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  • Dry Weight

    The moisture-free weight of tissue obtained by drying at high (oven-drying) or low (freeze-drying) temperatures for an interval sufficient to remove all water.

  • Dryness

    Refers to the level of steam saturation, and it is the ratio of vapor mass to the mass of the steam mixture. Dryness has a value of 1.0 which is representative of dry saturated steam; otherwise is dimensionless.

  • DS

    Design Specification

  • DS

    Drug Substance

  • DSA

    Distributed Systems Architecture

  • DSA/AC

    Division of the State Architect/Access Compliance (California)

  • DSA/SS

    Division of the State Architect/Structural Safety Section (California)

  • DSC

    Differential Scanning Calorimetry

  • DSCSA

    Dug Supply Chain Security

  • DSHEA

    Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (1994)

  • DSL

    Digital Subscriber Line

  • DSMB

    Data and Safety Monitoring Board

  • DSMP

    Data and Safety Monitoring Plan

  • dsRNA

    double stranded Ribonucleic Acid

  • DSS

    Data Security Standards

  • DSVP

    Dietary Supplement Verification Program

  • DT

    Design Target

  • DTA

    Diferential Thermal Analysis

  • DTC

    Direct-to-Consumer

  • DTD

    Document Type Definition

  • DTPA

    Diethylene Triamine Pentaacetic Acid

  • DTPA (Diethylene Triamine Pentaacetic Acid)

    DTPA functions as a complexing agent for various types of metal ions or radionuclides for diagnostic as well as therapeutic applications.

  • Duplex Stainless Steel

    A group of stainless steels whose chemical composition is designed to produce a room temperature microstructure that is a mixture of austenite and ferrite.

  • Duplex Transmission

    (ISO) Data transmission in both directions at the same time.

  • Duplication

    A particular kind of mutation: production of one or more copies of any piece of DNA, including a gene or even an entire chromosome.