| basal metabolism |
the amount of energy required to maintain the body of an individual in a resting state
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| basal anesthesia |
anesthesia which acts as a basis for further and deeper anesthesia; a state of narcosis produced by preliminary medication so profound that the added inhalation anesthetic necessary to produce surgical anesthesia is greatly reduced.
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| basal body |
one of the cylindrical cytoplasmic bodies structurally resembling the centriole, from which it originates, located on the subsurface of flagellate protozoa and giving rise to the axoneme. Basal bodies are connected together in longitudinal rows by bundles of fibrils called kinetodesmata. Called also basal granule, blepharoplast, and kinetosome. See also kinetoplast and parabasal b.
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| basal bone |
the relatively fixed and unchangeable framework of the mandible and maxilla, which limits the extent to which teeth can be moved in the alveolar or supporting bone if the occlusion is to remain stable.
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| basal encephalocele |
an encephalocele in the region of the base of the skull.
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