| brail | 1. <veterinary> A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. 2. Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. 3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. Origin: OE. Brayle furling rope, OF. Braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. Braies, pl, breeches, fr.L. Braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. Bragez. Cf. Breeches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| braille | A system of writing and printing by means of raised dots corresponding to letters, numbers, and punctuation to enable the blind to read by touch. Origin: Louis Braille, French teacher of blind, 1809-1852 (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brailsford | James Frederick, English radiologist, 1888-1961. See: Brailsford-Morquio disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brailsford-Morquio disease | <syndrome> An error of mucopolysaccharide metabolism with excretion of keratan sulfate in urine; characterised by severe skeletal defects with short stature, severe deformity of spine and thorax, long bones with irregular epiphyses but with shafts of normal length, enlarged joints, flaccid ligaments, and waddling gait; autosomal recessive inheritance; type IV A mucopolysaccharidosis is due to an absence of galactose-1-sulfatase, while type IV B is due to a deficiency of a beta-galactosidase. Synonym: Brailsford-Morquio disease, Morquio's disease, Morquio-Ullrich disease, type IVA, B mucopolysaccharidosis. (05 Mar 2000) |