| BOD | <abbreviation> Biochemical oxygen demand. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bodansky unit | That amount of phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium beta-glycerophosphate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bodansky, Aaron | <person> U.S. Biochemist, 1887-1961. See: Bodansky unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bodecker index | A modification of the DMF caries index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bodecker, Charles | <person> U.S. Oral histologist, embryologist, and pathologist, *1880. See: Bodecker index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bodian | <marine biology> A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bodian's copper-protargol | Stain, a stain employing a silver proteinate complex (protargol) to demonstrate axis cylinders and neurofibrils. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bodian, David | <person> U.S. Anatomist, *1910. See: Bodian's copper-protargol stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bodice | 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc, worn especially. By women; a corset; stays. 2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. "Her bodice half way she unlaced." (Prior) Origin: This is properly the plural of body, Oe. Bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. To a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bodily | 1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. "You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us." (Tatler) 2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." 3. Real; actual; put in execution. "Be brought to bodily act." (Shak) Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. Synonym: See Corporal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bodily secretions | Endogenous substances produced through the activity of intact cells of glands, tissues, or organs. They do not include hormones or enzymes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bodkin | 1. A dagger. "When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin." (Shak) 2. An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc, with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a tiletto; an eyeleteer. 3. A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking ut letters from a column or page in making corrections. 4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc, through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. "Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye." (Pope) 5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. Origin: OE. Boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. Bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. Bideog, Gael. Biodag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bodleian | Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bodo | A genus of free-living, ovoid or slightly pyriform protozoa with two flagella, one projecting anteriorly and the other posteriorly; may be ingested as encysted forms in food or drink, or possibly deposited in faeces or urine after excretion; in either instance, cysts frequently develop into trophozoites if the specimen is permitted to remain at room temperature for a few hours prior to examination; the organisms are not pathogenic in man. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bodo caudatus | A species that is found in specimens of human faeces (especially in tropical regions); the organisms are frequently termed coprozoic flagellates. (05 Mar 2000) |