| bouton | A button, pustule, or knob-like swelling. Origin: Fr. Button (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bouton de Bagdad | Bouton d'Orient, the lesion occurring in cutaneous leishmaniasis. Synonym: bouton de Biskra. Bouton en chemise, small abscess of the intestinal mucosa, occurring in amoebic dysentery. Boutons en passage, consecutive synapses along the course of an axon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bouton de Biskra | Bouton d'Orient, the lesion occurring in cutaneous leishmaniasis. Synonym: bouton de Biskra. Bouton en chemise, small abscess of the intestinal mucosa, occurring in amoebic dysentery. Boutons en passage, consecutive synapses along the course of an axon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind passage | Successive transfer of an agent through cultures or animals without incidence of either replication or disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| passage | 1. An evacuation of the bowels. 2. <procedure> The introduction of a catheter, probe, sound or bougie through a natural channel such as the urethra. (18 Nov 1997) |
| high-egg-passage vaccine | Living Flury strain rabies virus at the 180th to 190th level egg passage (embryonate eggs), used for vaccination of cattle and cats, low-egg-passage (LEP) vaccine: at the 40th to 50th passage level, containing 103 to 104 mouse LD50; nonpathogenic in dogs but retains some pathogenicity for cattle and cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| serial passage | Inoculation of a series of animals or in vitro tissue with an infectious bacterium or virus, as in virulence studies and the development of vaccines. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nasopharyngeal passage | The posterior part of the nasal cavity from the posterior limits of the conchae to the choanae. Synonym: meatus nasopharyngeus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oropharyngeal passage | 1. <anatomy> The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils. 2. <botany> The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc. 3. <zoology> That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| low-egg-passage vaccine | See: rabies vaccine, Flury strain egg-passage. (05 Mar 2000) |