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<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.</def>

<h1>Diapnoic</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di`ap*no"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ outlet for the wind, exhalation, fr. <?/ to blow through; <?/ through + <?/ to blow, breathe: cf. F. <ets>diapno\'8bque</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A gentle diaphoretic.</def></def2>

<h1>Diapophysical</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di*ap`o*phys"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to a diapophysis.</def>

<h1>Diapophysis</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di`a*poph"y*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Dia-</er>, and <er>Apophysis</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See <er>Vertebra</er>.</def>

<h1>Diarchy</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di"arch*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ to rule.]</ety> <def>A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.</def>

<h1>Diarial, Diarian</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw><hw>Di*a"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Di*a"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Diary</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to a diary; daily.</def>

<h1>Diarist</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di"a*rist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who keeps a diary.</def>

<h1>Diarrhea, Diarrh\'91a</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw><hw>Di`ar*rhe"a</hw>, <hw>Di`ar*rh\'91"a</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>diarrhoea</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to flow through; <?/ + <?/ to flow; akin to E. <ets>stream</ets>. See <er>Stream</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.</def>

<h1>Diarrheal, Diarrh</al</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw><hw>Di`ar*rhe"al</hw>, <hw>Di`ar*rh<?/"al</hw><hw> <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.</def>

<h1>Diarrhetic, Diarrh\'91tic</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw><hw>Di`ar*rhet"ic</hw>, <hw>Di`ar*rh\'91t"ic</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Producing diarrhea, or a purging.</def>

<h1>Diarthrodial</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di`ar*thro"di*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.</def>

<h1>Diarthrosis</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di`ar*thro"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to joint, articulate; <?/ through, asunder + <?/ to fasten by a joint, <?/ joint.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See <er>Articulation</er>.</def>

<h1>Diary</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di"a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Diaries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>diarium</ets>, fr. <ets>dies</ets> day. See <er>Deity</er>.]</ety> <def>A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; <as>as, a <ex>diary</ex> of the weather; a physician's <ex>diary</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Diary</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di"a*ry</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>lasting for one day; <as>as, a <ex>diary</def></ex> fever</as>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Diary</i> ague."