| BAT | basic aid training; best available technology; blunt abdominal trauma; brown adipose tissue |
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| BAT | Brown Adipose Tissue |
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| IBAT | Interscapular BAT |
| BAT | blunt abdominal trauma |
| vampire | 1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. "The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church," (Encyc. Brit) 2. One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker. 3. <zoology> Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. 4. <zoology> Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. Spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. <zoology> Vampire bat, a vampire. Origin: F. Vampire (cf. It. Vampiro, G. & D. Vampir), fr. Servian vampir Alternative forms: vampyre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bat | 1. A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc. 2. <chemical> Shale or bituminous shale. 3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting. 4. A part of a brick with one whole end. <machinery> Bat bolt, a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Origin: OE. Batte, botte, AS. Batt; perhaps fr. The Celtic; cf. Ir. Bat, bata, stick, staff; but cf. Also F. Batte a beater (thing), wooden sword, battre to beat. <zoology> One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. <zoology> Bat tick, a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats. Origin: Corrupt. From OE. Back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. Aften-bakke]/> (aften evening), Sw. Natt-backa]/> (natt night), Icel. Ler-blaka]/> (ler leather), Icel. Blaka to flutter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bat ear | Congenital deformity of the external ear, with poor development of helix and anthelix. Synonym: bat ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea bat | <zoology> See Batfish . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vampire bat | any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood |
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