Medicine and Biology
- Color Doppler Imaging, type of Doppler sonography
- Combined drug intoxication, also known as Multiple Drug Intake (MDI), an unnatural cause of human death
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, tool for assessing the language development of infants and children
- Conformation Dependent Immunoassay, proprietary immunoassay method to directly reveal and measure minute amounts of infectious prion proteins in brain tissue
- Central diabetes insipidus, an endocrinological disorder
- Current density imaging, an extension of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Clostridium difficile infection, an intestinal disease, see clostridium difficile
- Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein, a protein which inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase
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