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Blepharophimosis
Blepharophimosis
Horizontal narrowing of the palpebral fissures (eye slits).
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Bleph-10
Bleph-10 is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): sulfacetamide sodium.
Bleph-30
Bleph-30 is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): sulfacetamide sodium.
Blephamide
Blephamide is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): prednisolone acetate; sulfacetamide sodium.
Blephamide s.o.p.
Blephamide s.o.p. is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): prednisolone acetate; sulfacetamide sodium.
Blepharitis
An inflammation of the eyelids or lid margins. It is often caused by an infection. A chronic form produces a scaling or crusting of the lid margins. This is treatable by an eye doctor.
Blepharoplasty
Plastic surgery on the eyelid.
Blepharospasm
Excessive winking; tonic or clonic spasm of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
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Blastomyces dermatitidis
The fungus that causes a disease called blastomycosis.
Blastomycosis
Infection with a fungus called Blastomyces dermatitidis. The infection causes symptoms in about 50% of cases. It usually presents as a flu-like illness with fever, chills, productive cough, myalgia, arthralgia and pleuritic chest pain. Some patients fail to recover and develop chronic pulmonary infection or widespread disseminated infection (affecting the skin, bones, and genitourinary tract). It occasionally affects the meninges which cover the brain and spinal cord.
Blasts
"Immature blood cells. Leukemic blasts do not grow and age normally; they proliferate wildly and fail to mature."
Bleb
A bladder-like structure more than 5 mm in diameter with thin walls that may be full of fluid. Also called a bulla.
Blender experiment
See: Hershey-Chase experiment.
Blepharophimosis
Blighted ovum
A fertilized ovum (egg) that did not develop or whose development ceased at an early stage, before 6 or 7 weeks of gestation. On the ultrasound examination of a blighted ovum, only the gestational sac that normally surrounds the embryo can be seen. There is usually no embryo inside the gestational sac.
Blind
1. Unable to see. Without part or all of the sense of sight.2. In a clinical trial, not to know the treatment given or received. The participant is not told whether they are in the experimental or control arm of the study. Also called masked.
Blinded study
A study done in such a way that the patients or subjects do not know (is blinded as to) what treatment they are receiving to ensure that the results are not affected by a placebo effect (the power of suggestion).
Blindness, legal
See: Legal blindness.
Blindness, night
Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the rods) in the retina.
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