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DRUG SYNERGISM

The enhancement of efficacy when 2 or more drugs are given at the same time.

DUAL TRACE HYPOTHESIS

Short term reflects changes in long term memory. See Hebbian synapse.

DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY

A legal document stating that a person can make health care, financial decisions for another person who is incapable of

DYING PROCESS

The progressive and not reversible loss of vital function resulting in life ending. See stages of dying.

DYNAMIC TESTING

Uses a psychometric approach to measure the processes and products of learning and the potential to learn.

DYSESTHESIA (DISESTHESIA DYSAESTHESIA)

An abnormaity in the sense of touch. Also called dysesthesia sysndrome.

DYSMETROPSIA

An inability to judge an objects size. Compare visual form.

DYSPHONIA

Dysfunction in producing sounds related to speech, See spasmodic dysphonis- voice disorder.

DYSTHYMIA

A depressed mood that is mild to moderate.

DALE'S LAW

the idea, now recognized as being inaccurate for a large number of neurons, which each terminal button of a neuron

DARVOCET

noun. A brand name for the topical pain relief combination of acetaminophen and propoxyphene.

DATE RAPE

carnal attack by a friend, date, or someone else that the victim knows- frequently involved substances like alcohol or date

DC AMPLIFIER

a direct-current tool utilized to enhance the possible variation among a neural membrane so that the cortical current can be

DEATH SYSTEM

the flexible trends by which a community mediates its union with death in effort to stay viable as a commune

DECATASTROPHIZING

Technique used to people with irrational fears by exploring the reality of the situation.

DALE'S PRINCIPLE

theory posed by British neurophysiologist Henry Hallet Dale.

DARVON

noun. A brand name for propoxyphene.

DATE-RAPE DRUG

a drug which is slyly given to inhibit awareness or memory for the intent of carnal exploitation of the sufferer.

DCNIONOLATOR N

with regard to demonology, the step-by-step analysis of the belief in evil entities and demons, often described in folktales and

DEATH TABOO (DEATH TABU)

the virtue that death is so hazardous and scary a topic that someone ought not just abstain from contact with