baro-, bar-, bary- +
(Greek: weight, heavy; atmospheric pressure; a combining form meaning "pressure", as in barotaxis, or sometimes "weight", as in baromacrometer
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In an extended sense, these elements may mean "difficult" or "slow".
abarognosis
1. Loss of ability to appreciate the weight of objects held in the hand, or to differentiate objects of different weights.
2. Loss of the sense of weight; unaware of weight.
3. When the primary senses are intact, caused by a lesion of the contralateral parietal lobe.
baragnosis, baragnosia, baroagnosis
1. The inability to appreciate or estimate weight.
2. Loss of the sense of weight.
baranesthesia
1. Insensibility to weight or pressure on the body.
2. The inability to perceive pressure.
baresthesia, baryesthesia
1. The sensibility to weight or pressure on the body.
2. The ability to sense, or to perceive, pressure anywhere on the body.
baresthesiometer
An instrument for measuring the sense of pressure.
barhypesthesia
Impairment of deep pressure sensation.
bariatrician
A health practitioner specializing in bariatrics.
bariatrics, bariatric
That branch of medicine concerned with the management (prevention or control) of obesity and allied diseases.
baric
Relating to barometric pressure (as in isobar) or to weight generally.
baricity
The weight or density of a substance in comparison to a different substance at similar conditions of temperature and atmospheric pressure.
baroceptor
In physiology, a pressure-sensitive receptor organ of the nervous system, found, for example, in the walls of blood vessels.
baroclinity, baroclinicity, barocliny
In physics, a state of fluid stratification in which isobaric surfaces and isosteric surfaces are not parallel, but intersect.
barocyclonometer
An aneroid barometer with diagrams and directions for detecting the existence of a storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
barodontalgia
Toothache associated with the reduction in atmospheric pressure in high-altitude flying. Also: aerodontalgia.
barodynamics
In mechanics, the study of the mechanics of heavy structures that are liable to collapse under their own weight.
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