| bletting | A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bleyme | <veterinary> An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone. Origin: F. Bleime. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blight | 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. "[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man." (Woodward) 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. "Seared in heart and lone and blighted." (Byron) Origin: Perh. Contr. From AS. Blicettan to glitter, fr. The same root as E. Bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf. Bleach, Bleak. 1. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. 2. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. 3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. "A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes." (Disraeli) 4. <zoology> A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; also applied to several other injurious insects. 5. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blighted ovum | A fertilized ovum whose development has ceased at an early stage. (27 Sep 1997) |
| blind | 1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." "A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . A much greater." (South) 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. "Her beauty all the rest did blind." (P. Fletcher) 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. "Such darkness blinds the sky." (Dryden) "The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound." (Stillingfleet) 4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled. Origin: Blinded; Blinding. 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. "He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost." (Shak) 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. "But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall." (Milton) 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. "This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation." (Jay) 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. "The blind mazes of this tangled wood." (Milton) 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. 8. <botany> Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, especially. at night. <zoology> Blind cat, a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. <botany> Blind nettle, the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall. Origin: AS.; akin to D, G, OS, Sw, & Dan. Blind, Icel. Blindr, Goth. Blinds; of uncertain origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blind boil | A furuncle that does not have a fluctuant central point; it appears as a dull red painful papule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind enema | The introduction into the rectum of a rubber tube to facilitate the expulsion of flatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind fistula | A fistula that ends in a cul-de-sac, being open at one extremity only. Synonym: incomplete fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind foramen of frontal bone | <anatomy> Blind or caecal foramen of the frontal bone; the blind foramen formed immediately anterior to the crista galli by a notch at the lower end of the frontal crest and its articulation with the ethmoid bone. It is insignificant postnatally, but gives passage to vessels during development. Synonym: foramen caecum ossis frontalis, blind foramen of frontal bone, caecal foramen of frontal bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind foramen of the tongue | <anatomy> A median pit on the dorsum of the posterior part of the tongue, from which the limbs of a V-shaped furrow run forward and outward; it is the site of origin of the thyroid gland and subsequent thyroglossal duct in the embryo. Synonym: foramen caecum linguae, blind foramen of the tongue, caecal foramen of the tongue, Morgagni's foramen, pleuroperitoneal foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind gut | <anatomy> A blind pouch-like commencement of the colon in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen at the end of the small intestine. The appendix is a diverticulum that extends off the caecum. (13 Nov 1997) |
| blind headache | <disease> An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head (18 Nov 1997) |
| blind loop syndrome | <syndrome> Malabsorption, especially of vitamin b12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blind nasotracheal intubation | Passage of a tracheal tube through the nose and into the trachea without using a laryngoscope. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blind passage | Successive transfer of an agent through cultures or animals without incidence of either replication or disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Bloom Torre Machacek Syndrome, Syndrome, Bloom, Syndrome, Bloom-Torre-Machacek
Synonyms : Blot, Far-Western, Blot, West-Western, Far-Western Blot, West-Western Blot, Blot, Far Western, Blot, West Western, Blots, Far-Western, Blots, West-Western, Blotting, Far Western, Blotting, West Western, Blottings, Far-Western, Blottings, West-Western
Synonyms : Blot, Northern, Northern Blot, Blots, Northern, Blottings, Northern, Northern Blots, Northern Blottings
Synonyms : Blot, Southern, Southern Blot
Synonyms : Blot, Southwestern, Southwestern Blot, Blots, Southwestern, Blottings, Southwestern, Southwestern Blots, Southwestern Blottings
| blot |
smudge: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" dry (ink) with blotting paper an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" spot: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
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| black lung |
anthracosis: lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
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| black plague |
Black Death: the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
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| blue devil |
blueweed: a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States amobarbital sodium: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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| black tea |
fermented tea leaves
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| BL | Australian tree that yields tanning materials |
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| BL | brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice |
| BL | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil |
| BL | small dark-colored whaled of United States Atlantic coast |
| BL | venomous New World spider |
| BL | North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes |
| BL | a woman who is Black |
| BL | discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin |
| BL | American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game |
| BL | breed of short-haired black-and-tan terrier developed in Manchester England |
| BL | (photography) "black-and-white film" |
| BL | white gull having a black back and wings |