| ATE | acute toxic encephalopathy; adipose tissue extract; autologous tumor extract |
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| CE | California encephalitis; cardiac enlargement; cardioesophageal; carotid endarterectomy; catamenial e... |
| BGMV | bean golden mosaic virus |
| LBTI | lima bean trypsin inhibitor |
| WBA | wax bean agglutinin; whole body activity |
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| bean | 1. <botany> A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs. The origin and classification of many kinds are still doubtful. Among true beans are: the black-eyed bean and China bean, included in Dolichos Sinensis; black Egyptian bean or hyacinth bean, D. Lablab; the common haricot beans, kidney beans, string beans, and pole beans, all included in Phaseolus vulgaris; the lower bush bean, Ph. Vulgaris, variety nanus; Lima bean, Ph. Lunatus; Spanish bean and scarlet runner, Ph. Maltiflorus; Windsor bean, the common bean of England, Faba vulgaris. As an article of food beans are classed with vegetables. 2. The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. <zoology> Bean aphis, a small weevil that in the larval state destroys beans. The American species in Bruchus fabae. <botany> Florida bean, a species of Strychnos. Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; so called from its size. Sacred bean. See Sacred. Screw bean. See Screw. Sea bean. Same as Florida bean. A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, the fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree. Vanilla bean. See Vanilla. Origin: OE. Bene, AS.bean; akin to D. Boon, G. Bohne, OHG. Pna, Icel. Baun, Dan. Bonne, Sw. Bona, and perh. To Russ. Bob, L. Faba. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bean caper | <botany> A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow colour, of the genus Zygophyllum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bean-shaped plasma | <radiobiology> A toroidal plasma indented on the inboard side (the side with the donut hole), that results in additional stability to ballooning modes. Moderate indentation may provide access to the second-stability region (high beta). (13 Nov 1997) |
| bean trefoil | <botany> A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buck bean | <botany> A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil. Synonym: bogbean, menyanthes. (08 Mar 2000) |
| Calabar bean | The dried seed of Physostigma venenosum (family Leguminosae), a vine of western Africa; it contains the alkaloids physostigmine (eserine), eseramine, eseridine (geneserine) and physovenine; in toxic doses it causes vomiting, colic, salivation, diarrhoea, convulsions, sweating, dyspnea, vertigo, slow pulse, and extreme prostration. Synonym: Calabar bean, ordeal bean. Origin: G. Physa, bellows, + stigma, a mark, spot; so called because of the shape of the stigma (05 Mar 2000) |
| castor bean | The seed of the castor bean or castor oil plant, ricinus communis, which yields castor oil. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pichurim bean | <botany> The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, sometimes used medicinally. Synonym: sassafras nut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mung bean nuclease | Endonuclease S1 (Aspergillus). (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea bean | <botany> Same as Florida bean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ignatius bean | <botany> See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ordeal bean | The dried seed of Physostigma venenosum (family Leguminosae), a vine of western Africa; it contains the alkaloids physostigmine (eserine), eseramine, eseridine (geneserine) and physovenine; in toxic doses it causes vomiting, colic, salivation, diarrhoea, convulsions, sweating, dyspnea, vertigo, slow pulse, and extreme prostration. Synonym: Calabar bean, ordeal bean. Origin: G. Physa, bellows, + stigma, a mark, spot; so called because of the shape of the stigma (05 Mar 2000) |
| tonca bean | <botany> See Tonka bean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tonka bean | <botany> The seed of a leguminous tree (Dipteryx odorata), native of Guiana. It has a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tiononquin bean. Alternative forms: tonca bean, tonga bean. Origin: Cf. F. Onca, tonka. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fava bean | The broad bean to which many people react adversely with an acute haemolytic anaemia with sudden breakup of red blood cells (see Favism). Fava beans look like large tan lima beans. They are popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, are eaten raw when very young, cooked in soups and many other dishes, and made into fava brittle (like peanut brittle) as candy. The botanical name for fava is Vicia fava. Fava is Italian for bean and refers specifically to the broad bean. Fava beans are the main commercial source of the drug L-DOPA. (12 Dec 1998) |