| BTD | biliary tract disease |
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| BTP | biliary tract pain; biological treatment planning |
| COBT | chronic obstruction of the biliary tract |
| EHBA | extrahepatic biliary atresia |
| PBC | peripheral blood cell; point of basal convergence; pre-bed care; primary biliary cirrhosis; progesti... |
| PBD | Percutaneous Biliary Drainage |
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| PTBD | Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage |
| PBC | Primary Biliary Cirrhosis |
| equine biliary fever | <veterinary> A disease of horses caused by species of Babesia and characterised by high fever, icterus, and enlargement of the spleen and lymph nodes. Synonym: biliary fever of horses, equine biliary fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| liver cirrhosis, biliary | Liver cirrhosis in which there is interference with intrahepatic bile flow. It includes primary biliary cirrhosis, an intrahepatic disturbance of bile secretion affecting predominantly middle-aged women and with segmental destruction and, later, absence of septal bile ducts (cirrhosis is the end stage); and secondary biliary cirrhosis, which is produced by prolonged mechanical obstruction of large intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts. (12 Dec 1998) |