Basal body — A basal body (sometimes basal granule or kinetosome) is an organelle formed from a centriole, a short cylindrical array of microtubules. It is found at the base of a eukaryotic undulipodium (cilium or flagellum) and serves as a nucleation site… … Wikipedia
Basal body temperature — Infobox Birth control name = Basal body temperature width = caption = bc type = Fertility awareness date first use = 1930s rate type = Failure perfect failure% = 0.3 typical failure% = 3.1 [cite journal |last=Döring |first=GK |title=The… … Wikipedia
basal body temperature method — noun natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman s menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation • Syn: ↑basal body temperature method of family planning •… … Useful english dictionary
basal body temperature method of family planning — noun natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman s menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation • Syn: ↑basal body temperature method • Hypernyms: ↑natural… … Useful english dictionary
basal body — noun Date: 1902 a minute distinctively staining cell organelle found at the base of a flagellum or cilium and identical to a centriole in structure called also basal granule, kinetosome … New Collegiate Dictionary
basal body temperature — noun body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything • Syn: ↑basal temperature • Hypernyms: ↑body temperature, ↑blood heat … Useful english dictionary
basal body temperature — (BBT) the temperature of the body under conditions of absolute rest; it has a slight sustained rise during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and can be used as an indirect indicator of when ovulation has occurred … Medical dictionary
basal body temperature — n. body temperature in the morning before getting out of bed or before eating anything … English contemporary dictionary
basal body — The cylindrical structure at the base of procaryotic and eucaryotic flagella that attaches them to the cell … Dictionary of microbiology
basal body — Structure found at the base of eukaryotic cilia and flagella consisting of a continuation of the nine outer sets of axonemal microtubules but with the addition of a C tubule to form a triplet (like the centriole). May be self replicating and… … Dictionary of molecular biology
