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Bubble boy disease
Bubble boy disease Severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
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Disease Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
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BSL-1 Biosafety level 1. The lowest level of biosafety, a level that applies to agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease.
BSL-2 Biosafety level 2. A level of biosafety considered appropriate for agents that can cause human disease, but whose potential for transmission is limited.
BSL-3 Biosafety level 3. A level of biosafety considered appropriate for agents that may be transmitted by the respiratory route which can cause serious infection.
BSL-4 Biosafety level 4. The highest level of biosafety. This level is used for the diagnosis of exotic agents such as the Ebola virus that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease, which may be transmitted by the aerosol route and for which there is no vaccine or therapy.
BTE Behind-the-ear.
Bubble boy disease
Buboes "The plural of ""bubo""."
Bubonic plague "The most common form of the plague, named for the characteristic buboes -- buboes are enlarged lymph nodes (""swollen glands"") -- in the groin which are usually very tender and painful. Lymph nodes may be similarly affected elsewhere such as in the armpits and neck. Common but less specific features of the disease include headache, fever, chills, and weakness. "
Buccal mucosa The inner lining of the cheeks and lips.
Buffalo chest A single chest cavity with no anatomic separation of the two hemithoraxes due, for example, to tension pneumothorax (air under pressure collapsing a lung). It is called buffalo chest because this anatomical peculiarity of the North American buffalo, or bison, helped the Indians of the Great Plains to kill them. A single Indian arrow to the chest frequently was enough to let air in to collapse both lungs and fell the breathless bison.
Bulbar Pertaining to a bulb, in medicine any rounded mass of tissue (that is shaped somewhat like a crocus or tulip bulb).
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