| Benedict, Francis | <person> U.S. Metabolist, 1870-1957. See: Benedict-Roth apparatus, Benedict-Roth calorimeter. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Benedict, Stanley | <person> U.S. Chemist, 1884-1936. See: Benedict's solution, Benedict's test for glucose, Benedict-Hopkins-Cole reagent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Benedict-Hopkins-Cole reagent | <chemistry> Magnesium glyoxalate, made from a mixture of oxalic acid and magnesium, used for testing proteins for the presence of tryptophan. (12 Aug 2000) |
| Benedict-Roth apparatus | <apparatus, physiology> A device employed to measure the amount of oxygen utilised in quiet breathing in the basal state for the estimation of the basal metabolic rate; the subject rebreathes oxygen through soda lime from a recording spirometer. (14 Aug 2000) |
| Benedict-Roth calorimeter | <apparatus, physiology> A device employed to measure the amount of oxygen utilised in quiet breathing in the basal state for the estimation of the basal metabolic rate; the subject rebreathes oxygen through soda lime from a recording spirometer. (14 Aug 2000) |
| Benedikt's syndrome | <syndrome> Hemiplegia with clonic spasm or tremor and oculomotor paralysis on the opposite side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Benedikt, Moritz | <person> Austrian physician, 1835-1920. See: Benedikt's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beneficence | The ethical principle of doing good. Origin: L. Beneficentia, fr. Bene, well, + facio, to do (05 Mar 2000) |
| beneficiate | <chemical> To reduce (ores). Origin: Sp. Beneficiar to benefit, to work mines. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| benevolence | 1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. "The wakeful benevolence of the gospel." (Chalmers) 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity. Synonym: Benevolence, Beneficence, Munificence. Benevolence marks a disposition made up of a choice and desire for the happiness of others. Beneficence marks the working of this disposition in dispensing good on a somewhat broad scale. Munificence shows the same disposition, but acting on a still broader scale, in conferring gifts and favors. These are not necessarily confined to objects of immediate utility. One may show his munificence in presents of pictures or jewelry, but this would not be beneficence. Benevolence of heart; beneficence of life; munificence in the encouragement of letters. Origin: OF. Benevolence, L. Benevolentia. See Benevolent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bengal | 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid coloured light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light. Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with coloured stripes. See Bengal. Bengal tiger. <zoology> See Tiger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| benight | 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. "The clouds benight the sky." (Garth) 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure, . . . Benighted in these woods." (Milton) 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?" (Heber) Origin: Benighted; Benighting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| benign | <oncology> Something that does not metastasise and treatment or removal is curative. Compare: malignant. Origin: L. Benignus (11 Jan 1998) |
| benign albuminuria | A collective term for types that are not the result of pathologic changes in the kidneys. Synonym: essential albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign bone aneurysm | <radiology> ABC, 10 - 30 yrs, 75% before skeletal maturity, sites: long bones; also, flat bones Findings: metaphyseal if unfused, metaepiphyseal after fusion, lytic, expansile, thin, continuous rim, thin internal bony strands (12 Dec 1998) |