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DAY TREATMENT

a system or organized interdisciplinary evaluation, remediation, and rehabilitation services rendered by professionals and paraprofessionals for handicapped persons or a

DEATH FEIGNING

the act of coming to be stationary or pretending to be dead whenever in possible danger. Commonly referred to as

DECADRON

The trade name for dexamethasone.

DABBLER

noun. With regard to the esoteric arts and magic, someone who acts within occult or otherworldly traditions or behaviors for

DARK ADAPTATION

the capacity of the eye ball to acclimate to certain states of low illumination by way of an escalated sensitiveness

DATA SNOOPING

1. searching for unexpected, post-hoc impacts in a set of information. 2. analyzing information prior to an experiment being performed,

DAYDREAM

a waking fallacy wherein aware or unaware desires, and at times, fears or worries, are played out in the mind.

DEATH GENE

a gene which is manifested only whenever a cell comes to be devoted to the programmed death of a cell.

DECALAGE

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development about the invariant order that cognitive developments occur in. See horizontal or vertical decalage.

DACTYLOLOGY

noun. The conveying or concepts by way of signals formed via the fingers.

DARK LIGHT

the perception of light stimulated by the sudden functioning of retinal photoreceptors, that takes place even when there is no

DATABASE

noun. 1. a big, systematic gathering of data retained in such a way on a computer that enables recollection of

DAYMARE

noun. An event of minor anxiety, stress, or fear, that is alike to a bad dream, but happens at a

DEATH INSTINCT

with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an ambition whose objective is the lessening of psychical stress to the smallest potential degree,

DECARBOXYLASE

The enzyme that catalyses and removes carboxyl groups from compounds.

DAH TEST

abbreviated form of Machover Draw A House Test.

DARK-ADAPTATION CURVE

a chart of a person's sensitivity to light over time when it is requested that the person pick up on

DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS

a cognitive process that centers mainly upon the tangible traits of a stimulant in contrast to its meaning.

DC (DC)

with regard to pharmacology, the abbreviated form of discontinue.

DEATH RITE

a culturally-tied ritual, spiritual event, or tradition corresponding to death and the deceased.