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Daily Value (DV): Reference values developed by the FDA to describe the amount of a nutrient used as the standard for labeling purposes
Dawn Phenomenon: a sudden rise in blood glucose levels in the early morning hours.
Dehydration: excessive loss of water from the body
Deltoids: The triangular, 3- part muscles that wrap around the tops of the shoulders. Deltoids allow you to raise your arms forward, backward and out to the sides, and also to rotate them inward and outward
Dextrose: see glucose.
Diabetes Insipidus: a disease of the pituitary gland or kidney, but not diabetes mellitus. Hence named because most people suffering from this disease show most of the same signs as someone with diabetes mellitus.
Diabetic Coma: a severe emergency in which a person loses consciousness due to abnormal blood glucose (sugar) level. If the glucose level is too low, the person has hypoglycemia; if the level is too high, the person has hyperglycemia.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA): a severe type of diabetes that occurs when blood sugar levels get too high
Diabetic Retinopathy: diabetes that ultimately affects the small blood vessels in the retina of the eye
Dialysis: artificial removal of waste products from the blood
Didrex: a drug that stimulates the nervous system to suppress appetite
Diuretics: a drug that increases the volume of urine produced. Diuretics produces an illusion of weight loss since no fat is lost.
Dumping Syndrome: Side-effect of bariatric procedures where food is prematurely released from the stomach into the small intestine, resulting in nausea and vomiting.
Duodenal Switch: A bariatric surgery in which surgeons perform two options
1.) Divide a patient's stomach into a slender vertical pouch and,
2.) Re-route the small intestine to effect malabsorption. Also known as biliopancreatic diversion and bilopancreatic diversion duodenal switch.
Duodenum: The upper section of the small intestine that connects to the stomach. |
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