| BRW | Brown-Robert-Wells [stereotactic system] |
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| B&S | Brown and Sharp [sutures] |
| IBF | immature brown fat; immunoglobulin-binding factor; Insall-Burstein-Freeman [total knee instrumentati... |
| YBOCS | Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale |
| CETE | Central European tick-borne encephalitis |
| dog-headed | <zoology> Having a head shaped like that of a dog; said of certain baboons. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dog-hearted | Inhuman; cruel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dog nose | A disease, endemic in West Africa, characterised by exostoses from the nasal processes of the maxillary bones, producing a symmetrical swelling on each side of the nose; believed to be an osteitis connected with yaws. Synonym: anakhre, dog nose, gorondou, henpuye. Origin: native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| dog-rose | <botany> A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dog's-bane | <botany> See Dogbane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dog's-ear | The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Dog's"-eared. 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) |
| dog's-tongue | <botany> Hound's-tongue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dog unit | The amount of adrenal cortical extract per kilogram of body weight which, given daily, will maintain an adrenalectomised dog in good condition for 7 to 10 days. (05 Mar 2000) |
| algae, brown | Predominantly marine algae of the division phaeophyta, having chromatophores containing carotenoid pigments. Genera include ascophyllum, fucus, eisenia, petalonia, ectocarpus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Bismarck brown R | A diazo dye similar to Bismarck brown Y. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bismarck brown Y | A diazo dye used for staining mucin and cartilage in histologic sections, in the Papanicolaou technique for vaginal smears, and as one of Kasten's Schiff-type reagents in the PAS and Feulgen stains. Synonym: vesuvin. Origin: Ger. Bismarckbraun, after Otto von Bismarck, Ger. Chancellor (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blair-Brown graft | A split-thickness graft of intermediate thickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brown | Of a dark colour, of various shades between black and red or yellow. "Cheeks brown as the oak leaves." (Longfellow) Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. Brown bread Dark coloured bread; especially. A kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic." . Dark coloured bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite. Brown hematite or Brown iron ore, a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. Brown stone. See Brownstone. Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. Origin: OE. Brun, broun, AS. Brn; akin to D. Bruin, OHG. Brn, Icel. Brnn, Sw. Brun, Dan. Bruun, G. Braun, Lith. Brunas, Skr. Babhru. 93. Cf. Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brown adipose tissue | A thermogenic type of adipose tissue containing a dark pigment, and arising during embryonic life in certain specific areas in many mammals, including man. It is prominent in the newborn of all species in which it occurs and remains a distinct and conspicuous tissue in the adults of certain species, especially those that hibernate. It is also called brown adipose tissue. (12 Dec 1998) |