| BFV | bovine feces virus |
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| BHV | bovine herpes virus |
| BLV | blood volume; bovine leukemia virus |
| BPPV | benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; bovine paragenital papilloma virus |
| BPV | benign paroxysmal vertigo; benign positional vertigo; bioprosthetic valve; bovine papilloma virus |
| bovine adenovirus type 7 proteinase | <enzyme> Amino acid sequence given in first source Registry number: EC 3.4.- Synonym: bav-7 proteinase (26 Jun 1999) |
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| bovine antitoxin | Antitoxin prepared from cattle instead of horses, used in the treatment of persons who are sensitive to horse serum; the cattle are immunised against the toxin for which specific antitoxin is desired. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine babesiosis | An infectious disease of cattle caused by Babesia species and transmitted by ticks. Synonym: bovine haemoglobinuria, redwater fever, Texas fever, tick fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine borreliosis | A disease of cattle caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and characterised by laminitis, arthritis, and synovitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine brucellosis | A disease in cattle caused by Brucella abortus; in pregnant cows, characterised by abortion late in pregnancy, followed by retained placenta and metritis; in bulls, orchitis and epididymitis may occur; the organism may localise in the udder and thus appear in milk from infected cows. Synonym: Bang's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine cancer eye | A malignant squamous cell carcinoma of cattle, especially the Hereford breed, that originates in the conjunctival mucous membranes or the surrounding skin; it occurs principally in range cattle having unpigmented skin around the eye and living in regions of intense sunlight. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine colloid | <protein> Protein present in serum that causes agglutination of antibody antigen complement complexes, binds C3b. (18 Nov 1997) |
| bovine congenital ataxia | An autosomal recessive ataxia seen in several European breeds of cattle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine growth hormone | <endocrinology> A hormone secreted by the bovine pituitary gland. It is used to increase milk production by improving the feed efficiency in dairy cattle. (14 Nov 1997) |
| bovine haemoglobinuria | An infectious disease of cattle caused by Babesia species and transmitted by ticks. Synonym: bovine haemoglobinuria, redwater fever, Texas fever, tick fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine herpes mammillitis | An ulcerative disease of the skin of the bovine teat caused by bovine herpesvirus type 2. Synonym: bovine ulcerative mammillitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine herpesvirus 1 | A virus causing infectious bovine rhinotracheitis in cattle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine herpesvirus 2 | A virus causing bovine mammillitis in cattle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine leukaemia | A lymphoid neoplastic disease in cattle caused by the bovine leukaemia virus. Enzootic bovine leukosis may take the form of lymphosarcoma, malignant lymphoma, or leukaemia but the presence of malignant cells in the blood is not a consistent finding. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bovine mastitis | A disease complex which occurs in acute, gangrenous, chronic, and subclinical forms of inflammation of the bovine udder, and is due to a variety of infectious agents; animal care, hygiene, and management are important factors in this dairy cow disease of great economic importance. (05 Mar 2000) |