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Prefix denoting bad or difficult, as in dyspepsia (difficult digestion).

Symbol for familial dysautonomia.

The word “dyad” comes from the Greek “dyas” meaning the number two. In psychology, a dyad refers to a pair of persons in an interactional situation. For example, a patient and therapist, a woman and her husband, a girl and her stepfather, etc. In chemistry, a dyad is a bivalent element. And in biology, a dyad…

Abbreviation for diagnosis, the determination of the nature of a disease.

Someone with dwarfism, which is now more correctly called short stature. People with dwarfism (short stature) also consider themselves little people, as in the Little People of America.

Abbreviation for Daily Value.