Vocabulary : Diaspore to Diastolic

Diaspore : A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase : A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Diastasic : Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
Diastasis : A forcible of bones without fracture.
Diastatic : Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Diastem : Intervening space; interval. ;; An interval.
Diastema : A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Diaster : A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
Diastole : The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction. ;; A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
Diastolic : Of or pertaining to diastole.

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