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

BOOP
<abbreviation> Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia, an idiopathic form of bronchiolitis obliterans. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Boophilus
A genus of hard ticks (family Ixodidae) infesting cattle; members are important vectors of bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis in various parts of the world. Previously thought to be synonymous with Margaropus, but now considered distinct. ... Origin: G. Bous, ox, + philos, fond ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Boophilus annulatus
Species that formerly was the vector of bovine babesiosis in the southern United States, but is still an important species in Mexico and northern African countries. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Boophilus decoloratus
Species that is a vector of bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis in sub-Saharan Africa. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Boophilus microplus
The tropical cattle tick, a species that is an important vector of bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis in Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean Africa, Australia, the Orient and Micronesia, and of relapsing fever by Borrelia theileri in South Africa and Australia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

booster dose
A dose given at some time after an initial dose to enhance the effect, said usually of antigens for the production of antibodies. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

booster response
Synonym for secondary immune response ... The response of the immune system to the second or subsequent occasion on which it encounters a specific antigen. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

boot
A boot-shaped appliance. ... Origin: M. E. Bote, fr. O. Fr. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

bootstrap current
<radiobiology> Currents driven in toroidal devices by neo-classical diffusion. They may amount to a substantial fraction of the net current in a tokamak reactor, thus lengthening the pulse time or decreasing the power needed for current drive. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

boracic acid
Synonym for boric acid ... H3BO3;a very weak acid, used as an antiseptic dusting powder, in saturated solution as a collyrium, and with glycerin in aphthae and stomatitis. ... Synonym: boracic acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

boranes
The collective name for the boron hydrides, which are analogous to the alkanes and silanes. Numerous boranes are known. Some have high calorific values and are used in high-energy fuels. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borated
Mixed or impregnated with borax or boric acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borates
Inorganic or organic salts and esters of boric acid. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borax
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colours on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the na …

borborygmi
<clinical sign> The rumbling, gurgling, tinkling noises heard on auscultation of the abdomen in conditions of increased intestinal peristalsis. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

borborygmus
<clinical sign> A rumbling noise caused by the propulsion of gas through the intestines. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Bordeau theory
Synonym for de Bordeau theory ... That each organ of the body manufactured a specific humor which it secreted into the bloodstream. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordeau, Theophile de
<person> French physician, 1722-1776. ... See: Bordeau theory, de Bordeau theory. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordeaux mixture
A plant fungicidal mixture, comprising copper sulfate (5 parts) and calcium oxide (5 parts) in water (400 parts) freshly mixed; the CaO is added to the CuSO4 solution. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border
The part of a surface that forms its outer boundary. ... See: edge, margin, border. ... Synonym: margo. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border cells
Cell's forming the inner boundary of the organ of Corti. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border disease
Congenital disorder of lambs caused by a virus closely related to or identical with certain strains of bovine viral diarrhoea virus. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

border disease virus
A species of pestivirus causing a congenital sheep disease characterised by an abnormally hairy birth-coat, tremors, and poor growth. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

border molding
The shaping of an impression material by the manipulation or action of the tissues adjacent to the borders of an impression. ... Synonym: muscle-trimming, tissue molding, tissue-trimming. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border movements
Any extreme compass of mandibular movement limited by bone, ligaments, or soft tissues; usually applied to horizontal mandibular movement's. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border of uterus
The right or left margin of the uterus along which the broad ligament is attached. The uterine tube and round ligament attach to the uterus at the upper part of the border. ... Synonym: margo uteri. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

border tissue movements
The action of the muscles and other tissues adjacent to the borders of a denture. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borderline hypertension
By consensus, that blood pressure zone between highest acceptable 'normal' blood pressure and hypertensive blood pressure. The Framingham Heart Study defines this as pressures between 140 and 160 mm Hg systolic and 90 and 95 mm Hg diastolic. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borderline leprosy
A form of leprosy that is very unstable immunologically; the cutaneous nerves frequently present bacilli, but the lepromin test is usually negative; cutaneous lesions are comprised of flat bands or plaques. ... Synonym: dimorphous leprosy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borderline personality
See: borderline personality disorder. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borderline personality disorder
<psychiatry> An individual who is impulsive and unpredictable with fluctuations in intense moods. Occasionally psychotic. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

borderline tumour
A neoplasm of the ovary, usually arising in young women, composed of complex epithelial hyperplasia without stromas invasion; may recur if incompletely removed surgically, but is clinically less aggressive than carcinoma. ... Synonym: low malignant potential tumour. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borders of eyelids
The anterior and posterior edges of the free margin of the upper and lower eyelids. ... Synonym: limbi palpebrales. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordet and Gengou reaction
Synonym for complement fixation ... <immunology> Binding of complement as a result of its interaction with immune complexes (the classical pathway) or particular surfaces (alternative pathway). ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Bordet-Gengou bacillus
Synonym for Bordetella pertussis ... <bacteria> A small, aerobic, gram-negative bacillus, causative organism of whooping cough. ... Produces a variety of toxins including a dermonecrotising toxin, an adenyl cyclase, an endotoxin and pertussis toxin, as well as surface components such as fimbrial haemagglutinin. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Bordet-Gengou phenomenon
The phenomenon of complement fixation; when alexin (complement)-containing serum is added to a mixture of bacteria and specific antibody, the alexin is removed (fixed) and is not available to lyse subsequently added erythrocytes sensitised with specific antibody. ... See: Gengou phenomenon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
Glycerine-potato agar with 25% of blood, used for the isolation of Bordetella pertussis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordet, Jules
<person> Belgian bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, 1870-1961. ... See: Bordetella, Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar, Bordet-Gengou bacillus, Bordet-Gengou phenomenon, Bordet and Gengou reaction. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

bordetella
A genus of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria whose cells are minute coccobacilli. It consists of both parasitic and pathogenic species. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

bordetella bronchiseptica
A species of bordetella that is parasitic and pathogenic. It is found in the respiratory tract of domestic and wild mammalian animals and can be transmitted from animals to man. It is a common cause of bronchopneumonia in lower animals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

bordetella infections
Infections with bacteria of the genus bordetella. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Bordetella parapertussis
A species that causes a whooping cough-like disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bordetella pertussis
<bacteria> A small, aerobic, gram-negative bacillus, causative organism of whooping cough. ... Produces a variety of toxins including a dermonecrotising toxin, an adenyl cyclase, an endotoxin and pertussis toxin, as well as surface components such as fimbrial haemagglutinin. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

bore
1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. E, to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects). ... 2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this tim …

boredom
A psychological state resulting from any activity that lacks motivation, or from enforced continuance in an uninteresting situation. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borer
1. One that bores; an instrument for boring. ... 2. <marine biology> A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc) which bores into limestone and similar substances. ... One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the appl …

Borgognoni, Teodorico
<person> Friar Theodoric of Lucca was a Dominican monk, Bishop of Cervia, and physician to Pope Innocent IV, who taught that suppuration was not necessary for wound healing. ... Instead of leaving a fresh wound open, Theodoric closed it with sutures, thus avoiding purulency. He was criticised sternly by Guy de Chauliac as a copyist and plagiar …

boric acid
H3BO3;a very weak acid, used as an antiseptic dusting powder, in saturated solution as a collyrium, and with glycerin in aphthae and stomatitis. ... Synonym: boracic acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

boric acids
Inorganic and organic derivatives of boric acid either b(oh)3 or, preferably h3bo3. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

boring
1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. 'One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells.' (Tomlinson) ... 2. A hole made by boring. ... 3. The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or …

borinic acids
Inorganic or organic compounds that contain the general structure r2b(oh). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borism
Symptoms caused by the ingestion of borax or any compound of boron. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome
<syndrome> A condition characterised by mental deficiency, epilepsy, hypogonadism, hypometabolism, obesity, and narrow palpebral fissures; X-linked recessive inheritance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borjeson, Mats
<person> Swedish physician, *1922. ... See: Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

born
1. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. 'No one could be born into slavery in Mexico.' (Prescott) ... 2. Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar. 'A born matchmaker.' Born again, regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. 'Except a man be born again, he ca …

Born method
Wax plate reconstruction, the making of three-dimensional models of structures from serial sections; it depends on the building up of a series of wax plates, cut out to scaled enlargements of the individual sections involved in the region to be reconstructed. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Born-Haber cycle
<physics> This is a mathematical description of the relationship between the electron affinity, heats of atomisation, ionisation energy and lattice energy of ionic compounds. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Born, Gustav
<person> German embryologist, 1851-1900. ... See: Born method of wax plate reconstruction. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borna disease
An encephalomyelitis of horses, sheep and cattle caused by an RNA virus. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borna disease virus
An unclassified, single-stranded RNA virus, possibly related to the family rhabdoviridae, causing a rare and usually fatal encephalitic disease in horses and other domestic animals and possibly deer. Its name derives from the city in saxony where the condition was first described in 1894, but the disease occurs in europe, n. Africa, and the near ea …

bornane
1,7,7-trimethylnorbornane;the monoterpene parent of borneols, camphene, and similar essential oils (terpenes). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borneo
An island in the malay archipelago, east of sumatra, north of java, and west of celebes. It is the third largest island in the world. Its name is a portuguese alteration of brunei, located on it. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

borneol
<chemistry> A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. ... Synonym: Borneo ca …

Bornholm disease
An alternative term for epidemic pleurodynia. ... Origin: Bornholm, Danish island in the Baltic where the d. Was first described ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bornholm disease virus
Synonym for epidemic pleurodynia virus ... A virus of Enterovirus coxsackievirus type B, in the family Picornaviridae, that causes epidemic pleurodynia. ... Synonym: Bornholm disease virus, epidemic myalgia virus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

boroglycerin
A soft mass obtained by heating glycerin and boric acid; an obsolete antiseptic, usually used mixed with equal parts of glycerin, constituting glycerite. ... Synonym: boroglycerol, glyceryl borate. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

boroglycerol
Synonym for boroglycerin ... A soft mass obtained by heating glycerin and boric acid; an obsolete antiseptic, usually used mixed with equal parts of glycerin, constituting glycerite. ... Synonym: boroglycerol, glyceryl borate. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borohydrides
A class of inorganic or organic compounds that contain the borohydride (bh4-) anion. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

boron
<chemistry, element> Fifth element (Z=5) in the periodic table, has 5 protons, potential use as an aneutronic fuel. Also useful as a neutron-absorber. ... Abbreviation: B ... (13 Nov 1997) ...

boron compounds
Inorganic or organic compounds that contain boron as an integral part of the molecule. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

boron neutron capture therapy
A technique for the treatment of neoplasms, especially gliomas and melanomas in which boron-10, an isotope, is introduced into the target cells followed by irradiation with thermal neutrons. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

boronic acids
Inorganic or organic compounds that contain the basic structure rb(oh)2. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

boronisation
<radiobiology> Energy confinement in a fusion plasma depends strongly on the average atomic number (Z) of the elements in the plasma. Boronisation refers to a process whereby boron (atomic number 5) is injected into a plasma and used to coat the walls of the reactor, the effect is that impurities from the reactor walls which enter the fusion …

Borrel bodies
Particles of fowlpox virus; aggregates of Borrel body's in infected cells result in the formation of Bollinger body's. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrel, Amedee
<person> French bacteriologist, 1867-1936. ... See: Borrel bodies, Borrel's blue stain. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrel's blue stain
<technique> A stain for demonstrating spirochetes, treponemes, and Borrelia organisms, using silver oxide (prepared by means of mixing solutions of silver nitrate and sodium bicarbonate) and methylene blue. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borrelia
A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic, helical bacteria, various species of which produce relapsing fever in man and other animals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Borrelia anserina
A species that causes spirochetosis of fowls; found in the blood of infected geese, ducks, other fowls, and vector ticks; it is the type species of the genus Borrelia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borrelia burgdorferi
Gram-negative helical bacteria that are the aetiologic agents of lyme disease. These spirochetes are generally transmitted by several species of ixodid ticks. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Borrelia caucasica
A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in the Caucasus; transmitted by Ornithodoros verrucosus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia crocidurae
A species that causes relapsing fever in Africa, the Near East, and central Asia, and is transmitted by the small variety of the tick Ornithodoros erraticus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia duttonii
A species causing Central and South African relapsing fever; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros moubata. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia hermsii
A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in British Columbia, California, Colourado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros hermsi. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia hispanica
A species causing relapsing fever in Spain, Portugal, and northwest Africa, transmitted by the large variety of the tick Ornithodorus erratica. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borrelia infections
Infections with bacteria of the genus borrelia. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Borrelia latyschewii
A species that causes relapsing fever in Iran and central Asia; transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros tartakovskyi from rodents and reptiles. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia mazzottii
A species that causes relapsing fever in Mexico and Central and South America; transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros talaje. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia parkeri
A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in the western United States; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros parkeri. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia persica
A species that causes relapsing fever in the Middle East and central Asia; the vector is the tick Ornithodoros tholozani. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia recurrentis
A species causing relapsing fever in South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia; transmitted by the bedbug, Cimex lectularius, and the louse, Pediculus humanus subsp. Humanus. ... Synonym: Obermeier's spirillum, Spirochaeta obermeieri. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia theileri
A species that causes borreliosis in cattle and other mammals in South Africa and Australia; transmitted by the ticks Boophilus microplus and Rhipicephalus evertsi. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia turicatae
A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas; transmitted by Ornithodoros turicata. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Borrelia venezuelensis
A species causing spirochetal relapsing fever in Central and South America; transmitted by Ornithodoros rudis and O. Venezuelensis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borreliosis
Disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

borrow
1. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; the opposite of lend. ... 2. <mathematics> To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger th …

borrow pit
Excavations created by the surface mining of rock, unconsolidated geologic deposits or soil to provide material (borrow) for fill elsewhere. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Borst, Maximilian
<person> German pathologist, 1869-1946. ... See: Borst-Jadassohn type intraepidermal epithelioma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

bosch yaws
Synonym for pian bois ... A form of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis in the Amazon delta; a small proportion of cases are said to metastasize to the nasal mucosa with espundia-like involvement. ... Synonym: bosch yaws, bush yaws, forest yaws. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Bosin's disease
Synonym for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis ... <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

bosnia-herzegovina
A country of eastern europe, formerly the province of bosnia in yugoslavia, uniting with the province of herzegovina to form the republic of bosnia and herzegovina in 1946. It was created 7 april 1992 as a result of the division of yugoslavia and recognised by the united states as an independent state. Bosnia takes is name from the river bosna, in …