| GC-MS | gas chromatography-mass spectrometry |
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| GLC-MS | gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry |
| ICM | inner cell mass; integrated conditional model; intercostal margin; International Confederation of Mi... |
| ICP-MS | inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry [or spectrometer] |
| ID-MS | isotope dilution-mass spectrometry |
| body dysmorphic disorder | A psychosomatic (somatoform) disorder characterised by preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance in a normal-appearing person. Synonym: dysmorphophobia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| body fluid compartments | The two phases between which water and other body fluids are distributed: extracellular and intracellular. (12 Dec 1998) |
| body fluids | Liquid components of living organisms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| body image | A term for the concept which each individual has of his own body as an object in and bound by space, independently and apart from all other objects. (12 Dec 1998) |
| body language | The expression of thoughts and feelings by means of nonverbal bodily movements, e.g., gestures, or via the symptoms of hysterical conversion. See: kinesics. Communication by means of bodily signs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body mechanics | The study of the action of muscles in producing motion or posture of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of caudate nucleus | The suprathalamic part of the caudate nucleus lying in the floor of the central part of the lateral ventricle. Synonym: corpus nuclei caudati. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of clavicle | The sinuous portion of the clavicle between the sternal and acromial extremities. Synonym: corpus claviculae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of clitoris | The shaft or pendulous portion of the clitoris, composed of two fused corpora cavernosa clitoridae, the distal end of which is the glans clitoris. Synonym: corpus clitoridis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of epididymis | The middle part that extends downward from the head to the tail of the epididymis on the posterior surface of the testis. Synonym: corpus epididymidis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of fornix | The middle part of the fornix situated ventral to the corpus callosum. Synonym: corpus fornicis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of gallbladder | The main part of the gallbladder terminating in the rounded fundus below and continuing into the neck of the gallbladder above. Synonym: corpus vesicae biliaris, corpus vesicae felleae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of hyoid bone | The body of the hyoid bone, from which the greater and lesser horns extend. Synonym: corpus ossis hyoidei, base of hyoid bone, basihyal, basihyoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of ilium | It forms the upper two-fifths of the acetabulum and joins the pubis and ischium in the acetabulum. It continues above into the ala or wing of the ilium. Synonym: corpus ossis ilii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| body of incus | The main part of the incus that articulates with the malleus and from which the short and long limbs arise. Synonym: corpus incudis. (05 Mar 2000) |