| BFB | biological feedback; bronchial foreign body |
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| BH/VH | body hematocrit-venous hematocrit [ratio] |
| BIVAS | body image visual analogue scale |
| BM | Bachelor of Medicine; barium meal; basal medium; basal metabolism; basement membrane; basilar membra... |
| BMI | body mass index |
| Heinz body test | <haematology, investigation> A test for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient red blood cells; an oxidant (acetylphenylhydrazine) is added to blood; after incubation at 37캜, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient samples exhibit more than 30% Heinz bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Heinz-Ehrlich body | A round oxyphil body found in the red blood cell in case of haemocytolysis due to a specific blood poison. Synonym: Heinz-Ehrlich body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prolamellar body | The disorganised membrane aggregations in chloroplasts that have been deprived of light (etioplasts). (18 Nov 1997) |
| Savage's perineal body | central tendon of perineum |
| X body | An obsolete term for Langerhans' granule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Highmore's body | A mass of fibrous tissue continuous with the tunica albuginea, projecting into the testis from its posterior border. Synonym: corpus highmori, corpus highmorianum, Highmore's body, septum of testis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pubic body | The flattened medial portion of the pubic bone entering into the pubic symphysis. From it extend the superior and inferior rami. Synonym: corpus ossis pubis, pubic body, body of pubic bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| segmenting body | A sporozoan trophozoite (vegetative form) that reproduces by schizogony, producing a varied number of daughter trophozoites or merozoites. See: meront, segmenter. Synonym: agamont, segmenting body. Origin: schizo-+ G. On (ont-), a being (05 Mar 2000) |
| human body | The human being as a non-anatomical and non-zoological entity. The emphasis is on the philosophical or artistic treatment of the human being, and includes lay and social attitudes toward the body in history. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hyaloid body | The transparent gel that fills the inner portion of the eyeball between the lens (lens, crystalline) and the retina. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spongy body of penis | The median column of erectile tissue located between and ventral to the two corpora cavernosa penis; posteriorly it expands into the bulbus penis and anteriorly it terminates as the enlarged glans penis; it is traversed by the urethra. Synonym: corpus cavernosum urethrae, spongy body of penis. Corpus spongiosum urethrae muliebris, the submucous coat of the female urethra, containing a venous network that insinuates itself between the muscular layers, giving to them an erectile nature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Negri body | Acidophilic cytoplasmic inclusion (mass of nucleocapsids) characteristic of rabies virus infection. (18 Nov 1997) |
| nerve cell body | The part of the neuron that includes the nucleus but excludes the processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neuroepithelial body | A corpuscular aggregate of nonciliated cells containing neurosecretory substance found in normal bronchial epithelium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| striate body | The caudate and lentiform (lenticular) nuclei; the striate appearance on section is caused by slender fascicles of myelinated fibres. Histologically, the striate body can be subdivided into the generally small-celled striatum, consisting of the caudate nucleus and the outer segment of the lentiform nucleus (the putamen), and a large-celled globus pallidus composed of the two segments. Synonym: corpus striatum. (05 Mar 2000) |