Letter B - Medical Science dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Bacillus A bacillus is a rod-shaped bacterium hence its name. There ...	Bacteriophage Bacteriophages are viruses which are parasitic to bacteria ...
Bacteriostatic In medicine the term bacteriostatic describes the action of ...	Bacterium A bacterium is a unicellular micro-organism without a ...
Baldness Baldness is the loss of head hair or other hair such as ...	Balm A balm (from the Latin balsamum, sedative plant) is an ...
Bandage A bandage is a material used to cover part of the body for ...	Barium Barium is a labelling substance used in conjunction with x ...
Barotrauma Barotrauma is an injury caused by an excessively fast change ...	Bartholin glands There are two Bartholin glands that are the size of a small ...
Basal cell carcinoma A basal cell carcinoma is a cancer that develops on the ...	Basal cells Basal cells are small cells in the external layer of the skin.
Basal ganglia The basal ganglia are areas of grey matter located inside ...	Basal membrane The basal membrane is an extra-cellular matrix lining an ...
Baseline Baseline is the medical term meaning the reference value ...	Basilar The term basilar refers to the base of the structure such as ...
Basophil Basophils are white blood cells whose nucleus contains ...	Benign Benign means harmless, without serious consequences: ...
Beriberi Beriberi is a disease affecting the nerves in that arms and ...	Beta blocker These medicines have been used in cardiology since the ...