All articles starting with B

Bovinae

Bovinae, the bovines, is a Bovidae subfamily uniting Bovini (cattle, bison, buffaloes, saola), Tragelaphini, and Boselaphini; about 24 species across Africa, Eurasia, and North America, including all major domestic cattle and buffalo lineages.

Bovine babesiosis

Bovine babesiosis, also known as redwater or Texas fever, is a tick-borne disease of cattle caused by Babesia parasites that destroy red blood cells, causing fever and anemia.

Bovine cysticercosis

Bovine cysticercosis, or Cysticercus bovis, is cattle infection with Taenia saginata larvae in muscle; humans acquire adult tapeworm taeniasis from undercooked beef, and control relies on meat inspection, freezing, and vaccination.

Bovine genital campylobacteriosis

Bovine genital campylobacteriosis (bovine venereal campylobacteriosis), a WOAH-listed sexually transmitted cattle disease caused by Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis, carried by asymptomatic bulls, causing infertility, early embryonic death, and abortion.

Bovine globulin

Bovine globulin, the globulin protein fraction of cattle blood serum, notified to FDA as GRAS Notice No. 255 (2008) by Proliant Health Ingredients for use up to 5% in foods; also a veterinary serum test marker.

Bovine serum albumin

Bovine serum albumin (BSA), also called Fraction V albumin, is the ~66.5 kDa liver-synthesized protein making up about 50% of cow serum protein; a carrier protein widely used as a lab standard, blocking agent, and stabilizer.

Bovine somatotropin

Bovine somatotropin (bST, rbST, bovine growth hormone) is a pituitary protein hormone; its recombinant form is an FDA-approved (1993) injectable drug raising dairy milk yield 10-15%, banned in the EU and rejected by Canada on animal health grounds.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) is a fatal prion disease of cattle, classical form feed-borne and zoonotic causing vCJD; atypical H/L-type sporadic; diagnosed post-mortem; WOAH-listed.

Bovine viral diarrhoea

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD, BVDV, mucosal disease), a Pestivirus infection of cattle causing enteric, respiratory, reproductive disease and lifelong persistently infected calves; first described 1946, subject of eradication programs.

Oct 22, 2026

Bovo-bukh

Bovo-bukh, also known as Bovo d'Antona, is a chivalric romance in Old Yiddish verse by Elia Levita, regarded as the first secular work written in Yiddish.

Bovone

Bovone S.r.l. is an Italian manufacturer of glass and stone processing machines, founded by Luigi Bovone in Ovada in 1954 and still family owned.

Bovril

Bovril, the British beef and yeast extract paste created by John Lawson Johnston as Johnston's Fluid Beef around the 1870s French army beef contract, renamed in 1886; made as a hot drink, spread, and stock, briefly vegetarian 2004-2006, now a Unilever brand made in Burton on Trent.

Bow and arrow

Bow and arrow: a limb-and-string projectile weapon storing muscular energy. Main types are recurve (Olympic), compound (1960s pulley design with let-off), longbow, and crossbow; draw weights range from 15 to 200 lbs.

Oct 20, 2026

Bow Bridge

Bow Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria: a late 15th-century (c. 1490-1500) three-arched stone packhorse bridge over Mill Beck, built by Furness Abbey monks to reach their New Mill; scheduled monument 1011245 since 1949, distinct from Bow Bridge in Somerset or London.

Bow Capital

Bow Capital is a California-based venture capital firm, formed in 2016 with the University of California, that invests in early-stage technology companies from offices in Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

Bow Echo (horse)

Bow Echo (foaled 1 March 2023) is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred colt by Night of Thunder who retired unbeaten in 6 starts, winning the 2000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes, and Sussex Stakes in 2026 for trainer George Boughey.

Bow flare

Bow flare is the outward slope of a ship's hull above the waterline at the bow, which deflects waves and spray away from the forward deck.

Sep 19, 2026

Bow Maylada

Bow Maylada (Maylada Susri, โบว์ เมลดา สุศรี) is a Thai actress and singer who debuted in 2010 with Kiss Me Five and won a 2025 Nataraj Award for Best Leading Actress.

Bow shock

A bow shock is a curved, detached shock wave that stands ahead of an object moving faster than sound, seen before hypersonic vehicles and planetary magnetospheres facing the solar wind.

Bow Street Magistrates' Court

Bow Street Magistrates' Court, also known as Bow Street Police Court, was a famous magistrates' court in Covent Garden, London, operating from the 1730s or 1740s until 2006.

Bow Street Runners

Bow Street Runners: London detective force founded by Henry Fielding in 1749 at Bow Street magistrates' office, developed by John Fielding, government-funded thief-takers turned professional detectives, disbanded 1839 into the Metropolitan Police.

Bow thruster

A bow thruster is a transverse propeller near a ship's bow that pushes water sideways, helping it berth and maneuver at low speed without tugs.

Bow tie

Bow tie: neckwear tied in a bow with two loops, word attested 1887. Descends from the 17th-century cravat worn by Croatian mercenaries; white tie formality uses a white bow tie. Distinct from long neckties.

Bow wave

A bow wave is the curved shock wave that forms ahead of an object moving through a fluid faster than disturbances can travel, as on a ship's bow.

Bow Wow (rapper)

Bow Wow (Shad Gregory Moss, born 1987, Columbus, Ohio), formerly Lil' Bow Wow, American rapper and actor; double-platinum 2000 debut Beware of Dog, Jermaine Dupri mentorship, hits like "Like You," and films Like Mike and Tokyo Drift.

Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow: English new wave band formed in London in 1980 by Malcolm McLaren with ex-Adam and the Ants members and teenage singer Annabella Lwin; known for the Burundi beat and "I Want Candy".

Bow-tie antenna

A bow-tie antenna is a planar broadband dipole made of two triangular conducting elements meeting vertex to vertex, used since 1898 for UHF TV reception and ground-penetrating radar.

Bow, London

Bow, historically Stratford-atte-Bow, is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, named for the Bow Bridge built around 1100 and known for the 1888 Match Girls Strike.

Bowden cable

A Bowden cable is a flexible transmission of an inner cable sliding in a curved outer sheath, patented by Ernest Bowden in 1898 and used in bicycle brakes.