Category: B

A substance that causes the removal of impurities from the bloodstream (outdated term). A term used by herbalists to refer to an antibiotic action of certain botanical medicines.  

That concentration at which a bitter substance can still be tasted (bitterness value of 100 000: when one part of the substance in 100 000 parts of water still tastes bitter).  

Permeation barrier around every cell or cellular compartments consisting of phospholipids, cholesterol and membrane proteins.  

Inability to secrete bile. Symptoms of recurrent biliary colic in patients without gallstones, who nonetheless have an abnormal gallbladder ejection fraction on cholecystokinin-stimulated studies of the gallbladder.  

Inflated and thin, like the pod of Lobelia inflata.  

Pinnatifid with the lobes again pinnatifid.  

Twice paired.  

Two-headed. Referring to a biceps muscle. With two parts.  

A chronic inflammation or degenerative condition of one or more bronchioles.  

An agent that dilates bronchial tubes.