| bare | 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. "When once thy foot enters the church, be bare." (Herbert) 3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. "Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !" (Milton) 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." 5. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." 6. Threadbare; much worn. "It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words." (Shak) 7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. "The bare necessaries of life." "Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth." (South) Under bare poles, having no sail set. Origin: OE. Bar, bare, AS. Baer; akin to D. & G. Baar, OHG. Par, Icel. Berr, Sw. & Dan. Bar, OSlav. Bos barefoot, Lith. Basas; cf. Skr. Bhas to shine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bare area of liver | The area on the posterior surface of the liver which is fused with the diaphragm and therefore not covered by peritoneum. Synonym: area nuda hepatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bare area of stomach | The part of posterior surface of the fundus of the stomach between the two diverging layers of the gastrophrenic ligament, that is not covered by peritoneum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bare lymphocyte syndrome | <syndrome> Absence of HLA antigens on peripheral mononuclear cells, which may result in immunodeficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| barebone | A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baresthesia | Synonym: pressure sense. Origin: G. Baros, weight, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| baresthesiometer | An instrument for measuring the pressure sense. Origin: G. Baros, weight, + aisthesis, sensation, + metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |