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diastolic pressure
  • n  the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood
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diastrophism
  • n  the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust
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diaspora
  • n  the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
  • n  the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
  • n  the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
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