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DESOXYN

Trade name for methamphetamine.

DETERIORATION

A progressive impairment of basic functions.

DETUSSIN

Trade name for hydrocodone and pseudoephedrine.

DEVELOPMENTAL PHARMACOKINETICS

Study of an infant to see how pharmacological agents are processed. See pharmacokinetics.

DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY

A way to treat children and adolescents with different behavioural problems.

DHE 45

Trade name for dihydroergotamine.

DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW

The interview with the mental health professional looking at a person's problems and situations.

DIAPHRAGM

1. Muscle sheet that separates the abdominal cavity from the thoracic cavity. 2. Cup-shaped contraceptive device.

DICHOTIC LISTENING

Listening to a message in one ear and ignoring the different mesaage in the other ear.

DALMANE

noun. A brand name for flurazepam.

DARWINIAN FITNESS

proposed by Charles Darwin, the general achievement of a certain living being or genotype in generating viable offspring, which is

DAUBERT HEARING

an official demonstration and evaluation of facts which is engaged in by American federal courts to establish whether or not

DE LANGE'S SYNDROME

a hereditary disorder that presents in two ways, both being inclusive of average to serious cognitive retardation and corresponding to

DEATH WISH

1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an aware or unaware desire that someone else, especially an authority figure, will meet

DECELERATION

Decreasing the speed of an object. See acceleration.

DAMAGE-RISK CRITERIA (DRC)

the degrees and durations of subjections to noise which are likely to inflict lasting auditory loss.

DARWINIAN REFLEX

a grasping reflex displayed by and observed in infants, specifically those just recently born.

DAUBERT TEST

an analysis employed in American federal courts, in supplement of the formative Frye test, to establish whether or not an

DEAF-BLIND

adjective. The absences of seriously faulty vision and hearing simultaneously.

DEATH-ANXIETY SCALES

Death-Anxiety is an overwhelming, pervasive fear of death that interferes with a person's daily functioning. This is from answers to