DIST Medical Abbreviation

Disjill

Distillation

The production of pure water from seawater by evaporation and re-condensing. The main purpose of distillation is to produce water free of salt.

Distillen

Distribution

1. The productive activity of getting produced goods from the factory into the hands of consumers. 2. The amounts of income or wealth in the hands of different portions of a population.

Distal

The more (or most) distant of two (or more) things. For example, the distal end of the femur is the end down by the knee; the end more distant from the torso. The distal bile duct is the far end of the cystic duct, the end away from the gallbladder. And the distal lymph node in a chain of nodes is the most distant one. The opposite of distal is proximal. For a more complete listing of terms used in medicine for spatial orientation, please see the entry to "Anatomic Orientation Terms".

Distill, Distillation, Distilled

Distilled, Distal

Distance

Length in a particular direction of course Length of shortest track between two places Length of customary track between two places Time difference between two given meridians Angular value, at a given point, between two other points

Disturbayce, Disturbed