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Blend S (ブレンド・S)
Blend S (ブレンド・S) is a four-panel manga by Miyuki Nakayama, serialized 2013–2022 in Manga Time Kirara Carat (8 volumes), and a 12-episode 2017 A-1 Pictures anime set at Café Stile, where waitresses play assigned anime-attribute roles.
Blend word
Blend word, also called portmanteau word, a word fusing parts of two source words (brunch, smog, motel). Term coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871); studied in morphology as extra-grammatical word formation.
Blended (film)
Blended is a 2014 American romantic comedy directed by Frank Coraci, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as single parents stuck at a South African safari resort; their third pairing, it grossed about $128 million worldwide but scored 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Blended learning
Blended learning, also called hybrid learning, is an instructional approach combining face-to-face teaching with online learning; universities adopted it widely in the 2000s, and the flipped classroom is a variant.
Blended wing body
The blended wing body (BWB), also called the hybrid wing body, is an aircraft configuration blending wings into a wide, flat, tailless fuselage that offers lower fuel burn and noise.
Blender
Blender, the kitchen appliance: a motorized jar with a bottom blade that liquefies and purées foods with liquid. Distinguished from food processors (solid chopping), IEC 60335-2-14 scope, Poplawski 1922, Waring 1937, portable-model recalls.
Blender (software)
Blender, also known as Blender 3D, is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics suite for modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects, stewarded by the Blender Foundation in Amsterdam since 2002.
Blenders Pride
Blenders Pride: Indian premium blended whisky-style IMFL brand, launched 1995 by Seagram, owned by Pernod Ricard India since 2001; blend of Indian grain spirit and Chivas Brothers Scotch malts; over 50% segment share.
Blending (refinery)
Blending in a petroleum refinery mixes semi-finished blendstocks like reformate, alkylate, and butane into finished gasoline and diesel meeting commercial specifications, capturing a large share of refining margin.
Blendo
Blendo is a combat robot built by Jamie Hyneman, with Adam Savage wiring its electronics, that competed in Robot Wars from 1995 to 1997 and early BattleBots.
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace is a monumental English Baroque country house at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, built between 1705 and 1722 for the 1st Duke of Marlborough, birthplace of Winston Churchill.
Blenheim Roman villa
Blenheim Roman villa, also called Begbroke villa, is a scheduled 3rd-4th century Roman villa and field system southeast of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, found well preserved under Blenheim Estate farmland, distinct from the grand North Leigh villa.
Blenniidae
Blenniidae, combtooth blennies, a family of about 387 marine fish species in 57 genera with comb-like teeth, found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate coastal waters, including intertidal and some freshwater forms.
Blenniiformes
Blenniiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes (blennies and allies) in Ovalentaria, traditionally six families including Blenniidae; IndoPacific origin about 60 Ma, with repeated amphibious water-to-land transitions.
Bleomycin
Bleomycin (BLM, BLEO), a glycopeptide antineoplastic antibiotic from Streptomyces verticillus, treats Hodgkin lymphoma, testicular cancer, and squamous cell carcinomas; iron-mediated radicals cut DNA, with lung fibrosis as dose-limiting toxicity.
Bleomycin/vinblastine
Bleomycin/vinblastine is a combination chemotherapy pairing of a DNA-cleaving antibiotic with a vinca alkaloid, used in regimens for germ cell tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma, including ABVD.
Bleomycin/vincristine chemotherapy regimen
The bleomycin/vincristine pairing is a two-drug combination used inside named chemotherapy regimens such as Stanford V, BEACOPP, and BACOP, principally for Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and germ cell tumors.
Bleood
Bleood (Jamari Spencer, b. 2005) is an American experimental rage and digicore rapper from Florida, formerly m4ri and deffici1e, known for "alucard" and the 2026 mixtape PROTAGONIST.
Blepharitis
Blepharitis, inflammation of the eyelid margins, is a common chronic eye condition. Types include anterior (staphylococcal, seborrheic), posterior (meibomian gland dysfunction), and Demodex blepharitis; treatment centers on lid hygiene.
Blepharo-cheilo-odontic syndrome
Blepharo-cheilo-odontic syndrome, also called blepharocheilodontic syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant ectodermal dysplasia marked by eyelid malformations, cleft lip and palate, and conical teeth, caused by CDH1 or CTNND1 variants.
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, MKB type
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, MKB type (X-linked Ohdo syndrome, BMRS Maat-Kievit-Brunner type) is a rare X-linked recessive MED12 disorder in males with intellectual disability, blepharophimosis, ptosis, and coarsening triangular facies.
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, Ohdo type
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, Ohdo type (Ohdo syndrome, OMIM 249620) is an extremely rare malformation syndrome with blepharophimosis, ptosis, dental hypoplasia, hearing impairment, and intellectual disability; cause unknown, restricted to Ohdo's original 1986 patients.
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, SBBYS type
Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, SBBYS type (SBBYSS, Say-Barber-Biesecker-Young-Simpson variant of Ohdo syndrome), a rare KAT6B-related disorder with mask-like facies, blepharophimosis, absent patellae, and severe intellectual disability.
Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome
BPES (blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome), also called blepharophimosis syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant FOXL2-related eyelid malformation with ptosis, telecanthus, and sometimes primary ovarian insufficiency.
Blepharoplasty
Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery, removes or repositions excess eyelid skin, muscle, and fat for cosmetic or functional reasons. Named by von Graefe in 1818; origins with Susruta; first double-eyelid surgery by Mikamo Nagai in 1896.
Blepharospasm
Blepharospasm, or benign essential blepharospasm, is an adult-onset focal dystonia causing involuntary orbicularis oculi spasms and forced eyelid closure; treated mainly with botulinum toxin injections every 3 to 4 months, with myectomy for refractory cases.
Blera
Blera (ancient Blera, medieval Bieda), Lazio, Italy: Etruscan town on the Via Clodia at the Ricanale-Biedano confluence, later a Roman municipium and 5th-century bishopric, destroyed by Lombards in 772; noted for rock-cut tombs and ongoing Petrolo plateau excavations.
Blesbok
Blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), South African Highveld grassland antelope, subspecies of D. pygargus alongside the bontebok; recovered from about 2,000 animals in the late 1800s, now Least Concern, threatened by hybridization with bontebok.
Bless the Child
Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger as a nurse fighting a Satanic cult for custody of her niece.
Bless the Harts
Bless the Harts is an American animated sitcom created by Emily Spivey for Fox, airing September 29, 2019 to June 20, 2021 (2 seasons, 34 episodes), about a broke Southern family in Greenpoint, North Carolina, voiced by Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, and Ike Barinholtz, canceled after low ratings.