| AGBAD | Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf |
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| BP | Bachelor of Pharmacy; back pressure; barometric pressure; basic protein; bathroom privileges; bed pa... |
| MBS | Martin-Bell syndrome |
| MBS | Martin Bell syndrome |
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| bell pepper | <botany> A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. Annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bird pepper | <botany> A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers. (16 Dec 1998) |
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| pepper | 1. A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum. Common, or black, pepper is made from the whole berry, dried just before maturity; white pepper is made from the ripe berry after the outer skin has been removed by maceration and friction. It has less of the peculiar properties of the plant than the black pepper. Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative stimulant. 2. <botany> The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth. 3. Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper. The term pepper has been extended to various other fruits and plants, more or less closely resembling the true pepper, especially. To the common varieties of Capsicum. See Capsicum, and the Phrases, below. African pepper, the Guinea pepper. See Guinea. Cayenne pepper. See Cayenne. Chinese pepper, the spicy berries of the Xanthoxylum piperitum, a species of prickly ash found in China and Japan. Guinea pepper. See Guinea, and Capsicum. Jamaica pepper. See Allspice. Long pepper. The spike of berries of Piper longum, an East Indian shrub. The root of Piper, or Macropiper, methysticum. See Kava. Malaguetta, or Meleguetta, pepper, the aromatic seeds of the Amomum Melegueta, an African plant of the Ginger family. They are sometimes used to flavor beer, etc, under the name of grains of Paradise. Red pepper. See Capsicum. <botany> Sweet pepper bush, an aromatic tree (Drimys axillaris) of the Magnolia family, common in New Zealand. See Peruvian mastic tree, under Mastic. Origin: OE. Peper, AS. Pipor, L. Piper, fr. Gr, akin to Skr. Pippala, pippali. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pepper and salt fundus | Ophthalmoscopic appearance of the fundus caused by choriocapillaris atrophy and pigment proliferation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pepper dulse | <botany> A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pepper syndrome | <radiology> Primary adrenal neuroblastoma, massive hepatomegaly from metastases (12 Dec 1998) |
| water pepper | <botany> Smartweed. Synonym: waterwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bell | 1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin. The Liberty Bell, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof." 2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. 3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." 4. That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. 5. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after it has struck "eight bells" it is struck once, and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours, which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times. To bear away the bell, to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something. To bear the bell, to be the first or leader; in allusion to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a team or drove, when wearing a bell. To curse by bell, book, and candle, a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies. To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. "In single fight he lost the bell." . To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm. Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as, bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc, which, for the most part, are self-explaining. Bell arch, a roof shaped according to the general lines of a bell. Bell rope, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung. Bell tent, a circular conical-topped tent. Bell trap, a kind of bell shaped stench trap. Origin: AS. Belle, fr. Bellan to bellow. See Bellow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bell animalcule | <zoology> An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh water ponds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bell bearer | <zoology> A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bell clapper deformity | A testis and epididymis free of the usual posterior attachment of the tunica vaginalis such that the tunic inserts high on the spermatic cord leaving the gonad more likely to undergo torsion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bell-crowned | Denoting a tooth the crown of which has a cross-sectional diameter much greater than that of the neck. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bell-faced | Having the striking surface convex; said of hammers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bell jar | <physics> A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bell, John | <person> Scottish surgeon and anatomist, 1763-1820. See: Bell's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bell-Magendie law | The ventral spinal roots are motor, the dorsal are sensory. Synonym: Bell-Magendie law, Magendie's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bell pepper | large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties |
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| bell pepper | plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits |
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