IGuido Banti, Italian physician, living.] Baptis'ia

A genus of leguminous herbs. B. tinct or i a. Syn.: Sophora (seu Podalyria) tinct or i a. Wild indigo, growing in dry places throughout the United States and Canada. All parts of the full grown plant, but especially the root and the bark, have emetic and cathartic properties. [Gr., baptein, to dye.] bap'tis in. A glucosid obtained from Baptisia tinct or i a. It has no special medicinal value. baptitoxin (bap-ti-tox'in). A highly poisonous alkaloid obtained from Baptisia tinct or i a. In small doses, it is tonic; poisonous doses cause death by asphyxia. bar. i. An inward prominence of the symphysis pubis, encroaching on the pelvic cavity. 2. Skeletal elements of a branchial arch. 3. When qualified by an adjective denoting a bone, the cartilaginous rod from which that bone is developed, articulomeckelian b. The cartilaginous structure from which the lower jaw is developed, b. of the neck of bladder. See inter ureteric b. hyoid b's. Reichert's cartilages, the skeletal elements of the hyoid branchial arch, the rudiments of the styloid proce es, inter ureteric b. A muscular ridge on the floor of the bladder, running between the orifices of the ureters. When made prominent by muscular contract: ~*i it may cause an ima rod.] pediment to urination. [Old Eng., barre, bar anilin (bar-an'il-in). Any anilin boiling between 2000 and 2600. [Gr., bar us, heavy, -fanilin.] Barba'dos der fever. fever. See yellow fever, unbarbaloin (bar-ba'lo-in). Aloin obtained aloes.l from Barbados aloes. [Barbados -fbarba'ria, barb a'ricum. Rhubarb. bar 'berry. See Berberis. barber's itch. See sycosis. barbiers met with(bar'be-a). A nervous on the island disease of Reunion. [Arab., bahr-bar i.1 Barcelona fever. See yellow fever, under fever.