| BALB test | A test for recruitment in one ear; the comparison of relative loudness of a series of intensities presented alternately to either ear. Synonym: BALB test. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Balbani ring | An extremely large puff at a band of a polytene chromosome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Balbiani ring | <cell biology, genetics> The largest puffs seen on the polytene chromosomes of Diptera are called Balbiani rings after the nineteenth century microscopist who first described polytene chromosomes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| balbuties | <medicine> The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bald | 1. Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. "On the bald top of an eminence." (Wordsworth) 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. "In the preface to his own bald translation." (Dryden) 3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. 5. <botany> Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. 6. <zoology> Destitute of the natural covering. Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. <zoology> Bald buzzard, a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head. Origin: OE. Balled, ballid, perh. The p.p. Of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. But cf. W. Bali whiteness in a horse's forehead. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bald eagle | <zoology> The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. The bald eagle is represented in the coat of arms, and on the coins, of the United States. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bald tongue | An erythematous, edematous, and painful tongue which appears smooth due to loss of the filiform and sometimes the fungiform papillae secondary to certain nutritional deficiencies, especially B-vitamin deficencies, as seen in pellagra, thiamin deficiency, and disorders such as pernicious anaemia (Hunter's or Moeller's glossitis). Synonym: bald tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balder | The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya. Alternative forms: Baldur. Origin: Icel. Baldr, akin to E. Bold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baldhead | 1. A person whose head is bald. 2. <zoology> A white-headed variety of pigeon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baldness | Alopecia. There are many types of baldness, each with a different cause. Baldness can be localised to the front and top of the head, such as in male pattern baldness; patchy, such as in alopecia areata; or involve the entire head, such as in alopecia capitis totalis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| baldness, patchy | Medically referred to as alopecia areata (alopecia means baldness and areata means occurring in patches). The problem typically begins with patchy hair loss on the scalp and sometimes progresses to complete baldness and even loss of body hair. Although alopecia areata affects 2.5 million people in the United States alone, little is known about its underlying causes. Stress, a disordered immune system, and several different unknown genes may possibly play a part. (12 Dec 1998) |
| baldpate | 1. A baldheaded person. 2. <zoology> The American widgeon (Anas Americana). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baldwin | <botany> A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Baldy's operation | An obsolete operation for retrodisplacement of the uterus, consisting of bringing the round ligaments through the perforated broad ligaments and attaching them to each other and to the back of the uterus. Synonym: Webster's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baldy, John | <person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1860-1934. See: Baldy's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |