AUTO-INTOXICATION.—Poisoning by material formed within one's body.
BACTERIA (the plural of bacterium).—Exceedingly minute, spherical, oblong, or cylindrical cells which are concerned in putrefactive processes. Some varieties cause disease.
BACTERIAL DECOMPOSITION.—Putrefaction brought about by the action of bacteria.
BIOLOGY.—The science which deals with the phenomena of life.
BIRTH-CANAL.—The passage through which the child enters the world. It is composed of the uterus and the vagina, and is surrounded by the pelvic bones.
BLADDER.—A thin, distensible sack acting as a reservoir for the urine between the time it is secreted by the kidneys and leaves the body.
BREECH.—The buttocks.
CESAREAN OPERATION.—The operation by which the child is taken out of the uterus by an incision through the abdominal wall.
CALORIE.—The unit ordinarily employed by scientists to measure heat.
CAPILLARIES.—The minute blood vessels which form a network between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins.