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| D | Darkfield Exam is a kind of a laboratory technique, used to find the Syphilis causing germs. These germs are identified with the help of a light, which is reflected under some angle in such a way, that germs show up as light – colored objects against dark background.
Deficiency means lacking of something. If a person’s body is not able to fight germs or viruses, it means it has weak immune system; otherwise, it has a deficiency, not enough germ fighters.
Dental Dam is a square, made of latex, and used as a barrier method of protection from sexually transmitted diseases during oral sex. It is put on someone’s anus or vagina.
Depression is a kind of illness, which involves the mood, thought and body of a person, and if affects the way a person eats, sleeps, feels about himself or herself, and the way the person thinks about different things. It is completely neither the same as the blue mood, which is a temporary phenomenon, nor a sign of some personal weakness or a condition, that can be wished away. People, who have depression are not able to “pull themselves together”, and get better without some medical help. If no treatment is conducted, the symptoms of a depression can last for weeks, months, and even longer; and it may finally end up with a suicide.
Diaphragm is one of the barrier methods of contraception. It is a kind of a soft, rubber device, which has size and shape of a tennis ball, cut in half, which is fitted into a woman’s cervix. It may also be used with some additional cream or jelly spermicide. A woman inserts it into her vagina before or after having vaginal sex. It prevents unplanned pregnancy from occurring, but it does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases. Each woman should wear diaphragm of her size, which is to be determined by a doctor.
Diarrhea is a phenomenon, opposite of constipation. It is when unusually frequent or liquid bowel movements occur. If a person experiences diarrhea, it may be a sign of some infection, or some side effect from a medicine, some unusual or non – fresh food, etc.
Discharge is a kind of fluid, coming out form the vagina, penis or anus, and which may be runny, thick or lumpy. It is one of the sexually transmitted diseases’ symptoms.
Disease is an illness or sickness with some typical health complications, called symptoms and physical findings, called signs. Disruption sequence: the events, which occur if a normally developing fetus gets subjected to some destructive agent, like the rubella virus (the virus of German Measles).
Dizziness is some head discomfort, which is painless, but has a log of possible causes, like disturbances of vision, the brain, balance system of the inner ear, and gastrointertinal system. The very term “dizziness” is used to describe the whole variety of conditions, beginning with lightheadedness, and up to vertigo.
Douchingis is using water or some other solution to clean the vagina and cervix. It does not protect form sexually transmitted diseases, and it is considered to be an ineffective method of contraception. Moreover, it may even encourage some vaginal infections’ development. For the majority of women, douching is an unnecessary procedure, as the vagina is a self – cleaning organ and it has its own secretions.
Dysplasia is some change of a size shape or organization of cells. Human papillomavirus may cause dysplasia of the cervix.
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