| barren |
bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding" not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
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| barrel chest |
a rounded, bulging chest with abnormal increase in the anteroposterior diameter, showing little movement on respiration; seen in emphysema and in kyphosis.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspz...
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| Barrett's epithelium |
the metaplastic columnar epithelium of the esophagus seen in Barrett's syndrome.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspz...
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| Barre's sign |
contraction of the iris is retarded in mental deterioration.
Ãâó: www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/thcp_dorlands_conte...
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| barren |
a forest ecosystem dominated by scrubby tree growth, dry soils, and woody shrubs.
Ãâó: https://www.uwsp.edu/natres/nres743/Glossary.htm
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