DES (disambiguation)
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- Data Encryption Standard [r]: A cryptographic specification issued by the U.S. government, in 1976 and having several improvements, intended for sensitive but unclassified data; it is now obsolescent, succeeded for U.S.-approved applications by the Advanced Encryption Standard, but still used in commercial systems [e]
- diethylstilbestrol [r]: Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen, was believed to prevent miscarriages in women until a 1953 randomized controlled trial proved it did not; a 1971 study established that it increased in utero cancer risks for fetuses whose mothers had taken it [e]
- Drug-eluting stent [r]: A type of intravascular stent that is impregnated with a drug, such as paclitaxel, that may lower the chance of restenosis, although possibly increase the risk of thrombosis [e]
