Science and Medicine
- Gadolinium (chemical symbol: Gd), a chemical element
- Gaucher's disease, the most common of the lipid storage diseases
- Gaussian distribution, more commonly called the normal distribution, an important family of continuous probability distributions
- Generalized Dirichlet distribution, a probability distribution also used in statistics
- Generalized dystonia, a neurological movement disorder
- Gestational diabetes, a form of diabetes associated with pregnancy
- Gudermannian function, used in map-making
- GD, the NATO designation for the toxic chemical soman
- The International Symposium on Graph Drawing, an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of network information, geometric graph theory, and related topics
- Graves' disease, an autoimmune thyroid disorder
- Sum activity of peripheral deiodinases, used in diagnosis of thyroid disorders
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