Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dominance hierarchy
In social groups, the dominance ranking of their members.
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Domiciliary care facility
A nonmedical institution providing room, board, laundry, some forms of personal care, and usually recreational and social services. Licensed by state departments of social services; these facilities are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement, intermediate care facility; skilled nursing facility. A home providing mainly custodial and personal care for persons who do not require…
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Dom
An acronym for a synthetic hallucinogen.
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Dolophine
A commercial preparation of methadone.
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Dogmatic authority
One who asserts that something is true without explanation or rationale, reasoning authority.
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Doderlein’s bacilli
The bacteria normally present in the vagina: lactobacilli.
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Doctrine of specific nerve energies
The assertion that qualitative differences in sensory experiences are not attributed to the differences in the stimuli that correspond to different sense modalities, but rather to the fact that these stimuli excite different nervous structures.
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Doctor’s degree
The highest academic degree conferred by a university in any field, e.g., doctor of education, doctor of juridical science, doctor of public health.
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Doctor
One skilled or specialized in a healing art. Usually used synonymously with physician, but actually means any person with a doctoral degree. A person who has trained in medicine and is qualified to examine people when they are ill to find out what is wrong with them and to prescribe a course of treatment. A…
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Viruses DNA
Viruses that contain DNA as their genetic material. A virus such as the papilloma virus and the herpesviruses whose genome is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
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