applied and fixed in position for the protection of a wound. A covering or bandage applied to a wound to protect it. Materials used to cover and protect a wound; a dressing is also called a BANDAGE. Dressings vary in type and in the material used to make…
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Dream analysis
The attempt by a psychotherapist to interpret a person’s dreams to reveal symbolic meaning to dream episodes. The systematic study of the content of dreams as a way of understanding a person’s unconscious mind. Dream analysis has been used in psychiatry and psychology since the time of Sigmund Freud, who called dreams the “royal road…
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Dread disease policy
An insurance policy that protects a person against a specific disease.
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Draw a person test
A projective test in which the subject, who is usually a child, draws a person, then draws one of the opposite sex. The results can be scored for cognitive development or for psychotherapy. A nonverbal test used to assess intelligence and to screen for emotional and behavioral disorders. It was developed in 1967 by Karen…
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Drape
In surgery, a sterile covering used about an operative site to decrease the chance of contamination from the surroundings. A thin material used to place over someone about to undergo surgery, leaving the operation site uncovered. A covering, usually of cloth, plastic, or sterile paper, used to cover body parts (e.g., during surgical operations or…
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Drainage
In medicine, the creation of an opening through which accumulated pus can escape, especially in purulent infections. The removal of liquid from the site of an operation or pus from an abscess by means of a tube or wick left in the body for a time. Drawing off of fluid from a body cavity, usually…
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Drag queens
Homosexual men who habitually dress as women.
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Drag force
The force that causes a scrubbing action or drag of the tire on the road surface when a vehicle is turned, thus slowing the speed of the vehicle.
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Dowry
Goods or money given by a bride’s family to the family of her intended.
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Downward organizational communication
Communication that flows from any point on an organizational chart downward to another point in the organizational chart.
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