blepharadenitis
blepharoadenitis
| Blalock-Taussig shunt | A palliative subclavian artery to pulmonary artery anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| blanch | 1. To take the colour out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. 2. <botany> To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. 3. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices. 4. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining). 5. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 6. To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. "Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things." (Tillotson) Synonym: To Blanch, Whiten. To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some white colouring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the removal of colouring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. E, by the withdrawal of the blood, which leaves it white. Origin: OE. Blanchen, blaunchen, F. Blanchir, fr. Blanc white. See Blank. <chemical> Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blancher | One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; especially, one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blancmanger | A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc. Origin: F. See Blancmange. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bland diet | A regular diet omitting foods that mechanically or chemically irritate the gastrointestinal tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bland embolism | Embolism by simple nonseptic material. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bland infarct | An uninfected infarct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blandin's gland | One of the small mixed glands deeply placed near the apex of the tongue on each side of the frenulum. Synonym: glandula lingualis anterior, apical gland, Bauhin's gland, Blandin's gland, Nuhn's gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blandin, Philippe Frederic | <person> French anatomist and surgeon, 1798-1849. See: Blandin's gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blandishment | The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. "Cowering low with blandishment." (Milton) "Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments." (Macaulay) Origin: Cf. OF. Blandissement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blank | 1. Of a white or pale colour; without colour. "To the blank moon Her office they prescribed." (Milton) 2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited. "Adam . . . Astonied stood, and blank." (Milton) 4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. 5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. 6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." "The blank . . . Glance of a half returned consciousness." (G. Eliot) 7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. Blank bar, a tire without a flange. Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. Blank verse. See Verse. Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall. Origin: OE. Blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. Blanc, fem. Blanche, fr. OHG. Blanch shining, bright, white, G. Blank; akin to E. Blink, cf. Also AS. Blanc white. 98. See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch. 1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. "I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you." (Swift) "From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation." (Hallam) "I was ill. I can't tell how long it was a blank." (G. Eliot) 2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. "In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize." (Dryden) 3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. "The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank." (Palfrey) 4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. "Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye." (Shak) 6. Aim; shot; range. "I have stood . . . Within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech." (Shak) 7. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V, and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. 8. <mechanics> A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 9. A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blanket | <physics> A region surrounding a fusion reactor core within which the fusion neutrons (if any) are slowed down, heat is transferred to a primary coolant, and tritium is bred from lithium (if tritium is used as fuel). In hybrid applications, fertile materials (u-238 or Th-232) are located in the blanket for conversion into fissile fuels. (17 Mar 1998) |
| blanket suture | A continuous lock-stitch used to approximate the skin of a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blanketing | 1. Cloth for blankets. 2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. "That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of." (Smollett) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blanquillo | <marine biology> A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow. Origin: Sp. Blanquillo whitish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Bank, Blood, Banks, Blood, Blood Bank
Synonyms : Blood Cell Counts, Blood Cell Numbers, Blood Counts, Complete, Complete Blood Count, Complete Blood Counts, Count, Blood Cell, Count, Complete Blood, Counts, Blood Cell, Counts, Complete Blood, Number, Blood Cell, Numbers, Blood Cell
Synonyms : Blood Cell, Cell, Blood, Cells, Blood
Synonyms : Analysis, Blood Chemical, Chemical Analysis, Blood, Analyses, Blood Chemical, Blood Chemical Analyses, Chemical Analyses, Blood
Synonyms : Circulation, Blood
| blastomere |
any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg
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| Blastomyces |
genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi
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| blastoma |
a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells
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| blood bank |
a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma; "the Red Cross created a blood bank for emergencies"
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| bladder stone |
a calculus formed in the bladder
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| BL | widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries |
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| BL | Australian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous dark brown seed |
| BL | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |
| BL | an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing |
| BL | a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products |
| BL | dusky black duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
| BL | a hidden sector of the economy where private cash transactions go unreported |
| BL | common black-fruited shrub or small tree of Europe and Asia |
| BL | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries |
| BL | a nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people |
| BL | a nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people |
| BL | a bruise caused by a blow to the eye |