| Bollinger bodies | Relatively large, spheroid or ovoid, usually somewhat granular, acidophilic, intracytoplasmic inclusion body's observed in the infected tissues of birds with fowlpox; when body's are ruptured large numbers of fowlpox virus particles are released. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bollinger granules | Relatively small, but frequently microscopically visible, pale yellow or yellow-white granule's observed in the granulomatous lesion, or the exudate, in botryomycosis; the granule's consist of irregular aggregates or colonizations of Gram-positive cocci, usually staphylococci, term sometimes incorrectly used synonymously with Bollinger bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bollinger, Otto | <person> German pathologist, 1843-1909. See: Bollinger bodies, Bollinger granules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bollman, Jesse | <person> U.S. Physiologist, *1896. See: Mann-Bollman fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bollworm | <zoology> The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bologna | 1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. 2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage [It. Salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. <chemical> Bologna stone, radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibres, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bolognini's symptom | A feeling of crepitation on gradually increasing pressure on the abdomen in cases of measles. Cardinal symptom, the primary or major symptom of diagnostic importance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bolometer | <physics> An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum. Synonym: actinic balance, thermic balance. Origin: Gr. A stroke, ray. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bolster | 1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; generally laid under the pillows. "And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets." (Shak) 2. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. "This arm shall be a bolster for thy head." (Gay) 3. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc. 4. A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. 5. A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing. Anything used to prevent chafing. 6. A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment. 7. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests. 8. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck. 9. <mechanics> The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. 10. That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle. The metallic end of a pocketknife handle. 11. The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. 12. A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation. See: Illust. Of Gun carriage] Bolster work, members which are bellied or curved outward like cushions, as in friezes of certain classical styles. Origin: AS. Bolster; akin to Icel. Blstr, Sw. & Dan. Bolster, OHG. Bolstar, polstar, G. Polster; from the same root as E. Bole stem, bowl hollow vessel. Cf. Bulge, Poltroon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bolster finger | Monilial infection of the nail fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bolter | A kind of fishing line. See Boulter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bolthead | 1. <chemistry> A long, straightnecked, glass vessel for chemical distillations. Synonym: a matrass or receiver. 2. The head of a bolt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bolton | Joseph S., English neurologist, 1867-1946. See: Bolton plane, Bolton-Broadbent plane, Bolton-nasion plane, Bolton-nasion line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bolton plane | A roentgenographic cephalometric plane extending from the Bolton point to nasion. Synonym: Bolton-Broadbent plane, Bolton-nasion line, Bolton-nasion plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bolton-Broadbent plane | A roentgenographic cephalometric plane extending from the Bolton point to nasion. Synonym: Bolton-Broadbent plane, Bolton-nasion line, Bolton-nasion plane. (05 Mar 2000) |