| bight | 1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. 2. <geography> A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. 3. The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop. Origin: OE. Bit a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. Bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. Byht, fr. Bgan. Cf. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bigitalin | C41H64O14;a secondary cardiac glycoside from Digitalis purpurea and D. Lanata. Synonym: anhydrogitalin, bigitalin, pseudodigitoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biglandular | Having two glands, as a plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| biglycan | A small proteoglycan, 150-240 kD, of the extracellular matrix. The core protein has a mass of _42 kD and is very similar to the core protein of decorin and fibromodulin. All three have highly conserved sequences containing 10 internal homologous repeats of _ 25 amino acids with leucine rich motifs. Biglycan has two glycosaminoglycan chains, either chondroitin sulphate or dermatan sulphate and N linked oligosaccharides. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Bignami, Amico | <person> Italian physician, 1862-1929. See: Marchiafava-Bignami disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bignonia | <botany> A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. Capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus. Origin: Named from the Abbe Bignon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bignoniaceous | <botany> Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bihydroguret | <chemistry> A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bijugate | <botany> Having two pairs, as of leaflets. Origin: L. Bis twice + jugatus, p. P. Of jugare to join. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bijugous | <botany> Bijugate. Origin: L. Bijugus yoked two together; bis twice + jugum yoke, pair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bikh | <botany> The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself. Origin: Hind, fr. Skr. Visha poison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bikunin | A plasma glycoprotein that is found in both the free state and covalently bound to the heavy chains of certain protease inhibitors. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilabe | A forceps for seizing and removing urethral or small vesical calculi. Origin: bi-+ L. Labium, lip (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilabiate | Two-lipped, for example of a corolla in which fusion of an anterior group and a posterior group of petals extends beyond the top of the corolla tube. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bilamellated | <botany> Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |