| beta blocker |
any of various drugs used in treating hypertension or arrhythmia; decreases force and rate of heart contractions by blocking beta-adrenergic receptors of the autonomic nervous system
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| beard |
the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals byssus: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights"
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| beta cell |
a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas
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| bearwood |
cascara buckthorn: shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
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| beat |
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" drum: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" tick: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" rhythm: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations pulsate: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" beatnik: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" meter: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" outwit: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing exhaust: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" all in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
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