| bigemini | Pairing; especially, the occurrence of heart beats in pairs. Synonym: bigemini. Origin: bi-+ L. Geminus, twin (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bigeminum | One of the corpora bigemina. Origin: L. Ntr. Of bigeminus, doubled (05 Mar 2000) |
| bigeminy | Pairing; especially, the occurrence of heart beats in pairs. Synonym: bigemini. Origin: bi-+ L. Geminus, twin (05 Mar 2000) |
| bigential | <zoology> Including two tribes or races of men. Origin: Pref. Bi- + L. Gens, gentis, tribe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bigerminal | Relating to two germs or ova. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bigeye | <zoology> A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bigg | <botany> Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. ""Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg."" (new English Dict) Origin: OE. Bif, bigge; akin to Icel. Bygg, Dan. Byg, Sw. Bjugg. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| biggin | A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head. "An old woman's biggin for a nightcap." (Massinger) Origin: F. Beguin, prob. From the cap worn by the Beguines. Cf. Beguine, Biggon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bighorn | <zoology> The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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) |
| 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) |