Body stuffing
Body stuffing: The swallowing of relatively small amounts of loosely wrapped illicit drugs because of the fear of arrest.
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Body surface area: BSA. The total surface area of the human body. The body surface area is used in many measurements in medicine, including the calculation of drug dosages and the amount of fluids to be administered IV. A number of different formulas have been developed over the years to calculate the body surface area […]
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Body type: A somewhat old-fashioned term used to classify the human shape into three primary types: ectomorphic, mesomorphic, or endomorphic.
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- Body, ciliary
Body, ciliary: Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is situated between the sclera (the white of the eye) and the retina (the nerve layer that lines the back of the eye, senses light, and creates impulses that travel through the optic nerve […]
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Boerhaave’s syndrome: Spontaneous tearing and rupture of the esophagus. Typically, Boerhaave’s syndrome requires an operation for repair.