Category: B

Aspirin that has been combined with one or more other chemicals to prevent change in the aspirin’s composition under certain circumstances, as in passing through the stomach. Buffered aspirin was formulated to help persons who become ill as the result of the action of gastric juice on ordinary aspirin.  

Poisoning caused by excessive intake of bromides; symptoms include vomiting, confusion, hallucinations, irritability, a skin rash, and sometimes coma; also called brominism. Poisoning due to an overdose of bromide.  

Action of taking air into the lungs and then letting it out, a process normally done without thinking and controlled by the autonomic nervous system. The process of taking air into the lungs and letting it out again. In breathing, air is inhaled into the lungs through the nose or mouth as a result of…

Portion of the brain that connects with the spinal cord and includes all parts of the brain (e.g., pons, medulla oblongata) except the cerebrum and cerebellum. The enlarged extension upward within the skull of the spinal cord, consisting of the medulla oblongata, the pons, and the midbrain. The pons and medulla are together known as…

Characteristic pattern of electrical activity (voltage) in the brain, recordable as a wave-form tracing (electroencephalogram). There are four basic brain rhythms: alpha rhythm, beta rhythm, delta rhythm, and theta rhythm.  

Extremely slow speech due to brain lesion.  

Abnormal slowness of all voluntary activity, including speech, caused by disease or sometimes tranquilizer use.  

Abnormal bending outward of the leg from the knee downward, with a gap between the knees; it is often the result of nutritional disorder or deficiency (e.g., insufficient vitamin D) but is sometimes caused by disease (e.g., arthritis). It is also called bandy leg. Genu varum, commonly known as bowlegs, refers to the outward curving…

Pertaining to cattle; often used to indicate the source of a vaccine or serum (e.g., bovine serum).  

Bulblike expansion at the tip of nerve axons that comes into contact with the cell bodies of other neurons at synapses; sometimes called the synaptic bouton.