Category: B
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Basal leaves
Leaves growing from the base of the stem. Leaves at the lower portion of an herbaceous plant, arising from many nodes separated by exceedingly small internodes occurring at about surface level. Leaves that form from the crown.
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Bronchiolitis obliterans
A disease of the lungs where the bronchioles are inflamed and plugged with granulation tissue. A rare disorder involving gradually increasing fibrosis and destruction of lung tissue following an attack of bronchiolitis. Bronchiolitis in which the bronchioles and, occasionally, some of the smaller bronchi are partly or completely obliterated by nodular masses that contain granulation and…
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Bronchial
Pertaining to or affecting one or both windpipe. Pertaining to the bronchus. In the realm of respiratory anatomy, we explore the intricate network of air conduits responsible for transporting vital oxygen to and from the lungs. This intricate system encompasses the bronchi, which are the primary airways branching off from the trachea, and the bronchioles,…
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Blennorrhoea
Any free discharge of mucus, especially from urethra or vagina.
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Bilious
Containing bile; for example bilious vomiting is the vomiting of bile containing fluid. Related to bile or episodes of biliousness, named as such due to the presence of bile in vomit.
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Bacillary
Pertaining to the bacteria bacilli or to rod-like structures.
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Butter-boat
Since the late seventeenth century, boat has been used as a name for an oval dish in which sauces are brought to the table. Butter-boat, used for melted butter, appeared in the late eighteenth century and gravy boat in the late nineteenth.
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Butter
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Scythians—a nomadic people of Asia and Eastern Europe—so loved butter that they used only blind slaves to churn it, ones who would not be distracted from their work by the outside world. The word butter, as befits the world’s first edible oil product, can be traced back…
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Butcher
Although the French could not legally consume horseflesh until 1811 (when they realized that eating horsemeat had saved many lives during the Napoleonic campaigns), they have long eaten goat, not just because they liked the pungent flavour of its flesh but because goats were able to survive weather and blights that killed less hardy animals.…
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Bus
In the food service industry, the lowest job on the totem poll is surely that of the busboy, whose sole purpose for eight hours a day is to clear—or bus—the tables of dirty plates, crumpled napkins, and cracker wrappers, often without sharing in the tip. Originally, back in the late nineteenth century, such a person…