All articles starting with B

Balanitis or balanoposthitis

Balanitis, also called balanoposthitis when the foreskin is involved, is inflammation of the glans penis affecting up to 20% of uncircumcised men; usually caused by Candida, bacteria, or dermatoses, treated with hygiene measures and topical antifungals.

Balanoglossus

Balanoglossus, acorn worm genus (Ptychoderidae, Enteropneusta, Hemichordata) named 1829; proboscis, collar, trunk body plan, gill slits with tongue bars, stomochord, tornaria larva, and role in deuterostome evolution studies.

Balantidiasis

Balantidiasis, also called balantidiosis or ciliary dysentery, is an intestinal infection caused by the ciliate protozoan Balantidium coli (Balantioides coli), a swine-associated parasite transmitted by fecally contaminated food and water, usually asymptomatic but able to cause dysentery.

Balao-class submarine

The Balao class was a class of 120 United States Navy fleet submarines of World War II, built from 1943 with a stronger pressure hull for deeper diving.

Sep 24, 2026

Balaputradewa

Balaputradewa, also written Bālaputradeva or Balaputra, was a 9th-century king of the Śailendra dynasty who ruled Srivijaya in Sumatra and built a Buddhist monastery at Nālandā.

Balaputradewa-class frigate

The Balaputradewa class, known as the Merah Putih frigates, is a two-ship class built for the Indonesian Navy by PT PAL Indonesia, with the lead ship launched in December 2025.

Balarama (बलराम)

Balarama (बलराम, Balarāma), also Baladeva, Balabhadra, Sankarshana, is the Hindu elder brother of Krishna, bearer of the plough and mace, regarded as Shesha's avatar or the eighth Dashavatara, worshipped at Puri as Balabhadra.

Sep 23, 2026

Balarama Dasa

Balarama Dasa (ବଳରାମ ଦାସ) was an Odia Vaishnava poet of the Panchasakha group who wrote under King Prataparudra Deva in late fifteenth and sixteenth century Odisha.

Sep 23, 2026

Balarama Varma

Balarama Varma (ബാലരാമ വർമ്മ) was Maharaja of the South Indian princely state of Travancore from 1798 to 1810, whose 1805 treaty made Travancore a subsidiary ally of the English East India Company.

Oct 22, 2026

Balaramayana

Balaramayana (Bālarāmāyaṇa) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama by the poet Rājaśekhara, generally regarded as his first play, retelling Rama's story from Valmiki's Ramayana and first staged at Mahendrapāla's court.

Balarista

Balarista (Balarishta, Balarishtam), a classical Ayurvedic fermented polyherbal arishta from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, based on Sida cordifolia and Withania somnifera, used for weakness and vata disorders, distinct from unrelated homonyms.

Balarka Rasa

Bālārka rasa (Balarka rasa), Ayurvedic Formulary of India formulation AFI000563, a herbo-mineral pediatric rasa medicine dosed at 125 mg, combining calcined calamine, coral, deer horn, cattle bile stone with saffron, zedoary, brahmi, and asafoetida.

Sep 23, 2026

Balash

Balash (بلاش) was a Sasanian king of kings who ruled Iran from 484 to 488, succeeding his brother Peroz and making peace with the Hephthalites before the nobility deposed him.

Balashikha

Balashikha (Балашиха) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, east of Moscow; founded 1830 by Prince Trubetskoy's textile factory, city status 1939, merged with Zheleznodorozhny in 2015, over 500,000 residents.

Balasi

Balasi was an Assyrian court astrologer and scholar of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC, who became the personal teacher of the crown prince Ashurbanipal and is known from letters found at Nineveh.

Balasore (ବାଲେଶ୍ୱର)

Balasore (ବାଲେଶ୍ୱର, Baleshwar) is a coastal district and town in northernmost Odisha, India, created in 1828; known for the 1642 East India Company factory, paddy agriculture, Chandipur beach, and recurring river floods.

Balasvagandhalaksadi taila

Balāśvagandhalākṣādi taila (Balashvagandhalakshadi taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame oil cooked with bala, ashwagandha, laksha, and 23 listed ingredients, recorded in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000127) for external Abhyanga massage.

Balat (Dakhla Oasis)

Balat, in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis, is an archaeological zone comprising the Old Kingdom town of Ayn Asil and the necropolis of Qila el-Dabba, seat of the oasis governors from about 2350 to 2000 BC.

Balathal

Balathal is a Chalcolithic site of the Ahar-Banas culture in Rajasthan, India, and the source of the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy in the Indian Subcontinent.

Balaton Park Circuit

Balaton Park Circuit, a 4.115 km FIM Grade A and FIA Grade 2 race track at Balatonfőkajár, Hungary, opened May 2023; hosted WorldSBK 2025 and the 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix, won by Marc Márquez.

Balaton Sound

Balaton Sound, also known as the Balaton Sound Festival, was an electronic music festival held each July on the beach of Zamárdi, Hungary, from 2007 to 2024.

Balatro

Balatro is a 2024 poker-themed roguelike deck-builder by anonymous solo Canadian developer LocalThunk, published by Playstack. Players beat blinds with poker hands modified by Joker cards; it sold over 5 million copies and won three Game Awards 2024 categories.