| BBT | basal body temperature |
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| BC | Bachelor of Surgery [Lat. Baccal-aureus Chirurgiae]; back care; bactericidal concentration; basal ce... |
| BCC | basal-cell carcinoma; biliary cholesterol concentration; birth control clinic |
| BCE | basal cell epithelioma; benign childhood epilepsy; bubble chamber equipment |
| BCH | basal cell hyperplasia |
| Eagle's basal medium | A solution of various salts containing 13 naturally occurring amino acids, several vitamins, two antibiotics, and phenol red; used as a tissue culture medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Engelmann's basal knobs | An obsolete eponym for blepharoplast. (05 Mar 2000) |
| junctional basal lamina | <cell biology> Specialised region of the extracellular matrix surrounding a muscle cell, at the neuromuscular junction. May be responsible for localisation of acetylcholine receptors in the synaptic region and also binds acetylcholine esterase to this region (18 Nov 1997) |
| lateral basal branch | Lateral basal branch of the following: 1) basal part of inferior lobar branch of right pulmonary artery; 2) basal part of inferior lobar branch of left pulmonary artery. Synonym: ramus basalis lateralis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral basal segment | Lateral basal segment of inferior lobe of right and left lung; between anterior and posterior basal segments. Synonym: segmentum basale laterale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aberrant ganglion | A collection of nerve cells sometimes found on a posterior spinal nerve root between the spinal ganglion and the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acousticofacial ganglion | A primordial ganglionic cell mass in young embryos which later separates into the acoustic or spiral ganglion of the vestibulocochlear (eighth cranial) nerve and the geniculate ganglion of the facial (seventh cranial) nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Acrel's ganglion | Pseudoganglion on the posterior interosseous nerve on the dorsal aspect of the wrist joint, a cyst on a tendon of an extensor muscle at the level of the wrist. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Andersch's ganglion | <anatomy, nerve> The lower of two sensory ganglion's on the glossopharyngeal nerve as it traverses the jugular foramen. Synonym: ganglion inferius nervi glossopharyngei, Andersch's ganglion, extracranial ganglia, ganglion extracraniale, petrosal ganglion, petrous ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Arnold's ganglion | An autonomic ganglion situated below the foramen ovale medial to the mandibular nerve; its postganglionic, parasympathetic fibres are distributed to the parotid gland. Synonym: ganglion oticum, Arnold's ganglion, auricular ganglion, otoganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory ganglion | An elongated ganglion of bipolar sensory nerve cell bodies on the cochlear part of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the spiral canal of the modiolus; each ganglion cell gives rise to a peripheral process that passes between the layers of the bony spiral lamina to the organ of Corti, and a central axon that enters the hindbrain as a component of the inferior (cochlear) root of the eighth nerve. Synonym: ganglion spirale cochleae, auditory ganglion, cochlear ganglion, Corti's ganglion, spiral cochlear ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auricular ganglion | An autonomic ganglion situated below the foramen ovale medial to the mandibular nerve; its postganglionic, parasympathetic fibres are distributed to the parotid gland. Synonym: ganglion oticum, Arnold's ganglion, auricular ganglion, otoganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's ganglion | An aggregation of nerve cells in the interatrial septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bochdalek's ganglion | A ganglion of the plexus of the dental nerve lying in the maxilla just above the root of the canine tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bock's ganglion | A small ganglionic swelling on filaments from the internal carotid plexus, lying on the undersurface of the carotid artery in the cavernous sinus. Synonym: Bock's ganglion, Laumonier's ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |