Medications

Biochemical aspirin resistance - Medical

Biochemical aspirin resistance: The inability of aspirin to produce an anticipated effect on one or more tests of platelet function, such as inhibiting the biosynthesis of thromboxane, inhibiting platelet aggregation, and causing a prolongation of th...

Biochemical - Medical

Biochemical: Relating to biochemistry, the application of the tools and concepts of chemistry to living systems. Biochemists study such things as the structures and physical properties of biological molecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, lip...

Bioarchaeology - Medical

Bioarchaeology: The use of a range of biological techniques on archaeological material in order to learn more about past populations. In bioarchaeology, one might isolate and amplify DNA from very old bones such as from the frozen body of the 9,000-y...

Bioactive - Medical

Bioactive: Having an effect upon a living organism, tissue, or cell. Biologically active. Antibiotic, enzymes, and vitamins are all bioactive substances. Last Editorial Review: 12/8/2003 Enzymes: Proteins that act as a catalysts in mediating an...

Bio- - Medical

Bio-: Prefix indicating living plants or creatures, as in biology, the study of living organisms.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Binucleate - Medical

Binucleate: Having two nuclei. Binucleate cells are due to a defect in cytokinesis, the process by which two daughter cells separate at the completion of cell division.Last Editorial Review: 11/6/2004 Cytokinesis: 1. During cell division, the proces...

Binswanger disease - Medical

Binswanger disease: A form of dementia with blood vessel abnormalities in the deep white-matter of the brain causing loss of memory, decreasing cognition, and mood changes. Patients usually show signs of abnormal blood pressure (too high or too low),...

Binocularity - Medical

Binocularity: The ability to focus upon an object with both eyes and create a single stereoscopic image. Binocularity requires highly convergent orbits. The evolutionary increases among primates in the degree of orbital convergence have been noted ...

Binocular vision - Medical

Binocular vision: The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, creating a single visual image. Lack of binocular vision is normal in infants. Adults without binocular vision experience distortions in depth perception and vi...

Binocular diplopia - Medical

Binocular diplopia: See: Diplopia, binocular. Last Editorial Review: 11/12/2003 Diplopia, binocular: Double vision ( diplopia) that is only evident when looking through both eyes and disappears if one eye is closed or covered. The condition is caus...

Binocular - Medical

Binocular: 1. With both eyes, as in binocular vision. 2. With two eyepieces, as in a binocular microscope. Last Editorial Review: 5/5/2003...

Binge eating disorder - Medical

Binge eating disorder: An eating disorder characterized by periods of extreme over-eating, but not followed by purging behaviors as in most cases of bulimia. Binge eating can occur alone, or in conjunction with a lesion of the hypothalamus gl...

Binge drinking - Medical

Binge drinking: The dangerous practice of consuming large quantities of alcoholic beverages in a single session. Binge drinking carries a serious risk of harm, including alcohol poisoning. See Alcohol poisoning.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/201...

Binaural - Medical

Binaural: Relating to both ears. From the Latin bini, a pair, + auris, ear = a pair (of) ears = both ears. Synonymous with stereophonic. While hearing aids may be binaural (in both ears) or monaural (in just one ear), binaural aids are generally con...

Biloma - Medical

Biloma: An encapsulated collection of bile within the abdomen. A biloma may form if there is bile duct disruption, as from a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. From bile + -oma (a tumor). Last Editorial Review: 10/10/2004 Encapsulated: Confined to a s...

Bilirubin - Medical

Bilirubin: A yellow-orange compound produced by the breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Medical Author: Siamak T. Nabili, MD, MPH ...

Biliousness - Medical

Biliousness: A term used in the 18th and 19th centuries pertaining to bad digestion, stomach pains, constipation, and excessive flatulence (passing gas). The quantity or quality of the bile was thought to be at fault for the condition. Hence, the nam...

Bilious - Medical

Bilious: The adjective for bile, bilious has three meanings. It means of or relating to bile. By extension, bilious means suffering from liver dysfunction (and especially excessive secretion of bile). And, further by extension, it is indicative of a ...

Biliary sludge - Medical

Biliary sludge: A mixture of microscopic particulate matter in bile that occurs when particles of material precipitate from bile. (Bile is the fluid that is made by the liver. It is stored in the gallbladder until after a meal when it passes out of ...

Biliary sand - Medical

Biliary sand: Biliary sand is a term mostly used by surgeons when they remove the gallbladder to describe uncountable, small particles in bile that are visible to the naked eye. Biliary sand may be looked upon as a stage in the growth of the particl...

Biliary decompression - Medical

Biliary decompression: A procedure done to remove pressure on the biliary tree and permit the normal drainage of bile. Last Editorial Review: 10/16/2004 Biliary: Having to do with the gallbladder, bile ducts, or bile. The biliary system itself co...

Biliary compression - Medical

Biliary compression: Abnormal pressure on the biliary tree compromising the normal drainage of bile. Last Editorial Review: 10/16/2004 Biliary: Having to do with the gallbladder, bile ducts, or bile. The biliary system itself consists of the gall...

Biliary atresia - Medical

Biliary atresia: Congenital absence or closure of the major bile ducts, the ducts that drain bile from the liver. Biliary atresia results in a progressive inflammatory process which may lead to cirrhosis of the liver. The infant looks normal at bi...

Biliary - Medical

Biliary: Having to do with the gallbladder, bile ducts, or bile. The biliary system itself consists of the gallbladder and bile ducts and, of course, the bile. For example, biliary atresia is the absence or closure of the major bile ducts, the duc...

Bilharziasis - Medical

Bilharziasis: a parasite infection by a trematode worm acquired from infested water. Also known as schistosomiasis. Species which live in man can produce liver, bladder, and gastrointestinal problems. Species of the schistosomiasis parasite which ...

Bilharzia - Medical

Bilharzia: Disease caused by worms that parasitize people. Also called schistosomiasis. Three main species of these trematode worms (flukes)--Schistosoma haematobium, S. japonicum, and S. mansoni - cause disease in humans. Larval forms of the para...

Bile sludge - Medical

Bile sludge: A mixture of microscopic particulate matter in bile that occurs when particles of material precipitate from bile. (Bile is the fluid that is made by the liver. It is stored in the gallbladder until after a meal when it passes out of the ...

Bile duct cancer - Medical

Bile duct cancer: An uncommon type of cancer that arises from the bile duct, the tube that connects the liver and the gallbladder to the small intestine. The part of the bile duct that is outside the liver is called the extrahepatic bile duct. Bi...

Bile acid resin - Medical

Bile acid resin: Bile acid resins are substances that bind in the intestines with bile acids that contain cholesterol and are then eliminated in the stool. The major effect of bile acid resins is to lower LDL-cholesterol by about 10 to 20 per...

Bile acid - Medical

Bile acid: An acid made by the liver that works with bile to break down fats. On a more technical level, bile acids are steroid carboxylic acids derived from cholesterol. The primary bile acids are cholic and chenodeoxycholic acids. They are conjug...