DCS may refer to:

In America:

• DCS, Dirty Colon Syndrome

In European politics:

• Danish Council of State, the Privy Council of Denmark
• Dutch Council of State, a constitutionally established advisory body to the government of the Netherlands which consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic, or military experience

In medicine: The Council of State (Statsrådet) The Council of State (Statsrådet) is the Danish Privy Council. ... In the Netherlands, the Council of State is a constitutionally established advisory body to the government which consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic, or military experience. ...

• Decompression sickness, a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body
• Dorsal Column Stimulator, an implantable medical device used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin
• D-cycloserine, used to facilitate treatment of anxiety disorders (due to its partial NMDA agonist properties), and to treat tuberculosis

In technology: Decompression sickness (DCS), the diver’s disease, the bends, or caisson disease is the name given to a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body. ... Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) or Dorsal Column Stimulator (DCS) is an implantable medical device used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartic acid) is an amino acid derivative acting as a specific agonist at the NMDA receptor, and therefore mimics the action of the neurotransmitter glutamate on that receptor. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or TuBerculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...

• Data Coding Scheme, a value used in SMSs to indicate the message class.
• Data Conversion Services, IT Services in the European Southern Observatory
• Digital Cellular System, a mobile communications-based PCS network used outside of the U.S.
• Digital Command System, a model railroad system by MTH Electric Trains
• Digital Compression System, a sound system developed by Williams Electronics
• Digital cross connect system, a type of telecom equipment
• Digital-Coded Squelch, a squelch that superimposes a continuous stream of FSK digital data on the transmitted signal
• Distributed control system, a control system in which the controller elements are not central in location but are distributed throughout the system with each component sub-system under the control of one or more controllers
• Desktop Color Separations, an enhanced EPS file format. Not used as much these days, the DCS format is still necessary for some types of graphics work. With DCS a CMYK graphic is separated into five files: one grayscale image for each of the CMYK process colors plus an FPO file with preview that goes into the page layout document. DCS can be useful for working with images where you need work with multiple channels, such as applying different spot colors to each parts of a grayscale image.

In other fields: SMS may refer to: Short message service, a form of text messaging on cell phones Sega Master System – an 8-bit video game console from the 1980s Seiner Majestät Schiff, His Majestys Ship in the German Kaiserliche Marine and the Austro-Hungarian Navy SMS (comics), a British comic... GSM frequency bands or frequency ranges are the radio spectrum frequencies designated by the ITU for the operation of the GSM system for mobile phones. ... Digital Command System (DCS) is an electronic control system for O scale 3-rail model trains and toy trains, developed by MTH Electric Trains as a rival to Lionels Trainmaster Command Control. ... Digital Compression System, or DCS, is a sound system developed by Williams Electronics. ... A digital cross-connect system (DCS) is a piece of circuit-switched network equipment, typically used in telephone networks, that allows lower-level TDM bit streams, such as DS0 bit steams, to be rearranged and interconnected among higher-level TDM signals, such as DS1 bit streams. ... In telecommunications, squelch is a circuit function that acts to suppress the audio (or video) output of a receiver in the absence of a sufficiently strong desired input signal. ... A distributed control system (DCS) refers to a control system usually of a manufacturing system, process or any kind of dynamic system, in which the controller elements are not central in location (like the brain) but are distributed throughout the system with each component sub-system controlled by one or...

• Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a term commonly used in law enforcement
• DCS Entertainment, an American film, music, auto and office supply company
• Deaf Children's Society, the only British charity solely dedicated to providing support, information and advice for deaf children and young people, their families and professionals working with them
• Department of Children's Services, the name used by some U.S. states for governmental departments dealing with the health, safety and welfare of minors. Other states refer to this type of department as Children & Family Services.
• Diplomatic Courier Service is the function responsible for protecting diplomatic pouches and material for the US Department of State. It is located under the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
• Detective Chief Superintendent, the senior detective and commander of the Criminal Investigation Department in most forces in the United Kingdom
• Direct Commercial Sales, a method of arms sale in the U.S. by which a company directly negotiates with its buyer
• Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores, a High/Middle Charter School located in Miami Shores, Florida
• Dean Close School
• Daimler Common Sense An award issued to a school in Spondon, Derby by Ian Daimler, after all staff members managed to get there even in the snow!
• Dade Christian School A private school in Miami-Dade county
• Deacon(ess) of the Church of Scotland
• Dearborn Christian School A private school in Dearborn, Michigan
• DCS (Band) A legendary Bhangra band formed in 1983.
• Dynamic Cooking Systems
• Distributed Control System

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