| BMD | Becker's muscular dystrophy; Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics; bone marrow depression; bone mineral d... |
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| BPA | blood pressure assembly; bovine plasma albumin; British Paediatric Association; bronchopulmonary asp... |
| BPAEC | bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cell |
| BPP | biophysical profile; bovine pancreatic polypeptide; bradykinin potentiating peptide |
| BPPV | benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; bovine paragenital papilloma virus |
| infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis | A disease of cattle caused by the bacterium Moraxella bovis and characterised by blepharospasm, conjunctivitis, lacrimation, and corneal opacity and ulceration. Synonym: infectious ophthalmia, pinkeye. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| infectious bovine rhinotracheitis | A herpes virus infection of cattle characterised by inflammation and necrosis of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus | A herpesvirus causing infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Synonym: IBR virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encephalopathy, bovine spongiform | Scrapie-like neurological disorder of cattle. The infection appears to be caused by the consumption of scrapie-infected ruminant-derived protein (prions). (12 Dec 1998) |
| enteric cytopathogenic bovine orphan virus | Former name for early isolates of bovine enteroviruses. Synonym: enteric cytopathogenic bovine orphan virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enzootic bovine leukosis | 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) |
| ephemeral fever virus, bovine | The type species of ephemerovirus causing disease in cattle. Transmission is by haematophagous arthropods and the virus has been isolated from both culicoides and mosquitoes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| epizootic bovine abortion | An infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros coriaceus and manifested as abortion or weak calves at birth; occurs in the foothills of California, Nevada, and Oregon. Synonym: foothill abortion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trypanosomiasis, bovine | Infection in cattle caused by various species of trypanosomes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tuberculosis, bovine | An infection of cattle caused by mycobacterium bovis. It is transmissible to man and other animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lentiviruses, bovine | A subgenus of lentivirus comprising viruses that produce multi-organ disease with long incubation periods in cattle. (12 Dec 1998) |
| leukaemia virus, bovine | The type species of HTLV-blv viruses that causes a form of bovine lymphosarcoma (enzootic bovine leukosis) or persistent lymphocytosis. (12 Dec 1998) |