Category: B

  • Bathyhyperesthesia

    Excessive sensitivity of muscles and other deep body structures.  

  • Bubble bath

    A bath in which the water contains many small bubbles produced mechanically as by an air pump or chemically by bubble bath preparations.  

  • Bland bath

    Bath containing substances such as starch, bran, or oatmeal for the relief of skin irritation; an emollient bath.  

  • Bath

    The medium and method of cleansing the body or any part of it, or treating it therapeutically as with air, light, vapor, or water. The temperature of the cleansing bath for a bed patient should be about 95°F (35°C) with a room temperature of 75° to 80°F (23.9° to 26.7°C).  

  • Bates exercises

    A series of systematic vision exercises devised in the 19th century to relax, tone, and strengthen the eye muscles.  

  • Batch analysis

    An analysis in which all of the samples collected for a specific, nonemergent assay undergo the same testing process at the same time or sequentially. By contrast, samples collected for stat analyses are not saved in batches. These analyses are performed instead whenever individual specimens are received.  

  • Basophilism

    A condition marked by an excessive number of basophils in the blood.  

  • Basket

    A netlike terminal arborization of an axon (or its collateral) of a basket cell that forms a network about the cell body of a Purkinje cell.  

  • Basin

    An open, bowl-like container for holding liquids. It may be shaped to fit around a structure.  

  • Basidiomycotina

    In one system of taxonomy, a phylum of the true fungi. It is equivalent to the class Basidiomycetes in another system of taxonomy.