Category: B

  • Body snatching

    Robbing a grave of its body, which was done in the past to obtain bodies for anatomical study in medical schools.  

  • Body scheme

    Knowledge of one’s body parts and their relative positions.  

  • Body packer syndrome

    Drug overdose as a result of the ingestion of multiple small packages, usually containing drugs of abuse (especially cocaine), to transport them illegally. Inadvertent overdose may occur if the packages rupture.  

  • Body map

    A drawing of a patient’s injuries, lesions, or wounds, used to record maltreatment by another person in a case of physical abuse or violence.  

  • Disturbed body image

    Disruption in the way one perceives one’s body image (e.g., after an injury or illness) or an incongruity between one’s actual appearance and the way one perceives it (e.g., in anorexia nervosa).  

  • Body burden

    The amount of a substance present in an organism. The term is usually reserved for descriptions of infectious or toxic substances. It may be represented arithmetically as the concentration of the substance multiplied by the mass of the tissues that store it.  

  • Body armor

    Clothing designed to resist blast waves, blunt force trauma, heat, penetrating objects, shrapnel, and other potential sources of physical injury.  

  • Bodo

    A genus of nonpathogenic, flagellate protozoa of the family Bodonidae often found in stale feces or urine and sometimes in the urinary bladder.  

  • Bochdalek’s ganglion

    A ganglion of the plexus of the dental nerve in the maxilla above the canine tooth.  

  • Bed board

    A firm board placed beneath a mattress to keep it from sagging. It is used to treat some persons with back difficulties. It is also used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation to improve the effectiveness of chest compressions.