| bladed | 1. Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. "Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass." (Shak) 2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn. 3. <chemical> Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bladefish | <marine biology> A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bladevent | A thin, wedge-shaped endo-osseous implant of metal that is inserted into a surgically prepared groove in the maxilla or mandible. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blagden's law | The depression of the freezing point of dilute solutions is proportional to the amount of the dissolved substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blagden, Sir Charles | <person> British physician, 1748-1820. See: Blagden's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blain | 1. An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. "Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss." (Milton) 2. <veterinary> A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath. Origin: OE. Blein, bleyn, AS. Blgen; akin to Dan. Blegn, D. Blein; perh. Fr. The same root as E. Bladder. See Bladder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Blainville ears | Asymmetry in size or shape of the auricles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de | <person> French zoologist and anthropologist, 1777-1850. See: Blainville ears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blair, Vilray | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1871-1955. See: Blair-Brown graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blair-Brown graft | A split-thickness graft of intermediate thickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blakemore, Arthur | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1897-1970. See: Sengstaken-Blakemore tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blalock shunt | Subclavian artery to pulmonary artery shunt to increase pulmonary circulation in cyanotic heart disease with decreased pulmonary flow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blalock, Alfred | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1899-1965. See: Blalock shunt, Blalock-Hanlon operation, Blalock-Taussig operation, Blalock-Taussig shunt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blalock-Hanlon operation | The creation of a large atrial septal defect as a palliative procedure for complete transposition of the great arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blalock-Taussig operation | An operation for congenital malformations of the heart, in which an abnormally small volume of blood passes through the pulmonary circuit; blood from the systemic circulation is directed to the lungs by anastomosing the right or left subclavian artery to the right or left pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |