ABSTRACT
Bekhterev disease-ankylosing spondylitis. Bell palsy-unilateral lower motor neuron paralysis of cranial nerve VII (facial nerve). Bence Jones protein-monoclonal light chains of IgG seen in urine of patients with multiple myeloma. Berger disease-IgA nephropathy. Bernard-Soulier syndrome-thrombocytopenia, congenital giant platelets, bleeding diathesis, and platelet dysfunction due to lack of glycoprotein Ib. Bernheim syndrome-bulging of the interventricular septum into the right ventricle as a result of increased left-sided pressures, causing right ventricular failure. Bezold reflex-vagal reflex causing bradycardia, hypotension, syncope, and nausea after inferior wall infarction. Bezold-Jarisch reflex-vagal hyperstimulation usually following an inferior myocardial infarction, with hypotension and bradycardia. Billroth operation-I, removal of distal stomach with endto-end anastomosis with duodenum; II, gastroduodenal anastomosis with duodenal closure. Binswanger disease-premature atherosclerotic vascular dementia characterized by memory loss, paranoia, and emotional lability. Blackfan-Diamond syndrome-rare, progressive, hematologic disorder that presents in early childhood as a normocytic and normochromic aplastic or hypoplastic anemia and results from defective erythropoiesis and lack of nucleated erythrocytes in the bone marrow. Blumberg sign-rebound tenderness indicating peritoneal inflammation. Blumer shelf-metastatic gastric cancer to the pelvic floor palpable on rectal examination. Boerhaave syndrome-esophageal rupture as a result of repetitive vomiting. Bouchard nodes-hard nodular deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joints, pathognomonic for osteoarthritis. Bourneville disease-tuberous sclerosis, characterized by adenoma sebaceum, seizures, and mental retardation.
