| BT | base of tongue; bedtime; bitemporal; bitrochanteric; bladder tumor; Blalock-Taussig [shunt]; bleedin... |
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| CB | Bachelor of Surgery [Lat. Chirurgiae Baccalaureus]; calcium blocker; carbenicillin; carotid body; ch... |
| TB | Taussig-Bind [syndrome]; terabyte; term birth; terminal bronchiole; terminal bronchus; thromboxane B... |
| EMB Agar | Eosin Methylene Blue Agar |
| LAMB Syndrome | Lentigines, Atrial myxoma, Blue nevi Syndrome |
| grass tetany | A highly fatal disease of cows and sheep occurring generally during the first two weeks in the spring after the animals have been out on lush pastures; it is characterised by convulsions, hypomagnesaemia, and usually hypocalcaemia. Synonym: wheat pasture poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| grass tree | <botany> An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| guatemala grass | <botany> See Teosinte. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Moeller's grass bacillus | A saprophytic bacterium widely distributed in soil and dust and on plants. (12 Dec 1998) |
| water star grass | <botany> An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hair grass | <botany> A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hard grass | <botany> A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hariali grass | <botany> The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutch grass | <botany> A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea grass | <botany> Eelgrass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squitch grass | <botany> Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dog's-tail grass | <botany> A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait. Synonym: goldseed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| doob grass | <botany> A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. Alternative forms: doub grass. Origin: Hind. Db. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| doub grass | <botany> Doob grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quack grass | <botany> See Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |