| basicity | <chemistry> The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| basicranial | Relating to the base of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basicranial axis | A line drawn from the basion to the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basicranial flexure | The dorsally concave curvature of the rhombencephalon in the embryo; appearance indicates division of rhombencephalon into myelencephalon and metencephalon. Synonym: basicranial flexure, transverse rhombencephalic flexure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Basidiobolus | A genus of fungi belonging to the class Zygomycetes. Basidiobolus haptosporus has been isolated from cases of zygomycosis (entomophthoramycosis basidiobolae) in humans, especially in Indonesia, tropical Africa, and Southeast Asia. Origin: Mod. L. Basidium, dim. Of G. Basis, base, + L. Bolus, fr. G. Bolos, lump or clod (05 Mar 2000) |
| basidiomycetes | <fungus> A class of true fungi more commonly known as club fungi, so called because they produce their spores at the tips of swollen hyphae that look a bit like clubs or baseball bats. This division includes mushrooms, puffballs, earth stars, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, rust, smuts, jelly fungi andbird's-nest fungi. (09 Oct 1997) |
| basidiomycetes shitake mushrooms | A class of true fungi more commonly known as club fungi, so called because they produce their spores at the tips of swollen hyphae that look a bit like clubs or baseball bats. This division includes mushrooms, puffballs, earth stars, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, rust, smuts, jelly fungi and bird's-nest fungi. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Basidiomycota | A phylum of fungi characterised by a spore-bearing organ, the basidium, that is usually a clavate cell that bears basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis. Some mycologists have raised the class Basidiomycetes to the phylum or division level. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basidiospore | Spores of Basidiomycete fungi. These spores are usually uninucleate and haploid. (18 Nov 1997) |
| basidium | Club shaped organ involved in sexual reproduction in basidiomycete fungi (mushrooms, toadstools etc.). Bears four haploid basidiospores at its tip. (18 Nov 1997) |
| basifacial | Relating to the lower portion of the face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basifacial axis | A line drawn from the subnasal point to the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture. Synonym: facial axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basifier | <chemistry> That which converts into a salifiable base. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basifixed | Attached at or by the base, for example of anthers, by the base of the connective. (09 Oct 1997) |
| basifugal | <botany> Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. Origin: Base,+ L. Fugere to flee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |