| | - dyslexia
- an inability or pronounced difficulty to learn to read or spell, despite otherwise normal intellectual ... [3 Related Articles]
- dysmenorrhea
- pain or painful cramps felt before or during menstruation. Dysmenorrhea may be primary or secondary. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dysnomia
- (from the article "Eris") ...planet.) Eris revolves once about every 560 Earth years in a highly tilted, elliptical orbit. ...
- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
- (from the article "Pace University") The university was founded in 1906 by the brothers Homer and Charles Pace. Originally named ...
- Dyson, Freeman
- British-born American physicist and educator best known for his speculative work on extraterrestrial civilizations. [2 Related Articles]
- Dyson, Sir Frank
- British astronomer who in 1919 organized observations of stars near the Sun, which provided evidence ...
- Dysoxylum
- (from the article "Sapindales") ...and tropical Australia; Trichilia (85 species), which occur commonly as understory trees in lowland forests ...
- dyspareunia
- painful or difficult sexual intercourse in the female. Disorders are generally physical rather than psychological. ... [4 Related Articles]
- dysphagia
- difficulty or pain in swallowing, caused by lesions or stricture of the upper digestive tract, ... [1 Related Articles]
- dysphonia
- (from the article "speech disorder") In international terminology, disorders of the voice are described as dysphonia. Depending on the underlying ...
- dysphrenia
- (from the article "speech disorder") ...same extent as it does intellectual capacity; this language disorder has been described as dyslogia. ...
- dysplasia
- malformation of a bodily structure or tissue; the term most commonly denotes a malformation of ... [2 Related Articles]
- dysprosium
- (Dy), chemical element, rare-earth metal of the lanthanoid series of the periodic table. A relatively ... [1 Related Articles]
- dysthymic disorder
- (from the article "mental disorder") Dysthmic disorder, or depressive neurosis, may occur on its own but more commonly appears along ...
- dystonia
- movement disorder characterized by the involuntary and repetitive contraction of muscle groups, resulting in twisting ... [2 Related Articles]
- dystopian novel
- (from the article "Dostoyevsky, Fyodor") ...evil and his love of freedom have made Dostoyevsky especially relevant to a century of ...
- dystrophin
- (from the article "muscle disease") ...the disease but have a 50 percent probability of transmitting the gene to their sons ...
- dysuria
- (from the article "renal system disease") ...inflammation of the lower urinary tract, commonly due to infection but rarely caused by chemical ...
- Dyula
- people of western Africa who speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo language family. Most ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dyula language
- (from the article "Mande languages") ...western and eastern groups. The larger western group of 27 languages includes several estimated as ...
- Dzavhan River
- (from the article "Mongolia") ...run latitudinally across the eastern part of the country. The largest rivers draining into the ...
- DZero
- (from the article "subatomic particle") ...announced tentative evidence for the top quark. This was confirmed the following year, when not ...
- Dzerzhinsk
- city, Nizhegorod oblast (province), western Russia. Dzerzhinsk lies along the Oka River upstream from its ...
- Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
- Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization. [1 Related Articles]
- Dzhavakhet Range
- (from the article "Caucasus") The structures of the Lesser Caucasus, the Talish Mountains, the Dzhavakhet Range, and the Armenian ...
- Dzhetym Range
- (from the article "Tien Shan") ...to 15,000 feet (3,000 to 4,600 metres), while the elevations of the depressions that separate ...
- Dzhruchi, Gospels of
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...in Georgia from the 6th century onward, and numerous examples survive from all periods. Characteristic ...
- Dzhugdzhur Mountains
- (from the article "Asia") ...between basic types of mountains over vast areas of Asia. The largest mountain belt on ...
- Dzhuma-Mechet Mosque
- (from the article "Ganca") ...centre of a rich farming area, it processes agricultural products and makes cotton textiles and ...
- Dzhungarian hamster
- (from the article "hamster") ...small, furry ears, short, stocky legs, and wide feet. Their thick, long fur ranges from ...
- dziady
- in Slavic religion, all the dead ancestors of a family, the rites that are performed ...
- Dzierzon, Jan
- (from the article "Dzierzoniow") ...pledged the town to Bohemia (1335), whence it passed to the Habsburgs. In 1742 it ...
- Dzierzoniow
- city, Dolnoslaskie wojewodztwo (province), southwestern Poland, on the Pilawa River in Lower ...
- dzong
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...region and the Lesser Himalayan valleys the architecture is typically Tibetan. Especially in the Himalayan ...
- Dzungar
- people of Central Asia, so called because they formed the left wing (dson, "left"; gar, ... [7 Related Articles]
- Dzungarian Gate
- (from the article "Junggar Basin") The main pass through the western ranges is the so-called Dzungarian Gate (Junggar Men), which ...
- Dzungarian Gobi
- (from the article "Gobi") The Dzungarian Gobi is north of the Ka-shun Gobi, between the eastern spurs of the ...
- Dzurinda, Mikulas
- (from the article "Slovakia") Area: 49,035 sq km (18,933 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 5,391,000 | Capital: Bratislava ...
- Dzyarzhynsk Mountain
- (from the article "Belarusian Ridge") ...Belarus and then swings northeast. Its total length is 320 miles (520 km). The ridge, ...
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