DMD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DMD mean? 

• DMD (noun)
  The noun DMD has 1 sense:

1. a doctor's degree in dental medicine

  Familiarity information: DMD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DMD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A doctor's degree in dental medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

DMD; Doctor of Dental Medicine

Hypernyms ("DMD" is a kind of...):

doctor's degree; doctorate (one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university)

 Context examples 

A fusion gene that results from an Xp22.1-Xp21.3 microdeletion which causes a tail-to-tail fusion of the IL1RAPL1 gene and the DMD gene.

(IL1RAPL1/DMD Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Dystrophin (3685 aa, ~427 kDa) is encoded by the human DMD gene.

(Dystrophin, NCI Thesaurus)

An X-linked inherited disorder caused by mutations in the DMD gene found on the X chromosome.

(Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Human DMD wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of Xp21.2 and is approximately 2225 kb in length.

(DMD wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)