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Buffalo chest
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.
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Chest
The area of the body located between the neck and the abdomen. The chest contains the lungs, the heart and part of the aorta. The walls of the chest are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum.
Cavity
A hollow place or hole within the body.
Pneumothorax
The buildup of air or gas in the chest cavity. May cause lung collapse.
Anatomical
1. Concerned with anatomy. 2. Concerned with dissection. 3. Related to the structure of an organism.
Lungs
The main respiratory organs in the chest where blood is oxygenated.
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Buff Bay Hospital
The Buff Bay Hospital is a hospital in Portland, Jamaica.
Buffalo clinic
A medical clinic in the city of Buffalo.
Buffalo doctor
A medical doctor who can practice medicine in the city of Buffalo.
Buffalo doctors
All doctors near Buffalo, the United States of America. Doctors who can assist a patient in Buffalo.
Buffalo Hospital (John County Healthcare Center)
Buffalo Hospital (John County Healthcare Center) is a hospital in Buffalo, Wyoming (USA).
Buffalo hospitals
All the hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities in the city of Buffalo.
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BTE
Behind-the-ear.
Bubble boy disease
Severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
Buboes
"The plural of ""bubo""."
Bubonic plague
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Buccal mucosa
The inner lining of the cheeks and lips.
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Bulbar
Pertaining to a bulb, in medicine any rounded mass of tissue (that is shaped somewhat like a crocus or tulip bulb).
Bulbar conjunctiva
That part of the conjunctiva, a clear membrane of the eye, which covers the outer surface of the eye.
Bulimia susceptibility gene
A gene that determines the susceptibility to developing bulimia, one disorder in the spectrum of eating disorders. There is now a substantial literature showing that bulimia is strongly familial and that the pronounced familial nature of bulimia is due largely to the additive effects of a number of genes. One bulimia susceptibility gene is known to be linked to chromosome 10p (the short arm of chromosome 10). Another susceptibility gene for bulimia may be on chromosome 14.
Bullae
More than one bulla, a bulla being a blister more than 5 mm (about 3/16 inch) in diameter with thin walls that is full of fluid.
Bullous
Characterized by blistering, such as in a second-degree burn.
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