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B
- bacteriostatic
- preventing multiplication of bacteria
- balneological treatment
- treatment by immersing part of the body in a
bath
- balneotherapy
- healing bath
- barbadensis
- in botany, from Barbados, e.g., Aloe
barbadensis
- bathmotropic
- a response to stimulants which influences
nervous and muscular irritability; negatively
bathmotropic—lessening nervous or muscular
irritability; positively bathmotropic—increasing
nervous or muscular irritability
- biliary dyskinesia
- inability to secrete bile
- biliary excretion (of drug)
- removal of the drug metabolites fomed in the
body through bile, usually important for
compounds with higher molecular weights (greater
than 500)
- bilirubinuria
- presence of bilirubin (yellow-red pigment of
bile) in urine
- -bilis
- in botany, ability or capacity, sensibilis,
capable of sensitivity
- binding to plasma protein
- attachment of a compound, usually
pharmaceutically active, to proteins in the
blood, an important consideration when two or
more drugs are simultaneously administered and
displace each other
- bitter
- a bitter-tasting infusion or tonic that
affects digestion or appetite by stimulating the
increasing output of saliva and gastric juices;
gentian and hops are among the plants used for
this purpose
- bitter principle
- alkaloid
- bitter principles
- constituents possessing a bitter taste
- bitterness value
- inverse of the dilution at which a compound
imparts a perceptible, bitter taste (e.g., a
bitterness value of 50,000 means a part of the
compound in 50,000 parts of water still tastes
bitter)
- bladder and kidney congestion
- accumulation of fluid in the tissues
resulting from congestive heart failure
- blennorrhea
- excess discharge from mucous surfaces, such
as the urethra or vagina; term used in the past
for gonorrhea
- blood purification
- the process by which an agent or organ
enhances the body's normal function of removing
impurities from the blood stream
- blood viscosity
- fluid flexibility of the blood
- borealis
- in botany, northern
- brachialgia
- arm pain
- brachy-
- in botany, short
- bradycardia
- slow heart rate
- brevi-
- in botany, short
- brightening agent
- filler
- bronchitis
- inflammation of the mucous membrane of the
bronchial tubes, frequently accompanied by
cough, hypersecretion of mucus, and
expectoration of sputum
- broncholytic
- agent that reduces viscosity of bronchial
secretions
- bronchospasmolytic
- reducing spasms of the bronchial tubes
- bronchospasm
- sudden involuntary contraction of the smooth
muscles surrounding the bronchial tubes
- bruise
- injury producing a hematoma or diffuse
extravasation of blood without breaking the skin
- buccal
- pertaining to, located near, the cheek
- bud
- immature vegetative or floral shoot, often
covered by scales
- -bundus
- in botany, fullness, abundance, floribundus,
full of flowers
- bunion
- localized swelling at the first
metatarsophalangeal joint (between the instep
and the toes) due to an inflamed bursa
(fluid-filled sac)
- bursitis
- inflammation of bursa or fluid-filled sacs
which normally function to reduce friction
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