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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK Words: 116197

balanced occlusion
The simultaneous contacting of the upper and lower teeth on the right and left and in the anterior and posterior occlusal areas in centric and eccentric positions within the functional range; used primarily in reference to the mouth, but also arranged and observed on articulators, developed to prevent a tipping or rotating of the denture bases in r …

balanced polymorphism
<genetics> A type of polymorphism where the many morphs are alleles. The polymorphism is maintained in a population rather than the norm of one allele eventually becoming the only allele in the population, because individuals who are heterozygous, or have two different alleles, are more adaptive (more fit) than individuals who are homozygous, …

balanced stock
<genetics> A genetic strain of any of several lab organisms (like fruit flies) which can be maintained as heterozygous individuals without requiring constant artificial selection for the heterozygotes, due to a number of lethal recessive genes with the result that the homozygous females are sterile (unable to produce offspring) and the males …

balanced translocation
<genetics> A number of the chromosomal mutations called translocations, where a segment of DNA abnormally becomes attached to the wrong chromosome, which results in two nonhomologous chromosomes being able to cross over, something which normally can occur only between homologous chromosomes. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

balancing contact
The contact's between upper and lower dentures on the balancing or mediotrusive side for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower dentures at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side (anteroposteriorly or laterally) for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and low …

balancing occlusal surface
Synonym for balancing contact ... The contact's between upper and lower dentures on the balancing or mediotrusive side for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower dentures at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side (anteroposteriorly or laterally) for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, th …

balancing selection
<genetics> A process of natural selection where heterozygous individuals are more adaptive, and thus selected for more often, than either of the two types of homozygous individuals. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

balancing side
In dentistry, the nonfunctioning side from which the mandible moves during the working bite. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balancing side condyle
In dentistry, the mandibular condyle on the side away from which the mandible moves in a lateral excursion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanic
Relating to the glans penis or glans clitoridis. ... Origin: G. Balanos, acorn, glans ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanic hypospadias
Synonym for glanular hypospadias ... Ventral and proximal glanular malposition of urethral meatus in a male. ... Synonym: balanic hypospadias. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balanites aegyptiaca
A genus of trees growing in the Near East, whose berries contain an active principle that is deadly to mollusks, miracidia, cercariae, tadpoles, and fish and that is used as a prophylactic against schistosomiasis by adding it to drinking water. ... Origin: L. Balanos, acorn ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanitic epispadias
Excessively proximal position of meatus on dorsum of glans penis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanitis
<urology> Inflammation of the glans penis, it is usually associated with phimosis. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

balanitis diabetica
Glanular inflammation in diabetics related to urinary infection or concomitant posthitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanitis of Zoon
Synonym for plasma cell balanitis ... Benign circumscribed balanitis characterised microscopically by subepithelial plasma cell infiltration and clinically by small erythematous papular lesions. ... Synonym: balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis, balanitis of Zoon, Zoon's erythroplasia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanitis xerotica obliterans
Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus of the glans penis, which may result in urethral stenosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balano-
Glans penis. ... Origin: G. Balanos, acorn, glans ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanoplasty
Surgical reconstruction of the glans penis. ... Origin: balano-+ G. Plastos, formed ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balanoposthitis
<urology> Inflammation of the glans penis and prepuce is often caused by a bacterial infection with Staphylococcus aureus. ... Symptoms and findings include redness, swelling, itching and pain to the glans penis. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

balantidial dysentery
A type of colitis resembling in many respects amoebic dysentery; caused by the parasitic ciliate, Balantidium coli. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balantidiasis
Infection by protozoan parasites of the genus balantidium. The presence of balantidium in the large intestine leads to diarrhoea, dysentery, and occasionally ulceration. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

balantidium
A genus of protozoa parasitic in the digestive tract of vertebrate or invertebrate hosts. Asexual multiplication is accomplished by transverse binary fission. Its organisms are ovoidal in shape and have a ciliated covering over the entire body. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Balantidium coli
A very large parasitic ciliate species, usually 50 to 80 um in length, reaching up to 200 um in pigs, found in the caecum or large intestine, swimming actively in the lumen; usually harmless in man but may invade and ulcerate the intestinal wall, producing a colitis resembling amoebic dysentery. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balantidium suis
A species originally considered distinct from the ciliate parasite of man, Balantidium coli, but now considered synonymous with it; nonpathogenic in swine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balantidosis
Synonym for balantidiasis ... Infection by protozoan parasites of the genus balantidium. The presence of balantidium in the large intestine leads to diarrhoea, dysentery, and occasionally ulceration. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

balanus
Synonym: glans penis. ... Origin: G. Balanos, acorn, glans penis ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

BALB test
Synonym for binaural alternate loudness balance test ... A test for recruitment in one ear; the comparison of relative loudness of a series of intensities presented alternately to either ear. ... Synonym: BALB test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balbani ring
An extremely large puff at a band of a polytene chromosome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balbiani ring
<cell biology, genetics> The largest puffs seen on the polytene chromosomes of Diptera are called Balbiani rings after the nineteenth century microscopist who first described polytene chromosomes. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

bald
1. Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. 'On the bald top of an eminence.' (Wordsworth) ... 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. 'In the preface to his own bald translation.' (Dryden) ... 3. Undisguised. ' Bald egotism.' ... 4. Destitute o …

bald tongue
Synonym for atrophic glossitis ... An erythematous, edematous, and painful tongue which appears smooth due to loss of the filiform and sometimes the fungiform papillae secondary to certain nutritional deficiencies, especially B-vitamin deficencies, as seen in pellagra, thiamin deficiency, and disorders such as pernicious anaemia (Hunter's or Moeller …

baldness
Alopecia. There are many types of baldness, each with a different cause. Baldness can be localised to the front and top of the head, such as in male pattern baldness; patchy, such as in alopecia areata; or involve the entire head, such as in alopecia capitis totalis. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

baldness, patchy
Medically referred to as alopecia areata (alopecia means baldness and areata means occurring in patches). The problem typically begins with patchy hair loss on the scalp and sometimes progresses to complete baldness and even loss of body hair. Although alopecia areata affects 2.5 million people in the United States alone, little is known about its …

Baldy, John
<person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1860-1934. ... See: Baldy's operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Baldy's operation
An obsolete operation for retrodisplacement of the uterus, consisting of bringing the round ligaments through the perforated broad ligaments and attaching them to each other and to the back of the uterus. ... Synonym: Webster's operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

baleen
<zoology> Plates or blades of 'whalebone,' from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. ... Origin: F. Baleine whale and whalibone, L. Balaena a whale; cf. Gr. ... Source: Webst …

BalI methyltransferase
<enzyme> Recognises 5'-tggcca-3' and methylates first c to produce c(5)-methylcytosine ... Registry number: EC 2.1.1.- ... Synonym: methyltransferase bali, DNA methyltransferase bali ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

Balint, Rudolph
<person> Hungarian neurologist and psychiatrist, 1874-1929. ... See: Balint's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balint's syndrome
<syndrome> An entity characterised by optic ataxia and simultanagnosia. This difficulty in applying the visual system to a visual task is usually due to damage to the superior temporal-occipital areas in both hemispheres. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balk
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. ... Origin: Prob. From D. Balken to bray, bawl. ... 1. To leave or make balks in. ... 2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. 'Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.' (Shak) ... 3. To omit, …

Balkan beam
Synonym for Balkan frame ... An overhead frame, supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. ... Synonym: Balkan beam, Balkan splint. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balkan frame
An overhead frame, supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. ... Synonym: Balkan beam, Balkan splint. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balkan nephropathy
A tubulointerstitial disease of unknown aetiology occurring in a limited geographic area including adjacent regions of romania, bulgaria, and yugoslavia. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Balkan splint
Synonym for Balkan frame ... An overhead frame, supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. ... Synonym: Balkan beam, Balkan splint. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball
1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. ... 2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. ... 3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. ... 4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or …

ball of the foot
The padded portion of the sole, at the anterior extremity of the heads of the metatarsals, upon which the weight rests when the heel is raised. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball thrombus
An antemortem thrombus found in the left or right atrium usually in certain cases of mitral stenosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball valve
Any of a variety of prosthetic cardiac valve's comprised of a ball within a retaining cage affixed to the orifice; when appropriately sized, used in aortic, mitral, or tricuspid position. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball valve action
The intermittent blockage of a tube or outlet of a cavity by some object or material that permits passage in one direction but not in the other. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball variance
Swelling and changes in shape and consistency of the ball in a ball-valve prosthesis, especially in one replacing the aortic valve. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball-and-socket joint
A multiaxial synovial joint in which a more or less extensive sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone, as in the hip joint. ... Synonym: articulatio spheroidea, articulatio cotylica, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, socket joint, spheroid articulation, spheroid joint. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ball-valve thrombus
Ball thrombus intermittently occluding the mitral or tricuspid orifice. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Ball, Sir Charles
<person> Irish surgeon, 1851-1916. ... See: Ball's operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Ball's operation
Division of the sensory nerve trunks supplying the anus, for relief of pruritus ani. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Ballance, Sir Charles
<person> English surgeon, 1856-1936. ... See: Ballance's sign, Koerte-Ballance operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Ballance's sign
<clinical sign> The presence of a dull percussion note in both flanks, constant on the left side but shifting with change of position on the right, said to indicate ruptured spleen; the dullness is due to the presence of blood, fluid on the right side but coagulated on the left. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballerina-foot pattern
A vigorous posteromedial contraction of the left ventricle coupled with convexity anteriorly sometimes resulting from poor contraction of the opposing anterior wall; it is the most frequent dyssynergy observed in the prolapsed mitral valve leaflet syndrome (even with a normal anterior wall) and produces a configuration of angiographic dye in the ri …

balling gun
Balling iron ... An instrument used for administering boluses or capsules to animals. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballism
Synonym for ballismus ... A type of involuntary movement affecting the proximal limb musculature, manifested as jerking, flinging movements of the extremity; caused by a lesion of or near the contralateral subthalamic nucleus. Usually only one side of the body is involved, resulting in hemiballismus. ... Synonym: ballism. ... Origin: G. Ballismos, a j …

ballismus
A type of involuntary movement affecting the proximal limb musculature, manifested as jerking, flinging movements of the extremity; caused by a lesion of or near the contralateral subthalamic nucleus. Usually only one side of the body is involved, resulting in hemiballismus. ... Synonym: ballism. ... Origin: G. Ballismos, a jumping about ... (05 Mar 2 …

ballistic
1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. ... 2. Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile. Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through w …

ballistocardiogram
A record of the body's recoil caused by cardiac contraction, the ejection of blood into the aorta, and ventricular filling forces; has been used as a basis for calculating the cardiac output in man, but its lack of accuracy and reproducibility has caused it to be discarded. ... Origin: G. Ballo, to throw, + kardia, heart, + gramma, something written …

ballistocardiograph
Instrument for taking a ballistocardiogram, consisting either of a moving table suspended from the ceiling, or of an apparatus that rests upon the patient's body, usually on the shins, together with a graphic recording system. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballistocardiography
Technique of graphic representation of the movements of the body imparted by the ballistic forces (recoil and impact) associated with cardiac contraction and ejection of blood and with the deceleration of blood flow through the large blood vessels. These movements, quantitatively very minute, are translated by a pickup device (transducer) into an e …

ballistophobia
<psychology> Morbid fear of a projectile or missile. ... Origin: G. Ballista, catapult, fr. G. Ballistes fr. Ballo, + phobos, fear ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon
1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation. ... 2. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc, as at St. Paul's, in London. ... 3. <chemistry> A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to …

balloon angioplasty
<cardiology> Use of a balloon catheter for dilatation of an occluded artery. It is used in treatment of arterial occlusive diseases, including renal artery stenosis and arterial occlusions in the leg. For the specific technique of balloon dilatation in coronary arteries, angioplasty, transluminal, percutaneous coronary is available. ... Corona …

balloon catheter
A catheter used in arterial embolectomy or to float into the pulmonary artery. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon cell
An unusually large degenerated cell with pale-staining vacuolated or reticulated cytoplasm, as in viral hepatitis or in degenerated epidermal cell's in herpes zoster, a large form of nevus cell with abundant nonstaining cytoplasm, formed by vacular degeneration of melanosomes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon cell nevus
A nevus in which many of the cells are large, with clear cytoplasm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon counter pulsation
A form of circulatory assistance in which a balloon inflates in the aorta during diastole to improve diastolic pressure and deflates during systole to reduce left ventricular after load. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon dilatation
Nonoperative repair of occluded vessels, ducts, or valves by insertion of a balloon catheter. It is used to treat varices, torn retinas, renal and biliary calculi, gastric, bronchial and rectal stenoses, and heart valves, and includes catheterization with fogarty and foley catheters. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

balloon sickness
A form of mountain sickness occurring in someone as a result of ascent in a balloon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balloon-tip catheter
A tube with a balloon at its tip that can be inflated or deflated without removal after installation; the balloon may be inflated to facilitate passage of the tube through a blood vessel (propelled by the bloodstream) or to occlude the vessel in which the tube alone would allow free flow; such catheter's are used to enter the pulmonary artery to fa …

ballooning degeneration
A phenomenon observed especially in cells that are infected with certain viruses, resulting in conspicuous swelling of the cell and cytoplasmic vacuolation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballooning mode
<radiobiology> A mode which is localised in regions of unfavorable magnetic field curvature (bad curvature) and which becomes unstable when the force due to pressure gradients (grad p) is greater than the mean magnetic pressure force (grad B^2)/(8pi) in cgs units. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

balloonseptostomy
<procedure> Creation of an artificial interatrial septal defect by cardiac catheterization during which an inflated balloon is pulled across the interatrial septum through the foramen ovale; used in cases of transposition of the great vessels and tricuspid atresia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballottable
Capable of exhibiting the phenomenon of ballottement. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

ballottement
1. Manoeuvre used in physical examination to estimate the size of an organ not near the surface, particularly when there is ascites, by a flicking motion of the hand or fingers similar to that of dribbling a basketball. ... 2. An obsolete method of diagnosis of pregnancy: with the tip of the forefinger in the vagina, a sharp tap is made against the …

balm
1. <botany> An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa. ... 2. The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. ... 3. Any fragrant ointment. ... 4. Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. 'Balm for each ill. ... <zoology>' Balm cricket, the European cicada. ... <botany> Balm of Gilead, a small evergreen African and Asia …

balm of Gilead
An oleoresin from Commiphora opobalsamum (family Burseraceae), probably the myrrh of the Bible; used in perfumery. ... Synonym: Mecca balsam, opobalsamum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balneotherapeutics
Balneotherapy ... Immersion of part or all of the body in a mineral water bath as a form of therapy. ... Origin: L. Balneum, bath ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balo, Jozsef
<person> Hungarian physician, *1896. ... See: Balo's disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Balo's disease
Synonym for encephalitis periaxialis concentrica ... Encephalitis that is clinically similar to adrenoleukodystrophy, but pathologically characterised by concentric globes or circles of demyelination of cerebral white matter separated by normal tissue. ... Synonym: Balo's disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balsam
1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. ... The balsams are aromatic resinous substances, flowing spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A great variety of substances pass under this name, but the term is now usually restricted to resins which, in addition to a volatile oil, contain benzoic and cinnamic acid. A …

balsam of copaiba
Synonym for copaiba ... The oleoresin of Copaifera officinalis and other species of Copaifera (family Leguminosae), a South American plant; copaiba oil is used as an expectorant, diuretic, and stimulant. ... Synonym: balsam of copaiba. ... Origin: Sp. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balsam of Peru
A thick, dark brown liquid balsam obtained from Toluifera pereirae (family Leguminosae), containing 60% cinnamein; used as a healing application to wounds. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balsam, Canada
<microscopy> A resin from the balsam fir Abies balsamea. Dissolved in xylene, toluene, or benzene it is used as a mountant for permanent microscopical preparations. Its refractive index may vary from 1.530 to l.545 and its softening point from room temperature to 100deg.C, these properties varying with age and solvent content. If impure it di …

balsamic
1. Relating to balsam. ... 2. Fragrant. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

balsams
Semifluid, resinous, and fragrant liquids of vegetable origin, usually trees, which are often composed chiefly of resins, volatile oils, cinnamic acid, and benzoic acid. The balsams mostly commonly seen in medicine, largely historically, are the balm of gilead, balsam of peru, and tolu balsam. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Baltic myoclonus disease
One of the familial light sensitive myoclonic epilepsies. Unlike Lafora body polymyoclonus, where inclusion bodies are seen in the brain cells, the prognosis is often favourable. Probably an autosomal recessive disorder. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

baltic states
The collective name for the republics of estonia, latvia, and lithuania on the eastern shore of the baltic sea. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Baltimore, David
<person> Born 1938. An American molecular biologist and virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1975 for discovering that retroviruses (a group of viruses that uses RNA to code their genomes instead of DNA) make the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which is used to make DNA copies of RNA templates. ... This is useful to the retrovirus who is trying …

bam island
<molecular biology> Areas of DNA which do not get transcribed, consisting of many repeats of the same sequence of nucleotide bases. ... (13 Nov 1997) ...

Bamberger-Marie disease
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy ...

Bamberger-Marie syndrome
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy ...

Bamberger, Eugen
<person> Austrian physician, 1858-1921. ... See: Bamberger-Marie disease, Bamberger-Marie syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bamberger, Heinrich von
<person> Austrian physician, 1822-1888. ... See: Bamberger's albuminuria, Bamberger's disease, Bamberger's sign. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bamberger's albuminuria
An obsolete term for haematogenous albuminuria that is sometimes observed during the later phases of advanced anaemia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...