| broadcast burn | Controlled fire over the entire surface of a designated area. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| broadcast seeding | <botany> To spread a seed mixture over a wide area by throwing loose clumps of seed through the air onto the soil. Sowing areas by scattering seed mechanically or by hand. (13 Nov 1997) |
| broadest muscle of back | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, spinous processes of lower five or six thoracic and the lumbar vertebrae, median ridge of sacrum, and outer lip of iliac crest; insertion, with teres major into posterior lip of bicipital groove of humerus; action, adducts arm, rotates it medially, and extends it; nerve supply, thoracodorsal. Synonym: musculus latissimus dorsi, broadest muscle of back. (05 Mar 2000) |
| broadleaf | <botany> A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| broadmouth | <ornithology> One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| broadsides | Separately published pieces of paper or other material, usually printed on one side and intended to be read unfolded and usually intended to be posted, publicly distributed, or sold, e.g., proclamations, handbills, newssheets, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Broca's angle | More specifically see: Broca's basilar angle, Broca's facial angle, occipital angle of parietal bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's aphasia | <neurology> Motor aphasia due to a lesion of the motor speech centre (Broca's area) in the brain. (13 Nov 1997) |
| Broca's area | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's basilar angle | The angle formed at the basion of lines drawn from the nasion and the alveolar point. Synonym: Broca's angles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's centre | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's diagonal band | A white fibre bundle descending in the precommissural septum toward the base of the forebrain, immediately rostral to the lamina terminalis; at the base, the bundle turns in the caudolateral direction; traveling through a ventral stratum of the innominate substance alongside the optic tract, it fades before reaching the amygdala. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's facial angle | The angle formed by the intersection at the biauricular axis of lines drawn from the supraorbital point and the alveolar point. Synonym: Broca's angles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's field | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's fissure | The fissure surrounding Broca's convolution. (05 Mar 2000) |