| Broca's formula | A fully developed man (30 years old) should weigh as many kilograms as he is centimeters in height over and above 1 meter. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Broca's parolfactory area | A small region of cerebral cortex on the medial surface of the frontal lobe, formed by the junction of the straight gyrus with the cingulate gyrus, demarcated from the subcallosal gyrus by the posterior parolfactory sulcus. Synonym: area parolfactoria, Broca's parolfactory area. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's pouch | A pear-shaped encapsulated collection of connective tissue and fat in each labium majus. Synonym: Broca's pouch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca's visual plane | A plane drawn through the visual axes of each eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broca, Pierre | <person> French surgeon, neurologist, and anthropologist, 1824-1880. See: Broca's angles, Broca's aphasia, Broca's basilar angle, Broca's facial angle, Broca's area, Broca's parolfactory area, Broca's diagonal band, Broca's centre, Broca's field, Broca's fissure, Broca's formula, Broca's visual plane, Broca's pouch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brocard | An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. "The legal brocard, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness." (Sir W. Hamilton) Origin: Perh. Fr. Brocardica, Brocardicorum opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard, Bishop of Worms, called, by the Italians and French, Brocard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| broccoli | <botany> A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food. Origin: It. Broccoli, pl. Of broccolo sprout, cabbage sprout, dim. Of brocco splinter. See Broach. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brochantite | <chemical> A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals. Origin: From Brochant de Villiers, a French mineralogist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brock | <zoology> A badger. "Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock." (B. Jonson) Origin: AS. Broc, fr. W. Broch; akin to Ir. & Gael. Broc, Corn. & Armor. Broch; cf. Ir. & Gael. Breac speckled. <zoology> A brocket. See: Brocket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Brock operation | Transventricular valvotomy for relief of pulmonic valvar stenosis. Obsolete procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brock's syndrome | Atelectasis of the right middle pulmonary lobe, with chronic pneumonitis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Brock, Sir Russell | <person> British surgeon, *1903. See: Brock's syndrome, Brock operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brockenbrough | E.C., U.S. Surgeon, *1930. See: Brockenbrough sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brockenbrough sign | <clinical sign> Absolute decrease in pulse pressure of the beat immediately following a premature beat; a sign of idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brocker | 1. <zoology> A male red deer two years old; sometimes called brock. 2. <zoology> A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. Rufus, and C. Auritus). Origin: OE. Broket, F. Broquart fallow deer a year old, fr. The same root as E. Broach, meaning point (hence tine of a horn). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |