Category: B

  • Bregma

    The point at the top of the head where the soft gap between the bones of a baby’s skull hardens. Junction point at the top of the skull at which two bone seams (coronal and sagittal sutures) meet bregmatic. The point on the top of the skull at which the coronal and sagittal sutures meet.…

  • Breed

    To reproduce, or reproduce animals or plants.  

  • Breech

    The buttocks, especially of a baby. Foetal position in pregnancy, which results in the baby’s buttocks or legs being born first, rather than the head.  

  • Breath sounds

    Hollow sounds made by the lungs and heard through a stethoscope placed on a person’s chest, used in diagnosis. The sounds heard through a stethoscope placed over the lungs during breathing. Normal breath sounds are soft and called vesicular, they may be increased or decreased in disease states. The sounds heard over the larger bronchi…

  • Breathlessness

    Difficulty in breathing enough air. Breathlessness, or dyspnoea, may be due to any condition which renders the blood deficient in oxygen, and which therefore produces excessive involuntary efforts to gain more air. Exercise is a natural cause, and acute anxiety may provoke breathlessness in otherwise healthy people. Deprivation of oxygen — for example, in a…

  • Breathless

    Referring to someone who finds it difficult to breathe enough air.  

  • Breathing rate

    The number of times a person breathes in and out in a specific period.  

  • Breath-holding attack

    A period when a young child stops breathing, usually because he or she is angry.  

  • Breathe

    To take air in and blow air out through the nose or mouth.  

  • Breath

    Air which goes in and out of the body when you breathe. To stop breathing out, after having inhaled deeply. Air that is taken into and let out from the lungs through the nose or mouth; one inhalation and one exhalation. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.