| wp | wettable powder |
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| BCYE-α agar | Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract agar with α-ketoglutarate |
| ACE | acetonitrile; acetylcholine esterase; acute cerebral encephalopathy; acute coronary event; adrenocor... |
| BCYE | buffered charcoal-yeast extract [agar] |
| BTE | behind the ear [hearing aid]; bovine thymus extract |
| flower-fence | <botany> A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| flower-gentle | <botany> A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Flower's bone | A sutural bone occasionally present at the pterion or junction of the parietal, frontal, greater wing of the sphenoid, and squamous portion of the temporal bone's. Synonym: Flower's bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Flower's dental index | Relation of the dental length (distance from the mesial surface of the first premolar to the distal surface of the third molar) to the basinasal (basion to nasion) length: (dental length ×100)/basinasal length, a system of numbers for indicating comparative size of the teeth. Synonym: Flower's dental index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower-spray ending | One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower-spray organ of Ruffini | One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |